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  • Two New Open Web Series: Open Web Podcast And This Week In Html 5
    Published: Aug 8, 08
    By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsThis week has seen two new series to cover Open Web technology. One of the messages from Google I/O was explaining how Google believes in, and is frankly betting on the Web as its platform. You should expect to see increasing examples of how we are putting our money (and effort) where our mouth is on this.Since the Web is so decentralized, we have a deep need to communicate and discuss where we, as a collective are heading. I have the pleasure to be joine
     
  • Published: Aug 2, 08
    By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsHow do you like your Code Review? Choose from text to audio (iTunes) and video.We have had a varied couple of weeks, so I decided to turn on the camera, even though I am in Eldora, Colorado, up in the mountains.First up, the Open Web Foundation. I discuss the new foundation and what it is trying to accomplish (not another standards org!).Then we stay on the topic of the Open Web and browsers, and how Vladimir Vukićević has an promising implementation of
     
  • Published: Aug 2, 08
    By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsWe are trying an experiment, putting up Code Review in a variety of formats, from text to audio (iTunes) and video.After a great trip to Brazil and Mexico for the Google Developer Day events (Europe in September and October) I am back at it.There has been some great news in the last week or so, shall we take a peak?The GData team announced OAuth support around the horn. OAuth is:An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard
     
  • Published: Jun 20, 08
    By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsWe are trying an experiment, putting up Code Review in a variety of formats, from text to audio (iTunes) and video.You have probably heard by now, but all of the slides and video of the presentations at Google I/O are now available to watch and read. There are some real gems in there, such as Steve Yegge talking about dynamic languages and server side JavaScript.Just as we come down from I/O, we head off to Google Developer Day events around the world. I
     
  • Published: Apr 30, 08
    By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsUsing iTunes? We had the pleasure to talk to some of the Google App Engine team to discuss the recent launch that Dick uses the tagline as "Your apps, our servers". We get to chat with tech lead on the project Kevin Gibbs, product manager Pete Koomen, and Guido van Rossum. I don't think we need to introduce Guido!The podcast starts out answering why Google App Engine was created, and why Python was chosen as the first language. We then hear about the work
     
  • Published: Jan 30, 08
    By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsLast year, Steve Yegge posted about Rhino on Rails, his port of Ruby on Rails to the JavaScript language on the Rhino runtime. It garnered a slew of interest, and I have been wanting to talk to him in more detail about the project.Fortunately, I happened to be at the Google Kirkland office and Steve graciously had time to spend talking about the framework. Steve is an entertaining chap, and manages to keep you interested with long blog entries, and did th
     
  • Published: Dec 5, 07
    By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsAs soon as Android and the Open Handset Alliance was out in the wild, we were chomping at the bit to talk with some of the people behind the platform to discuss the developer-related information.Using iTunes? We were lucky enough to get some time from Dianne Hackborn and Jason Parks, who have been doing this work for a long time. They used to be at Be, and PalmSource, and you will hear how that experience has come through to Android. In fact, you will see
     
  • Published: Nov 2, 07
    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 think that comes across in the interview itself. There has been a lot of pre-release speculation on what OpenSocial really is, and the press has put out wildly different ideas over the last couple of weeks. Patrick lays out the facts of the announc
     
  • Published: Oct 19, 07
    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 actually is. The term "mashup" is a very overloaded term out there, so a mashup editor could do a number of things. What are the pieces? How does it compare to other tools like Yahoo! Pipes (complementary!)? What are the user and global feeds?We then d
     
  • Published: Sep 24, 07
    By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsUsing iTunes? T.V. Raman is a Research Scientist at Google who knows a thing or two about accessibility. We took the opportunity to interview him, and Hubbell, his seeing-eye dog (who was nice and quiet).We started out by asking the honest question that developers ask about accessibility: "What is in it for me?". T.V. discusses the practical issues, and what you should be doing with respect to accessibility, and how it is one piece of the usability pictur
     
  • Published: Sep 17, 07
    By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsMark Stahl is a technical lead on the Google data APIs team. Many of the APIs that Google offers are part of the Google data API family, so we thought it would be prudent to get some time to chat with him, and discuss all things GData.Using iTunes? If you are new to GData, or want to learn more, listen to the podcast to hear:What "Google data API" actually means (the parts and pieces)What Atom, Atom Publishing Protocol, and other tech behind GData are all
     
  • Published: Aug 20, 07
    By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsUsing iTunes? Gregor Hohpe is a Googler who has spent a lot of time in the enterprise. He authored the book on Enterprise Integration Patterns, and has been watching and helping the integration world.We were both at MashupCamp and started to talk about how Mashups could be called EAI 2.0, and started to discuss the similarities and differences.Gregor also wrote an article titled Google Mashup Editor and Yahoo! Pipes: Friend, not Foe, which does a great jo
     
  • Published: Aug 3, 07
    By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsUsing iTunes? Max Ross and Maulik Shah were part of a core group that worked on the recently open sourced Hibernate Shards project.In the podcast you will learn:What sharding is and what it means in the world of HibernateHow the word "shards" is common at Google (the equivalent of "smurf" in The Smurfs)Why you would want to shard your data to give you increased scalable performanceHow the Hibernate Shards project doesn't mess with the core APIs, allowing
     
  • Published: Jul 17, 07
    By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsUsing iTunes? The Google Gadget Ventures announcement was very exciting for us and the community. We couldn't wait to get Adam Sah of the Google Gadgets team to discuss Gadgets, and the new announcement.Interview with Adam Sah on Google Gadget VenturesWhat will you learn from this interview?What Google Gadgets actually are and how they compare to widgets and blidgets and blodgets and ....How there is a family of Gadgets. They aren't just for iGoogle!How y