November 18, 2008
Dare Obasanjo has written up his characteristically frank first impressions of Live Framework and how it compares to Google’s GData API. It’s a good read: Live Framework (LiveFx): Is It Microsoft’s GData or Something More?
Dare closes the article with this:
On the flip side, the client-side Live Operating Environment is a technology whose benefits elude me. [...]
Tags: cloud, Google Gears, Live Framework, Mesh, Microsoft
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November 14, 2008
A few folks I’ve talked to in the Live Frameworks CTP forum or in email have expressed a little bit of confusion or a lot of surprise at what you can do with the Live Mesh platform and Live Frameworks. Let’s run through a few of scenarios to give you an idea of the breadth of options you have to leverage Live [...]
Tags: Google Gears, Live Framework, Live Mesh, Mesh, Silverlight
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July 17, 2008
Wordpress.org has announced a new 2.6 version of the WordPress online blogging and content management system.
Major features in this release include revision history, comparison, and rollback of edits made to articles, a “Press this” link to automate blogging about other web pages, theme previews to see how a theme would look on your content before [...]
Tags: Google Gears, Subversion, wordpress
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July 4, 2008
WordPress.com, the commercial blog hosting company that uses blog software from WordPress.org, is adding Google Gears support to their hosted blog service. Initially, this will only speed up use of the blog administration pages by caching the scripts and images locally.
This isn’t really the best use of Gears, since the browser will cache content as it’ is accessed, [...]
Tags: blogging, Google, Google Gears, offline web apps, wordpress
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