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Google Code Turns 5

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:52:51 +0000

Happy birthday Google Code. In March 2005, when only 8 API connections were first publicly displayed on Google Code. Now five years later, the figure has exceeded 60. In addition, there are still more than 240,000 open source projects in Google Code to take root, more than 17,000 posted every day, equivalent to one code in every 5 seconds.

Google itself has more than 800 projects listed in it, including Android, Chrome, Chrome OS, and GWT four over more than 1 million lines of codes.

Via – Google Code Blog

Oh boy, its freeze time for Google

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:06:27 +0000

With the approach of Christmas – December, some major companies in the US, especially Google will undergo a “Code Freeze”.

On the Web, there is obviously no business promoting the famous “Code Freeze”, with the exception of one. Well just Google. in recent weeks, the Web giant continues to make news at a pace well above its usual pace, it is only to see the list of news of the week to realize:

* On December 7th: Google search in real time, Goggles launched several new features for mobile application updated, Google Analytics and Google Wave.
* On December 8th: launching the beta version of Google Chrome for Mac and Linux Chrome extensions of Vevo (based on technology from Youtube) and tools for Google Web Toolkit.
* On December 9th: event Chrome extensions gallery in beta, integration of Google Groups in Google Apps.
* On December 10th: Setting up Twitter Support for Google Search, and trying to achieve light speed with google.

There is absolutely no denying that Google’s current activity is unusual, the company is rather accustomed to leave his new features throughout the year. We can afford to advance the idea that the company wants to apply the “Code Freeze” in turn, leading to believe that the news coming weeks will be rather rare. Online Magazine TechCrunch said that this could start today, so expect to stay on your feet when you’re done reading this article (do not panic now ).

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Google’s own programming language, GO!

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:28:10 +0000

Go: A systems programming language, expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected. The search giant released Go, an open-source development language that believes will combine performance with speed, and one that the company probably hopes will reshape the development and software industries in its favor.

Go is based on the C programming family, one of the most widely used programming language trees in the world. However, the twist is that incorporates elements of Python (a preferred development language within Google) and the Pascal/Modula/Oberon family to make faster and more dynamic programs.

Here is a video presentation:

GO google is all I can say now!

Google open sources its awesome JavaScript tools

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:08:15 +0000

Google made a set of its JavaScript tools open sourced and is available for all in Google code labs. The tool has been used internally in the development of Google Maps, Gmail and Google Docs. The various tools called compilers Closure, Closure Library Closure templates and Closure Inspector are some of the javascript tools which were open sourced.

The compiler is used to refine and optimize JavaScript code. It makes your code run even with slow connections, quickly executed. The closure Inspector helps diagnose covert code and improve the code performance. This is an extension for Firebug.

Library Closure is the Google’s JavaScript library. It is based on the standards and provides application services to JS components and works in different browser. With the closure templates you can automate the build of HTML pages.

Google develops 64 – bit version of Chrome for Linux

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:18:32 +0000

Google has been working for several weeks on a 64-bit version of Google Chrome and Chromium. The Chrome Manager Dean McNamee writes dev in the “Chromium” Google Group that the V8 team have done a good job in the quarter and a 64-bit version has been developed, he also says that V8 is the JavaScript engine of Chrome and is also an open source project.

There are still no official 64 – bit versions yet, here there are instructions on how to create it. Here you will find snapshots for 64-bit Linux. While there are Linux and Windows and 64 bit systems, but it is catching on very slowly. Numerous applications are also designed for 32-bit and have some problems with the 64bit systems..

Page Speed: Google releases internal tool as open source

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:30:23 +0000

Page Speed is a new Firefox addon from Google. As stated in the announcement the tool had already long been used internally by Google. It extends the functionality of Firebug.

The addon requires Firefox 3.0 and Firebug addon. Page Speed was used internally by Google to optimize web pages and to optimize the performance. It examines the code of a Web page and automatically makes suggestions how the speed can increase. If the page For example, many graphics, the width or height will shrink, created .

The addon also recognizes the JavaScript and CSS from the page.

O3D: An Open source program for creating interactive 3D applications

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:04:37 +0000

O3D is an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. This API is shared at an early stage as part of a conversation with the broader developer community about establishing an open web standard for 3D graphics.

The plugin is Google’s Windows, Linux and Mac. Google wants to develop but can not drive alone. Google is committed to the Khronos Group to participate and share a standard for 3D on the Internet develop.

The plugin also supports the Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer.

Google App Engine is now in Java

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:04:05 +0000

So far, the only Google App Engine with Python programming. Now, Java is a programming language has been added. There will also be a language such as Groovy and JRuby support, based on the Java virtual machine from running.

In the first version of the API will be according to Google the key class libraries supported. In addition, there are the Java Servlet API, the JPA and JDO interfaces and javax.cache and javax.mail. Api Java runs in a sandbox.

Since it is because of the many Java applications will certainly be mistakes and omissions may occur compatibility, only the first 10,000 users to test admitted.

Google releases AJAX APIs Playground version 2.0

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:39:37 +0000

Google released the version 2.0 of the AJAX APIs Playground. Of the new changes, the most obvious is the sweet new UI, other new features are: Break points (simulated in Javascript); Firebug Lite in output for debugging; Line numbers in code editor; Ability to edit HTML of samples

More info: AJAX APIs Playground

Whitehouse.gov also has some Google code in it

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:25:55 +0000

The Google Web Toolkit-based Google Moderator app now went live on WhiteHouse.gov (it was previously shown at Change.gov). The project is called Open for Questions and lets you register and ask the US administration questions on the economy.

You won’t see the Google logo, but you can open the frame’s source HTML and see for yourself. (You can also look up the IP location of the source domain moderator.whitehouse.gov, which points to Mountain View, California.)