Archive for the ‘Google News’ Category

Headers and footers

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Headers and footers Posted by: Deepak Jindal, Software EngineerIn December, we told you how we've been working hard to improve the printing features in Google Docs. Over the holidays we added another popularly requested feature: customizable headers and footers for printed documents.To insert a header or footer into your document, ...

Getting even more news via feeds

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Getting even more news via feeds Posted by Greta Ghizzo Van Everen, News Support TeamA few weeks ago we blogged about how Google News personalization works. Now let's take a look at getting the most out of Google News feeds.For one thing, you can get articles from your favorite news source ...

Star Struck for Google Accounts

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Star Struck for Google Accounts By Brian Fitzpatrick, Open Source TeamIn the past year, we've seen a lot of enhancement requests from you in our issue tracker for project hosting, and we can tell which issues are the most important to people by sorting them according to the number of times ...

Google’s Open Source Team Hosts Collective Intelligence Foo Camp

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Google's Open Source Team Hosts Collective Intelligence Foo Camp By Cat Allman, Google Open Source Team When I asked Hal Varian, Google's Chief Economist and UC Berkeley professor for his elevator definition of "collective intelligence", he replied, "People and computers collaborating." In conjunction with our colleagues at O'Reilly ...

Summer Already?

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Summer Already? By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamLately many folks have been asking us, "Are you going to hold Google Summer of Code again this year?" The answer is a resounding "Yes!" For full details on our program to introduce university students to open source development, check out the Google ...

After the Summer, the Code Lives On

Friday, March 28th, 2008

After the Summer, the Code Lives On By Post by Manu Cornet, Software Engineering TeamThe first time I wrote a piece of code with the intention of making it open source was, like many other people, when I was still a student. As a project for a computer vision class, a ...

Drupal’s Runner-Ups

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Drupal's Runner-Ups By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamAs we mentioned last week, many of the mentoring organizations participating in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest had a difficult time choosing their Grand Prize Winners. All of our projects had stellar participants, and we're pleased to join them in sharing kudos ...

Selenium Users Event Coming Up

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Selenium Users Event Coming Up By Jason Huggins, Jennifer Bevan and Simon Stewart, Software Engineering TeamSince the Google Test Automation Conference last year, it has been no secret that Google uses Selenium for functional testing of web applications. We've also constructed a Selenium farm for the distributed and speedy testing of ...

Dojo Dev Days at Google

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Dojo Dev Days at Google By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team We recently hosted the Dojo Developer Day here at Google. Dojo is one of the leading open-source Ajax/JavaScript toolkits, and it was great getting to see many of the core Dojo contributors and users from around the country. Brad Neuberg, ...

Spring Comes Early for Oxford Geeks

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Spring Comes Early for Oxford Geeks By J-P Stacey, Oxford GeekAs the January blues began to lift, web developers, designers, neophiles, hardware hackers and hardcore programmers all descended on a local Oxford pub last night for the first in 2008’s Oxford Geek Nights (OGNs). Thanks to Google's drinks sponsorship the atmosphere ...