Google Apps
Google Apps: The Missing Manual, 1st Edition
By Nancy Conner
This comprehensive and easy-to-follow new book teaches you how to use the new web-based applications from Google that are providing a viable alternative to Microsoft Office for many businesses. While Google's office suite shows a lot of promise, navi...
[Publish Date: May 2008]
Google Apps Hacks, 1st Edition
By Philipp Lenssen
With 100,000 businesses running trials of Google Office, the venerable Microsoft Office suite has a serious challenger. But can Google's web apps make the cut? With scores of clever hacks, workarounds, and other undocumented tips, this book helps you...
[Publish Date: April 2008]
Using Google App Engine--New from O'Reilly: Start Building and Running Web ...
Sebastopol, CA—Google App Engine is perhaps the most appealing web technology to appear in the last year, providing an easy-to-use application framework with basic web tools. While Google's own tutorial assumes experience as a professional...
[Publish Date: June 03, 2009]
Setting Up Google Apps Standard Edition, 1st Edition
By William Lawrence
With Google Apps, you can have your own private network without buying server hardware, knowing how to set up servers, or worrying about maintenance. Google provides all of the expensive infrastructure, IT management, mail servers, chat system, admin...
[Publish Date: May 2007]
Google Apps: The Missing Manual--New from O'Reilly: Answers Found Here!
Sebastopol, CA--Chances are you've used Google to search the Web. Who hasn't? Google has become a verb (you can look it up in Webster's), as in, I googled the girlfriend I dumped in high school; now she's CEO of SuperMegaCorp. Yet the big news from ...
[Publish Date: May 28, 2008]
Google Apps Hacks--New from O'Reilly: Lofty New Ways to Create, Organize, ...
When Google lifted traditional office applications into its cloud of fast network connections, powerful servers, and seemingly limitless storage, it changed the way many of us create, organize, and share information--and even write books. In fact, a...
[Publish Date: April 16, 2008]
Gearing up MySQL: Implementing MySQL Synchronization for Browser-based Apps ...
By Roland Bouman
Gears is a Google OSS project to extend common web browsers (FF, IE, Chrome), providing Ajax webdevs with features such as an embedded SQL database and support for long-running background processes. This talk describes in detail how to create browser-based applications that use this local, embedded relational database, and how to synchronize this local database to a central MySQL server.
[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]
More Geo-Games: Ship Simulator on Google Earth - O'Reilly Radar
By Brady Forrest
At Google I/O 2008 the Google Earth API was released. It brought Google Earth's 3D capabilities to the web (with the help of browser extensions). Since that release they've started supporting Macs. One really nice part of the Google Earth API is the ability to create games in the 3D world. One of the sample apps was the game...
[Publish Date: May 18, 2009]
JRuby on Google App Engine : OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - ...
By John Woodell, Max Ross, Ted Han
Using JRuby, apps created with Ruby frameworks like Rails or Merb can now be deployed to Google's highly scalable infrastructure. This talk, will provide an overview of App Engine, with attention to current features and apis. We will also show some demos, including deployment to the production environment, and provide some insight into (and best practices for) using the App Engine Datastore.
[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]
Google App Engine Lets Your Web App Grow Up - O'Reilly Radar
By Brady Forrest
Google released App Engine less than a year ago. It was the first chance for external developers to use the power of Google's servers. The powerful platform supported Python and was free (within limits). It now supports 45,000 apps and those apps get over 100 million page views per day. Those pageviews were all free, but they had limits. That's going to change. After today developers can pay to have more storage, more bandwidth, more CPU time and send more email.
[Publish Date: February 24, 2009]
Google's Sneaky Launch of Latitude's Location-Sharing API - O'Reilly Radar
By Brady Forrest
Google has extended their location sharing service Latitude (Radar post) with the first set of Latitude Apps. One of them is a blog badge for sharing your location publicly on a website. The other updates your GTalk status for sharing your location to your IM network. Both have to be turned on explicitly and allow you to share your...
[Publish Date: May 06, 2009]
Top 10 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Office to Google Apps - Off the ...
By Chad Capellman
Author Nancy Conner offers 10 reasons why you should consider making the leap from Microsoft Office to Google Apps. 1. The vast majority of Google's services are free, as in totally, completely, won't-cost-you-a-dime free. 2. With a Google Account,...
[Publish Date: June 02, 2008]
