By adding Java to their App Engine, Google has opened the door for a whole slew of languages that have been implemented on the JVM, now including PHP via Quercus.
This weekend I decided to give it a try and deploy an old tutorial of mine - PHP Tutorials - on GAE.
I must admit that I was pleasantly surprised by how effortless it was. OK, it’s a very rudimentary PHP application, the only PHP code used was to run the examples described on the code blocks and do some includes; nevertheless I didn’t feel the need to change a single line of code.
Brad Neuberg from Sitepen wrote an extensive tutorial about Creating Offline Web Applications with Dojo Offline.
What is Dojo Offline? Dojo Offline is an open-source toolkit that makes it easy to create sophisticated, offline web applications. It sits on top of Google Gears, a plugin from Google that helps extend web browsers with new functionality. Dojo Offline makes working with Google Gears easier; extends it with important functionality; creates a higher-level API than Google Gears provides; and exposes developer productivity features.…
Google announced Google Gears at Google Developer Day 2007.
Google Gears is an open source browser plugin that will enable developers to create offline web applications using JavaScript APIs. As a developer, you’ll be able to make an application with the assurance that it will work offline and online across browsers.
Google Reader is the first online application to offer “Gears-enabled offline capabilities”. After you load the Gears plugin you get a new icon at the top of your Reader window which enables offline capabilities of Google Reader.…