Open source projects now have customizable logos! You can use this to maintain consistency with your other websites or just for fun. Here’s an example of a project with its own logo. To update the logo on your project, click on the Administer tab (as…
By Ali Pasha & Jacob Moon, Google CodeAs the number of developers and projects have grown on Google Code, we’ve started thinking about how to get projects to learn from and work with each other. Today, we’re happy to announce that we have made a fe…
By Mike Parent, Google CodeWe love to create building blocks that fuel user’s imaginations. Today we are announcing Post-Commit Web Hooks for Project Hosting on Google Code, to allow web services to receive repository commit notifications. Projects can…
By Nir Bar-Lev, Google Developer ProgramsWe all know that writing code based on existing code snippets is faster and quicker than starting from scratch. It’s also a great way to ramp up on new tools or APIs you may be less familiar with.That’s way we d…
By Ben Lisbakken, Developer Programs EngineerFor me, documentation isn’t always enough to learn about APIs; I need examples that I can play with. That’s why I started a fun project recently–a tool for teaching developers how to use Google’s JavaScript…
By Matt Hansen, Google Developer ProgramsAt Google Code, we are getting into the holiday spirit early. To thank open source developers for their support, I’m happy to announce that we are giving every project on Google Code a whole lot more quota!We’re…
By Ali Pasha, Google Code SearchAt Google Code search, we’ve seen distributed version control systems get more popular. Linux has been using one for several years and several large open source projects have migrated to using one in the last few years….
By Ali Pasha, Google CodeThis morning Salesforce.com announced Force.com for Google App Engine, a Python library for apps running on App Engine that enables simple and robust access to the Force.com Web services API. Using this library, App Engine dev…
By Nathan Ingersoll and Jason Robbins, Google CodeBased on user feedback, we added a few highly requested features to the project hosting wiki on Google Code.To improve navigation from one wiki page to another, we added side navigation across wiki page…
By Jason Robbins, Google CodeWhen we created the issue tracker for Project hosting on Google Code our goal was to keep things simple. We had found that most issue trackers include too many fields and options that aren’t applicable to a given issue. As …
By Jacob Lee and Ali Pasha, Google CodeGadgets and Google Code have always had a special relationship, as many developers use Google Code to host their gadgets. We are, therefore, happy to announce that you can now add gadgets to any wiki page (includi…
By Jacob Moon and Jacob Lee, Google CodeWe are happy to announce that we just launched project update streams (and feeds) for each open source project on Google Code. The new project updates page, which is linked to from each project homepage, shows th…
By Hillel Maoz, Google Visualization TeamWe often forget, but the simple table is a visualization too. In fact, all of our visualizations are based on the DataTable structure – a table itself.In order to make this most basic visualization more appeali…
By Steve Block, Gears EngineerWe just launched two new ways to give your web apps free and secure access to a user’s location, without requiring that user to enter it manually.First, there’s the AJAX API property that provides a simple way to get an ap…
By Steve McKay and Jason Robbins, Open Source TeamCode reviews are the rule at Google — peer review reduces bugs, increases code quality, reduces maintenance cost, opens up team communication, and helps get the job done right the first time. Like many…