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Welcome to EGL Planner This web site showcases a couple of applications developed by Chris Laffra. Each of the samples uses EGL Rich UI to build rich, interactive web applications that mash up information from various sources into a comprehensive browser experience.

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Featured Application: GVButler, Google Voice for the iPhone

Main functionality offered by GVButler:

• Native-looking iPhone dialer webapp for Google Voice
• Download your Google Contacts list to your phone
• Select a contact or enter a number and call it on Google Voice

This application uses many cool techniques that allow it to behave like a native iPhone application:

• Custom bookmark icon and startup screen
• Page transitions using "tweening", allowing for a cross-browser experience
• Browser-side storage (HTML5 on iPhone, Google Gears elsewhere)
• Transparent translation of iPhone touch events into regular mouse events
• Works in any browser, greatly improves development productivity
• Implemented as a webapp, no Objective-C or Apple hardware needed
• HTML5 caching to start up faster (coming soon)
• Fully secure, using SSL on the front and backend
• Written in EGL Rich UI
• Entire application, including EGL runtime and Google Gears is compressed into 78K

Don't get Lost! Combine local search, GPS, and the Entertainment Book: GPS Butler

Some of the exciting features offered by GPS Butler:

• Search local points of interest
• get driving directions using Google Maps, or Navigon GPS
• Use Google Voice on your iPhone to call any of your contacts, or drive to them
• Search for Entertainment Book offers near you

Let's waste some time....

Try Escape, the addictive Internet classic.

Conferences Planners (the original reason for existence for EGL Planner)

Some of the conference we covered using EGL Planner are:

• Rational Software Developer Conference, Orlando, Florida, June 2008
• IBM On Demand, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2008
• Gartner Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2008
• AjaxWorld, San Jose, Californaia, October 2008
• Web2.0 Expo, San Francisco, California, March 2009
• Rational Software Conference, Orlando, Florida, June 2009

Other EGL Stuff

Other EGL-related materials to be found on this site:

• A couple of videos explaining various interesting aspects of EGL
• The Dojo Gallery, showing wrapped Dojo widgets that can be used with EGL
• A really cool Planetarium, developed by Bob Laffra, as a school project
• Another school project by Bob. This one is on Vampire Bats

More EGL Information can be found at the EGL Cafe.