By Brett Cannon, Software Engineering TeamDecember 3, 2008 was an historic day for the Python community: Python 3.0 was released. Under serious development since 2006, Python 3.0 (also playfully known as Python 3000 or Py3K as the year 3000 was the ori…
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamUsers of Google Code Project Hosting rejoice! The Subversion component of this service has now been upgraded to version 1.5, so you’ll likely find merging your branches much easier. For full details, check out Ben Co…
By Michael Weiss-Malik, KML Product ManagerAs you may have heard, a new version of Google Earth was released today. As has been the case with many Google Earth releases, this new version required expansions to KML, Google Earth’s most important support…
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamYou may recall some of our previous posts about Google employee contributions to Open Source during their 20% time. While many engineers spend their 20% time on releasing code created internally at Google, many more …
By Wenbo Zhu, Software Engineering Team Something that may be of interest to Open Source enthusiasts is the recent release of the Open Google Servlet Engine (OpenGSE). Once upon a time engineers within Google developed their own fast, lightweight servl…
By David Oster, Mac Engineering TeamFor those of you not following the Google Mac Blog, you may be interested to check out one of our newest releases, Earth Surfer. The code for Earth Surfer, an application that allows you to use a Nintendo Wii Balance…
By James Yum, Developer Programs TeamThe Google Desktop team has been steadily releasing our Desktop gadget (widget) creations as Open Source for the past few years. If you check out this list, you can see most of the official Google created gadgets ar…
By Lindsey Simon, Google User Experience TeamMost web developers have felt the pain of discovering or remembering ways in which different browsers interpret and/or render their Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Our newly released CSS Selector Shell is a si…
By Tim Cox, Software Engineering TeamThe usual mixture of free pizza, beer and talks recently made for another smashing London Google Open Source Jam. The topic was Security, and the talks showed just how wide-ranging the subject is: Ben Laurie &mdas…
By Borja Sotomayor, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago and Summer of Code MentorThe Globus Alliance is a community of organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the “Grid,” which lets people share computing power, databa…
By Pawel Solyga, Summer of Code Administrator for the NUI GroupThe Natural User Interface Group (NUI Group) is an interactive media group focused on research and creation of open source machine sensing techniques, such as voice/handwriting/gesture reco…
By Craig Silverstein, Technology DirectorNearly four years ago, we released our first major Open Source codebase, google-perftools, a set of tools to help developers create applications with better performance. We’ve just released version 1.0 of the so…
By Jason Robbins, Open Source TeamIt’s been an amazing year for Google Code’s Open Source project hosting service. In 2008, our team improved the service by adding source code browsing, project feeds, project updates, a code review tool, content licens…
By Arne Kepp, OpenGeoOpenGeo and the GeoWebCache team are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0 (download). GeoWebCache is a tile cache for web mapping servers designed to significantly improve the performance of your service and provide easy …
By Amit Singh, Engineering Manager – Mac Development TeamThe MacFUSE State of the Union Talk video is now available. The source code for the new file systems discussed and demonstrated during the talk is also available. Please head over to the MacFUSE …