Weekly Google Code Roundup for July 2-6th
By Dion
Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsHaving the July 4th
holiday smack in the middle of the week creates a strange week when it is hard to know which
day it is. That being said, we have seen some interesting uses of our APIs, and we are happy
to welcome a new team to Google.
In API and developer-product
news...
Aleksander Fedorynski felt like "a penguin assigned to work on
Herring Search" when he started building
improvements
to Google Code Search.
Alex Komoroske asked if you
want
spreadsheet filtering? and answers with a
feature-rich auto
filter that makes great use of the Spreadsheet Data API. Do a view source and see
how it all works!
Mark Berghausen of the Search Quality Team has
written a few words about the search considerations designers should think about when building
a Flash-heavy site in:
Best uses
of Flash.
July 4th has gone, but
the mashup is still here. Paul McDonald
made it easy to find fireworks in your area, using the Google Mashup Editor. Speaking of
which, Don Schwartz talks about how you can
edit
our mashup in whatever editor you choose.
Around
Google
If you call
1-800-GOOG-411
you can now say "map it" and a map will be sent to you.
GrandCentral is now
part of the team:
"GrandCentral is an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone
numbers and voice mailboxes into one account, which can be accessed from the web. We think
GrandCentral's technology fits well into Google's efforts to provide services that enhance the
collaborative exchange of information between our users."
Featured Projects
The
Rocket GWT library provides the
ability to define beans, properties, references and other Spring like concepts in GWT.
The
Digg Roundup Gadget
is a gadget based on the Digg Roundup tool, accompanied by a detailed "how-to" write up.
Google Tech Talks
The Seattle Conference on
Scalability recently took place and a lot of great talks from the event have been made
available:
