Comments on: Google Calendars now partly Gears enabled http://www.embracingchaos.com/2007/10/google-calendar.html Analysis of Trends in Technology, Business, Society Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:52:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: leodirac http://www.embracingchaos.com/2007/10/google-calendar.html/comment-page-1#comment-288 leodirac Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:25:03 +0000 http://wp.embracingchaos.com/2007/10/google-calendar.html#comment-288 <p>Calendar and docs both seem to have always kept some kind of MVC model locally on the client. Other apps like gmail and spreadsheets can't seem to do a bloody thing without checking in with the server making them friggin slow. Even still the calendar app gets a little wonky when server connectivity goes south -- things act unpredictable sometimes. UI actions get lost. That kind of thing. Calender definitely hits the server frequently when you're using it.</p> <p>I said "Mountain View" metaphorically meaning the servers in the cloud. I would hope my readers would understand that Google doesn't host all their servers in silicon valley. No self-respecting internet company would host all their servers in their corporate HQ. That said, Google doesn't seem as well distributed as, say Yahoo, since my ping times to google.com are pretty much always higher than other world-class services. Maybe just not as good on the global server load balancing thing. Or maybe yahoo cheats the pings with a CDN. Who knows? Not me -- all I know is what I can infer from trying to use the stuff.<br /> </p> Calendar and docs both seem to have always kept some kind of MVC model locally on the client. Other apps like gmail and spreadsheets can't seem to do a bloody thing without checking in with the server making them friggin slow. Even still the calendar app gets a little wonky when server connectivity goes south — things act unpredictable sometimes. UI actions get lost. That kind of thing. Calender definitely hits the server frequently when you're using it.

I said "Mountain View" metaphorically meaning the servers in the cloud. I would hope my readers would understand that Google doesn't host all their servers in silicon valley. No self-respecting internet company would host all their servers in their corporate HQ. That said, Google doesn't seem as well distributed as, say Yahoo, since my ping times to google.com are pretty much always higher than other world-class services. Maybe just not as good on the global server load balancing thing. Or maybe yahoo cheats the pings with a CDN. Who knows? Not me — all I know is what I can infer from trying to use the stuff.

]]> By: Gretta Cook http://www.embracingchaos.com/2007/10/google-calendar.html/comment-page-1#comment-287 Gretta Cook Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:32:17 +0000 http://wp.embracingchaos.com/2007/10/google-calendar.html#comment-287 <p>What makes you think your packets were ever making a round trip to Mountain View? :)</p> <p>But still, yes, it's exciting.</p> What makes you think your packets were ever making a round trip to Mountain View? :)

But still, yes, it's exciting.

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