Storing data in arrays is a pretty common technique throughout various programming languages, and it’s very straight forward. Until you get to reading them, sorting, filtering and mixing them. A lot of times you have more complexity in your data and filtering them is a very usual task.
Almost every toolkit has some functional approaches to make this easier and the latest JavaScript versions also implement some of them natively. Here I will show two use cases for filtering an array of objects, different approaches and their consequences.
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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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Now it’s almost a week ago, and I still haven’t written the more in depth article about the BarCamp Munich 2008, here it comes. As I have already said, the organization was great, first and foremost the people behind it, thanks a lot. But also Sun who provided the location and last but not least all participants. I will be there next year again, I am sure!
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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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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.
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