1. A computer-readable medium having computer executable components that enables a client computer to execute an application without a network connection, comprising: a virtual machine component that causes the application code written in a semantic programming language to be executed on a client computing device; a cache component for obtaining and storing resources that are used by the application when the client computing device is scheduled to disconnect from the network; and a transaction component for storing data updates that occur when the client computer device is disconnected from the network and causing the data updates to be synchronized with any other changes when a network connection is re-established.