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Introducing music.isallicare.com

A while back I blogged about music theory for geeks and got a lot of feedback from my fellow musicians (some geek some not). Then I blogged for over a month about a new technology named Dojo Toolkit, which essentially is a JavaScript toolkit to create really cool looking AJAX/Web 2.0 applications. As a pet [...]

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Developing a Dojo Application 6 – Epilogue

About 6 weeks ago I started a pet project to experiment with Dojo Toolkit which I tentatively called Musician’s Friend. My goal was to see whether this technology is really mature and stable enough to be used in an enterprise grade software project, and to create an application that might one day [...]

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Developing a Dojo Application 4 – Splash Screen, Title Pane and Dialog Box

This week I’ll complete the chord and scale definitions and add some functionality to the application.

There is a large number of chords, most of which I believe is now included in our application. I omitted some rarely used chords which spread out to two octaves. Also note that some added notes, such as ninths, elevenths, [...]

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Developing a Dojo Application 2 - Fisheye and Tabbed Pane

I’ll continue to develop our application I’ve started last week by refining the layout of the user interface and continue adding more features to it.

First thing I’ll do is to add the keys and scales under the Accordion Panels named Keys and Scales. Here I’ll try to introduce another cool visual feature of Dojo framework, [...]

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Developing a Dojo Application 1 - Layout Manager

If you have ever attempted to write software that has a GUI (Graphical User Interface), you’ve probably noticed that creating both intuitive and functional user interface is a lot harder than it looks.  A number of different skills are required to design a good user interface, skills often hard to find in one [...]

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