The Adobe on Air Bus Tour was in Portland last night. It was a very exciting event. The bus crew did a great job presenting the unique opportunity that AIR gives both Flash and HTML developers to build cross-platform desktop application with their current skill-set.
I managed to answer a trivia question and get a bag of seven O'Reilly books! Add the 3 beers I had, the excellent catered food, the free training, and the networking opportunities and I have only one thing to say.
Thank you Adobe!
I saw this story about Google Gears on Ryan's blog earlier. It is such cool news that I wanted to make sure it got spread. Having a consistent cross-browser, cross-platform way to implement an "occasionally connected" work-flow for web-applications seems like huge news to me. Plus, Google + Adobe + Mozilla = Happy if you ask me.
I've already installed Gears and tried it with Google Reader under both WinXP and PCLinuxOS 2007.
Please go and check out the JavaScript syntax for executing SQL against a local SQLite database.
" What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo by ZDNet's Ryan Stewart -- Some big news today that Google is announcing an open source project called "Google Gears" which is an open source collaboration between Google, Adobe, Mozilla, and Opera that enables offline web applications in the browser. It seems very similar to the announcement that Mozilla made about the offline features in Firefox 3 and will be [...]"
