As a user of Plaxo, I've been delighted with their Pulse service for a while now. Bloglines is a really great start at letting me keep up with things, but Pulse fills an important gap where Bloglines leaves off. Why do I trust my personal data to a service like this?

Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson did a video interview about Dojo Offline with Brad Neuberg. Check it out.

We're flattered that Doctor Dobb's Journal, the venerable software development rag, did a review that included Dojo, even though they gave the nod to YUI instead. What's puzzling, though, is that the stalwart journal also, apparently, used "stalwart" versions of all of the reviewed toolkits.

Welcome to the new Dojo Website. As of today we have performed the final migration of all content from the Dojo Book on manual.dojotoolkit.org as well as all of the blog content from wordpress on blog.dojotoolkit.org. While these sites are still the the place users will arrive at when viewing this content, no edits or changes will be made (or anything that are will not be migrated to drupal in the future).

Here are some notes on things that will be happening that you should be aware of:

Just a little tidbit I figured out today when I had to create a custom build. Rather than creating a custom profile that has all your dependencies, create a file in src that has the dependencies and then point your profile to that file. It makes things a whole lot easier. You like examples? I thought so. Setup src/myApp/MyApp.js

// so dojo knows where to look for myApp requires
dojo.setModulePrefix('myApp', 'src/myApp');

dojo.require('dojo.lang');
dojo.require('dojo.io.*');
dojo.require('dojo.html');
dojo.require('myApp.foo');

A new year is almost here. By the time I've stopped having to scribble out "2005" and replace it with "2006" on my checks, the conference silly season will be upon us. The list isn't final yet, but Dojo committers have been invited to speak at:

• FOSDEM
• The Ajax Experience
• ETech
• South By Southwest Interactive
• JavaOne
• USENIX

One of the words that I hear used to describe Dojo a lot is "framework", and it always causes me some concern when I hear it. Frameworks tend to control the way an applications is structured and manage them from the outside, but Dojo provides multiple points of entry. Internally, Dojo is just a layered set of libraries. Hopefully this diagram can help illustrate it better:

Now that Firefox 1.5 has made the JavaScript Console an all-purpose console, I've found an alternative — Console². If Mozilla would roll this into the source as the default console, I'd be a very happy camper.

UPDATE For your convenience, I've uploaded the scripts and alternate icon so you can download them yourself. This week, Mozilla released the much-anticipated Firefox 1.5 upgrade. While I'd love to start playing with the new features (SVG, fast forward and back, etc. etc. etc.), I need to be able to test in Firefox 1.0.x. Enter MOZ_NO_REMOTE.

Abe Fettig, my co-worker and developer of the uber-useful JotLive, had just published a description of how to get XMLHTTP working across sub-domains. This isn't fully cross-domain Ajax, but will certainly ease deployment issues for many developers. Today's "hack" is tomorrow's "standard".