Google Developer Podcast: Google Developer Podcast Episode Three: Mike Tsao on Google Gears

By Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs

Using iTunes? We have published the third episode of the Google Developer Podcast, which delves into the world of offline applications, which is a hot topic right now. Let's get right to it.
Interview with Mike Tsao of the Google Gears team
It is a really fun chat, and lets us get into the mind of the Google Gears team a little.

What Google Gears is at a high level

How Google Gears came about

The parts and pieces of Google Gears

Information on the Datastore component (SQLite)

Information on the ResourceStore and ManagedResourceStore components

How the APIs look, and what should I be thinking about as I make my application offline

How to handle versioning with Google Gears applications

How the WorkerPool came about, and why we need to run JavaScript jobs in another thread

The code contributions made back to the SQLite codebase (e.g. MATCH() added)

The pain of finding the 90% case for syncing

Thoughts on how the client is getting smarter

How GWT supports Gears

How Google Reader is using Gears

How the UI fits in with offline behaviour

The open source vision for Gears

How other web platforms can access Gears

Future ideas for Google Gears

News

Mapplets

Google Maps Street View

Google Web Toolkit 1.4

You can download the episode directly, or subscribe to the show (click here for iTunes one-click subscribe).