By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsWhat a week for technology news. I feel like the industry is in overdrive this week as we have large announcements in mobile (e.g. iPhone SDK, Gears for Mobile), and we get to see a beta of IE 8 for the first ti…
Posted by Aaron Boodman, Gears TeamWe’re happy to announce that we’ve updated Gears to version 0.2. All users have been updated, so you can begin developing applications for the new version right now.Gears 0.2 includes:New modules: HttpRequest and Time…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsFebruary already? Spring is here, and you can tell in Mountain View as the rain has stopped. Spring brings out your social side, and we have seen a lot of growth with OpenSocial and other social APIs.There was p…
Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamDavid Falck and Shelly Mujtaba, members of Autodesk Labs, recently announced a new release of Project Draw that allows you to take your diagrams offline using Google Gears.Project Draw is a browser based diagraming uti…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsLast year, Steve Yegge posted about Rhino on Rails, his port of Ruby on Rails to the JavaScript language on the Rhino runtime. It garnered a slew of interest, and I have been wanting to talk to him in more detai…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsThe Compiere team is trying to make ERP easier. I had a chance to catch up with Gary Wu, Di Zhao and Chris Sprague of the Compiere engineering team. We talked about their recently shipped open source ERP solutio…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsChandra Patni is an engineer at IGN who saw a good way to develop using OpenSocial. Some hacking later, and he ended up with happyhour, an open source OpenSocial container powered by Google Gears.Brad Neuberg an…
By Dion Almaer, Google Gears TeamWe ran across happyhour, an OpenSocial container that implemented the JavaScript API in JavaScript itself. The happyhour project uses Gears to keep the social content around across sessions, which is an issue with a pur…
By Stephanie Liu, Google Developer ProgramsWow, it’s been nearly 4 months since we started the Google Developers channel on YouTube! We wanted a place to post talks, announcements, interviews, and anything else that might interest outside developers (a…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsWhen I read an email sent to an Apache Software Foundation mailing list suggesting an open source project for OpenSocial, I wasn’t surprised to see it come from Brian McCallister, a prolific open source develope…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsI just got back from a trip to Belgium that had me speaking at JavaPolis, a conference full of Java and Web folk from Europe and beyond. Google engineers were all over, and we gave talks on Gears, GWT, Google da…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsAs soon as Android and the Open Handset Alliance was out in the wild, we were chomping at the bit to talk with some of the people behind the platform to discuss the developer-related information.Using iTunes? We…
By Dion Almaer, Google Gears TeamBack in August we discussed the first release of Zoho Writer that allowed you to work offline with Gears.At that time we talked to Raju Vegesna and Sridhar Vembu of the Zoho team to discuss what they had released, and t…
By Stephanie Liu, Google Data APIs TeamThe Google Data team is holding a local event for developers Thursday, December 13th, 5:00pm-10:30pm at the Googleplex (Mountain View, CA). It’ll be part hackathon, part unconference, part user group, part food, a…
By Mike Pinkerton, Software EngineerFor about two years now, people have been writing gadgets for Google Desktop onWindows and for iGoogle on the web. Today, with the announcement of GoogleGadgets for Mac OS X, Google Desktop users on the Mac can now r…