By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsTimepedia has released Chronoscope, an open source charting and visualization library, built using GWT.It features:Canvas abstraction for drawing vector graphsGraph Style Sheets abstraction for configuring the l…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsI just have to take a breath as I start this posting. The last couple of weeks have been a real trip as we first announced OpenSocial and then Android, both announcements that have drawn a lot of interest.Let’s …
By Jamie Wilkinson and V Hoffman, Systems AdministratorsRemember remember the fifth of november, especially if you have to manage unix Named Services (NSS) on a lot of workstations! We’re releasing a small python utility, called nsscache, that is used…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsThe announcement of the OpenSocial project is really exciting, so I was really glad to drag Patrick away from his work to take some time to chat with me about it.Using iTunes? Patrick is easy to talk too, and I …
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer TeamIt’s Leopard day. I am really excited to get home to install the new version of OS X. It isn’t actually the new operating system itself that excites me, it is the new applications that I know have been waiting for t…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsNear the end of September we announced the release of a new GData JavaScript client library that allowed you to do full read-write access to Google Calendar from JavaScript.We now have another service for you to…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsWe had the pleasure of sitting down with two of the Google Mashup Editor team to discuss the product and how developers can use it to build mashups in short order.We start out by discussing what the product actu…
Posted by Dion Almaer, Google Gears TeamI tend to write a fair share of blog posts, and whenever I am writing them while offline I tend to open up Textmate to do the write-up. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could open up my blog editor and do it all while I …
By Stephanie Liu, Google Data teamI think we all remember the 8-bit awesome that was classic Super Mario Brothers. Most of us in Developer Ops have spent many hours immersed in the pixelated world of question marks, mushrooms, coins, and Koopas. So, wh…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsSigurd Magnusson, co-founder of the SilverStripe open source CMS platform, was in town for the mentor summit that wrapped up the Summer of Code.We used that opportunity to grab him, put him in a Tiki hut, and ch…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsWeekly Google Code Roundup: Lots of Geo, feeling Ajax-y and another SoC graduationIt really rained today, which has been the biggest rain that I have seen since moving to Mountain View. I am used to it, since I …
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsI had the pleasure to head to my home town (London, England) to participate in the Future of Web Apps conference that brought together an interesting set of developers who want to take a glimpse at the future……
Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamBrian Dunnington has taken some of the work done in the Dojo Offline Toolkit, and has created a new toolkit that has a lot of the same functionality, but it exists as one self-contained JavaScript file.This new Vortex l…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsIt was perfect timing for Doug Crockford, the legendary Ajax curmudgeon, to come to Google to discuss Gears and the mashup problem. The same week that he chatted about the issues that we face, we saw some innova…
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsI was recently in New York City and had the chance to meet Steven Yaskin and Paul Tenberg of Queplix, a company that is trying to change the face of CRM using an open source business model. Steven and Paul are b…