April 20th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Last April, we started providing translations of code.google.com pages in five languages: Simplified Chinese (中文[简体]) , Japanese (日本語) , Portuguese (Português) , Russian (Pусский) , and Spanish (Español). You didn’t think we were …
April 17th, 2009 | by Neel Kshetramade | published in Google Code
I set a quarterly goal to write an application in my 20% time that uses publicly available Google APIs. While some would call this scenario testing, I refer to it as “method user experience design” (think method acting). The process can often be painfu…
Who’s @ Google I/O
April 16th, 2009 | by Neel Kshetramade | published in Google Code
We frequently hear that developers want to hear from peers who’ve built interesting applications. That’s why we’re excited that this year’s Google I/O (May 27th – 28th in San Francisco) will involve more developers from the community at large. Today, w…
ThoughtWorks’ Paul Hammant talks about App Engine for Java
April 14th, 2009 | by Neel Kshetramade | published in Google Code
Last week we had a number of exciting announcements and we’ve received a lot of good feedback so far. We’ve heard from developers who were excited about cron support, intrigued by the Google Secure Data Connector and pleased with database import. Howev…
Google Developer Day returns to Yokohama, Japan: Registration now open
April 13th, 2009 | by Neel Kshetramade | published in Google Code
We are excited to open registration for our second Google Developer Day event this year, to be held on June 9th in Yokohama, Japan.June 9, 2009 — Yokohama, JapanLocated outside of Tokyo at the Pacifico Yokohama Convention Complex in Yokohama, you will…
April 10th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
It’s time for another Google Narrative, highlighting a Google AJAX Search API developer, Chirag Mehta.Chirag is developer in St. Petersburg, Florida who got started coding on a ZX Spectrum almost twenty years ago and has dabbled in graphics, animation,…
April 9th, 2009 | by Neel Kshetramade | published in Google Code
We just posted updated terms of service for 5 more APIs to include transparent deprecation policies. This is part of their increased commitment as graduates of Google Code Labs. As we mentioned in March when we introduced Labs, each of these deprecatio…
eBay’s Farhang Kassaei announces "Selling Manager" as an OpenSocial gadget implementation
April 8th, 2009 | by Neel Kshetramade | published in Google Code
In this video, eBay Platform Architect Farhang Kassaei explains the details behind the launching of eBay’s new Selling Manager (beta), which uses OpenSocial’s gadget technology to Google Developer Advocate Chris Schalk at the Web 2.0 Conference in San …
Standards-based Persistence For Java™ Apps On Google App Engine
April 8th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
When I sat down to write this post I decided to glance back at my last post on this blog. One sentence in particular jumped out at me: “…I would never again feel compelled to build an [Object-Relational] Mapping framework in Java.” Well, friends, n…
April 7th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
I’m excited to announce new, highly requested features for App Engine which we unveiled a few minutes ago at Campfire One.First, we’re giving developers an ‘early look’ at Java™ language support for App Engine. The team has taken a standards base…
HTML5 and WebKit pave the way for mobile web applications
April 7th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
When I first started at Google, we were building a Java ME email client for the phones of the day. It’s an excellent product – still the fastest, slickest way to get your Gmail on many devices because of Java ME’s widespread penetration. Yet it always …
April 6th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Google Developer Days 2009, a set of one-day developer events, are returning again and will take place in various locations around the globe. Like last year, we’ve designed these events for developers with strong coding experience so we can discuss our…
April 6th, 2009 | by Neel Kshetramade | published in Google Code
I am very pleased to announce version 2 of the AJAX APIs Playground. For those of you not familiar with it, the Playground is an educational application designed to show interactive code samples for some of Google’s coolest Javascript APIs. Of the ne…
April 3rd, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
We’ve been working with our user experience team to help our users discover relevant and timely developer product information faster on the Google Code homepage. Where it previously required several clicks to find the latest product news and announceme…
Google Developer Products Help WhiteHouse.gov Connect With America
April 3rd, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Last Thursday was a momentous day for citizen participation in government. As you may have heard, President Obama hosted the first online Town Hall meeting with questions submitted and voted on via the internet. The Developer team at Google is honored …