JavaScript addicts

Lot’s of stuff going on currently. It’s pretty exciting. We had our first official company meeting in Augsburg. We are close to releasing a neat piece of software that finally will make dojo easily usable for all the django perfectionists. And we are planning our trip to the AJAX Experience in Boston.

Last weekend we sat together and made all the basic plans that you just need to make when you are starting a company, doing some paper work, looking for the right bank, discussing rules for collaboration and so on. Since we are not physically in one place all the time it is very important to see each other from time to time. Currently we are planning on doing it once every month, so we can at least do all the paper work together and everybody knows what is going on and understands the processes behind it. We just want uxebu to become a success. It was a very constructive atmosphere and we all felt the enthusiasm and drive we have for moving things forward.

Of course we were also hacking some. We just can’t avoid it, we are all three involved in very much the same things, mainly dojo. Though everyone has his specialties. Some dojo addicts including Nikolai are currently finalizing the work on the layout and styling stuff, in order to make dojo 1.2 a great success and, as Alex Russell coined the main goal, to make it a better user experience. Tobi and I we were discussing a lot and coding less for getting out a first version of the dojo integration into django. Stay tuned on this blog, there will be a release very very soon (I am talking about days, less than a week for sure). After hacking all the code Tobi is mainly finishing up documentation and getting some first input from the outside in order to make even the first release a good release.

This year there are some conferences coming up that we want to attend. For the Ajax in Action we have applied for a couple of talks and hopefully will be able to give some, we are waiting on the feedback.
But the biggest thing this year will definitely be the Ajax Experience in Boston, which is kicked off by the Dojo Developer Day. If you are coming along, be sure to join us the Saturday before the conference, we just thought it might be funny to grab some german beer (and food) in Boston, just need to reserve it once we know how many we will be. This will be exciting, we are looking forward to meeting a lot of the people we know from various online communications and we will surely get a loooot of very interesting input, and hopefully we can also give back a little bit.

And those are just some of the things that are currently going on …