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Google Developer Day 2007
I got an email Wednesday morning, as I sat down at my desk in my home office with a bowl of yogurt and granola, that I needed to be in San Jose, CA on Thursday for the Google Developer Day 2007. Google was to make an announcement about Gears, we were participating in the keynote about this new offering, and I needed to be present for technical assistance. I booked the flight, and about twelve hours later was on the ground.
The conference is a free event, that outgrew the project 100 attendees and turned into 1,500 onsite and a total of 5,000 around the globe (many of the sessions were simultaneously web cast). My first impression resulted in the question: what did Google do to get such a religious following in such a short amount of time. The answer to that was evident, when the only non-solicited applause from an otherwise anticlimactic keynote came from Jeff Huber saying that Google makes free services for developers.
I attended a few sessions, mostly related to Gears which provides an offline component for web applications. The browser plug-in is built around SQLite, which is the same relational database Adobe is including in Apollo. The overwhelming number of follow-up questions almost always stemmed around how to deal with synchronization. I think this is interesting seeing as data synchronization is part of the Live Cycle Data Services.
I spent most of the time hanging out with Ryan Stewart who recently joined the team, and we'll be making the return trip to the airport in a few hours.
Google Developer Day 2007
I got an email Wednesday morning, as I sat down at my desk in my home office with a bowl of yogurt and granola, that I needed to be in San Jose, CA on Thursday for the Google Developer Day 2007. Google was to make an announcement about Gears, we were participating in the keynote about this new offering, and I needed to be present for technical assistance. I booked the flight, and about twelve hours later was on the ground.
The conference is a free event, that outgrew the project 100 attendees and turned into 1,500 onsite and a total of 5,000 around the globe (many of the sessions were simultaneously web cast). My first impression resulted in the question: what did Google do to get such a religious following in such a short amount of time. The answer to that was evident, when the only non-solicited applause from an otherwise anticlimactic keynote came from Jeff Huber saying that Google makes free services for developers.
I attended a few sessions, mostly related to Gears which provides an offline component for web applications. The browser plug-in is built around SQLite, which is the same relational database Adobe is including in Apollo. The overwhelming number of follow-up questions almost always stemmed around how to deal with synchronization. I think this is interesting seeing as data synchronization is part of the Live Cycle Data Services.
I spent most of the time hanging out with Ryan Stewart who recently joined the team, and we'll be making the return trip to the airport in a few hours.