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.

Dojo Grid has landed in the DojoX trunk for Dojo’s 1.0 release scheduled for the 31st of this month.

I’m eagerly anticipating Dojo 1.0.  It’s been a long time coming, but this is shaping up to be an excellent and capable release.

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Hi everyone,

Posts may be light over the next few days as I will be attending HighEdWebDev ‘07 in Rochester NY. For those of you attending, I encourage you to check out the workshop & presentation I will be giving.

The Ajax Bestiary: An introduction to the various frameworks with a focus on the strengths, weaknesses & quirks of each. Sunday October 14th 1:30 – 5:00 pm.

Making Sense of Card Sorts: Card sorts are powerful tool for planning and organizing websites. Unfortunately the analysis tools can be hard to find. This talk will show how simple excel spreadsheets and critical thinking can dramatically increase the value of card sorts in your projects. Monday October 15th, 5-5:30 PM

John Resig has posted a very cryptic series of images & animation on his blog hinting at some stunning visualization & animation capabilities coming to jQuery. And as for timeline he simply hints at “Sooner”. No word yet on how it works.

You can find it online here:

http://ejohn.org/blog/sneaky-2/

Via Ajaxian

The Ext team is proud to announce that Ext v2.0 Beta 1 is available
for download. This release of the Ext framework features updated portal
and desktop examples, documentation updates, and bug fixes.

New Sample Application Updates

In our last release, we introduced two new sample applications which
were truly a hit with the development community. The two applications,
Web Desktop and Customizing: Portals were excellent examples of the
capabilities of the new Ext 2.0 framework. For the beta release, we
have dramatically improved the features and functionality of both. The
Web Desktop has been drastically enhanced to include a start menu as
well as functional icons on the desktop. It truly looks like you’re
working within an operating system like Windows.

Available from EXTjs.com

IBM has released a preview of their new Web 2.0 Mashup kit.

IBM Mashup Starter Kit consists of two technologies: IBM Mashup Hub and QEDWiki. IBM Mashup Hub is a mashup server that stores information feeds (such as in RSS, ATOM, or XML formats) in order to enable reuse and collaboration. Mashup Hub can also merge, transform, filter, annotate, or publish information in new formats. From there, the newly-enhanced QEDWiki serves as the user interface and allows non-IT users to “mash” information from any data source in order to create a single view of disparate sets of information in minutes.

From: Alphaworks via CMS Report

A new featurepack for the Gaia Ajax Widgets framework has been released along with new logo. The release is free for all those who had purchased the Q3 release of the software.

• Added up Focus override for most of the Controls
• Several new Widgets; FishEye, DisappearingPanel (useful for having Context Menus), DraggablePanel, TabControl and WizardControl
• InPlaceEdit can now be either a “single line edit box” or “multiple line edit box”
• Three new skins; “light_blue”, “ivory_white” and “mac_light”
• 100% Safari Support! This is a feature we know many of our existing customers have been wanting for a long time…
• And much more…

Gaia is a commercial .net widget framework that retails for 295 € and features complete mono support.

Spry 1.6 has been released with a focus on web standards, accessibility and progressive enhancement.

Of Special Note is the Element Selector:

Ah, the sweet Element Selector. Along the lines of jQuery and DOMQuery,
the Element Selector (SpryDOMUtils.js) is a utility used for grabbing
multiple parts of the page using CSS Selectors and applying functions
to them. Our speed is on par with other tools and we have robust and
accurate CSS3 support. Read about it here and check it out here.

There are also several new widgets:

• Password Validation
• Confirm Password
• HTML Panel

Minimized forms of all files are available

http://blogs.adobe.com/spryteam/2007/10/spry_16_and_the_dreamweaver_up.html

The first Alpha of EXT 2.0 has landed  Some of the new features are:

• Scrolling Tabs
• Highly configurable single-level column grouping capabilities as well as summary rollups at the group level.
• Anchor layout in forms to ensure a consistent size and position for form fields regardless of browser size.
• Treeviews that support additional columns for each leaf node.

Along with launch of 2.0 alpha, there’s a revised API documentation system with a streamlined ability for bookmarking & new samples.

Find More information here:
http://extjs.com/blog/2007/09/28/ext-20-alpha-release/

Vancouver, BC – October 1, 2007 – Ajax experts, Nitobi Inc., releases Complete UI 2007 Q3 today with support for Adobe Dreamweaver, and with improvements to its flagship component, Nitobi Grid. Complete UI includes nine Ajax-powered components that significantly improve user experiences for any web application. With today"s release, even beginner web designers can implement dynamic, Ajax-powered design elements in their web applications, such as embedding a spreadsheet or calendar.

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