Google Developers Blog: November 2013

GDL Weekly: Chrome Dev Summit, Google Glass Development, account security

Monday, November 25, 2013

By Louis Gray, Program Manager, Google Developers LiveCross-posted from +Google Developers+GDL+Google Glass+Tim Bray+Breno de Medeiros

Glass Development Sneak Peek http://goo.gl/IkThHh

Chrome Dev Summit http://goo.gl/SWqS7R

TimesOpen: Live Performance Analysis with Colt McAnlis http://goo.gl/F44Lnf

Hundreds of Millions of Leaked Passwords, and You http://goo.gl/UFROUZ

Google Drive SDK: Gmail attachments in Drive http://goo.gl/bKM770

Getting Started With Google Cloud SQL http://goo.gl/2LDP9n

YouTube Developers Live: Keeping up to date with the Java client library http://goo.gl/R3BYm9

Play Games: Half Birthday Party http://goo.gl/uXG3WI

Google Code-in http://goo.gl/3I2x2J

Civic Information API http://goo.gl/JkvVXF

Chrome Experiment: A Journey through Middle-earth http://goo.gl/zVr8Zc

Measured: SPDY makes the web faster http://goo.gl/4Ywr8H

Google Developers on YouTubehttp://developers.google.com/live+Louis Gray is a Program Manager on Google's Developer Relations Team, running Google Developers Live. He believes life is but a (live) stream.Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor

“A Journey through Middle-earth”: A Chrome Experiment for the multi-device web

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

By Max Heinritz, Product Manager and (Tolkien) Troll EvaderCross-posted from the Chromium BlogWebGLWebRTCWeb AudioChrome ExperimentNorth Kingdom

The experiment starts with an interactive map of Middle-earth. It may not feel like it, but this cinematic part of the experience was built with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. North Kingdom used the Touch Events API to support multi-touch pinch-to-zoom and the Full Screen API to allow users to hide the URL address bar. It looks natural on any screen size thanks to media queries and feels low-latency because of hardware-accelerated CSS Transitions.

high-end GPUsWeb Audio APInew HTML5 Rocks articleGoogle Developers Live+Google Chrome DevelopersUpdatesecond HTML5 Rocks case studyA Journey through Middle-earthMax Heinritz is an Associate Product Manager on the Chrome Web Platform team. He's helping the web reach its potential to become the universal application platform. On the weekends you can find him exploring the Northern California wilderness.Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor

Civic Information API: now connecting US users with their representatives

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

By Jonathan Tomer, Software EngineerCross-posted from the Google Politics & Elections BlogGoogle Civic Information APIcreate apps for US electionsOpen Civic Data Identifiershistorical election resultsOpen Electionshead over to the documentation"Map Your Reps"

Change.org has implemented a new Decision Makers feature which allows users to direct a petition to their elected representative and lists that petition publicly on the representative's profile page. As a result, the leader has better insight into the issues being discussed in their district, and a new channel to respond to constituents.

PopVox helps users share their opinions on bills with their Congressional Representatives in a meaningful format. PopVox uses the API to connect the user to the correct Congressional District. Because PopVox verifies that users are real constituents, the opinions shared with elected officials have more impact on the political process.

Developer ForumJonathan Klabunde Tomer is a software engineer in Google's Washington, DC office. He enjoys bicycling, good food, good wine, and open data.Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor

GDL Weekly: Dart 1.0, Portable Native Client, Hackademy

Monday, November 18, 2013

By Louis Gray, Program Manager, Google Developers LiveCross-posted from +Google Developershttps://developers.google.com/live

Root Access (1) http://goo.gl/nhK0Qi

Root Access (2) http://goo.gl/FEVmec

YouTube Developers Live http://goo.gl/wlSu47

Portable Native Client http://goo.gl/Qh5Qzu

Mapping Big Data with Google's Cloud Platform http://goo.gl/sl5HjJ

What In the World http://goo.gl/MDsV7c

Wallet Objects API http://goo.gl/Kuidfs

Google Compute Engine API http://goo.gl/rb0xG3

Google Developers Hackademy http://goo.gl/GHfMnF

Announcing Dart 1.0 http://goo.gl/XKo3GI

Open attachments with your web app directly from Gmail http://goo.gl/hfi7hG

From your CS class to the real world: a deep dive into open source

Monday, November 18, 2013

By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source ProgramsCross posted from the Official Google BlogGoogle Code-in10 open source projects

Google Code-in 2012 grand prize winners at the Googleplex with a self driving carprogram site
Written by Stephanie Taylor, Open Source ProgramsPosted by Scott Knaster, Editor

Offline disk import and the OmNomNom machine

Thursday, November 14, 2013

By Benjamin Bechtolsheim, Product Marketing ManagerCross-posted from the Google Cloud Platform Blogexpanding our offline disk import servicedata centersStreet ViewOmNomNom

Limited Preview of International Offline Disk ImportgsutilBenjamin Bechtolsheim is a Product Marketing Manager for Google Cloud Platform. When not getting developers to code on Cloud Platform, he's probably riding his bike, trying to keep his container garden alive, or playing guitar, piano or the shaky egg.Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor

Dart 1.0: A stable SDK for structured web apps

Thursday, November 14, 2013

By Lars Bak, Software Engineer and Chief Dartisan

announced DartDart EditorDartiummodern browsersDeltaBlue benchmarkPop, Pop, Win!40% smaller

DeltaBlue benchmark results

PubAngularDartpolymer.dartDart-JavaScript interopBlossomMontageSoundtrapMandrillCRMGoogle ElectionsAdobedrone.ioJetBrainsdartlang.orgDartisans community on Google+Dart SDK 1.0Lars Bak is a veteran virtual machinist, leaving marks on several software systems: Beta, Self, Strongtalk, HotSpot, CLDC HI, OOVM Smalltalk, and V8.Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor

Open attachments with your web app directly from Gmail

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

By Nicolas Garnier, Developer RelationsGoogle Drive SDK

Opening an image in Gmail with a connected app. (Credit: Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz)

Connect more apps

Browse and connect Drive and Gmail-enabled web apps

getting started guideNicolas Garnier joined Google’s Developer Relations in 2008 and lives in Zurich. He is a Developer Advocate for Google Drive and Google Apps. Nicolas is also the lead engineer for the OAuth 2.0 Playground.Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor

GDL Weekly: Make your pages faster, startup founding teams, Google Cloud Tour

Monday, November 11, 2013

By Louis Gray, Program Manager, Google Developers LiveCross-posted from +Google Developers

Root Access: Dos and Don'ts http://goo.gl/Wn36qw

YouTube Developers Live http://goo.gl/41aAWd

Google Cloud Tour http://goo.gl/6G1qPj

Google App Engine http://goo.gl/cH30vf

Google Analytics Developer Update http://goo.gl/abJgWZ

Root Access: Founding Team http://goo.gl/XPt5UW

Speeding up mobile pages with mod_pagespeed and ngx_pagespeed http://goo.gl/Qubjrd

PageSpeed integrates with Google Analytics http://goo.gl/vlYQMI

Version 6.6.0 of the iOS Google Mobile Ads SDK http://goo.gl/CAAcx1

Fridaygram: Connected Classrooms, migrating pronghorns, new Helpouts

Friday, November 8, 2013

By +Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog EditorConnected Classroomsother cool placesjoin the Connected Classrooms communityfill out this formpronghornbuilt a system of fences, overpasses, and underpassesadapted nicelyHelpouts by Googlecookingfitness and nutritionhome and gardenoffer other developers some coding helpComputers and ElectronicsKids gotta field trip, pronghorns gotta migrate, Fridaygram gotta publish. Each week we take a break from our usual developer fare to bring you fun and nerdy stuff to kick off your weekend. Thanks for being here, and please be careful crossing the highway.

Speeding up mobile pages with mod_pagespeed and ngx_pagespeed

Thursday, November 7, 2013

By Jan-Willem Maessen, Software Engineermod_pagespeedngx_pagespeed

prioritize_critical_css finds the CSS rules that are used to initially render your page.

The critical image beacon identifies the images that appear on screen when your page is first rendered and uses this to guide lazyload_images and inline_preview_images.

defer_javascript prevents scripts from running until the page has loaded.

convert_jpeg_to_webp reduces the size of images that are downloaded by webp-capable browsers.

What happens when you turn on these optimizations

image optimization filterEnabling these optimizationsdownload ModPagespeedEnableFilters prioritize_critical_css,defer_javascript ModPagespeedEnableFilters convert_jpeg_to_webp ModPagespeedEnableFilters lazyload_images,inline_preview_imagesinstall from the latest source pagespeed EnableFilters prioritize_critical_css,defer_javascript; pagespeed EnableFilters convert_jpeg_to_webp; pagespeed EnableFilters lazyload_images,inline_preview_images;?ModPagespeed=off?ModPagespeedFilters=coredefer_javascriptlazyload_imagesConclusionhttps://code.google.com/p/modpagespeed/mod-pagespeed-discuss@googlegroups.comJan-Willem Maessen is a Software Engineer on the PageSpeed team, and helped build many of the optimizations including the ones you see here. He's been known to hit otherwise reasonable consenting software engineers about the head with a steel longsword.Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor

GDL Weekly: KitKat, Apps Script, startup revenue

Monday, November 4, 2013

By Louis Gray, Program Manager, Google Developers LiveCross-posted from +Google Developers

Google Apps Unscripted: October http://goo.gl/LR8dUf

Intro to Apps Script 1-5 (Spanish) http://goo.gl/GHdcDN

GDL Italia: App Clinic http://goo.gl/fSMq6x

Root Access: Timing and Market Conditions http://goo.gl/x2810F

Root Access: Startup Revenue http://goo.gl/zX9k5H

YouTube Live: Resumable Uploads http://goo.gl/RrIN7i

GDG DevFest Overview http://goo.gl/QYdo1D

Wallet Objects API http://goo.gl/t3ElXd

What in the World http://goo.gl/NsfVvv

Android: KitKat and Nexus 5 http://goo.gl/DsvWZB

New AdSense data in the Analytics Core Reporting API http://goo.gl/iVQZto

A new look for managing your APIs http://goo.gl/4x9NfA

Google Cloud SQL accessible from anywhere http://goo.gl/VBvkai