I am a web designer & developer based in Galway, Ireland. Information on my work is available from my company site: Ambient Age Web Design.

I am also completing a PhD in Information Systems. My research is on the Adoption of IT Standards for technologies to support Ambient Intelligence.

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Getting into Gears: Offline Web App Tutorial – Part 1

July 19, 2008 – 12:39 pm

Growing numbers of web applications have been dipping their toes into providing offline access using Gears. Recent examples include Google Reader (Google originally developed Gears before releasing it as an open source project), Remember the Milk, Wordpress (in Version 2.6), with planned integrations from MySpace and Gmail.
Offline access provides a way for a user to [...]

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