links for 2007-06-01

• Google Gears API Developer's Guide - Home
  "Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline." Sure seems like Adam Bosworth's Alchemy project has resurrected... Game-changing stuff. (BTW, we can do the same with JavaDB and applets)
  (tags: google project opensource browser offline extension plugin webdev store storage library database RDBMS client RIA api javascript)
• Mashups made easy - Google Mashup Blog
  "The Google Mashup Editor's simple online interface enables you to build, test, deploy and distribute your mashup.Using familiar technologies like HTML, JavaScript and CSS, you can create mashups in minutes and test them in our sandbox, a testing ground f
  (tags: project google mashup web web2.0 webdev AJAX mashups HTML Javascript CSS editor tool)
• [osol-discuss] Re: [SVOSUG] Tonight, Project Indiana,
  More info about project Indiana. Paraphrasing, is goals are to provide a simple answer to the questions: "How to get and Install OpenSolaris?", "How to upgrade it?", "how to manage packages?" and "what to do wrt support". (I'm not good at paraphrasing, cl
  (tags: mailing list post mail OpenSolaris Indiana ProjectIndiana community email message solaris distro distribution AlanCoopersmith IanMurdock)
• JavaOne 2007 : JavaFX PDF Viewer (video) [cld.blog-city.com]
  I guess the title says it all. Though I don't think this program has been made available. Hopefully it will sometime.
  (tags: blog post JavaFX Java PDF presentation app program demo ChrisOliver viewer)
• [osol-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)
  Solid info on Project Indiana: "Summary - This project proposes to create an OpenSolaris binary distribution, previously known as 'Project Indiana'." "Description - This project proposes to create an OpenSolaris binary distribution with a long term goal o
  (tags: project OpenSolaris Indiana OS distribution distro ProjectIndiana Solaris proposal GlynnFoster IanMurdock)