For those of you who don’t know, Rocket GWT is an excellent library for use with the Google Web Toolkit.  It provides a dramatically expanded widget library as well as Drag & Drop and Enhanced Event support.

Today marks the .38 maintainence release.  I encourage anyone using this framework in the projects to upgrade for the performance enhancements alone.

Find out more about the release here:

http://rocket-gwt.blogspot.com/2007/11/rocket-038-release-mostly-assortment-of.html 

I try not to get too excited about Beta & RC releases around here, but Dojo 1.0 RC 1 is a big deal.

Many, groundbreaking changes have gone into the Dojo .9 & 1.0 release cycle ranging from complete reorganization of the toolkit & major performance increases to innovative new ways to approach AJAX programming itself.

It’s still an RC and not fully ready for prime time, but I plan on taking it out for a spin.

http://dojotoolkit.org/2007/11/02/dojo-1-0-release-candidate-1 

Hi everyone,  Today marks the 3 Month Anniversary of Ajax Bestiary.

With over 100 posts I think its time to solicit some feedback from you.

What would you like to see change about Ajax Bestiary?

It’s already everywhere that Google is releasing a set of API”s for building applications and integrations with social networking sites (Linked in & Orkut  have alraedy signed on).  Most interesting fro those of you reading this blog is perhaps the fact that they will be entirely javascript & html based (No server side coding).  This could make hte entire process faster sand smoother for all of us.

We’ll know more tomorrow when the API is released at:

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial

Aptana 1.0 has landed, sports loads of new features and the inevitable release of a Pro version.

Some of the New Features

• CSS Preview
• HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Formatting
• Code drag and drop
• Visual ScriptDoc Explorer
• Improved Help
• Loads of Polish

What’s with the new name?

The Aptana IDE has been rebranded Aptana Studio, likely to reflect the upcoming spectrum of products from the company.

What’s with the pro version?

So Aptana has released a Pro version of the studio.  The Pro version includes several features intended to streamline development and hopefully justify the new $99 price tag (expect the price to go up to $199 in the future).

The new pro features:

• JSON Editor
• Internet Explorer Debugging
• Remote Project Creation
• FTPS and SFTP Support
• Reporting Engine

You can find more information on the Aptana Blog

http://www.aptana.com/blog/?p=200?diff=y 

You can download the software here:

http://aptana.com/download/ 

Niall Doherty has released version 1.1 of the powerful CodaSlider AJAX widget. This upgrade takes an excellent widget and makes it even better.

Some highlights:

• Widget Upgraded to Use jQuery 1.2
• Improved Accessibility, all content housed within the slider is now accessible via a scrollable panel.
• YouTube videos now display properly within slider.
• Improved Polish & Pre-loading.
• Cross-Linking Support

Check It Out on Niall’s Blog

http://www.ndoherty.com/blog/2007/10/29/coda-slider-11/

Inspired by Dav Glas’ Grids Builder for YUI CSS. The YAML builder has been released.

Some unique features include:

• Style Editing
• Drag & Drop Page Elements

YAML is a robust CSS framework offered under both Creative Commons & Commercial licenses.

For more information visit yaml.de
Take the new builder for a spin at builder.yaml.de