Archive for the ‘Google Open Source’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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