I'm a frequent lurker on the dojo IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #dojo) and often I'll speak up when there are questions I can answer and I have time to answer it. I also pay attention to the types of questions that get asked and if I see a pattern, I try to write up how to solve the particular question. And such is born this post...

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While looking at some Adobe technology, I came across James Wards site. James is a Technical Evangelist for Adobe. One of the links he has on his site is a Flash based performance application that "walks you through benchmarks for various methods of loading data in RIAs." The data was used at a conference to show the Adobe performance vs Dojo and general Ajax/JSON.

A while ago I was working with another committer in the dojo community on usage of the dojo.data notification APIs. He had hit a problem where it would have been really convenient if the dojo.data Notification functions onSet(), onNew(), and onDelete(), also passed in a reference to the store.