June 2007
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Following on
15 minutes of internet fame, without the fame.
Gearshift seems to have been noticed by a few people:
Ajaxian
ZDNet Japan (translation)
Google Gears API Blog
I’m keen to improve on it, work it in to some kind of ORM layer perhaps. For now it doesn’t wrap any of the hard things about sqlite (like the fairly limited set of supported alter commands), which would probably be...
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Introducing Gearshift
Not quite as exciting as a bowl of a really good dip.
Google announced Gears. Which has nifty features such as providing a local server for asset files, a workerpool for shoving things out of the main “thread” (background those db syncs, for example), and accessible-by-javascript sqlite databases. SQL based local data store? Sign me up! Awesome.
Except for one thing. I hate the...
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iTunes Plus
All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
I pretty much just use iTunes (and just on one machine now) and 3 iPods (yeah, that’s excessive), but I’ve ponied up the cash to upgrade what I can from my library.
Why? It’s not that I hate DRM, but it’s a technical solution to a social “problem” (if you agree it is a problem), and it will never ever work. The sooner...