This post is by Scott Knaster
of Google Developer Relations. Scott works on technical docs at Google and is editor of this
very blog. Scott is a fan of baseball and hockey, but finds it challenging when their seasons
overlap.It’s been a very light posting week here on the
Google Code Blog. While our author community was focused on other work this week, I picked out
a few items you might have missed.
If you use the
goo.gl URL shortener, you might be interested in
new
features that were added this week, including automatically selecting newly created
short URLs so you can copy them more easily. If you create a lot of goo.gl URLs, and you use
Chrome, check out this
handy
Chrome extension that makes short URL creation extremely easy. Or, write your own
code using our
Google URL
Shortener API.
Here’s one especially for my fellow writers.
Google
Docs now does pagination, which enables some related improvements too. This is
useful when writing user’s guides, school papers, or other documents that might have to be
printed. Just last week I was working on a doc and wishing for this feature, and now here it
is, proving the old adage “Wishing makes it so”.
On a more serious
note, it’s now been more than a month since a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan.
Here’s an
update on crisis response and relief efforts, and a way you can help simply by
posting messages of support for the people of Japan.
Finally, I want to
share the coolest hack I saw all week:
a
wedding invitation that includes a paper record and player. Beautiful!
