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Posted by Brad Neuberg, Gears TeamWordPress.com just recently went live with Gears support for accelerating the user-interface, and the upcoming WordPress 2.6 release will also bundle Gears.Andrew Ozz, a member of the WordPress team and the person resp…

Posted by Brad Neuberg, Gears TeamWordPress.com just recently went live with Gears support for accelerating the user-interface, and the upcoming WordPress 2.6 release will also bundle Gears.Andrew Ozz, a member of the WordPress team and the person resp…

Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears Team

When a lot of developers think about Flex, they often tie it to Flash and AIR, but you can of course integrate Flex applications with many other front-end services.

Mrinal Wadhwa has seen value in building Flex applications, and also likes functionality available in Gears.

He wrote up an article on enhancing Flex applications with Gears which had him create a sample application the uses the Desktop API in Gears.

It is interesting to take a look at the source to see how Flex applications tie back to plain old JavaScript.

For example, the following shows you how you put JavaScript into your Flex application, and then call back to the Flex code via thisMovie(APP_NAME).methodToCall:

  // tells the swf if gears is installed
  function isGearsInstalled() {
    if (window.google && google.gears) { //gears is installed
      thisMovie("FlexGears").testForGears(true);    
      return;
    }
    //gears is not installed
    thisMovie("FlexGears").testForGears(false);    
  }


  function thisMovie(movieName) {
    if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1) {
      return window[movieName];
    } else {
      return document[movieName];
    }
  }
  // ....

Thanks to Mrinal Wadhwa for taking the time to try this all out. We enjoy seeing how people take Gears into many corners of the Web!

Also, you may not have seen QuickFix, an example application that shows how you can use Flex to talk to Google App Engine. The example is created by Dick Wall from App Engine, and James Ward from Adobe.

Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamWhen a lot of developers think about Flex, they often tie it to Flash and AIR, but you can of course integrate Flex applications with many other front-end services.Mrinal Wadhwa has seen value in building Flex applicati…

Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears Team

We had a great time at Google I/O at the end of May, and there were plenty of Gears-related content. Fortunately, video cameras were at the ready, and all of the sessions have been published on YouTube.

I put together a playlist (embedded player above) of the Gears content which includes:

• Improving Browsers in New Ways: Gears++
• Google Gears for Mobile
• HTML 5, Brought to You by Gears
• Gears and MySpace – Search on the Client
• Taking Large-Scale Applications Offline
• Gears Case Studies

Also, you may be interested in other Ajax related content such as:

GWT

• Using GWT to Build a Diagramming Tool
• GWT and Client-Server Communication
• GWT Extreme by Ray Cromwell
• JavaScript and DOM Programming in GWT
• Resource Bundles and Linkers in GWT
• Deferred Binding with GWT

General Ajax

• Alex Russell on “Can We Get There from Here?”
• Spice up Your Apps with Google AJAX APIs
• Yours truly, Dion and Ben, State of Ajax: The Universe Is Expanding
• Steve Yegge on Server Side JavaScript

Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamWe had a great time at Google I/O at the end of May, and there were plenty of Gears-related content. Fortunately, video cameras were at the ready, and all of the sessions have been published on YouTube.I put together a …

Posted by Aaron Boodman, Gears EngineerWell, that’s it, Gears 0.3 has officially left the nest. Most users have now been updated to 0.3.24.0. If you haven’t, you can update at gears.google.com.It seemed like just yesterday we were announcing 0.2. But h…

Posted by Aaron Boodman, Gears EngineerWell, that’s it, Gears 0.3 has officially left the nest. Most users have now been updated to 0.3.24.0. If you haven’t, you can update at gears.google.com.It seemed like just yesterday we were announcing 0.2. But h…

Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamJeff Haynie announced that the latest Appcelerator SDK supports Gears.First, for those that haven’t heard of Appcelerator, it is an open source “RIA” development toolkit that focuses on rich clients talking to services …

Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamJeff Haynie announced that the latest Appcelerator SDK supports Gears.First, for those that haven’t heard of Appcelerator, it is an open source “RIA” development toolkit that focuses on rich clients talking to services …

Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamMySpace announced new functionality into their MySpace Message Center today at Google I/O.One feature that they were lacking was the ability for MySpace users to actually search their MySpace messages. To go through mai…

Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamMySpace announced new functionality into their MySpace Message Center today at Google I/O.One feature that they were lacking was the ability for MySpace users to actually search their MySpace messages. To go through mai…

Posted by Andrew Bowers, Google Developer ProgramsGoogle I/O is just a few weeks away (May 28 – 29). If you haven’t already, don’t forget to register for the event. We now have over 80 sessions posted, including a number of new sessions on Gears and A…

Posted by Andrew Bowers, Google Developer ProgramsGoogle I/O is just a few weeks away (May 28 – 29). If you haven’t already, don’t forget to register for the event. We now have over 80 sessions posted, including a number of new sessions on Gears and A…

Posted by Aaron Boodman, Gears EngineerGears is about more than just offline web applications. For example, we recently added desktop shortcut functionality, and we’re working on resumable uploads, a geolocation API, and lots more fun things for the fu…