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After several weeks there is a new release of Dojango and this release introduces the compatibility to Google’s AppEngine. AppEngine delivers helpers so that Django applications can run on Google’s server farm and now this release of dojango allows the deployment of Dojo powered web applications to it. (more…)

Just one week to go and we are glad that all three of us will make it to the Ajax in Action 2008 in Mainz (Germany). So if you like to contact us, meet in person or just have a chat (besides the virtual reality) let’s do it. If you are interested in JavaScript as we are, want to have an in depth dojo discussion, feel like you need to know more about dojango or just would like to talk AJAX with us, do it! We are looking forward to it.
Of course we will have some stuff to share, we are going to hold four talks RIA/UI development with Dojo, Adobe AIR and Dojo, bringing the web to the desktop from Nikolai and Architectures for scaling AJAX apps and Efficient AJAX/JavaScript Development from me.
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Finally the Dojo Foundation Web Site, a joined work of people from SitePen and uxebu, has launched. The main purpose of the site is explaining the intention of the Dojo Foundation, decluttering the Foundation from the Dojo Toolkit and giving all the other interesting projects under the hood of the Dojo Foundation a corporate presentation location.

You can visit the site, that was build on top of dojango (wohooo) at http://dojofoundation.org.

It was great to work together with the people of SitePen and I hope there will be more things in the future where we can join our forces.

This article describes, how you can create your own dojo namespace within a reusable django application when using dojango. It should give you an idea, where you place your javascript files and how you could structure your dojo namespace directory. When using dojango, where you are able to switch the source of dojo (a remote CDN or a local version), there are several things to consider when creating your own namespace. (more…)

Django 1.0 released!

Spawning + Django

Ok, now you got dojango and you want to write an AJAX app. There are some basics that just need to be provided in order to make that a piece of cake. Dojango offers them. And this article will show you how to best plug those pieces together and get up and running with ajax and dojango.
This article will show you how to simply pass data properly from the backend to the client.
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Now it is official! We released Dojango on google code today and you can get details about it and download it from there.
Dojango provides a dojo integration as a reusable app. Download it, copy it into your django project and you have dojo included into django.

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