This is a bit off topic for this blog, but is something that has very much been on my mind lately.  I’ve been maintaining an archive of all of my work over the past 12 years.  Everything from coursework to UI markups, Personal Notes to SVN repositories all lived in a set of redundant 750 gb external hard drives.  Over the years , I’ve found these archives to be an invaluable asset (especially with modern desktop search tools).  Last monday, those drives were stolen.

Although I can cope without the data, I need to start compiling a new personal archive & I’m curious what other people have done for backup systems & how you deal with offsite backup of personal data.

After a rather painful night spent camping in line at Comp USA & a solid week of work repairing, cleaning & rebuilding.  I’m back online.

Hi everyone,  I won’t be posting much over the next few days.  I was burgled yesterday and lost my laptop workstation, development server,  personal archives and cable modem among other things.  I will be offline until after the holiday & my insurance settlement.

I hope to resume regular posting by monday, November 26th.

Sitepen has announced the release of Dojo 1.0 (not RC).  It’s a major new platform for us to work with and features some incredible new capabilities.

• ccessibility including keyboard navigation, low vision support, and ARIA markup for assistive technologies
• High performance grid widget supporting 100,000+ rows of data
• Browser-native 2-D and 3-D charting
• A full library of easy-to-use, attractive UI controls
• Universal data access for simple and fast data-driven widget development
• Internationalization with localizations provided for 13 major languages
• CSS-driven themes to make customization and extension simple
• Dojo Offline, based on Google Gears, which makes offline applications easy to build
• Support for the OpenAjax Alliance Hub 1.0 to guarantee interoperability with other toolkits
• Native 2-D and 3-D vector graphics drawing
• Access to many more widgets and extensions through the Dojo package system

 http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2007/11/05/announcing-dojo-10/

Scriptaculous 1.8 is in beta and offers several remarkable new features:

• Complete rewrite of Ajax.InPlaceEditor and Ajax.InPlaceCollectionEditor
• Full CSS inheritance in Effect.Morph
• New core effect: Effect.Tween
• Sound: play mp3 files for sound effects; uses native playback on IE and available plugins

We’ll be looking at all of these in more depth soon.

Ajax Bestiary will be hosting a Blog Carnival titled “Getting It Done With Javascript”  next Monday, October 29th.

If you are interested in participating please submit your articles at BlogCarnival.com

Although, links back to Ajax Bestiary are appreciated, they are by no means necessary.

I apologize for the rather low volume of posts over the past few days.  Some circumstances beyond my control kept me away from my writing.

We will now resume regular updates!