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By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog EditorThe official Google Code Blog – this very blog – was born on St. Patrick’s Day 2005, when Open Source Program Manager Chris DiBona posted to announce the launch of code.google.com. Last week we publis…

By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog EditorGoogle Public DNS is a fast, free DNS service that we introduced a little more than 2 years ago. As the Official Google Blog post aptly puts it, “DNS acts like the phone book of the Internet”, translating fr…

By Jan Kleinert, Developer Relations TeamGoogle Apps Script is a JavaScript cloud scripting language that provides easy ways to automate tasks across Google products and third party services. If you want to learn more about Google Apps Script, collabor…

PavelVijayAntonBy Anton Muhin, Vijay Menon, and Pavel Podivilov, Software EngineersCross-posted with the Chromium BlogAn attractive feature of Web programming is a rapid development cycle. Reloading the application after the source code has changed tak…

By Melina Mattos, Program Manager for Google Africa and Bob Aman, Program Manager for Developer RelationsCross-posted from the Google Africa BlogAttention developers! Of the 90+ Google APIs, which is your favorite? We know that we fell in love with the…

By Pete LePage, Developer AdvocateYesterday, the Chrome Developer Relations team launched several new resources, including the Field Guide to Web Applications. It’s a new resource that is designed to help web developers create great web apps. We’…

By Nam Nguyen, Software EngineerLast year we added image results to Google Custom Search Engines to enable sites to offer image-only results that showcase photos and other digital images. For site owners who want more flexibility in presentation, they…

By Eric Bidelman, Senior Developer Programs Engineer, Google Chrome TeamOver the past year, HTML5Rocks.com has become a top destination for developers craving to learn more about HTML5. Today, we have over 60 articles and tutorials covering the latest …

By Amy Walgenbach, Developer Marketing TeamWe’re returning to the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco this year with 2 Developer Days and a booth on the Expo floor. At the conference we’ll be giving a peek at the latest technologies we’…

By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog EditorUnicode was created with the ambitious goal of representing every human language, with room left over for a whole bunch of symbols, too. More than 20 years after Unicode was started, over 60% of the pages on the…

By Carol Smith, Open Source TeamCross-posted with the Google Open Source BlogToday at FOSDEM I was proud to announce Google Summer of Code 2012.This will be the 8th year for Google Summer of Code, an innovative program dedicated to introducing students…

By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog EditorMost software developers started getting interested in technology at an early age. With that in mind, Google Roots in Science and Engineering (RISE) is a program that annually awards grants to groups that come u…

By Fred Sauer, Developer AdvocateCross-posted with the Google Web Toolkit BlogLast week Angry Birds for Chrome was updated to use the Web Audio API for all its in-game audio for Chrome users, which means Chrome users get the full Angry Birds experience…

MarcinAaronBy Aaron Wheeler, Senior User Experience Prototyper, and Marcin Wichary, Senior User Experience DesignerCross-posted with the Chromium BlogIt took approximately 2000 years for the original Rosetta Stone to be discovered, which helped transla…

By Rania Hadi, MENA Outreach ManagerView this post in ArabicBuilding on a year packed with g|days throughout the Middle East and North Africa, today we are announcing Google MENA’s first 2012 event to kick off the new year. On March 24-25, Google, in…