Google Wave was first unveiled at Google I/O in 2009, alongside our first draft of Wave APIs and specifications for the open-source world. We worked hard this past...
LiveJournal Tags: TSQL,How To,SSMS,Tips and Tricks Did you know that SQL Server Management Studio can mislead you with how your code is performing? I found a query that was using a scalar function to return a date and wanted to take the opportunity to remove it in favour of a table valued function that would be more efficient. The original function was simply returning the start date of the current financial year. The code we were using was: ALTER FUNCTION...(read more)
I wonder if I should close any unnecessary database connection inside of my PHP scripts.
I am aware of the fact that database connections are closed implicitly when the block stops executing and 'manually' closing the connections could kinda bloat the codebase with unnecessary code.
But shouldn't I do so in order to make by code as readable and as easy understandable as possible, while also preventing several possible issues during run time?
Also, if I would do, would it be enough to unset() my database object?
[This post, the first in a series about new features in Android 2.2 ("Froyo"), is by Jacek Surazski, a Googler from our Krakow office. — Tim Bray] The...
Google Chrome Extensions: Launch Event (part 5)
Video Footage from the Google Chrome Extensions launch event on 12/09/09. Xmarks, ebay and Google Translate present their experience developing an extension for Google Chrome.
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In a background Python script I need to detect, when the system just woke up from suspend. What is a good way that does not rely on a root script but rather on python modules such as DBus?
I'm new to dbus so I could really use some example code. From what I read it's related to
org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Resuming
Can anyone help me out with some code that connects the resuming signal to callback?
Editor's Note : Brent Frei is founder and chairman at SmartSheet. Smartsheet makes an online project management solution that employs a spreadsheet-like interface on top of a powerful...
Through a clean OOP solution to deal with progressive operations, I will implicitly show you how OOP principles can work together to make a full, clean solution.
Google I/O 2012 - Computing Map Tiles with Go on App Engine
Chris Broadfoot, Andrew Gerrand In this talk we use the Maps API and Go on App Engine to build an app to build custom tile sets for Google Maps. The app demonstrates using Go's suitability for computation in the cloud and App Engine's key scalability features, such as Task Queues and Backends. For all I/O 2012 sessions, go to developers.google.com
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More Than a Map - Get Flight
In Sydney, Australia, We met up with GetFlight founder Ian Cummings at the Fishburners coworking space. GetFlight is airfare search site based that uses the Google Maps API to help users discover cheap airfare to great destinations. Read more on morethanamap.com #morethanamap
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Google I/O 2012 - Integrating Google+ Into Mobile Apps
Julia Ferraioli Create a more engaging and personalized experience for your users by incorporating aspects of Google+ into your mobile app. Learn how your users can share pictures, links, and more into Google+ from your app, and how doing so can raise visibility and discoverability of your application. For all I/O 2012 sessions, go to developers.google.com
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This article includes a fully working Javascript with user interface that plugs-in to Internet Explorer. The plugin allows you to effortlessly manage which websites are part of your "Trusted Zone". The Trusted Zone is a little used (and generally little known) powerful security feature of
Hi, my name is Jay Patel and I'm a software engineer at eBay. I'm excited to introduce the Google Friend Connect community to the new eBay Social Shopping...
In April, we announced Google Cloud Print, a service that enables any app (web, mobile, desktop), on any device, OS, or browser, to print to any printer. Development...
Hi Internet! I’m Robert Konigsberg, and I’ve spent the last four years working on a team that writes Eclipse plug-ins for our coworkers here at Google. I’m happy...
Google I/O 2012 - Knowledge-Based Application Design Patterns
Shawn Simister In this talk we'll look at emerging design patterns for building web applications that take advantage of large-scale, structured data. We'll look at open datasets like Wikipedia and Freebase as well as structured markup like Schema.org and RDFa to see what new types of applications these technologies open up for developers. For all I/O 2012 sessions, go to developers.google.com
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