Stocker - Advanced Dojo Made Easy

Presented by Mike Wilcox and Bob Byron

Today's users are demanding that your website be more interactive than ever, and deliver fresh information instantly in different formats. Enter Stocker — a SitePen demo application with a dual display of faux stock information continuously streamed from the server. It uses the most advanced and complex components in Dojo which have been abstracted with simple APIs that allows them to be plugged into your application quickly and easily. Install the Persevere server and write server-side JavaScript that you can connect to with CometD, all in just minutes. Use the extremely popular DojoX Grid and vector graphics Charts that integrate seamlessly with Dojo Data. Then wrap it all up in a complex layout entirely handled by Dijit!

TARGET AUDIENCE - Web Developers of all levels, management interested in learning new technologies or a potential Dojo integration.

After viewing and explaining Stocker and its components, a high level tour of the assembly will start with the installation of a Persevere server and a demonstration of persistent objects, and how to connect to them client-side with Dojo Data. The page will then be built using Dijit's BorderContainer. Finally, the Grid and Chart will be dropped in and connected to Dojo Data.

About Mike Wilcox

Mike Wilcox is a software engineer for of one of the top AJAX companies in the United States, SitePen Inc., which is comprised of the original contributors of the Dojo Toolkit and other open source technologies. As co-founder of the JavaScript user group in Dallas, Club AJAX, Mike is a regular speaker with presentations that include "The JavaScript Programming Primer" and "'That's not Flash?' Native Browser Vector Graphics".

Mike is a key developer for the new Deft project in Dojo that implements most of the Flash-based components used in DojoX, like the File Uploader and the Video and Audio controls. He is also a primary contributor of the Dojo extensions for Adobe AIR. His latest project is a vector-based drawing library, which he hopes can be used to push the boundaries of browser user interfaces.

For more information, read Mike's blog at http://www.sitepen.com/blog/author/mwilcox/ and visit http://clubajax.org/

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