Intro to Google Gears

by dev on Mar.13, 2009, under IT

Google Gears for Mobile

In-depth conference about Gears API’s capabilities centered on mobile devices. How it works, examples from real life usage on Google Photos, one small demo application, brings up issues like security & location API.

Improving Browsers in New Ways: Gears++

If you’re not acquainted with Gears the next video should bring you up to date.

Taking Large-Scale Applications Offline

Amazingly fast paced presentation about synchronizing offline applications using Gears with the online versions available on the server.

Gears and the Mashup problem

Interesting speech held by Douglas Crockford ( the Yoda of lambda functions and JavaScript ) at Google Tech Talks, September 20, 2007. It really makes you blush if you think of the way we currently develop websites. And reminds me of a twitter post by @leewilkins : “The web is 20yrs old today and we are discussing version 2.0!”