Google Developers Blog: 2006

Programs crashing? Airbag helps you practice "safe hex"

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Post by Brian Ryner and Mark Mentovai, Google Software EngineersAirbagApacheMySQLMozillaintegrating Airbag into FirefoxCheck it out

Beyond the SOAP Search API

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Post by Mark Lucovsky, Software Engineer

AJAX Search API

Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series: Leslie Hawthorn

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

geek herderGoogle Summer of CodeAngela ByronDrupal2005Hannes PapenbergLaurens VandeputJoomla!Corporate HeadquartersGuido van Rossum'sGoogle VideoGoogle Video

Happy Holidays, Open Source Developers!

Friday, December 15, 2006

twoproject hostingFile Downloadslaunchedone-click downloadsWikisWiki/wiki/Subversionlet us knowGWT downloadsstatus page

GSoC Romance

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Oren NachmanGoogle Summer of Code

Google Web Toolkit Becomes an Open Source Project

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Google Web ToolkitprojectProducing Open Source Softwaretheir launchgigantic leap forwarddevelopment processentire codebasewelcoming them

Blogger Beta Overview

Monday, December 11, 2006

chattedJay DedmanRyanne Hodsoncurrently in beta

the new Blogger has a fast, reliable, scalable backend

it serves content dynamically

it uses Google Accounts, and therefore its API uses ClientLogin and AuthSub

Blogger Data APIsupports JSONbloggerDev discussion list

Domas MituzasMySQLWikipediatcmallocGoogle perftool"Once we started profiling libc, one of initial assumptions appeared to be true - our heap was awfully fragmented, slowing down malloc()."

"Here comes our steroids part: Google has developed a drop-in malloc replacement, tcmalloc, that is really efficient. Space efficient, cpu efficient, lock efficient. This is probably the most-used (and sophisticated) libc function, that was suffering performance issues that not many people wanted to actually tackle. The description sounded really nice, so we ended up using it for our suffering Squids."

"The results were what we expected - awesome :) Now the nice part is that the library is optimized for multi-threaded applications, doing lots of allocations for small objects without too much of lock contention, and uses spinlocks for large allocations. MySQL exactly fits the definition, so just by using simple drop-in replacement you may achieve increased performance over standard libc implementations."Domas' blog has further details.

Maps + KML update

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Maps API blogKMLGoogle MapsWe've now got a few more tricks that you can do with KML on Maps:

View entire photo sets as self-contained KMZ files, as exported by Picasa. We were going to write up how it's done, but Brian's blog post pretty much covers it. Check out his geo-tagged photos of Mallory Cave.
View KML Overlays. Add your own imagery directly on top of Maps. For example, take the GroundOverlay example from the official KML tutorial and just throw the photo of Mt. Etna onto Google Maps.
Use your own customized marker icons.

To view a KML or KMZ file on Maps, just go to Google Maps, and instead of searching for a geographical address like 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, 94043, search for a complete Web address (including the "http://" part) of your KMZ file, like http://kml.lover.googlepages.com/cropcircles.kmz. Need your own web space to upload some files? Try Google Page Creator.

has further details

Google and Indiana University's Net Trust

Friday, December 1, 2006

Post by L. Jean Camp, Associate Professor, Indiana UniversityNet TrustIndiana University's School of InformaticsOpen Source Program Officepretextingearly development at Google Codeplay with it

New GData API: Spreadsheets

Thursday, November 30, 2006

new GData APIGoogle Docs & Spreadsheets"Now there is the possibility of getting a feed listing your updated spreadsheets, and since there is more than one way to think of a spreadsheet, we give you two different feed schemas for viewing. A worksheet could be viewed as entries of individual cells or as a list of rows similar to a database table."GData blog for further details

Announcing the Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series: Guido van Rossum

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

As part of our ongoing efforts to bolster collaboration between Google and the open source community, we're pleased to announce that the Open Source Program Office will begin hosting a monthly "Open Source Developers @ Google" Speaker Series. Several of our colleagues at Google who are open source contributors will be providing insight into their work at Google. All sessions will be open to the public and we'll also be making the presentations available on Google Video.Guido van Rossum, author of the Python programming language and recently named Distinguished Engineer by the Association for Computing Machinery, will be our first speaker. Guido will discuss "Mondrian - Code Review over the Web" on Thursday, November 30th at Google Corporate Headquarters, Building 43 from 7:00 - 8:00 PM. We look forward to seeing you there!

MySQL Camp at Google

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Post by Kynan Dent and Michael Still, community-loving SysAdminsMySQL Camp

MySQL Internals: with several presentations on the Core Kernel, creating new Pluggable Storage Engines (PSEs), and custom data types

Cluster, cluster and more cluster: cluster approaches, load balancing, cluster jam and MySQL Cluster Python and Java APIs

New storage engines: SolidDB, ScaleDB

Various community presentations and their announcements including:

MySQL Replibeeration - Hopefully to become a tradition, a talk about Beer Replication or was it Replication with Beer!

Insider information on Falcon, MyISAM++, a question and answer session with the MySQL CEO (Mårten Mickos).

Several talks by local Googlers on the google-mysql-tools and MySQL scalability.

An article entitled "Interactive Developer Zone Top Performance Tips" written interactively in real time by participants. The outcome of this talk will be posted to the MySQL Developer Zone soon.

official scheduleMySQLCamp.orgblog reviewsMySQL Planet

JSON in GData

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

JSONGoogle BaseBloggerCalendardocumentationsamplesGData blog for further details"For those of you who have been trying to build client-side GData mashups but have been thwarted by the same-origin policy, we have some good news for you: you can now get public Base, Blogger, and Calendar feeds as JSON! This means that you can start displaying GData in your web page with a little JavaScript."

Subversion upgraded to 1.4

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

project hostingSubversion 1.4svnsyncpushingpulling

Code Search in More Languages

Monday, November 20, 2006

Post by Miguel Garcia, Software EngineerGoogle Code SearchChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)DutchFrenchGermanItalianJapaneseKoreanPolishPortuguese (Brazil)RussianSpanishAdvanced Code Search pagefile:.zzfoo file:\.zz$More info in the FAQZurich office

Google Checkout HTML API

Monday, November 20, 2006

Google CheckoutHTML APIhas further details"Just send us a shopping cart via an HTML form with name=value pairs, and manage the orders using our Merchant Center interface. You can easily specify shipping options and sales tax options in the shopping cart as well."

Announcing Google Web Toolkit 1.2

Friday, November 17, 2006

reported on the GWT blogavailablebug fixesGoogle Mac blogWebKit DOM InspectorGoogle Web Toolkit

AJAX Search API: Modules, Widgets and Templates

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Post by Tom Stocky, Product Manager; also posted to the AJAX Search API blogGoogle AJAX Search API

Wordpress Video Bar Widget from Rune Fjellheim (aka "Daiko")

Drupal Module from Maciej Perlinski at Meant4

Blogger beta Template from Hoctro, also see one from Waipot Ngamsaad

BloggerTypepadearlier postlet us know

Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project

Monday, November 13, 2006

Post by Stefan Reinauer, LinuxBIOS projectLinuxBIOS projectBIOSOne Laptop Per Child (OLPC) projectv1v2per-revision overview is availabletest results for specific revisionsextensive logs for each motherboardhere

Ubuntu Developer Summit at Google

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Ubuntu Developer SummitUbuntu LinuxFeisty FawnavailablevideoMark Shuttleworth's

Introduction to the Atom Publishing Protocol

Thursday, November 9, 2006

IBM developerWorksJames SnellAtom Publishing ProtocolPart 1: Create and edit Web resources with the Atom Publishing Protocol
Part 2: Put the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) to workBaseBloggerCalendar

Google Summer of Code Update: Adium

Friday, November 3, 2006

Evan SchoenbergAdiumwriteupGSoC 2006studentGaimGet the code and have a look around before making time estimates. Parts of Adium are, to be honest, pretty spaghetti-like code. It's also a lot larger than most student projects. Having a feel for these issues will help you plan more accurately. Google Summer of Code is intended to be a full-time internship, demanding full-time hours; schedule your summer appropriately, as it will be fun but also hard work.
mentors and students

Google and Creative Commons

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Creative Commons

ccHost, the engine that powers ccMixter, developed further support for more media types (audio, video, image, text). It also won the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for "Best Open Source Solution" in August 2006.

ccPublisher can connect to other media repositories (such as the Internet Archive), and has been localized.

Creative Commons established an open source developer's community, a portal for discussion lists, projects and challenges that focus on the standards and technology that support the Creative Commons licenses.

From January 2006 to July 2006, CC license linkbacks grew from 40,000,000 to 140,000,000, indicating a near exponential growth in CC license adoption.

Google data APIs: Now with PHP

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Zend Conference 2006in the Zend FrameworkThe Google Data APIs provide a simple standard protocol for reading and writing data on the web. With the Google data APIs, developers can mash up services like Google Base, Calendar, Blogger, and CodeSearch.

Zend Google Data Client Library provides a PHP 5 component to execute queries and commands against Google Data APIs from your PHP applications.let us know what you think

FLOSS Usability Sprint

Monday, October 30, 2006

FLOSS Usability SprintAllen "Gunner" GunnEugene Eric KimUXSocialtextOpenHyperScopeDouglas Engelbart'sOpen Hyperdocument SystemSocial Source CommonsSustainable Civil SocietyDrupalKieran LalCivicSpacewrite upNeil DrummMatt CheneyZack RosenSprint write upgroup photoHallowe'enFLOSS Usability project's site

Google Summer of Code Students at the Sixth International Ruby Conference

Thursday, October 26, 2006

RubyConf 2006GSoCRuby Central, Inc.Jason MorrisonslidesType Inference for Ruby Development ToolsKevin Clarkmkmf for RakeJeffrey HughesRubySymbian OSGregory Brownslides

Subversion Developer Summit

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Subversionshared blog

Chicagoist Interview with the Google/Chicago Engineers

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Google Summer of Codeproject hostingentertaining interviewChicagoist: We had no idea that Google had a Chicago office. What does this part of the Google empire do out here in the Midwest?

Brian Fitzpatrick: You are in good company because most of the world and Google has no idea that there's a Chicago office. This office is mostly salespeople who sell Google ads to Fortune 1000 companies. The three of us are just an engineering enclave off in the corner.

Jon Trowbridge: We're the guys who didn't want to move to California, basically.

Ben Collins-Sussman: Because of the team we're on, they're tolerant of us working here. It's not a general thing that happens with Google. Usually when you get hired, you're expected to move to an engineering office. The big offices are in California or New York.

(photo credit: David Reid)

Announcing OpenVis3d

Monday, October 23, 2006

Post by Luc Vincent, Uber Tech LeadUniversity of MarylandAbhijit OgaleMatlabOpenVis3dGoogle CodeSiggraph'06Google EarthSketchUpthis page

New open source project: Open Automation Framework

Friday, October 20, 2006

Post by Allen Hutchison, Engineering Managertalk at StarWestOAF is hosted at Google Code

Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit

Thursday, October 19, 2006

GSoCGoogle's Open Source TeamPoisonous People Talk

(Photo Credit: David Anderson)

Google Gadgets News

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Post by Adam Sah, Google Gadgets teamgadgets for your web pagegadget settings page

Make sure your gadget supports 200-pixel content widths for placement on third-party web pages. While Google Personalized Homepage gadgets have an average width of 250 pixels, assume third-party web pages will have even smaller widths. Otherwise, you may start receiving complaint emails about annoying horizontal scroll bars.

You cannot store data or state for gadgets embedded on third-party web pages. If your gadget contains code to do so, it will silently fail.

Inlined gadgets cannot be added to third-party web pages, and will not appear in our directory of gadgets for your webpage.

Since inlined gadgets are not supported, embedded gadgets cannot modify third-party webpages for obvious reasons.

Google Gadgets API overviewGoogle Gadgets for your webpage

Google Summer of Code Update: Plone Foundation

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Martin AspeliPlone FoundationsummaryGSoC 2006mentors and students

Google Code Search and Security

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Post by Tom Stocky, Product ManagerGoogle Code Searchthankfully shared by many of yousecurity through obscuritylet us knowcheck out the FAQrobots.txt

Search the world's public source code

Thursday, October 5, 2006

Post by Russ Cox, Engineering InternGoogle Code Search

Support for precise searches using regular expressions

Restricts by language, license, or filename with advanced operators

A search index that includes billions of lines of code

GData feedCode Searchlet us know what you think

Google AJAX Search API beta Version 1.0 Available

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

AJAXWorld ConferenceAJAX Search APIGoogle AJAX Search API Blog

New Google Gadget Challenge for Students!

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

this postGoogle Gadget Awards

Both universal and desktop gadgets are accepted

Submissions are due November 1, 2006

Submitted gadgets will be testable while the contest is on

Winners will be announced in December

Awards categories include: Best overall gadgets (both universal and desktop), Most useful gadget, Most intelligent gadget, Gadget most likely to help you get a date, Most addictive gadget, Prettiest gadget, and Top university for gadget submission

The panel of judges includes: Chris Anderson, John Hennessy, Rob Malda, Randy Bryant, and Gina Pell

Rules page

Google Calendar: More than Meetings

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Post by Michael Bolin, Software Engineer, Google CalendarGoogle Calendarfun new featuresCalendar Data APIstips for getting started

Bloggy AJAX Search API Hackery

Monday, September 25, 2006

AJAX Search APIhttp://ajaxsearch.blogspot.com/post on the API's blog

Google Search form in the sidebar does parallel searches of several indexes, as well as site-restricts

Video Search form in the sidebar returns results (and can play them) inline

Map Search is scoped/embedded in the sidebar, and can be augmented with searches/favorite places/etc.

javascript: URLs can drive the any of the sidebar's Search API modules

Google Summer of Code Students On Tour

Thursday, September 21, 2006

GSoC 2006
Anant Narayananweb-based editor for GuideXMLFreeDel 2006slidesWilliam CandillonphpAspectpresentL'École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneOpenchange conferenceAndrezj Zaborowskiporting the Linux kernel to handheld devicesNote: The Openchange website is in Czech.Matias CapelettoJournadas Regionales de Software LibreC++ library for BoostNote: an English Translation of the Journadas Regionales de Software Libre site is available.

Developers Helping Developers

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

postData API Discussion list"I was working on a program that uses the Google Calendar API and thought it would be great if there was a channel that could answer my small questions quicker than the groups. I myself can offer some insight into raw protocol usage in some languages, javascript, php, and probably a bit of perl - all focused on the Google Calendar API."

Google Summer of Code: Drupal Update

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

program administratorspodcastGoogle Summer of Code 2006Angela Byronlast year's GSoCRobert Douglasstest the resultsstudents and mentors

Sitemaps in Django

Monday, September 18, 2006

AccordingDjangoSitemap GeneratorDan Watson"A sitemap is an XML file on your Web site that tells search-engine indexers how frequently your pages change and how "important" certain pages are in relation to other pages on your site. This information helps search engines index your site. The Django sitemap framework automates the creation of this XML file by letting you express this information in Python code."

"In the grand Django tradition, it's simple yet powerful and flexible. Just write a Python class and hook it into your URLconf, and voila: You've got a sitemap. This was so easy to do that we set up a sitemap for djangoproject.com. It's something we probably never would've done otherwise, but it was so easy to do that we figured we might as well. I suspect others will follow the same path."

Ubuntu Google Summer of Code Update

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Marketing TeamUbuntuGSoCKubuntuEdubuntuBazaarnewsletter"Wait, you're doin this for free?"GSoC students and mentors

AJAX Search API example: Carson Workshops

Monday, September 11, 2006

AJAX Search API + MapsFuture of Web Apps conference site

AJAX Search APIJeff VeenCalendarEric CaseOpen SourceWeb ToolkitRyan Barrett

Desktop Gadgets Galore

Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Post by Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing ManagerGoogle Desktop Gadget Contestadvanced APIs1st PlacediGGGadgetYannick Stucki2nd PlaceMultiplayer Reversi GameTurhan AydinGoogle Talk API3rd PlaceDay/Night World ClocklotsGoogle Desktop BlogGoogle Desktop SDK

One Laptop Per Child + Google Summer of Code

Friday, September 1, 2006

One Laptop Per Child ProgramArs Technica reportsChildren's Machine 1Google Summer of CodeErik PukinskisGSoC projectAbiWordSugarfurther details

Announcing Tesseract OCR

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Post by Luc Vincent, Uber Tech LeadreTesseractUniversity of Nevada in Las VegasInformation Science Research Institute at UNLVTesseract OCRTesseract OCRhereUNLV's ISRIthis job posting for more information

Snakes on a Sprint

Monday, August 28, 2006

Python SprintPython Sprint Report

Crossing The Ubucon

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Linux World convention The UbuconThe Ubucon Blogwrite up community pageJohn Mark Walker

New GData API: Google Base

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Post by Matthias Zenger, Software EngineerGoogle Base data APIGoogle Basebulk upload mechanismGData protocolDeveloper Guideinteractive demo app

Code on the Road: The Google Developers Event Calendar

Monday, August 21, 2006

Post by Paul McDonald, Product ManagerGoogle Developers Event CalendarGoogle CalendarsGoogle Calendar Help Center

Click this button:

If necessary, log into Google Calendar. Note: Logging into Google Calendar requires a Google Account. If you use Gmail, Google Groups, or other Google services, you already have a Google Account. Simply use the same login and password.

Once you are logged in, choose Yes, add this calendar to add the Google Developers Event Calendar to your Calendar. You should now see Google Developers Event Calendar events listed on your Google Calendar.

Adding in another formatiCal for Mac

Google Desktop Developer Update

Friday, August 18, 2006

Google DesktopDesktop Developers

The designer is now available in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, and can be downloaded as part of the Google Desktop SDK

Contest submissions are being reviewed and will be announced September 5th!

Google Desktop Blog

Landing in Las Vegas

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Post by Peter Deng, Product Marketing ManagerStar TrekOfficial Star Trek ConventionGoogle APIsKML supportGoogle Maps for mobileGoogle Earth KMLGoogle AJAX Search APIGoogle Calendar's data APIGoogle Gadgets APIuniformtransport yourself

coolApp = new myCreativity(mapsAPI, searchAPI);

Monday, August 14, 2006

Post by Mark Lucovsky, Software EngineerGoogle Ajax Search APIGoogle Maps APIMapsJavaScript objectvar latLng = GLatLng(parseFloat(result.lat), parseFloat(result.lng));
var marker = new GMarker(latLng);
myMap.addOverlay(marker);My Favorite PlacesMy Phone ListGoogle GadgetGoogle Map Search GadgetRelated post:Add Map Search to your site

Google Web Toolkit Update

Friday, August 11, 2006

Web Toolkit

Localization - Easily localize strings and formatted messages

XML - An XML library based on the W3C DOM

JSON - JSON is moving into gwt-user.jar, and it's much faster than 1.0.21

FileUpload widget - The much-requested file upload widget

FormPanel widget - Easily submit traditional HTML forms from GWT apps

JUnit enhancements - Unit tests are much, much faster than 1.0.21, and you can now test RPCs and timers

Automatic resource injection - Modules can contain references to external JavaScript and CSS files, causing them to be automatically loaded when the module itself is loaded

gwt-servlet.jar - Deploy this jar to add RPC to your servlet-based webapps without having to manually crack open gwt-user.jar to remove the servlet API classes

Javadoc-style API documentation

Better, automatic management of browser caching of the .nocache.html and .cache.html files for your module

further detailshere

Google Maps API Tutorial

Monday, August 7, 2006

Developer.comGoogle Maps API

Part 1: Integrating Google Maps into Your Web Applications

Part 2: Retrieving Map Location Coordinates

Part 3: Building a Geocoding Web Service

Part 4: Build Your Own Geocoding Solution with Geo::Coder::US

Part 5: Introducing Google's Geocoding Service

Part 6: Performing HTTP Geocoding with the Google Maps API

Maps API BlogviaInside Open Source

Project Hosting 'R' Us

Thursday, August 3, 2006

O'Reilly Open Source Conferenceproject hostingFAQGoogle Groups

Google Gadget Guru

Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Posted by: Jessica Ewing, Product Managera lot of great gadgetsTop Gadget DevelopersCountdown gadgettook him to lunchplayed a round of glow-in-the-dark mini golfrun-in with Marissa MayerWrite some cool gadgets

MarkL on the AJAX Search API

Wednesday, August 2, 2006

ChrisMark LucovskyJames AtkinsonphpBBAJAX Search APIhttp://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/subSilver/overall_header.tplsubsilver/posting_body.tpl

a Google landing page

Google Summer of Code Mid-Term Report

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

sessionOSCON 2006slides

... And the winners are ...

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

A New Google Service

Monday, July 24, 2006

OSCONThursday the 27th, at 1:45pm

Maps API Hotness

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Google Earth/Maps updatesMapsKMLexampleGeocodingMaps API blogearthcode.com blog postRails"Why the lookup web service? The Google Maps API doesn't just let you map an address. You need to supply the Maps API with a longitude and latitude to place a marker on a map (or even to center a map on a city). The geocoding web service translates a valid address into longitude and latitude; you can pass the result to the Maps API."fancy zooming

Google Desktop Gadget Contest deadline extended

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Google Desktop Gadget ContestInside Google Desktop blog

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