We have published the third episode of the Google
Developer Podcast, which delves into the world of offline applications, which is a hot topic
right now. Let's get right to it.
Interview with Mike Tsao of
the Google Gears team
We had the pleasure of interviewing Mike Tsao of
the Google Gears team just before the Google Gears announcement went public.
It is a really fun chat, and lets us get into the mind of the Google Gears team a
little.
In this interview you will learn:
What Google Gears is at a high level
How Google
Gears came about
The parts and pieces of Google
Gears
Information on the Datastore component
(SQLite)
Information on the ResourceStore and ManagedResourceStore
components
How the APIs look, and what should I be thinking about as I
make my application offline
How to handle versioning with Google Gears
applications
How the WorkerPool came about, and why we need to run
JavaScript jobs in another thread
The code contributions made back to the
SQLite codebase (e.g. MATCH() added)
The pain of finding the 90% case for
syncing
Thoughts on how the client is getting
smarter
How GWT supports Gears
How Google Reader is
using Gears
How the UI fits in with offline
behaviour
The open source vision for Gears
How other
web platforms can access Gears
Future ideas for Google
Gears
News
We also discussed a little of the other
news that happened just before Developer Day.
