April 4th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Ian Lance Taylor, Systems Software TeamI submitted my first patch to the GNU linker in 1992. In 1993 I knew enough about its shortcomings, and started to argue that we should rewrite it from scratch. In 2006, just 13 years later, and now working a…
April 4th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’ve just launched our 17th AdSense Help Forum for Czech and Slovak speakers! If you speak one of these languages, join the new forum today to ask questions and share your AdSense knowledge with other publishers. As with our other forums, an AdSense r…
April 4th, 2008 | by Peter Harbison | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Amar Gandhi, Group Product ManagerWe’ve discovered and fixed numerous bugs during prelaunch testing and have been working on a number of UI improvements based on developer and user feedback. You will be able to see these changes on the sandb…
April 4th, 2008 | by Googler | published in Google News
Posted by Greta Ghizzo, News Support TeamLast week we launched a new form that will make it easier for users around the world to report an issue with Google News. With the Report an Issue page you’ll be able to send us a quick note to inform us about…
Collecting Car Data – Part 2
April 4th, 2008 | by Adam Borelli | published in Google RechargeIT
Posted by Adam Langley, Alec Proudfoot, Richard Walker, RechargeIT Team Part 1 talked about our datalogging hardware, this time we’ll focus on some of the technical details of the software.The dataloggers contain a 4GB flash card with a minimal Gentoo…
Collecting Car Data – Part 2
April 4th, 2008 | by Adam Borelli | published in Google RechargeIT
Posted by Adam Langley, Alec Proudfoot, Richard Walker, RechargeIT Team Part 1 talked about our datalogging hardware, this time we’ll focus on some of the technical details of the software.The dataloggers contain a 4GB flash card with a minimal Gentoo…
Collecting Car Data – Part 1
April 4th, 2008 | by Adam Borelli | published in Google RechargeIT
Posted by Adam Langley, Alec Proudfoot, and Richard Walker, RechargeIT TeamOne of the main purposes of our fleet of plug-in hybrids is to measure the performance of plug-ins compared to an unmodified hybrid car. We then post this information to our we…
Collecting Car Data – Part 1
April 4th, 2008 | by Adam Borelli | published in Google RechargeIT
Posted by Adam Langley, Alec Proudfoot, and Richard Walker, RechargeIT TeamOne of the main purposes of our fleet of plug-in hybrids is to measure the performance of plug-ins compared to an unmodified hybrid car. We then post this information to our we…
This Sunday (6th April): OpenSocial Hackathon in London
April 4th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dan Peterson, Product ManagerOn the heels of hi5’s OpenSocial launch, this Sunday, the 6th of April, BT is hosting an OpenSocial Hackathon at BT Centre in London. This is an ideal opportunity to get started building apps with OpenSocial, or come and…
Reaching New Heights With Google Airlines
April 4th, 2008 | by mrw | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Neil Fraser, Flight Dynamics EngineerYou already know that Google Docs facilitates collaboration in many ways: Share a document via email, publish to the web, post to a blog. Now the latest addition is Google Airlines: make your document fly…
April 4th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Alex Epshteyn, TypeRacer [As we get ready for apps to go live on orkut, we’re excited to invite orkut developers to guest blog and preview their apps here.] TypeRacer is a typing game that lets you r…
Our training department is getting nervous
April 4th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistErik Gude, who’s 12, taught SketchUp to his dad’s journalism class at Michigan State University. Thanks Erik!
April 4th, 2008 | by dastels | published in Google Testing
How can a method be well tested when it’s inputs can’t be clearly identified? Consider this method in Java:/** Return a date object representing the start of the next minute from now */public Date nextMinuteFromNow() { long nowAsMillis = Sys…
New Graphing Options: By Week and By Month
April 4th, 2008 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Sometimes trends can hide pretty well, and one of Google Analytics’ jobs is to make the most actionable trends as apparent as possible so you can surface them to your colleagues and management (and get a promotion). And we realize that most management …
Public Heath Heroes
April 3rd, 2008 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by Kataneh Sarvian, Coordinator, Google.orgLast night the University of California, Berkeley hosted the 12th Annual Public Health Heroes Awards Ceremony in San Francisco. The goal of the Public Health Heroes honor is to broaden awareness and und…