Uzaygezen: Multi-Dimensional Indexing with Hilbert Curves (7)
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By Daniel Aioanei, Dublin Engineering TeamI'm pleased to announce the initial release of the Open Source project Uzaygezen, a Java library specialised in multi-dimensional indexing based on Hilbert curves. For those who may be wondering about the origins of the project's name, a fellow engineer in Dublin suggested this word from his native Turkish, as Uzaygezen means "space wanderer." The library supports mapping from a multi-dimensional space into one dimension via the Compact Hilbert Index. ...
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psi said:
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Git and Google Summer of Code (2)
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By Shawn Pearce, Open Source Team and Git DeveloperMany of you may remember our most recent episode of the Google Summer of Code™ podcast, Getting Giddy with Git. Now that we're heading into the program home stretch, we're back with an update on the success (and failures) of Summer of Code within the Git community.This year Git was fortunate enough to get 6 very hard-working students, focusing on a number of different projects to make ...
Zurich Open Source Jam 4 (1)
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By By Michael Hanselmann, Systems Administration TeamIn mid-July 2008 we had the fourth instance of the Open Source Jam in Zurich, an event for Open Source developers and users to meet, collaborate and network. This time it was a combined event with Google Summer of Code™ participants.We had more than 55 people over, some of them giving talks on various projects. These projects included GDAL2Tiles, Tech Drawing Abilities for Inkscape, Libarchive, Mercurial, Mono, OLAT and ...
Zurich Open Source Jam 4 (1)
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By By Michael Hanselmann, Systems Administration TeamIn mid-July 2008 we had the fourth instance of the Open Source Jam in Zurich, an event for Open Source developers and users to meet, collaborate and network. This time it was a combined event with Google Summer of Code™ participants.We had more than 55 people over, some of them giving talks on various projects. These projects included GDAL2Tiles, Tech Drawing Abilities for Inkscape, Libarchive, Mercurial, Mono, OLAT and ...
Opportunities for Students at the Linux Plumbers Conference (1)
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By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWe love helping our colleagues congregate together in the spirit of collaborative learning, and we're even more delighted to do so when it gives us the chance to help students learn more about Free and Open Source Software. Google's Open Source Team is a proud sponsor of the upcoming Linux Plumbers Conference, which will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA in mid-September. This first time conference has added a student ...
Keyczar: A New Crypto Toolkit (2)
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By Steve Weis, Software Engineering TeamWe are pleased to announce the Open Source release of Keyczar, a toolkit that makes cryptography safer and easier to use. For more information, please visit the Keyczar homepage or read more on the Google Online Security Blog.
Linux Disk Scheduler Benchmarking (6)
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Dr. Peter Chubb, Project Research Officer - GelatoOver the last six months, Google has sponsored Gelato@UNSW to take a close look at the disk schedulers in Linux, particularly when combined with RAID.We benchmarked the four standard Linux disk schedulers using several different tools (see our wiki for full details) and lots of different workloads, on single SCSI and SATA disks, and on hardware and software RAID arrays from two to eight spindles (hardware raid) and ...
distcc's pump mode: A New Design for Distributed C/C++ Compilation (13)
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By Nils Klarlund, Research Scientist - Build Tools TeamFor a while now, Google has been using distcc, a distributed C/C++ compilation system, to speed up building software made of millions of lines of code. With distcc, we can build code an order of magnitude faster than we could if everyone had to compile on their own workstation. But even with distcc, compiles could take a long time: compiling the Google Webserver might take 20 minutes. ...
Google Code Blog: Google Calendar Now CalDAV-Enabled: Bring on the Feedback (14)
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By Neal Gafter, Software EngineerThe Calendar team was the first to launch its Google Data API back in 2006, and in that proud tradition, we're excited to offer an additional way for developers to read from, and write to Google Calendar: the CalDAV protocol. (CalDAV — an extension of WebDAV — is an evolving, open standard for calendar synchronization.)So far we've focused on Apple's iCal 3.0 as a first working example of 2-way Google Calendar ...
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Pierre Phaneuf said:
Does that mean 2-way syncing between my Google Calendar and my iPod touch? Hmm, interesting...
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Dom Derrien said:
I started hearing about CalDAV 4 years ago, when people from one of my previous company. It's cool to this standard going mainstream. I hope other actors will follow the example.
Google XML Pages: A Functional Markup Generation Tool (25)
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By Laurence Gonsalves, Software Engineering TeamGoogle XML Pages (GXP) is a templating system we use at Google. Its main focus is markup: we mostly use it for generating HTML and XHTML, but it can work with other flavors of XML, like Atom, KML, and RSS. It also has some support for a few non-markup languages (JavaScript, CSS and plain text), though mostly for embedding them within markup.GXP's story begins in 2001, when I was working ...
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Allan Haggett said:
Personally I probably won't ever have a use for this, but it's pretty cool :) I love all the stuff Google is open sourcing these days; protocol buffers are rad too.
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alice said:
Yeah reckon!
Grand Prize Winners Visit the Googleplex (3)
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Earlier this year, we announced our ten grand prize winners for GHOP, the Google Highly Open Participation Contest™ — our first initiative to get pre-university students involved in open source software development. The contest brought together more than 350 students from around the world to help ten Open Source projects make improvements to their code base, marketing materials, documentation and user experience research. Last week, all of the winners and their families visited Silicon Valley, ...
Check Out Mox, Our Mock Object Framework for Python (18)
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So you just finished writing a really sweet Python application, and now it's time to do some testing. Or wait, better yet, you're going to write the tests first, then write your application code. It's probably time to pick a mock object framework to make writing tests easy; you definitely don't want to waste your time writing mocks by hand! Well, after many requests from former interns and Googlers working on Open Source projects, I'm ...
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Damon said:
I believe that was me Brett. :) And nope, this isn't mine.
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Brettsky said:
I actually helped a fellow intern with the design of a mock object for Python during my first internship. Wonder if this is what it grew into?
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Karpuscul said:
Open-source Mock-framework от Google для Python!
Involving Students in Open Source (1)
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By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamElin Waring, one of Joomla!'s mentors for the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP), recently presented at the Computer Science Teachers Association's CS & IT Symposium. Elin spoke to a packed room on Involving Students in Open Source, using Joomla!'s participation in the GHOP contest as a model for discussing engaging younger people in Computer Science and Information Technology. You can read more from Elin about her experiences at the ...
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Chris Jobling's said:
Google Summer of Code (for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students) and the Google Highly Open Participation Project (for High School Students) are great examples of how to engage students in IT projects by exposing them to real problems in the Open Source world. I only wish I could get some of my students to participate!
Check Out the Talks from Eclipse Day at the Googleplex (2)
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By Robert Konigsberg, Software Engineer and Eclipse EnthusiastYou may recall our recent post about Eclipse Day at the Googleplex. We're happy to let you know that all the talks from the main conference track are now available for your viewing pleasure:Introduction & Keynote: Eclipse at Ebay by Michael Galpin, with introduction by Ian SkerrettHow Mylyn Changes the Way I Develop by Bjorn Freeman-BensonTools Make the Difference: GWT in Eclipse by Bruce JohnsonPlug-in Development Tips and ...
Open Sourcing Browser Sync (1)
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By Aaron Boodman, Software Engineering Team and Browser Sync DeveloperOpen Sourcing the Google Browser Sync client was something we'd always planned to do, and we're pleased to say that the code for it is now yours for the taking. Given our recent decision to discontinue support for Browser Sync, we wanted to make sure that the code for it was available for the developer community to use and improve. While we're no longer doing active ...
Google Test: Come Try Our Google C++ Testing Framework (3)
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By Zhanyong Wan, Software Engineer - Testing Technology TeamWe Googlers are quite excited about testing, but we're even more excited to share the tools we've created with the community. We've Open Sourced our Google C++ Testing Framework, Google Test, under the New BSD License. Google Test is based on the popular xUnit architecture and works on a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and embedded systems like Symbian and Windows CE. You ...
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Geoff H said:
Hmm. Always interesting to see new unit testing for C++. Not sure if it's really better than the rest, but probably worth a look.
Selenium Ice: A "Cool" New Browser Extension for Internet Explorer (1)
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By Jason Huggins, Software Engineering Team and Selenium Co-CreatorI'm happy to announce "Selenium Ice", a new tool for developers who test web applications in Internet Explorer with Selenium. This first version of Ice is limited in scope — it simply adds a new namespace ("window.ice") to every web page, for which developers can write code in C# that is callable from JavaScript. In the future, Ice will be used by the Selenium project team as ...
Standing Against License Proliferation (1)
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By Greg Stein, Open Source TeamThe proliferation of Open Source licenses has been a known problem in the community for a few years. As the number of licenses grows, the possible combinations and interactions skyrocket. This makes it very difficult to mix code from multiple sources because the licenses may be incompatible or create burdensome notification or publishing requirements. Many people in the community have been talking about how to stem the tide of new ...
Develop with Git on a Google Code Project (2)
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By Benjamin Lynn, Google Developer ProgramsDo you often work offline? Wish you could make local commits that you can reorganize and upload later? Would you like to have your own copy of the entire history of the project which you can peruse at your leisure?Do you want to serve code and its history to others? Have changes you want to share but it's too early for the public?Working on several issues in parallel? Need to ...
