Blogs

I read an interesting blog post on Ed Burnette's Dev Connection this morning. Google says that Android (the libraries, the core platform components) will be open-sourced 100%. Ed talked to several Google employees last week at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. You can read Ed's entire...

I know I'm not the only one with tons of my data stored somewhere on Google's servers these days (frightening, I know.) Luckily, there's the Google Data API, which lets us access and modify our Google data programmatically, should we decide to, say, display it on our websites or build custom...

It's the first week of the month. Do my children wonder where their mother is? On Tuesday, Dec. 4, Brent Hill of Google will be presenting "Everything you want to know about blogs and RSS". That event will be at the Google office in Ann Arbor at McKinley Towne Center, 5th Floor, 201 S....

I'm happy to report that Dick Wall will be speaking on Android as well as Guice at CodeMash . These should be highly technical talks. Dick is co-host of the popular Java Posse ( http://javaposse.com ) podcast and a developer advocate on the Google Developer Programs team. Dick has already submitted...

Well, it's not A gPhone. But it IS a free SDK for anyone who wants to develop applications for mobile phones. AND they're asking for input from developers that they will use to further develop their product. The SDK will apparently be available on November 12! They have developed a new mobile...

Tom Meloche wrote an insightful blog post about the hype surrounding Google and the people who "poo poo" their impact on Michigan (and yes, Tom, I think that "poo poo" is the right term there). I agree with him that Google could save Michigan. Not only can using tools like Google...

Last night, Google presented the second of two talks, this one for the Ann Arbor Java User Group. The topic of the Java talk was "End-to-End Clustering" and it was presented by Ashok Banerjee, a Noogler (he's only been with Google for a month or so). He is an Engineering manager who used...

Russell Whitaker, a software engineer at Google came to town last Thursday, August 2, to do a tech talk for a special joint meeting of the Michigan Python User Group and Ann Arbor Computer Society. While the topic mentioned Python, it was pretty generic and could/should be applied across all languages...

It's the first full week of the month, so lots o' user group meetings going on. There's a Ruby User Group meeting in Ann Arbor tonight, Monday August 6 . It's from 7:00-8:30 pm on the University of Michigan campus, 1670 CSE. Details at their website: http://rubymi.org Tomorrow (Tuesday...

Last night, Google, the Ann Arbor Computer Society and the Michigan Python User Group met at Google Ann Arbor for a Tech Talk. About 60 people showed up for the talk by Russell Whittaker Whitaker (Google Software Engineer) on Test Driven Development, and were also treated to appetizers and beer and wine...