Google Developers Blog: September 2007

Weekly Google Code Roundup: New Gears libraries, fixing mashups, GWT marries the iPhone, and more

Friday, September 28, 2007

By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsGears and the mashup problemCampaign TrailsGoogle Mashup Editorability to do authenticated, cross domain mashups with Google CalendarTraffikDigg OracleVortexGWT application for the iPhoneThe Google Web Toolkit can be used to create applications that, in the same code base, work well on an iPhone and a traditional desktop browser.read morewe interviewed folks from Queplixhave added a new Local Search ControlPython client librarynew releases

T.V. Raman kindly stopped by for a podcast interview on accessibility which may have some data and thoughts that surprise you.

The Joomla! team updated us on their Summer of Code experience

And, for those of you who write test code, you may recognize the battle cry of: But it works on my machine!. John Thomas talks about the stability of your tests.

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Queplix discusses their GWT open source application

Thursday, September 27, 2007

By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsGoogle Codeshort demo of QueWeb

Google Developer Podcast Episode Nine: The status of accessibility on the Web

Monday, September 24, 2007

By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsUsing iTunes?

How not to develop in a user-agent specific manner

Fun issues with screen readers

How audio CAPTCHA brings equality to the pain of CAPTCHA, and how people who can see use the audio ones

How painful is the Web to view for a blind person

Using the Google Web Transcoder (the other GWT!) to clean up pages

How CSS hasn't been as leveraged as much as we would like

How the increase in mobile and widget platforms has a side effect of accessible views

How RIA applications deal with accessibility

How T.V. has written custom clients for Google APIs

What standards groups are doing in the accessibility space

Dealing with Python, a language that cares about whitespace, as a blind man.

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Weekly Google Code Roundup: JavaScript and GData can now write home, Gadget Ads, presentations, and more.

Friday, September 21, 2007

By Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programsthe launch of a new GData JavaScript librarysat down to explain the API and how it worksa mashup that is able to create new events in your calendarThe Digg OracleWorkerPoolSee it in actiona new IP based limit is coming soonnew enhanced map tiles are availableuse custom map typesGoogle Maps API Open Source Utility Libraryshowcased the summer of coders of 2007podcast on all things GCCour thoughts on the ISO decision on OOXMLGoogle Code for Educatorslectures on MapReduceGoogle Gadget Adsvideos to teach you about many advanced featurespresentations from within Google Docs itselfA quick cricket searchiGoogle gives me the rugby world cup resultscheck out the latest tech talkssubscribe to the Google Developer Podcastthe Google Code YouTube channel

New GData JavaScript library enables full read and write access for your mashups

Thursday, September 20, 2007

By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsGData JavaScript Client Library for CalendarCalendar GData mashupsfunction logMeIn() {
scope = "http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds";
var token = google.accounts.user.login(scope);
}

function setupMyService() {
var myService =
new google.gdata.calendar.CalendarService('exampleCo-exampleApp-1');
logMeIn();
return myService;
}

Updates from the Django Sprint

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

by Adrian Holovaty, Django core developerMore than 200 people around the worldDjango Web frameworkGoogle ChicagoBDFLGoogle's Mountain View officeGuido van RossumDjango issue-tracking system

Linux Kernel-Userland Interface Design, Testing, and Documentation: An Update from LinuxConf EU, and the 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

Friday, September 14, 2007

By Michael Kerrisk, Software Engineering Team man-pagesAprilman-pagestalk about kernel-userland interface design, testing, and documentationLinuxConf EuropeGaneti USENIX Linux Kernel Developers SummitLWN.netobligatory group photo

Ed. note: Post updated to fix typo.

Google welcomes ISO decision on OOXML

Friday, September 14, 2007

By Zaheda Bhorat, Open Source Team

ISO decision Office Open XML (OOXML)to the ISOto the public

for a specification of this size it was not given enough time for review;

the undocumented features of OOXML prevents its implementation by other vendors;

dependencies on other Microsoft proprietary formats and their technical defects makes it difficult to fully implement; and

the overall cost for vendors of implementing multiple standards (hence the lack of OOXML implementations in the marketplace).

Open Document Format (ODF)over twelve other productsherehere here

UW and Google: Teaching in Parallel

Thursday, September 13, 2007

By Sierra Michels-Slettvet, Engineering Interncourse to teach large-scale distributed computingGeozetteGoogle Code for EducatorsGoogle Summer Intern video lectureseducational resourcesgive it a whirlGoogle Code for Educators Forum

Weekly Google Code Roundup: Learning to Remember The Milk offline, flying over Earth, and searching your feeds

Friday, September 7, 2007

By Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programsfantastic, thorough write-upnew featuresflight simulatorflyingtrybeing able to search across your feedsadded the ability to save snippetsFeatured Mediatalked to us about GDatatalk all about Quicksilver: past, present, and futureModel-Based Testingcheck out the latest tech talkssubscribe to the Google Developer Podcastthe Google Code YouTube channel

Google Developer Podcast Episode Eight: The world of Google data APIs

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsUsing iTunes?

What "Google data API" actually means (the parts and pieces)

What Atom, Atom Publishing Protocol, and other tech behind GData are all about

What GData adds to the mix on top of Atom and APP

How Atom compares to RSS

What are ETags? And how can they help me?

Why REST, the style, was chosen for these APIs

Where REST makes sense, and where it doesn't. Resource driven vs. RPC.

What the first GData APIs were

How the killer app of syncing data with Google Calendar

How you actually use the APIs? What do they need to learn? What tools do we give them?

Can you write APIs that implement the same GData APIs?

And much more.

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Weekly Google Code Roundup: New Gears libraries, fixing mashups, GWT marries the iPhone, and more

Queplix discusses their GWT open source application

Google Developer Podcast Episode Nine: The status of accessibility on the Web

Weekly Google Code Roundup: JavaScript and GData can now write home, Gadget Ads, presentations, and more.

New GData JavaScript library enables full read and write access for your mashups

Updates from the Django Sprint

Linux Kernel-Userland Interface Design, Testing, and Documentation: An Update from LinuxConf EU, and the 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

Google welcomes ISO decision on OOXML

UW and Google: Teaching in Parallel

Weekly Google Code Roundup: Learning to Remember The Milk offline, flying over Earth, and searching your feeds

Google Developer Podcast Episode Eight: The world of Google data APIs

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