Weekly Google Code Roundup for July 8-12th
By Dion
Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsIn API and
developer-product news...
Othman Laraki talked about the
Gears
roadmap and development process and how the team is working on a
Cross-Origin API
and an
Improved
Workerpool.
Omar Khan has introduced a
new blog
for the Google Desktop APIs which was created to open a another line of dialog and
provide useful information such as tips, announcements, developer jokes, links to articles and
tutorials, and more.
The new
AJAX
Search feature on Blogger that uses linked Custom Search Engines is a fantastic
feature that allows you to implement ideas such as "search my blog, and reach out to other
sites that I link too". All automatically.
GGeoXML
Methods, GDraggableObject Events, & Geodesic Polylines details how the Maps API
team has given developers GGeoXML functions to make loading and viewing files easier. GGeoXML
now comes with a callback function that's entered once the file has loaded, plus a number of
utility functions.
Dick Wall has written his second article on a series
on Guice,
Squeezing More Guice
from Your Tests with EasyMock, which delves into how dependency injection and mock
objects can be used together in glee.
Around
Google
The FeedBurner and Blogger teams have joined up very quickly to
create a
nice
integration of the two products. From within your Blogger settings you can now
specify that you have a FeedBurner feed that manages your blog, and Blogger will use that feed
address.
Featured Projects
This
YouTube
Mapplet mashes-up YouTube videos and Geo using the newly released Mapplets feature
that now lives in My Maps.
The
Telekinesis iPhone Remote allows you
to use your shiny new iPhone to control your Mac.
Google Tech
Talks
What
Every Engineer Needs to Know About Security and Where to Learn ItNeil Daswani's talk discusses recent trends in security, and what every engineer needs to
know to prevent the most significant emerging threats such as cross-site scripting and SQL
injection attacks.
While
We Wait for BabelFish: Languages on theInternetThis talk
addresses some localization issues, but beyond that, questions the very way languages are
dealt with on the internet.
Podcasts
Summer
of Coders at Google: Ed BaskervilleNow in his second year of
working on GridSweeper for Summer of Code, Ed Baskerville recently joined us to talk more
about his project and his burgeoning career as a cellist.
