Google Developer Days 2008 have come to an end
By Alyssa England, Google Developer ProgramsWe’ve concluded Google Developer Days 2008, a set of one-day developer events. They started in Yokohama, Japan on June 10 and ended in Tel Aviv, Israel on November 2. Attendees had the opportunity to learn ab…
A Toast to Code Jam 2008
By Bartholomew Furrow, Google Code Jam TeamCheers to the 100 Code Jammers who made it to the Code Jam finals in Mountain View today! We hope you enjoyed the competition as much as we enjoyed seeing you type furiously, solve ridiculously challenging puz…
Get Out and Vote! (on Google Code)
By Mike Marchak, Google Code TeamThis election season, the Google Code Team has been inspired by democracy. We have been looking at code.google.com and thinking about ways to make the site better for our users. For example, we updated the homepage a fe…
Announcing the Google Search Appliance virtual edition for developers
By Vivek Haldar, Enterprise Search TeamEver wanted to write code against Google search technology, test your apps, and see how it all integrates into your development environment without having to pay a thing? If you’re an IT administrator, you’ll have…
By Itai Raz, Google Visualization API TeamToday, we’re publicly documenting the Google Visualization API’s open-wire protocol, thus dramatically expanding the capabilities of this API beyond what had been available since we first launched in March of t…
By Eric Sachs, Google Security TeamCurrently users are required to create individual passwords for many websites they visit, but users would prefer to avoid this step so they could visits websites more easily. Similarly, many websites on the Internet h…
By Nir Bar-Lev, Google Visualization TeamWe recently came across a great use of the Visualization Platform. In fact, this is something that we never thought the platform would be used for. Steve Aitken, a developer contributing to the Visualization Dev…
By Yaniv Shuba and Nir Bar-Lev, Google Visualization TeamVisualizations are usually nifty, small pieces of code that make our data come alive. In order to live in peace on the web, they need to be streamlined and compact.At times, these visualization a…