Ethics commissioner clears Flaherty of conflict allegations
Canada.com, Canada - … was in conflict of interest at the time since he also had a financial interest as the mortgagee for the Wasdell Centre, a private school in Ajax, Ont. Ethics czar clears Flaherty following conflict-of-interest probe |
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Van Basten wields the axe to streamline Ajax
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Van Basten wields the axe to streamline Ajax
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AISSATI NOT LEAVING FOR AJAX
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VAN GEEL TO TAKE UP RODA ROLE
Sportinglife.com, UK - Former Ajax coach Martin van Geel is close to completing a deal to take over as technical director at Roda JC. Van Geel has also had talks with fellow … |
Dojo developers will be pleased to read about the recent update to the Dojo grid control. Version 1.2 of the grid control focuses primarily on improving integration with Dojo data stores, improved grid layout handling and providing advanced in-place editing capabilities. The update was fairly extensive forcing the team to rethink the design of the widget and refactor quite a bit of code. As such, the updated version of the grid has been setup as a new control allowing developers to continue to use the older version while being able to take advantage the updated features. This will ensure that applications based on the previous grid control won’t break.
The biggest benefit truly is the tighter coupling between the new DataGrid and Dojo’s existing dojo.data stores:
In order to use dojo.data stores with the grid in previous releases, you needed the dojox.grid.data.DojoData model which would bridge the gap between the grid and the store. DataGrid has been engineered to remove that bridge. Instead of using stand-alone models to store data for the grid, any dojo.data store that implements the Dojo Data read API can be used. Additionally, DataGrid can use the write and notification API’s if they are available.
For example, the following code will create a new dojo.data store based off of a JSON file from a URL and populate the new DataGrid by passing it as an option to the DataGrid constructor:
Building a solid grid control isn’t an easy task and it seems like the Dojo team have done a great job of enhancing their widget.
The Humanized folk who now work in Mozilla Labs have taken their Enso work and created Ubiquity, a Firefox plugin that implements the Graphical Keyboard User Interface:
Web applications, much the same as desktop applications, are a bit like isolated cities: it’s difficult for an end-user to arbitrarily share data and functionality between them. This is alleviated to some extent by creations like Firefox Add-ons that add toolbars or sidebars to Firefox’s UI, Bookmarklets, and Greasemonkey, but while all of these solutions are powerful, each comes with its own set of problems. The buttons and bars of many Firefox add-ons don’t scale well because of the valuable screen real-estate they consume; Bookmarklets are restricted in scope because they only have the access privileges of the website they’re running on; and Greasemonkey doesn’t prescribe any kind of interaction model, which makes it difficult to reuse the functionality of a script in a context other than the ones it was expressly designed for.
Ubiquity attempts to alleviate all of these problems by allowing end-users to apply textual commands, or verbs, to whatever they’re looking at. For instance, let’s assume that I’ve found a typo on a friend’s blog, and I want to let him know about it.