LivePower
March 28, 2008 – 6:36 pmLivePower LivePower Author: Bleacher Report APIs used: OpenSocial Rate National Football League teams and view overall rankings. [Source: http://google-code-featured.blogspot.com]
LivePower LivePower Author: Bleacher Report APIs used: OpenSocial Rate National Football League teams and view overall rankings. [Source: http://google-code-featured.blogspot.com]
Friends Date and Time
March 28, 2008 – 6:36 pmFriends Date and Time Friends Date and Time Author: LjmSite APIs used: OpenSocial View the current time for your friends. [Source: http://google-code-featured.blogspot.com]
Where I’ve Visited
March 28, 2008 – 6:36 pmWhere I've Visited Where I've Visited Author: SideStep, Inc. APIs used: OpenSocial Share where you've been, where you're going, and your favorite cities on a map. [Source: http://google-code-featured.blogspot.com]
FunWall
March 28, 2008 – 6:36 pmFunWall FunWall Author: Slide APIs used: OpenSocial Leave videos, edited images, and interactive notes on your friends' walls. [Source: http://google-code-featured.blogspot.com]
Go Go Gadgets in Asia
March 28, 2008 – 6:34 pmGo Go Gadgets in Asia By Min Li Chan, Google Developer Programs - APACIt's cold and cloudy in Hong Kong and Taiwan this week, as our trusty weather gadgets indicate. At the Googleplex, where a quintessentially Californian winter is holding up, we had the distinct honor of hosting our Taiwan and Hong Kong gadget developer contest winners -- Hu Chih-Pao flew in from Taipei to tour our campus in December (see photos from his visit on his blog), while Alex Ng and Liu Chun-Yu visited us from Hong Kong two weeks ago.Of the 190 submissions for the gadget contest in Taiwan, Chih-Pao produced a whopping 43 entries, including a real-time Taiwan Train Timetable gadget and a gadget for the Taiwanese traditional worship of the Buddha of Mercy: Alex and Chun-Yu's innovative use of gadget technology caught our eye, with their real-time local Hong Kong TV program guide with keyword-activated YouTube ...
Come on over, the Open Source Programs Office has its own blog
March 28, 2008 – 6:34 pmCome on over, the Open Source Programs Office has its own blog By Chris DiBona, Open Source TeamWhen we first launched code.google.com (webarchive), it was largely a site for documenting our open source activities and had some details about Google's supported APIs and file formats. In the ensuing 3 years, code has grown to encompass protocol documentation, project hosting and even a mobile operating system. Similarly, the activities of the Open Source Team have grown from simple license compliance to the aforementioned hosting, releasing massive amounts of code and introducing student programs like the Summer of Code and its high school cousin, the Highly Open Participation Contest. Since we've grown so much, we felt it was well past time to spin off a blog that specifically covers the open source activities of the company. So that's just what we've done. Come check it out, and if you like, subscribe! [Source: http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com]
Google Technology User Groups
March 28, 2008 – 6:34 pmGoogle Technology User Groups By Christian Schalk, Google Developer ProgramsWe recently started the Google Technology User Groups program to help people get together and discuss Google developer products at a technical level. One of the first groups formed is the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group by Java user group veterans Mike "Van" Riper and Kevin Nilson. The first SV-GTUG meetup took place on Google's main campus in January to discuss the Google Web Toolkit with Googler Bob Vawter. The SV-GTUG will be hosting its next meeting on February 6th, where Dick Wall from Google will be presenting on Android.Silicon Valley is not the only home to new user groups: The Pune GTUG in India, started by Rohit Ghatol, seeks to bring together some of India's vast developer audience to think creatively about using developer APIs to explore what is possible beyond typical Google products.We'll post again ...
URLs are People, Too
March 28, 2008 – 6:34 pmURLs are People, Too By Brad Fitzpatrick, Software EngineerSo you've just built a totally sweet new social app and you can't wait for people to start using it, but there's a problem: when people join they don't have any friends on your site. They're lonely, and the experience isn't good because they can't use the app with people they know. You could ask them to search for and add all their friends, but you know that every other app is asking them to do the same thing and they're getting sick of it. Or they tried address book import, but that didn't totally work, because they don't even have all their friends' email addresses (especially if they only know them from another social networking site!). What's a developer to do?One option is the new Social Graph API, which makes information about the public connections between people on the Web ...
Interview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails and more
March 28, 2008 – 6:33 pmInterview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails and more By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsLast year, Steve Yegge posted about Rhino on Rails, his port of Ruby on Rails to the JavaScript language on the Rhino runtime. It garnered a slew of interest, and I have been wanting to talk to him in more detail about the project.Fortunately, I happened to be at the Google Kirkland office and Steve graciously had time to spend talking about the framework. Steve is an entertaining chap, and manages to keep you interested with long blog entries, and did the same as I chatted with him.In the conversation we cover the germination of the project, why Steve went ahead with the port, the side effects of JavaScript on the server, how Rhino will be implementing JavaScript 2 / ECMAScript 4 (with Google committing engineers to the project), the intent to open source RnR, and ...
Compiere: Building a GWT interface for opensource ERP
March 28, 2008 – 6:33 pmCompiere: Building a GWT interface for opensource ERP By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsThe Compiere team is trying to make ERP easier. I had a chance to catch up with Gary Wu, Di Zhao and Chris Sprague of the Compiere engineering team. We talked about their recently shipped open source ERP solution that now includes a GWT-based rich internet interface.Using GWT was natural for the developers and allowed them to create a highly productive web experience for Compiere users in just a few months of effort. Listen to the Compiere developers discuss their experiences with GWT and see a demo of the new Compiere Web user interface. [Source: http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com]