Archive for May, 2007

Apollo for Web Site Administration

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

If you’ve ever built a dynamic web site before, you know that there’s almost always some degree of administration UI that needs to be created. Sometimes this UI might be as full-featured as the web site itself, and in other cases it may be more limited, but it almost always means some fashion of user management. Rather than build the administration entirely online, what would happen if you leveraged Apollo for offline access too?
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File Upload with Apollo and JavaScript

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Let’s say that you take a lot of pictures. You take pictures, but you don’t want to think about how to upload them. You’d really like an application to monitor a directory for new images, and then upload them to a server. That kind of rules out the browser - it’s not going to be watching a directory on your desktop for image files, and then automatically uploading them. What about Apollo though? Couldn’t an Apollo application monitor a directory for me? Sure! Let’s make it happen…
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