Vortex: An offline abstraction on top of Google Gears

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Stavros Vologiannidis

from ajaxian.com

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Google just released Google Gears for pocket pcs

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Stavros Vologiannidis

Off-line web applications are a big deal for many companies/projects such as Adobe/AIR, Mozilla/Prism, Google/Google Gears and possibly Microsoft/Silverlight.
From gearsblog.blogspot.com:
Gears for mobile devices is initially available for Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile 5 and 6.
An interesting point is that they “plan to keep the Gears API consistent across all platforms”.
So Steve Jobs new something and [...]

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Amazon for developers

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Stavros Vologiannidis

Amazon Web Services and Amazon Business Solutions. They offer the following infrastructure services for developers:

EC2=Elastic Compute Cloud (Computing/processing in a cloud)
S3 = Storage in a cloud
SQS=Simple Queue Service (Messaging between different parts of applications)
SDB=Simple Database (Database in a cloud)
Flexible Payment Service (Money processing. They don’t call it FPS for some reason )

Above those [...]

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Info for GWT

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Stavros Vologiannidis

New (and not so new) technologies are taking the world of web application development by storm. Flex, Ajax (super-DHTML baptised in a fancy way), GWT etc.
Fast Definition
Google Web Toolkit is a Java framework that allows developers to build complex AJAX enabled web applications using Java code. With GWT, the web developer writes the user interface [...]

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