Spotlight on:www.ecmhub.org/From an interview with Ray ChanceCan you give us a quick overview of the project? What makes it unique?The ECMINSTITUTE is an association designed for IT professionals in the Enterprise Content and Knowledge Management industries. ECMHUB, the website for the ECMINSTITUTE, is a combined RSS reader, industry portal, web conferencing tool, and social network. ECMHUB processes over 400 RSS feeds representing 6,000 individual articles across 40 communities. What makes ECMHUB unique is the ability for the application to track the status of an entire industry through a massive mashup of blogs, news, webcasts, events, discussions, videos, and RFPs. Implementing AJAX powered through Dojo provides a single page, single click website that eliminates the need for individuals to search or aggregate industry information on their own. We believe this model, multiplied over many industries, would significantly reduce the need for generic Internet search, bookmarking, and RSS aggregation. Over time, one could imagine multiple industry “hubs” fundamentally changing how people view and use the Internet. Who is it for and how can they get access to it?Basic services are completely free and available to the public. Additional services including web conferencing, article commenting, rating and other social networking features are available by signing in to any standard Google account. What parts of Dojo helped you build out most? Are you doing anything special with the system or mostly using the stock capabilities?We are currently using Dojo version 1.1.1, Google App Engine SDK 1.4, and Google Docs (for form processing). Through Google App Engine memcache, rendered feeds are displayed in Firefox in less than 2 seconds. ECMHUB operates in a complete virtual cloud where all processing including database, user community, forms, and ecommerce are handled through Google's own infrastructure. What made you choose Dojo in the first place?Selecting Dojo was a very easy decision. After evaluating YUI, Prototype/Scriptaculous, and jQuery we found Dojo was the most complete and easiest to use. What was your favorite thing about working with Dojo?Our favorite features of Dojo are the frame layout, simple integration with Yahoo Pipes, and general breadth of the toolkit. Our programmers are first thinking Dojo THEN JavaScript which reduces many hours of redundant programming. We also appreciate the speed, flexibility, and the compression size of the toolkit. |
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Submitted by dylan on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 03:29.
Any parting thoughts?
Implementing Ajax powered through Dojo provides a single page, single click website that eliminates the need for individuals to search or aggregate industry information on their own. We believe this model, multiplied over many industries, would significantly reduce the need for generic Internet search, bookmarking, and RSS aggregation. Over time, one could imagine multiple industry "hubs" fundamentally changing how people view and use the Internet. If you are interested in implementing a similar "hub" application in another industry please let us know. Our Dojo developer team is active in the Washington D.C. and Richmond, Virginia areaa.