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By Phoebe Peronto, Developer Marketing you have done this year: developers and other friends in the Google Developer community. From a Gangnam style-inspired app , to growing the GDG community beyond 330 active chapters, let’s just say that 2012 has been nothing short of amazing.You have... Google I/O 2012 reach more than 13,000 developers by hosting over 50 I/O Extended events all over the world . Looking forward to Google I/O 2013 !DevFest season , with 75 DevFests conducted in only 3 short months. During the season, these events reached over 14,000 developers in 39 countries worldwide. 335 active and incubating chapters in over 90 countries.Google+ Hangouts on Google Developers Live to learn more about how to make cool apps with Google tools and technologies.VIDEO made countless great apps at DevFest hackathons.Here’s to a great year , and many more to come!Want to learn more? Find your nearest GDG chapter to get involved in local events, and connect with Google developers 24/7/365 on Google Developers Live and +Google Developers . Phoebe Peronto is on the Google Developer Product Marketing team. Her mission is to make developer magic by sharing Google tools, technologies, and programs with the community to make super cool apps. She's also a foodie, globetrotter, and avid runner. Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor This post is abridged and cross-posted from the YouTube API Blog . YouTube Android Player API .pre-announced at Google I/O 2012, offers these benefits:experimental , although we do not expect major interface changes going forward.The only limit now is your imagination (and ToS ) instructions explain how to include the API client library in your Android application. The library is supported on Android devices running version 4.2.16 or newer of the Android YouTube app. By including the library in your project, you can create rich video playback experiences through the ability to control and customize the video player. Flipboard , shown below, is a good example. See the full post for more cool app examples.
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Learn more post on The YouTube API Blog . The post features several companies already using the API and contains useful links to source code examples and documentation. Alternatively, get started by watching some of the videos from our YouTube Android Player API playlist . VIDEO Scott Knaster is the Editor of Google Developers Blog. His programming books have been translated into several languages, including Japanese and Pascal.
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By Joshua Marantz, Jan-Willem Maessen, and Bharath Bhushan, PageSpeed Team exploit browser caching by signing URLs with the resource content hash. This improves the user experience coming back to the same site, and navigating within a site.canonicalize_javascript_libraries and insert_dns_prefetch . For additional speedups, converting jpegs to progressive format has been added to the Core Filter Set, and the scope of optimization has been extended to include resources served by external servers, even if they are not running mod_pagespeed.Your web page loads faster when JQuery is preloaded in users' browser canonicalize_javascript_libraries filter in mod_pagespeed finds such libraries on your site and replaces them with links to the equivalent libraries on ajax.googleapis.com . With the optimization, a browser will notice that your site is requesting the library from the same shared library provider as a previous site it visited, and will use the copy in its cache. canonicalize_javascript_libraries lets you replace these with hosted versions without having to touch third-party code. It also lets you use local, un-minified JavaScript source code for these libraries while you are debugging your site, and then transition automatically to using minified hosted code when you deploy. The filter spots external libraries using a hash signature; we’ve added a new configuration file, pagespeed_libraries.conf, that stores these signatures, so that you can upgrade the signature configuration without disrupting the rest of your apache installation.Resolving DNS entries early for critical assets saves hundreds of milliseconds insert_dns_prefetch filter inserts <link rel="dns-prefetch"> tags to allow the browser to pre-resolve DNS for resources on the page. The waterfall below shows the improvement after inserting the hints.<link rel="dns-prefetch"> is supported on Chrome , Firefox and Internet Explorer .Improved performance by optimizing external resources and progressive JPEG proxy and optimize resources from trusted domains . This feature enables you to optimize resources even from servers that don't run mod_pagespeed. Beyond compressing and cache-extending such resources, this can improve performance of sites running SPDY where the best practices for performance are to serve all resources from the same domain (see mod_spdy ).convert_jpeg_to_progressive is now a ‘core’ filter. Large JPEG images are now transcoded to progressive. This both improves the browser experience and makes such files smaller.release notes and mod_pagespeed download page.Joshua Marantz runs Google’s PageSpeed team in Cambridge, MA, which is dedicated to making the web faster for everyone. Josh has been working on making software run fast for several decades, at Google and before that on accelerated chip simulation. Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Mark Davis, International Software Architect International Components for Unicode (ICU) or Windows APIs.compare strings correctly: choosing whether or not to ignore accents, case differences, etc.format numbers correctly: choosing decimal places, currencies, whether to use thousands-separator, etc.format dates and times correctly: choosing decimal places, numeric vs named months, etc.match locales: comparing the user’s desired locales (say Arabic and French) against the supported locales (say French, German, and English), to get the best match.BCP47 (for identifying languages and locales) and LDML (part of the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) project ). For the gory details of the spec, see ECMA-402: ECMAScript Internationalization API Specification (just approved by the Ecma General Assembly). Mark Davis is president and cofounder of the Unicode consortium, and founder of ICU and CLDR. Mark is fond of food, film, travel, and RPGs. Mark lived for 4 years in Switzerland, and is moving back in February.Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
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By Raul Furnică, Tech Lead; Vladimir Vuskovic, Product Manager; and Pepijn Crouzen, Software Engineer, YouTube API Team This post is abridged and cross-posted from the YouTube API Blog . launch in 2007, the YouTube Data API has become one of Google’s most popular APIs by request volume, thanks to the awesome apps from developers like you. To help you make better integrated video experiences, you can now use the YouTube API version 3.0 . The new API is easy to use thanks to rich client library support, improved tooling, reference documentation and integration with Google’s common API infrastructure. Version 3.0 only returns what you ask for and uses JSON rather than XML encoding for greater efficiency. The API introduces new core functionality including Freebase integration via topics, and universal search. If you develop social media management apps, you’ll love channel bulletin post and full subscriber list management, also new in this release. Version 3.0 of the API constitutes the API's biggest overhaul to date and we’re eager for you to try it today ! New functionality: Topics, universal search, and audience engagement support Freebase , you can find exactly what you’re looking for by specifying Freebase topic IDs rather than search keywords. /m/02vx4 is probably the topic ID you're after. The API's universal search feature lets you retrieve channels, playlists and videos matching the topic with just one request like this one . Find out more in our Topics API Guide. channel subscribers using bulletin posts . Learn more post on The YouTube API Blog . The post covers efficiency improvements, features several companies already using version 3.0 and contains useful links to source code examples and documentation. Alternatively, feel free to get started by watching some of the videos from our YouTube API version 3 playlist . VIDEO Raul Furnică is the YouTube API Tech Lead, based in Zürich. He is a believer that API interfaces should be optimized for ease of use, not server implementation. Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Phoebe Peronto, Developer Marketing GDL Presents: Women Techmakers , we kicked off the series kicked off with a tour of the Kiva API from Chairwoman Julie Hanna, then followed with Code for America ’s Jennifer Pahlka explaining her "Peace Corps for Geeks" and solving civic problems with technology. Sasha Laundy of Codecademy introduced us to scalable ways to teach the world to code, and the series culminated with Kim Polese – the first Product Manager for Java – sharing the value of open source technology for making innovation universally accessible. Last week: series highlights Women Techmakers Give Back with Kiva.org Kiva.org chairwoman and technologist Julie Hanna walk us through a data visualization of Kiva’s global impact.VIDEO Women Techmakers Give Back with Code for America Code for America ’s latest civic startups and her "Peace Corps for Geeks".VIDEO Women Techmakers Give Back with Codecademy Codecademy ’s Sasha Laundy introduces us to the easiest way to learn to code. VIDEO Women Techmakers Give Back with ClearStreet, Java VIDEO This Week: We’re going global Thursday, 12/20 : Women Techmakers & Rony Ross of Panorama Software | 2:30 pm PST | 22:30 UTC | Watch live | Add to calendar Thursday, 12/20 : Women Techmakers & Yael Karov of Ginger Software | 3:30 pm PST | 23:30 UTC | Watch live | Add to calendar Watch anytime, anywhere new WTM home .We’re taking techmaker nominations. Share with +Google Developers and @googledevs who you’d like to see on the next Women Techmakers series. Use hashtag (#WTM) and +mention your favorite maker women. Phoebe Peronto is an Associate Product Marketing Manager on the Developer Marketing team here at Google. She’s a foodie who has a penchant for traveling, politics, and running. Oh, and of course...Go Cal Bears! Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor Lady Ada Lovelace with a nifty Google Doodle . Among other accomplishments, Ada is credited with publishing the world's first algorithm for use with Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine .Women Techmakers series on Google Developers Live . We're highlighting women who are making big social impacts through their innovations in tech. Please check it out.limbs evolving from fins . The scientists ramped up the activity of a particular gene, which caused the fish to produce rudimentary limbs instead of fins. This might be an evolutionary clue about where our own arms and legs came from.Ruggles says the drawings are a labyrinth , and "This labyrinth was meant to be walked, not seen". Well said, and in that spirit, we hope you get out and take a walk of your own this weekend, even if you don’t have an awesome ancient labyrinth nearby.Each Friday on this blog we skip our usual developer topics and offer interesting (we hope) stuff that’s not directly related to writing code.
By the Google App Engine Team Cross-posted from the Google App Engine Blog The Google App Engine team has been busy putting together our final release of 2012. This release includes a number of features graduating from Experimental status as well as the usual batch of bug fixes and improvements. We’ll be taking a short break from our monthly release cycle over the holidays, but we’ll be back to our normal schedule starting in February. Expanded EU Support We’re happy to announce that we are expanding European Union datacenter support, based on positive feedback from early users. You can sign up here . Please note, deployment is currently limited to billing-enabled applications . We understand that data locality and latency are important to developers and are committed to further expanding this support in the coming months. Java We've made a new Maven plugin available, added the source to the SDK for easier IDE debugging, and made significant performance improvements to the JSP compilation process . Please see our Java release notes for more information. Python We’ve made a big push to bring a number of new features to GA, upgraded the interpreter to version 2.7.3, and added several new experimental features . For more details, please see our Python release notes . New and Upgraded Features We also have a handful of notable features in this release: Task Queue statistics (General Availability): You can see statistics such as the current number of tasks in a queue, the number of tasks executed in the last hour, and more. Traffic splitting (General Availability): You can split requests amongst different versions of your app. LogsReader and Logs API (General Availability): You can now fetch requests based on a list of request IDs. Expanded Datastore query support (Experimental): We’ve added ‘DISTINCT’ support to Datastore queries. Full release notes and Google Cloud Platform newsletter The complete list of features and a list of bug fixes for 1.7.4 can be found in our release notes . For App Engine coding questions and answers check us out on Stack Overflow , and for general discussion and feedback, find us on our Google Group . Finally, to stay up to date with Google Cloud Platform, sign up for our newsletter where you’ll get the latest news, announcements and event information. Written by the Google App Engine Team. Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Phoebe Peronto, Developer Marketing Women Techmakers series is back for round two on Google Developers Live (GDL)! In the spirit of the holidays, hosts Megan Smith of Google[x], Lacy Caruthers (Google Giving ), Angela Lin (YouTube EDU ), and Pavni Diwanji (Google+ ), sit down with women who are using their technical backgrounds to effect social change and make an impact. Join us in-studio Tuesday through Friday of this week at 2:30 pm PST to learn more about how Women Techmakers are giving back in big ways.Tuesday, 12/11 : WTM & Julie Hanna - Chairwoman, Kiva.org | 2:30 pm PST | 22:30 UTC | Watch live | Add to calendar Kiva , startup and venture advisor, and angel investor, Julie Hanna knows about giving back. Her work at Kiva, a crowdfunding pioneer leading the micro-lending marketplace, has been integral in touching over 800,000 low-income entrepreneurs in over 60 countries, adding up to more than $350M loans delivered. Radhika Malpani and Anita Yuen of Google.org dive into Julie’s experience using her technical skills to make social change.Wednesday, 12/12 : WTM & Jennifer Pahlka - Code for America | 2:30 pm PST | 22:30 UTC | Watch live | Add to calendar Code for America is a new kind of public service. Join hosts Chris DiBona and Lacy Caruthers in the GDL studio, as they sit down with Code for America founder and executive director Jennifer Pahlka to discuss how she is working on the technical side with web professionals and cities nationwide to promote public service and reboot government.Thursday, 12/13 : WTM & Sasha Laundy - Codecademy | 2:30 pm PST | 22:30 UTC | Watch live | Add to calendar Codecademy makes learning code easy and collaborative. From Women Who Code and Codecademy, Sasha Laundy joins Bridgette Sexton of Google Ventures and Angela Lin for a discussion of how Codecademy makes learning code interactive, iterative, and fun. More minds are better than one!Friday, 12/14 : WTM & Kim Polese - ClearStreet Inc. , Sun Microsystems | 2:30 pm PST | 22:30 UTC | Watch live | Add to calendar ClearStreet Inc. , a social finance startup, is focused on helping people eliminate debt and achieve long-term financial health. Chairwoman and original Java Project Manager at Sun, Kim Polese, speaks with Megan Smith and Pavni Diwanji about her experience as a leading Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technology executive, and how her work with ClearStreet is impacting users’ daily lives.first WTM series while you're getting ready for this week's lineup. Visit the Google+ events to RSVP , add the episodes to your Google calendar, tune in live on GDL , and ask questions of our on-air guests. And, most importantly, become part of the conversation by hashtagging #WTM posts on Google+.Watch Women Techmakers any time by visiting us at our new home . Tune in live, view archived episodes, and check out upcoming content. Phoebe Peronto is an Associate Product Marketing Manager on the Developer Marketing team here at Google. She’s a foodie who has a penchant for traveling, politics, and running. Oh, and of course...Go Cal Bears! Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor Google Giving launched the Global Impact Awards , to recognize and reward achievements that use technology to improve people’s lives. The awards go to groups that have already accomplished dramatic results and provide continued funding so they can keep changing the world by providing clean water, protecting endangered species, and doing other wonderful things.VIDEO the home page , or learn about the other grant programs of Google Giving .first mapping images from the tandem spacecraft Ebb and Flow , which reached lunar orbit about a year ago. This program, called GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory), uses the two spacecraft to study lunar features in great detail, providing unprecedented information about Earth’s moon. So far, the data shows craters, peaks, and volcanic formations, but no huge surprises like giant alien transformer robots.here’s one you can enjoy on video . Sure, it’s neither giant nor alien, but it’s still very cool, don’t you think? Have a great weekend!On Fridays we depart from our usual developer topics and post a Fridaygram , which features interesting nerdy stuff for fun and knowledge. This week we acknowledge Walt Disney’s eleventy-first birthday, and the happy news that his creation Oswald the Lucky Rabbit will finally get a voice after 85 years of silence.
By Soonson Kwon, Developer Relations Program Manager Gangnam Style !) in Seoul, South Korea which expanded a 1-2 day hackathon into a much longer one which we called Google HackFair. VIDEO a remote controlled car guided by Android, a serial terminal for Chrome, a braille printer using Go, and many more !here .Soonson Kwon is Developer Relations Program Manager and Country Lead for South Korea. His mission is to help Korean developers make better use of Google’s developer products. He is also passionate about Open Source.Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Derek Slater, Policy Manager Google Developers Live Presents will host a series on Internet regulation and the future of our web. Airing Tuesday through Thursday at 3:30pm PST (23:30 UTC), technical, entrepreneurial, and policy experts weigh in on the economic and social impact of the Internet, as well as its future if we don’t take action.Google+ events to RSVP, add the episodes to your Google calendar, tune in live on GDL , and ask questions of our on-air guests. And, most importantly, raise your voice for a free and open web .Tuesday : The State of Our Web | 3:30 pm PST | 23:30 UTC | Featuring M-Lab and the Transparency Report | Watch live | Add to calendar Wednesday : Entrepreneurs on the #freeandopen web | 3:30 pm PST | 23:30 UTC | Featuring Google for Entrepreneurs and Engine Advocacy | Watch live | Add to calendar Google for Entrepreneurs is helping startups around the world and Engine Advocacy is the startup voice in government. Learn more about what they’ve picked up along the way about the culture of successful communities of entrepreneurs, and policies on the table that may impact them.Thursday : Internet Freedom and the ITU | 3:30 pm PST | 23:30 UTC | Featuring Access Now , Association for Progressive Communications , Centro de Technologia e Sociedade (Brazil), Fundacion Karisma (Colombia), Derechos Digitales (Chile) | Watch live | Add to calendar Connect with us at developers.google.com/live . Tune in to live programming, check out the latest in Google tools and technologies, and learn how to make great apps. Derek Slater defends the open Internet on Google's public policy team. He supports the company's global advocacy efforts on innovation policy, and recently helped launch google.com/takeaction .Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor #freeandopen , ahead of a meeting of government agencies next week that could increase censorship and regulation of the Internet. We believe that Internet policies should be discussed and decided by the people who use it, not just governments. You can go to the site to learn more and find out what you can do . You can also watch Google Developers Live next Tue. , Wed. , and Thu. for live Hangouts on this topic. Your opinion matters!VIDEO Large Hadron Collider for evidence of a new form of matter that has been theorized to exist but never seen. The new matter is a kind of gluon called color-glass condensate . Scientists noted that some wacky particles unexpectedly showed quantum entanglement when they traveled in the same direction after collisions. A new state of matter is a possible explanation.video of erupting lava from the Kilauea Volcano flowing into the ocean. You can also see a webcam view of the caldera, including some brave people watching from a safe distance. Maybe they’ll wave!Each Friday on this blog we depart from the usual developer topics and present fun and interesting stuff that’s not necessarily related to writing code. Sometimes we even veer into an important topic, like the #freeandopen program mentioned in this post.Posted by Ashleigh Rentz , Editor Emerita
By Dave Barth, Product Manager
Cross-posted with the Official Google Enterprise Blog
Earlier this week, we
announced a collection of improvements across Google Cloud Platform including 36 new Compute Engine instances, Durable Reduced Availability (DRA) storage, Object Versioning, and European datacenter support. We also announced that we are reducing the price of standard Google Cloud Storage by over 20%.
We are committed to delivering the best value in the marketplace to businesses and developers looking to operate in the cloud. That’s why today we are reducing the price of Google Cloud Storage by an additional 10%, resulting in a total price reduction of over 30%. This price reduction applies to all Cloud Storage regions and the new DRA Storage.
Find out more about the new
Cloud Storage pricing and
sign up now to get started.
Dave Barth is a Product Manager on the Google Cloud Storage team, based in Seattle. He is idealistic about the capacity of technology to change the world.
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By Artem Livshits, CEO of OblakSoft This guest post was written by Artem Livshits, CEO of OblakSoft , which makes the ClouSE MySQL storage engine for cloud development. In this post, Artem describes his experience using Google Cloud Storage to store and serve a WordPress blog. WordPress is popular blogging software used by over 60 million people. If you have a WordPress blog, you want to ensure that your server load is manageable and that your load times are fast. You also want your data to be protected in case your server fails. With that in mind, we at OblakSoft created the Cloud Storage Engine for MySQL (ClouSE). It stores all your WordPress data on Google Cloud Storage , taking the load off your server to improve reliability and speed, and to reduce hosting costs.WP2Cloud WordPress plugin we created to upload pictures (and other media files) to Google Cloud Storage. ClouSE makes the web server stateless by storing all data in Google Cloud Storage using the Google Cloud Storage API . Web pages (lightweight HTML) are served by WordPress, while media files are served by Google Cloud Storage directly.Keep the data highly available and highly durable.
Serve media files in a highly scalable fashion.
Distribute media files across the globe for fast access.
Launch your own WordPress site in the cloud today - it’s easy and there’s minimal setup. We found it easy to make ClouSe work with Google Cloud Storage, and you can see how you can integrate Google Cloud Storage into your app as well.Artem Livshits is the Founder, CEO and software architect at OblakSoft, a company focusing on technologies that simplify adoption of cloud computing. Previously Artem led the development of several server products from inception to maturity during his 12 years at Microsoft, including the source control system managing most of the Microsoft code base. Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Jessie Jiang, Product Management Director (Cross-posted on the Official Google Enterprise Blog .)
introduced a major update to Google Cloud SQL providing faster performance, larger databases (100GB), an EU zone, and a no-cost trial . But, we know there is more to do. Today, we’re continuing to improve the platform with new storage and compute capabilities, significantly lower prices, and more European Datacenter support.
Lower storage prices and new Durable Reduced Availability (DRA) Storage
Updated 3:23 PM to provide more details about DRA. reducing the price of standard Google Cloud Storage by over 20% and introducing a limited preview of Durable Reduced Availability (DRA) storage. DRA storage lowers prices by reducing some data availability, while maintaining the same latency performance and durability as standard Google Cloud Storage. This makes it a great option for batch compute jobs that can easily be rescheduled or for data backup where quick access to your data is important. DRA achieves cost savings by keeping fewer redundant replicas of data. Unlike other reduced redundancy cloud storage offerings, DRA is implemented in a manner that maintains data durability so you don't have to worry about losing your data in the cloud.
Object Versioning . You can also use it to help protect against deleting or overwriting your data by mistake or due to an application error.
More European Datacenter support
European Datacenter support . Now, customers using Google App Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud SQL and (soon) Google Compute Engine can deploy their applications, data and virtual machines to European Datacenters. This helps bring your solutions even closer to your customers for faster performance and enables international redundancy.
36 New Compute Engine instance types and overall reduced prices
introduced a Limited Preview of Google Compute Engine with four standard instance types. Today, we are announcing 36 additional instance types and are reducing the price of our original 4 standard instances by about 5% for those currently in our preview. In the coming weeks, the following will be available:
High Memory Instance - High performance instances tailored for applications that demand large amounts of memory.High CPU Instance - Reduced cost option when applications don’t require as much memory.Diskless Configurations - Lower cost options for applications that do not require ephemeral disk and can exclusively utilize persistent disk.
Persistent Disk Snapshotting which makes it simple to instantly create a backup of your disk, move it around Google datacenters, and use the snapshot to start up a new VM.
Cloud Storage pricing and Compute Engine instances . Sign up now and get started today.
Jessie Jiang is the Product Management Director, Google Cloud Platform. She is passionate about building the best platform for developers and businesses in the cloud.
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By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs Cross-posted with the Google Open Source Blog Google Code-in 2012 contest has officially started! If you are a 13-17 year old pre-university (high school) student interested in computer science who would like to learn more about open source software development while earning cool prizes, sign up on our program site today. Students have the opportunity to select tasks from 5 categories (coding, documentation/training, quality assurance, research/outreach and user interface) that are designed by 10 open source organizations that will provide mentors for the students. Students earn certificates, t-shirts and Grand Prize Winners will win a trip for themselves and a parent or legal guardian to Google’s Mountain View California campus in 2013. Each of the 10 open source organizations will choose 2 of the 5 students that complete the most tasks with their organization as their Grand Prize Winners for a total of 20 Grand Prize Winners for Google Code-in 2012- that’s twice as many Grand Prize Winners as last year!VIDEO
Contest Rules and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on our program site . You can join our discussion list to ask any other questions. For details on important dates for the contest, see the calendar . If you meet the eligibility requirements you can create your account on the program site and start claiming tasks today!Google Code-in Hangout on Air on the Google Education page at 2pm PST to discuss details of the contest and to answer questions from viewers. If you can’t make the live Hangout on Air it will be recorded and posted on our Google Open Source Student Programs YouTube Channel within a couple of days.Written by Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor Google Developers Live (GDL) is designed to bring you great technical content, live as it happens and archived for whenever you need it. We want GDL to teach you about our tools and platforms, but Eiji Kitamura , a Google Developer Advocate in Tokyo, had another idea: use the captions on GDL videos as a tool for picking up English while learning about technology. As Eiji says, “Learning English and technology at the same time is a killer feature, because it is time efficient, practical, and enjoyable”.English
is selected (shown circled in red). English is selected (shown circled in red in the image above), and not English (transcribed) . The English translations are usually available about a week after each event.Google Developer Relations Japan Blog , and it proved to be very popular, so several other Googlers around the world picked up the thread and created their own versions of the post, translated into Korean , Spanish , and Hebrew , with more translated posts in the works. If you’re a developer learning English while studying a new technology, now you can absorb both at the same time. llacme plenipes rediscovered in 2006 in a densely foggy area of central California. (Note: humans thought the species was extinct, but llacme plenipes itself was not fooled.)Ingress , a game that takes place online and in the physical world. Just be sure to stop playing and come back to your family at some point.On Fridays we depart from our usual fare of new tools and events, and instead tell you about general cool stuff you might find interesting. This week we’re wondering: are you disappointed to learn that millipedes don’t really have 1000 legs?
By Amanda Surya, Manager of YouTube and Commerce Developer Relations diversity and inclusion in all our communities, including users, employees, and developers. In that spirit, last week we launched Women Techmakers (WTM) on Google Developers Live , bringing visibility to talented women leaders in technology industries.Meghan Peters posted , “This is wonderful. What a great series – and very inspiring to see the thread speak up about so many more amazing women! It's this kind of support from each other that can really help push more women to the top.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. And we’re only getting started. Read on for video highlights and what’s next for WTM.Video Highlights Women Techmakers with JESS3 VIDEO Women Techmakers with Pixel Qi & One Laptop Per Child VIDEO Women Techmakers with Startup VC and NewME Accelerator VIDEO Women Techmakers episodes right now or any time on our YouTube playlist:VIDEO What’s next for WTM? +Google Developers and @googledevs who you’d like to see on the next Women Techmakers series. Use hashtag (#WTM) and +mention your nominations. Amanda Surya is Manager of the YouTube and Commerce Developer Relations team at Google. In her spare time, she likes to blog about time-saving tips and of course watch YouTube videos.Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Hope Friedland, Agency Marketing Google Developers Live (GDL). Airing Monday through Friday at 2:30pm EST | 19:30 UTC, the agencies and developers behind some of the coolest stuff in the Creative Sandbox gallery sit down with Google product experts. They’ll talk about what they built, how they did it, and explain their hangups and breakthroughs. Visit the Google+ Event to RSVP, tune in live on GDL, and explore the gallery here .Monday: Mobile | archived | featuring Beattie McGuinness Bungay | Watch at http://goo.gl/ITC17 Tuesday: YouTube API | 2:30pm EST | 19:30 UTC | featuring Saatchi & Saatchi LA, Stoop LA , and Ogilvy Paris | Watch at http://goo.gl/0OlFr Wednesday: DoubleClick Rich Media | 2:30pm EST | 19:30 UTC | featuring Grow and Spinnaker | Watch at http://goo.gl/xKvKp Thursday: Google+ API | 2:30pm EST | 19:30 UTC | featuring Resn , Goodby Silverstein & Partners and Hook | Watch at http://goo.gl/kdqlW Friday: Geo API | 2:30pm EST | 19:30 UTC | featuring McCann New York, Goodby Silverstein & Partners and Famous Interactive | Watch at http://goo.gl/AwQT6 Connect with us at developers.google.com/live . Tune into live programming, check out the latest in Google tools & technologies, and learn how to make great apps. Hope Friedland is a marketing manager on the hunt for cutting-edge digital campaigns that will inspire ad agency creatives to come up with the next big idea (see Creative Sandbox ). She's an occasional globetrotter and is especially fond of anything creative, interactive and newsworthy.Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Jud Porter, Software Engineer, PageSpeed Team mod_pagespeed , an open-source Apache module designed to optimize your web pages automatically and easily. We recently introduced our milestone 1.0 release , and today, we’re following it up with the release of mod_pagespeed 1.1.23.1 to our beta channel.memcached , multiple Apache servers share and fetch the same resources optimized by mod_pagespeed. Logging and reporting have been improved to make it easier to keep track of resource consumption and optimization effectiveness across multiple sites hosted by a single Apache installation. These new features make mod_pagespeed even better for high-traffic sites and network providers hosting many individual websites on their infrastructure.
Improved CSS optimization. CSS media queries are now supported, and the new fallback_rewrite_css_urls filter allows partial optimization of CSS containing unsupported or proprietary extensions.
The default set of optimizers now includes the flatten_css_imports filter, improving out-of-the-box performance.
Improved mod_spdy interaction with support for custom mod_pagespeed configuration and filters for SPDY enabled clients. This makes it easier to deploy SPDY on your site, which can significantly decrease page load times .
release notes for all the new features and improvements. For more information about mod_pagespeed, please see our documentation , and if you have any questions or issues let us know on our issue tracker or discussion group .Jud Porter is a software engineer working on mod_pagespeed, an Apache module designed to automatically make websites faster. In his free time he enjoys experimenting with cocktails, brushing up on his foosball game, and discovering obscure music.Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor Chrome Experiment , JAM with Chrome , lets you play music in a web app and jam with others online in real time. You get to pick from 19 different instruments, including drums, guitars, and keyboards. Once you get really good, you can use shortcuts on your (computer) keyboard to play your instrument.VIDEO tools and technologies that were used to make this app, and for details, read the case study . Then you can decide whether you want to build the next great web app or become a rock star instead.learn about light from every star that ever existed . Researchers used the orbiting Fermi Large Area Telescope to look at distant galaxies and measure photons from various places around the universe. This data goes back to the formation of the first stars more than 13 billion years ago.added more building footprints to map displays. In case you didn’t count them, over 25 million new building footprints have been added to both desktop and mobile versions of Google Maps. Maybe you’ll see the new footprints while exploring your favorite city this weekend.On Fridays we detour slightly from our usual posts and publish a Fridaygram , a fun compilation of nerdy stuff to amuse you (and us). And how cool is it that we have orbiting telescopes?
