Archive for April, 2009
April 30th, 2009Nikolai said yesterday “Is Google spreadsheet becoming the new Microsoft Access?”. You know the visual database and form designer. Well, for the web and pure mashup apps, that are mainly or completely based on the web’s infrastructure, so to say cloud services, one could answer “Yes, it can cover at least the database part”. It may be poor in features, but a nice start.
Well all this buzzy stuff aside, read on to see how to use JSONP with a Google spreadsheet, even though it’s not exactly provided.
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April 28th, 2009
April 22nd, 2009Some of the dojo guys are traveling around the world, and we are happy to get Pete Higgins, Dylan Schiemann and Nikolai Onken together for a couple of dojo.beers.
1) Amsterdam, 27th April, 19:00 – the first one will be already next week in Amsterdam on Monday the 27th April, this will be a meetup in a restaurant and probably a lot of tech and geek talk and some beer.
2) Munich, 9th May, all day – the second one will be a free full-day event in Munich with talks and time to hang out and hack together. It will take place on the 9th May, starting at around 12:00 in the rooms of the SKYTEC AG (Keltenring 11, 82041 Oberhaching).
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April 20th, 2009This is an important notice for all attendees of the Dojo training on May 7th/8th and for people interested in the Dojo training.
Due to scheduling issues, the training will be shortened from a two day training course to a “packed of information” one day event.
This 1 day course on Dojo Data, Grids, Charts, and Comet is a very practical, hands-on, applied usage of Dojo to create a simple data visualization web application that takes advantage of advanced features of the Dojo Toolkit. Rather than trying to cover every topic of the Dojo Toolkit, this course will instead focus on the things you need to know to assemble a great real-time web application.
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April 14th, 2009