Weekly Google Code Roundup: Lots of Geo, feeling Ajax-y and another SoC
graduation
By Dion
Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsWeekly Google Code
Roundup: Lots of Geo, feeling Ajax-y and another SoC graduation
It
really rained today, which has been the biggest rain that I have seen since moving to Mountain
View. I am used to it, since I hail from England, and I have the chance to go back to London
to
speak
on Google Gears at the Future of Web Apps conference. We learned more about
Vortex,
a simple new offline and sync abstraction on top of Gears.
In other
Ajax news, the Ajax API team released a nice new
Dynamic
Feed Control that has a wizard that helps you find feeds.
The
GWT team are looking forward to Pearson's
GWT
conference which offers dedicated time with GWT developers and core engineers. The
Rialto framework also joined the GWT family by creating a
GWT wrapper of
itself.
The bulk of the news seemed to center around the geo
landscape.
Chris Schalk
wrote
a
detailed
article on mashing Google Maps with Oracle XML DB and Java.
Pamela
announced
a new LabeledMarker which supports marker and label toggling, and the Google Mashup
Editor team has updated its
geo
coding in maps.
There were some really fun feature additions
too. You can
now
play YouTube videos from within Google Earth. It is great to zoom in on the Eiffel
tower and see videos related to it.
The Earth team have also made it
much
easier to explore Earth in general. I enjoy the
history
of London.
If you aren't sure whether it is daytime or not
when you drunkenly call your friend who is in europe, flip over to the featured
DaylightMap site that always shows you where
the sun shines.
We will finish with some interesting news for the
newest coders:
As always,
check
out the latest tech talks,
subscribe to the Google Developer
Podcast and visit
the Google
Code YouTube channel.
