Phil the neighbour and I attended the Google Developer's Day in Sydney on the 31st.
Quite a sumptuous affair seeing as they provided lunch, snacks and drinks all day and they didn't charge a bean.
I felt a bit of a hypocrite as I don't use any Google development stuff but did I mention it was free?
Interesting day, with the boffins from Google showing the application of their various apis and javascripty goodness.
Expect to see lots of maps and stuff appearing here soon.
Of particular interest was the new Google Gears api wherein your shiny new ajax application can persist its data locally using a modified version of SQLLite, so if you suffer fomr a network outage, your app will soldier on regardless. Neat.
Also the maps api was particularly interesting. It looks rather straight forward so now I'm going to add maps aplenty to my Hunter Skysailors website. The Google Web Toolkit looks particularly choice: complete ajax applications written entirely in Java. There's a slew of support tools and Eclipse plugins available and you don't get bogged down with all of javascript's inconsistencies. Check it out.
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