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Gearing up MySQL: Implementing MySQL synchronization for browser-based apps ...

By Roland Bouman

Gears is a Google OSS project to extend common web browsers (FF, IE, Chrome), providing Ajax webdevs with features such as an embedded SQL database and support for long-running background processes. This talk describes in detail how to create browser-based applications that use this local, embedded relational database, and how to synchronize this local database to a central MySQL server.

[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]

Google Apps: The Missing Manual--New from O'Reilly: Answers Found Here!

Sebastopol, CA--Chances are you've used Google to search the Web. Who hasn't? Google has become a verb (you can look it up in Webster's), as in, I googled the girlfriend I dumped in high school; now she's CEO of SuperMegaCorp. Yet the big news from ...

[Publish Date: May 28, 2008]

Google Apps Hacks--New from O'Reilly: Lofty New Ways to Create, Organize, ...

When Google lifted traditional office applications into its cloud of fast network connections, powerful servers, and seemingly limitless storage, it changed the way many of us create, organize, and share information--and even write books. In fact, a...

[Publish Date: April 16, 2008]

Spatial Database Tips and Tricks: Where 2.0 Conference 2009 - O'Reilly ...

By Paul Ramsey

OpenGIS spatial databases, such as PostGIS, SQL Server Spatial and Oracle Spatial, can add geoprocessing and spatial query processing to applications in the GeoWeb. We will show how spatial SQL can power REST geoprocessing, Google Maps apps, and KML, and get students up to speed with the basics of this powerful tool.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Speaker: Jeff Veen: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...

Jeffrey Veen is a founder of Small Batch, Inc. where he's leading a team of developers and creating user-centered web products. Jeffrey was also one of the founding partners of Adaptive Path and project lead for Measure Map, the well-received web analytics tool acquired by Google in 2006, where he managed the user experience group responsible for some of the largest web apps in the world. As a consultant, he has been involved in designing the leading blog and social media applications on the web, including Blogger, TypePad, Flickr, and and National Public Radio.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Tricky Issues With Local Search: Where 2.0 Conference 2009 - O'Reilly ...

By Danny Sullivan

As local search continues to grow, so do issues on how we represent the real work virtually. Should Google allow individuals to block their homes from Street View? How do you balance listing brick-and-mortar stores along with virtual outlets? Do we need a master control panel to clear location tracking from all our apps – and what they’ve stored on their servers?

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Google App Engine Lets Your Web App Grow Up - O'Reilly Radar

By Brady Forrest

Google released App Engine less than a year ago. It was the first chance for external developers to use the power of Google's servers. The powerful platform supported Python and was free (within limits). It now supports 45,000 apps and those apps get over 100 million page views per day. Those pageviews were all free, but they had limits. That's going to change. After today developers can pay to have more storage, more bandwidth, more CPU time and send more email.

[Publish Date: February 24, 2009]

Google Provides Location to web and mobile apps | InsideRIA

By Andre Charland

Google announced 2 new ways to make your apps location aware yesterday. One's a web service that any web can take advantage the second is built into Google Gears, and runs on the mobile version of this plugin.

[Publish Date: August 22, 2008]

Nancy Conner

Nancy Conner holds a Ph.D. from Brown University and is the author of numerous books, including QuickBase: The Missing Manual and Google Apps: The Missing Manual. You can read Nancy's Living Green blog at missingmanuals.com. She lives in Ithaca, NY.

[Publish Date: March 19, 2009]