Google Developers Blog: January 2013

Fridaygram: women Googlers speak, star-guided beetles, live video hacks

Friday, January 25, 2013

By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog EditorWomen TechmakersWomen TechmakersComputer Science on Airseries of hangouts with women engineersdung beetles in a darkened planetariumGoogle Developers LiveSunday eveningLA Video HackathonWe publish a Fridaygram each week with all sorts of cool, fun, and downright nerdy stuff. We like our Fridaygrams to range wide, like all the way from Women Techmakers to starry-eyed beetles.

Fridaygrammy hat tips to Ashleigh Rentz and Phoebe Peronto for their contributions to today’s post.

Sports fan? Come hack with us in Seattle!

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

By Ryan Boyd, Developer Advocate, Google Cloud PlatformSports Hack Day

Google Cloud Platformsportshackday.comRyan Boyd is a Developer Advocate, focused on making developers successful building on the Google Cloud Platform. He previously worked on the Google Apps ISV ecosystem, and recently published his first book "Getting Started with OAuth 2.0" with O'Reilly.Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor

Find sample code and more for Google Cloud Platform, now on GitHub

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

By Julia Ferraioli, Developer Advocate, Google Compute EngineCross-posted from the Google Open Source BlogGitHubApp EngineBigQueryCompute EngineCloud SQLCloud Storageguest book appOAuth 2.0 helpergetting started with Pythonmonitoring your Google Compute Engine instances with App EngineTrick of the trade: to find samples relating to a specific platform, try filtering on the name in the “Find a Repository” text field.pull requestscode reviewsuggestions for samplesJulia Ferraioli is a Developer Advocate for Google Compute Engine, based in Seattle. She helps developers harness the power of Google's infrastructure to tackle their computationally intensive processes and jobs. She comes from an industrial background in software engineering, and an academic background in machine learning and assistive technology.Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor

Fridaygram: student doodlers, wrinkled fingers, space station tour

Friday, January 18, 2013

By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog EditorDoodle 4 Googlesome nice prizeson the competition site

recent study suggestsvideo tour of the International Space StationSunita WilliamsEach week we take a break from developer topics and publish Fridaygram, featuring interesting stuff from Google and the rest of the universe that you might not have noticed before. Last year we didn’t mention Doodle 4 Google until it was over; we thought it would be better to talk about it sooner this time.

Calling student coders: Hardcode, the secure coding contest for App Engine

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

By Parisa Tabriz, Security TeamCross-posted from the Google Online Security BlogSyScan

thereWritten by Parisa Tabriz, Security Team.Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor

Fridaygram: renewable energy, grabbing an asteroid, driverless car

Friday, January 11, 2013

By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editorrenewable energyannounced our investmentnow invested in 11

NASAKeck Institute for Space Studiesrobotically capturing a small near-earth asteroid and bringing it to a lunar orbitread the full proposal herethis videoEach week on Fridaygram, we take time out from developer topics to present cool things from Google and elsewhere that you might have missed during the week. See, we like to have fun too.