June 2008

You can now add learners to your lessons straight from your contacts in Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail and more thanks to Plaxo's new "Address Book Access" widget, which we've now integrated into Dojo. This widget essentially hooks your address book directly into Dojo, making it much easier to put the word out about your lessons. Enjoy!

Here is one of our new Tour videos.

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I'm happy to report that late last night we pushed out a tonne of new fixes for various issues within the system, many of which should make our Internet Explorer users happy. We also completed the roll-out of a big Javascript upgrade, from jQuery 1.2.3 to 1.2.6 and jQuery UI 1.0 to 1.5.1, both of which should yield noticeable improvements in stability as well as speed. As an example fo the speed improvements, the release notes for this update to jQuery stated among many other speed improvements that "Events are 103% faster" -- not just a few percent, but over 100% faster. Nice!

We also just finished moving the Dojo source code onto github.com, which is really an amazingly new service, and to using Capistrano to improve the reliability of our updates to the site from now on. I have to say it feels really good to have these updates in place now, since that means a more reliable Dojo for everyone, and faster development of new features as well.

Just letting everyone know, here is Part 2 of the Journal video. 

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I just wanted to let everyone know that Les just finished the second video for Dojo's help area, called "The Journal, Part 1", which explores the basics of using the Journal feature of Dojo Learning.  It also gives a great conceptual overview of some of the ideas behind Dojo Learning, and why we think Dojo can really help companies improve the effectiveness of their learning process.  So I'm posting the video here to share it with everyone.  Hope you enjoy!

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Just added a new feature that lets visitors browse public lessons before subscribing to them, while disabling the chat, lounge, notes and journal input features of the lesson.  If a user wants interaction, they need to subscribe first.

I just posted the first help video Les made titled "How to create a lesson".  To check it out, log into your account (or sign up for one now :) and click on the Help tab.  Enjoy!

Just a quick update to say that as of today Dojo Learning has secure logins behind SSL available to everyone.  Stay tuned for more improvements in the coming days/weeks!

I just saw that a few photos were posted from the Dojo Learning demo at DemoCamp Winnipeg last Thursday.  You can see them here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/democampwinnipeg/

The DemoCamp/BarCamp idea is really cool and I'm glad the folks over at New Media Manitoba brought it to Winnipeg.  Can't wait for the next one, and thanks again guys for the great opportunity to demo and to connect with others in the local startup scene!