Archive for April, 2004

SD 2004 Disconnected Data Handling Talk - Slides Available

Monday, April 26th, 2004

At SD2004, I gave a talk on data handling in disconnected mode (mobile / wireless) applictions. The ideas here apply to wireless / mobile applications running on notebook PCs, PDAs, even smaller devices like “SmartPhones”.
Slides: sd04_disconnected.ppt
Source Code: disc-data-ex.zip

Taking a look at Zoe, “Google for your email”

Monday, April 26th, 2004

I tried out Zoe (http://zoe.nu) recently, having seen it described as “Google for your email”. Of course that monikor will make less sense with Gmail here.
Zoe runs in the background on your machine, acting as a (non-real-time) proxy for your incoming (POP) and outgoing (SMTP) email connections; you continue to use your existing email client, […]