Appcelerator Entourage is a suite of open source products that can be use to quickly build browser, desktop and mobile applications. Entourage consists of the following products:
* Entourage MQ
* Entourage Expressions
* Entourage UI
* Entourage Service Brokers

Titanium is the first open platform for building rich desktop applications.

* Open source
Titanium is licensed under the Apache Public License (version 2)
* Open web
Use standard HTML, CSS and Javascript to build rich desktop apps
* Open desktop
Run your apps on Windows, Mac and Linux
* Open API
Add rich desktop capabilities to your apps using a simple Javascript API

Appcelerator is an open source platform that provides everything you need to build rich web, mobile and desktop applications.

To use markers in Google Maps is fairly trivial, at least when you have a reasonable amount of them. But once you have more than a few hundred of them, performance quickly starts to degrade. In this article I will show you a few approaches to speed up performance. I’ve also put together a test page to compare them.

In part 1 I showed how to use and optimize performance on polylines in Google Maps using Javascript. In this article I will show you how to get even better performance by encoding the polylines on the server.