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Queued Overviewed
Last month, we announced Queued, an open-source application for managing your Netflix Queue. Queued is a desktop application created with web technologies and techniques including the Dojo Toolkit, and...
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Queued: New Interaction Tricks for the Old Netflix Dog
Sometimes building an application from scratch is easier than building on an already existing interaction model. For Queued, our goal was to take the Netflix user experience and port it to a...
View ArticleQueued: API Challenges
SitePen’s new Queued application works very well with the Netflix API, but the smoothness of this functionality was the result of a lot of research, and trial and error. In fact, this experience led me...
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Queued: Visualizing the Queue
Visual Translation As with every SitePen project, we started out Queued with a set of written requirements that defined what the app should do. From that set of requirements, the design team began to...
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Queued: Architectural Decisions
Dojo is a very flexible toolkit; it doesn’t dictate how you organize your code or create your widgets. It simply provides tools, and it’s up to you to decide how you want to fit them together....
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Queued: Demystifying Deferreds
At SitePen, we work very hard to to provide our customers and fellow developers with useful web app development services. We’re currently deconstructing the development of Queued, our Netflix Queue...
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Queued and AIR Issues, Part I
During the course of developing Queued, we ran across a number of challenges developing with AIR that we needed to solve. Some were very difficult to get around, while others were the result of our...
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Queued: Theming
As part of our series on how we built Queued, today we’re going to talk about theming the Queued application, and touch on a few examples of what made putting the skin on Queued so much fun. The...
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Queued and AIR Issues, Part II
In Part I of Queued and AIR issues, I talked about some of the challenges we faced during the development of Queued, our AIR application that allows you to manage your Netflix queues. In this post,...
View ArticleQueued: Drag and Drop in the Queue
During the interaction design phase, we determined that Netflix’s current drag and drop reordering feature was well thought out — so we set out to create the same reordering behavior in Queued. As...
View ArticlePlatform Optimization Strategies for Ajax Toolkits
With the proliferation of real web browsers on mobile devices (iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, Nokia), an increasing number of browsers (Chrome) or browser-like platforms (AIR, Titanium, Jaxer), portal...
View ArticleAnnouncing Queued, a Netflix Queue Manager Using Dojo and AIR
I’m excited to announce a new open source project created by SitePen and co-sponsored by Adobe: Queued. With Queued, you can manage your Netflix queue anytime, anywhere! It’s no secret that we’re big...
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