Today SitePen, Inc. announced the release of a co-sponsored "demo" utilizing Adobe's AIR runtime and The Dojo Toolkit affectionately named "The Dojo Toolbox". Don't let the term "demo" fool you though, this thing is a fully functioning application providing a pluggable API built around the question "what can be done offline to better Dojo?" ...

This coming Saturday, 31st of may, everyone who is in or near Berlin, or has a chance to travel to Berlin, is invited to join the first (hopefully at least annual) dojo.beer().

This will give everyone a chance to get to know each other, see and hang out in Berlin and hopefully find some good time to talk dojo.

We'll meet at 15:00 at the Weltzeituhr, move over to a nice Spanish restaurant at 19:00 and for the ones who like, we will attack the Berlin clubs right after that.

Today marks a very exciting milestone for two great Open Source Products: The Zend Framework and The Dojo Toolkit. Zend aims to provide out-of-the box Ajax functionality capable of communicating directly with the Framework, and Dojo aims to provide the solution.

The latest Dojo release includes critical but low-risk patches to version 1.1.0, plus localizations to bring the list of languages supported by Dojo to 22.

We're planning to have either dojo.dinner or dojo.beer after Alex and Joe's BOF Wednesday May 7th at JavaOne in San Francisco. Please send email to rsvp *at* dojotoolkit dot org if you want to join us. The BOF is finished at 7:30, so we'll start around then.

After a few weeks of trying to find out who owned the twitter user dojo, I've given up, and registered dojotoolkit. So, if you want to follow along with Dojo on twitter, follow http://twitter.com/dojotoolkit

The moment has arrived. I've been anticipating this since the first new fixes to trunk were made, shortly after the 1.0 release. I am proud -- no, elated -- to announce what marks another solid run of around-the-clock development: The Dojo Toolkit version 1.1

For the 4th straight year, we'll be heading to the Salt Lick on Sunday night (8pm) at SXSW, this year on March 9. If you are interested in attending this year, please RSVP to rsvp *at- dojotoolkit *dot* org by March 2. Let us know if you have a car and can drive others, or if you need a ride, and we'll make sure everyone can get there.

Just after Wolfram landed his new Rating widget in DojoX, I read about Tobi's extension to this widget that uses dojo.gfx! It's a testimony not just to Wolfram's clean implementation, but also to the reusability of the Dojo architecture and the widget system in particular. Nice work, guys!

Work is being done by Pratik Patel to integrate Dojo with Grails:

"I've been working on integrating Grails and the recently released Dojo 1.0.2. I'm particularly interested in the Dijit components that are now part of Dojo. It seems like a clean, easy way to get some AJAX widgetry into a web application. Grails comes with plugins for common AJAX frameworks - YUI, Dojo 0.4.2(?), and Prototype. Someone's even released a nifty AJAX "dummies" plugin called richUI."