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"Together Everyone Achieves More" It is very difficult to test a complex RIA thoroughly. It is even more difficult if it is yours. Sending the system to the users, and asking them to focus on specific areas is an excellent way to find problems you… more »

Notes on using a dojo/RIA web interface to launch background (server-side) scripts. File uploads can run under FF and IE with dojo.io.iframe.send, and it is a nice interface. There is another post on this blog, with sample code. Synchronizing back… more »

Many web companies focus on SEO to generate traffic for sites. One may argue that SEO is used to define the contents of the content with an objective of enhancing the position of the page or site within the result sets of search engines. Using a list… more »

Open Source software is often maturing. Cycling back to the distribution site has many advantages: Upgrading open source components usually delivers many bug fixes and new features. Although upgrading after ever update is probably unnecessary, i… more »

dojo's Fisheye widget is fun. The link above is to a demo of the Fisheye widget. Notes: <div dojoType="dojox.widget.FisheyeList" itemWidth="50" itemHeight="50" itemMaxWidth="200" itemMaxHeight="200" orientation="horizontal" effectUnits=… more »