en Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:32:09 GMT http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com The Dojo Ajax Toolkit is kindly hosted by AOL for the consumption of anyone at all. This has the advantage of Reducing the load on your own server Speeding up the delivery, as a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is used to ensure that the server is as close as possible to the client, and The more people [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/using-aol-hosted-dojo-with-your-custom-code/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/using-aol-hosted-dojo-with-your-custom-code/ Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:32:09 GMT Ajax Dojo Javascript Technical aol cross domain open source 1 SOS A short while ago I posted about the demo engine I’m writing for the Dojo Ajax Toolkit. Click here to read that post or go to http://www.skynet.ie/~sos/js/demo/dojo/dojoc/demos/featureexplorer.html to see it in action. Features Since that post, quite a lot of work has gone into both the features and the content of the demo engine, and the development [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/dojo-demo-engine-update/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/dojo-demo-engine-update/ Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:02:43 GMT AjaxDemo EngineDojoJavascriptdemodijitdocumentationdojo.querydojoxjsonopen source 3 SOS Internet Explorer has a nice feature where a new window can be opened modally using the window.showModalDialog function, meaning that the page that opened it cannot be accessed until the new window is closed. This can be useful in many situations. However, the main limitation of IE Modal Dialogs (other than being non-standard), is that [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/navigating-in-an-ie-modal-dialog/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/navigating-in-an-ie-modal-dialog/ Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:36:21 GMT DojoInternet ExplorerJavascriptTechnicalmodal 1 SOS A couple of weeks ago I saw a cool demo framework for an Ajax toolkit just released as open source. It’s a very slick implementation, with a tree listing all the various demos, and a tabbed area showing the implementation, and the widget in practice. So, I think to myself, this is exactly what the [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/a-new-demo-engine-for-dojo/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/a-new-demo-engine-for-dojo/ Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:29:16 GMT AjaxDojoJavascriptdemodijitdocumentationdojox.imagejsonopen source 3 SOS Today I’ve begun the process of upgrading my Ubuntu installation of version 7.04 to version 7.10. To see my previous tutorial of getting Ubuntu installed on my IBM Thinkpad X41, see http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/installing-ubuntu-edgy-on-a-thinkpad-x41-tablet/. This post lists whatever issues I found when upgrading, and my solutions to them. For the official instructions, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GutsyUpgrades. Third Party software [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/upgrading-ubuntu-feisty-fawn-704-to-gutsy-gibbon-710/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/upgrading-ubuntu-feisty-fawn-704-to-gutsy-gibbon-710/ Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:11:37 GMT Gutsy GibbonUbuntuopen source 25 SOS In previous posts (here for the Dojo 0.4.3 version, here and here), I wrote how I wrote an image gallery for version 0.4.3 of the Dojo Ajax Toolkit, and how I was translating it for the latest version of the toolkit, version 1.0. Well, that work is now, finally, complete, and I have to say, I’m [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/10/13/introducing-the-new-dojo-image-widgets/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/10/13/introducing-the-new-dojo-image-widgets/ Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:09:13 GMT Ajax Dojo Flickr Image Gallery Javascript Technical aol cross domain dijit dojo.data dojox dojox.data dojox.image json open source 46 SOS The previously announced Dojo Grid has landed in source control, and is in the nightly builds. It has all sorts of fancy functionality, like support for lazy loading huge data sets, individual styling of rows and columns, inline editing etc. Check it out at http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/checkout/dojox/grid/tests/ Very cool stuff! Update: The Sitepen guys have recently blogged about [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/dojo-grid-has-landed/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/dojo-grid-has-landed/ Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:23:17 GMT AjaxDojogridopen source 0 SOS I work on a number of open source projects, and many of them use the Subversion version control system to manage their code. Before my switch from Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux (which I am still ecstatically happy with btw), I became a big fan of TortoiseSVN, an extremely useful Subversion client that integrates itself [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/a-tortoisesvn-replacement-for-ubuntu/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/a-tortoisesvn-replacement-for-ubuntu/ Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:50:50 GMT LinuxNautilusSubversionTechnicalTortoiseSVNUbuntuopen source 3 SOS I’ve recently submitted a new data store for the Dojo Ajax Toolkit that makes it very simple to query Flickr for your and other peoples images. For those not familiar with Flickr, it is a photo sharing website, one of the most popular on the net. However, what makes it quite special is [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/querying-flickr-with-dojo/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/querying-flickr-with-dojo/ Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:10:05 GMT AjaxDojoFlickrImage GalleryJavascriptTechnicaldojo.datadojox.datadojox.imagejsonopen source 3 SOS Flickr is a photo sharing website that has a very flexible set of APIs that other applications and websites can use to access the photos it stores. This post shows you how to specify a callback function that Flickr can call to pass your web application information on photos it stores. Quite a while ago I [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/specifying-the-callback-function-with-the-flickr-json-apis/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/specifying-the-callback-function-with-the-flickr-json-apis/ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:31:30 GMT AjaxDojoFlickrImage GalleryJavascriptTechnicaldojoxdojox.datadojox.imageopen source 0 SOS In a previous post (see here) I spoke about how I’d written an Image Gallery widget that worked with Dojo Ajax Toolkit version 0.4.2 and 0.4.3. I contacted the good folks at Dojo about updating it for the latest release, 0.9, and adding it to the toolkit. They were very receptive to the idea, [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/image-gallery-slideshow-and-flickr-data-source-for-dojo-09/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/image-gallery-slideshow-and-flickr-data-source-for-dojo-09/ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:32:51 GMT AjaxDojoImage GalleryJavascriptTechnicaldijitdojo.imagedojoxopen source 1 SOS When working with the Dojo Ajax Toolkit and using it’s dojo.event package to listen to DOM and custom events, the two most common approaches are: Listen for an event (or function call) to be triggered on an object, and when it is to run a custom function, e.g. var alertFn = function() [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/dojo-event-performance-tip/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/dojo-event-performance-tip/ Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:29:08 GMT AjaxDojoJavascriptTechnicaldojo.eventopen sourceperformance 0 SOS The latest version of the Dojo Ajax Toolkit has just been released into the wild. Version 0.9 is a very streamlined progression of the toolkit, with many of the less essential features pushed out to another project, DojoX, and the Dojo widgets given their own project, Dijit. Another big change is the the main [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/dojo-09-released/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/dojo-09-released/ Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:24:51 GMT AjaxDojoJavascriptTechnicaldijitopen source 2 SOS The Dojo/Dijit (Dojo’s widget project) toolkit has created a page where you can view many of their widgets using the four CSS themes written so far for Dojo. This is cool for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it showcases the excellent work the Dijit developers have put into new themeing skins. There are four [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/dojo-theme-browser-shows-off-dijit-widgets/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/dojo-theme-browser-shows-off-dijit-widgets/ Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:18:57 GMT AjaxDojoJavascriptRich TextTechnicaldijitopen source 2 SOS Yahoo have released a very useful extension for Firebug, which is itself an extension for Firefox, which can be used to analyze a web page’s performance. The extension, called YSlow, appears as a separate pane in Firebug, and gives you a whole load of statistics about your page. However, in addition to the bare numbers, [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/why-is-my-web-page-slow-yslow-for-firebug-can-tell-you/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/why-is-my-web-page-slow-yslow-for-firebug-can-tell-you/ Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:08:30 GMT AjaxFirebugFirefoxJavascriptTechnicaltools 1 SOS I have created an Image Gallery widget built on Dojo 0.4.3 that integrates nicely with Flickr. The widget it written entirely using JavaScript and CSS as a standalone Dojo widget, and is released under the same open source license as Dojo, the Academic Free License. For more information, including the code and examples, see http://www.skynet.ie/~sos/ajax/imagegallery.php. Some [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/flickr-and-dojo-image-gallery/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/flickr-and-dojo-image-gallery/ Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:53:33 GMT AjaxDojoFlickrImage GalleryJavascriptTechnicaljson 7 SOS The two main areas of interest for me over the last year or two, blog-wise that is, have been the Dojo Ajax toolkit, one of the more popular open source JavaScript toolkits, and Ubuntu Linux, the very popular operating system that is seen by many as the best chance Linux has of succeeding on the [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/is-dojo-being-ignored-by-developers/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/is-dojo-being-ignored-by-developers/ Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:36:49 GMT AjaxDojoJavascriptTechnicalopen source 5 SOS I’ve created an example usage of the Dojo Charting engine, which you can find at http://www.skynet.ie/~sos/pageStats.php. View the source to see how it works. It’s a modified version of the unit test available with the Dojo toolkit, but used in a specific scenario - in this case, to graph the page impressions for my personal [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/dojo-charting-example-to-show-website-statistics-2/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/dojo-charting-example-to-show-website-statistics-2/ Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:35:35 GMT AjaxDojoJavascriptTechnicalchartchartingdojo.chartingjsonopen sourcephp 4 SOS I decided today that I wanted to put links at the bottom of each of my blog posts that would allow people to perform actions on the post, e.g: Digg it Kick it Mail it Bookmark it on del.icio.us Bookmark it on reddit.com Bookmark it on live.com My blog is on Wordpress.com which doesn’t seem to have a plugin that will [...] (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/greasemonkey-script-to-add-digg-like-links-to-posts/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/greasemonkey-script-to-add-digg-like-links-to-posts/ Tue, 22 May 2007 16:57:02 GMT AjaxFirefoxJavascriptgreasemonkey 8 SOS Bill Higgins of IBM has written a very well thought out article of why web applications should look and act like web applications, and not the desktop variety. Well worth a read - http://billhiggins.us/weblog/2007/05/17/the-uncanny-valley-of-user-interface-design (...) (Shane O'Sullivan) http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/article-on-the-square-pegs-and-round-holes-of-desktop-and-web-applications/ http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/article-on-the-square-pegs-and-round-holes-of-desktop-and-web-applications/ Tue, 22 May 2007 08:49:00 GMT AjaxJavascriptZimbra 0 SOS WordPress vMU (http://wordpress.org/) + Atom 1.0 XSLT Transform v1 (http://atom.geekhood.net/)