Posted by Andrew Bowers, Developer ProgramsGoogle Code, that is. Google Developer Day has officially kicked off in Sydney, Australia, beginning our 29 hour marathon of developer activities around the world. Approximately 5,000 developers will join us t…
To add to the excitement around Google Developer Day, just a hair after our one year launch anniversary, it turns out that Google Web Toolkit GWT has been downloaded more than 1 million times! We re especially excited to see the amount of interest since GWT went open source. With advances like those in GWT 1.4, we feel we re making solid progress towards our mission to radically improve the web experience for users by enabling developers to use existing Java tools to build no compromise AJAX for any modern browser you can read more about our mission to make GWT better . So try out GWT. You ll be in good company.
We hope you saw the recent announcement of Google Gears, which is being unveiled at Google Developer Day. Well, we were so excited about the possibility of AJAX applications working even while offline, we went ahead and put together the Google API Library for Google Web Toolkit with support for Google Gears. This open source library allows developers writing applications with Google Web Toolkit to take advantage of the Google Gears APIs to develop applications that work offline on a plane or anywhere else you happen to be. Since interoperability is at the very core of GWT, we wanted to take this opportunity to show an example of how GWT applications can be built with JavaScript APIs, taking advantage of GWT s JavaScript Native Interface JSNI . Please keep in mind that this is an early prototype of this library, and so your mileage may vary. We are planning to add support for other Google APIs; if you d like to help, please check out Making GWT Better, and contribute your ideas. If you re curious to get started, check out the project on Google Code.
Posted by John Hanke, Director for Maps, Earth and LocalI am pleased to tell you that we ve agreed to purchase Panoramio, a website based in Spain that links millions of photos with the exact geographical location where they were taken. Our FAQ has a…
posted by Nicole What time is it? Beta time If you are up for some Messenger beta testing beta read the rest of this postIf you aren t up for beta testing beta check back next time Important Details: Get Messenger 8.5 Beta1 build 517 here Send feedback here Talk about it here Get support here Markets Country Language in order to get this Beta out asap we limited the number of supported markets. If your market is not listed below, please know that we are working on it! English United States, United Kingdom, India French France Japanese Japan German Germany Chinese Simplified China Spanish United States, Spain What s new: I have listed what s new in order of appearance… Windows XP SP2OK OK I know Windows XP SP2 is definitely not new in fact it is almost 3 years old , what is new is that Messenger 8.5 Beta1 has bumped up the minimum OS requirement from Windows XP SP1 to Windows XP SP2. If you are still running Windows XP SP1 I am absolutely shocked and you can: Get SP2 here OR Better yet you can get Vista here Setup the lookThe next thing or probably the first thing you will notice is Messenger Setup looks different than previous Messenger releases. However it is the now same as the new setup experience for WL Mail and WL Writer Some before and after glamour shots of setup: Setup the desktop short cutDuring Messenger setup you may notice that you are not prompted to create a desktop shortcut for Messenger. If you have an desktop shortcut from a previous release it will continue to work. Let us know what you think about this change here. Setup the start menu short cuts After setup you will notice that the start menu short cuts are included in a Windows Live folder so you can easily find all your Windows Live clients. If you had Messenger installed previously your other start menu short cut will still appear. Setup Microsoft UpdateIf you read through the setup screens carefully you will notice that updates are going to be published through Microsoft Update affectionately known in the office as MU pronounced quot;moo quot;. Meetings about this are entertaining we sound like a bunch of cows chatting it up moo this, moo that, etc. Any moo, during the beta we will be testing this out with your help of course. Stay moo ned I mean tuned Sign in the lookRight after setup of course you need to sign in. A picture is worth a 1000 words according to someone so I will let the picture do the talking here. This reminds me of those games in a magazine where you are supposed to spot all the differences. Can you find them all Menus the look and feelAfter installing a Beta the first thing you might do is look through the menus to see what has changed… for this Beta the menus haven t changed but you will get to them in a different way. Contact Window the lookAfter you sign in you will likely want to find someone to IM with. For this example I am looking for my dad Dan. Conversation Window the look and a little feelNow on to IMing, you will notice the typing indicator and quot;Last message received.. quot; information has moved. After you have used if for a bit, let us know what you think by voting in the poll note if you are reading this in an RSS reader click here to see the poll . We collect feedback in multiple ways the poll is an unscientific but fun method so you may not see changes based on it. If you are really passionate about it head on over here to provide detailed feedback. New Emoticon the bunnyWhile you are IMing you will likely want to send an emoticon or 2 or 100 I would like to introduce you to the bunny emoticon . …. OK so you are thinking if we like moo ing so much why did we add a bunny instead of a cow. Stay tuned.. the mystery will be solved in an upcoming post lt;Nicole laughs as she adds a cliff hanger not as good as the Lost ones but still gt; What else is new around Windows Live: Windows Live WriterMost of the MessengerSays posts are created through Windows Live Writer including this one. If you haven t used Writer yet let me tell you it really rocks! Here are some of my favorite things about it: It works well with Windows Live Spaces and works well with other non Microsoft blogs Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress, etc It is so easy to insert a picture into a post Insert gt; Picture could it get any easier? It supports plug ins my favorite plug in is the Insert Spaces Emoticon It has spell check! The team is really responsive to feedback, if you have any head over here. Windows Live Writer has also released a new Beta today! Important details: Get the Writer Beta here Send feedback here Talk about it here Get support here Read their blog here Windows Live MailYou can also use Windows Live Mail to check and organize all of your email. I use it for all of my newsgroup activity as well. If you haven t used Mail yet let me tell you it rocks! Here are some of my favorite things about it: It works well with Windows Live Hotmail and with other non Microsoft email gmail.com, yahoo.com, etc It is really easy to setup, click quot;Add an e mail account quot; and then you only need to add the stuff you will know Your name, e mail address and password and ta da it figures out the rest of the stuff. It has the ability to insert emoticons built in It has spell check! The team is really responsive to feedback, if you have any head over here. Windows Live Mail has also released a new Beta today! Important details: Get the Mail Beta here Send feedback here Talk about it here Get support here Read their blog here If you have a comment on this post please comment! For other questions concerns discussion topics rants raves etc please head over to the Windows Live Messenger Newsgroup.
Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing ManagerFirst off, congratulations to the WordPress team for recently hitting the one meeeeellllion blog mark. This is a great achievement for WordPress and another milestone for the whole blogosphere.We were also thrilled to see that WordPress now recommends Google Apps for custom domain email accounts to bloggers who have their own internet domains. This means that bloggers who use WordPress can send and receive email for free with Google Apps on the same domain where they publish their WordPress blogs.If you don t happen to be one of WordPress million bloggers but want fully customized email accounts and much more, Google Apps will work for you too. You can use Google Apps on an existing domain, or register a new domain when you sign up.
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I m Will Mason, and I manage the developer documentation team for Internet Explorer. We write the documentation for HTML, DHTML, CSS, WebBrowser Control , etc. that you can find in the MSDN Library. You might have noticed lately that the MSDN site has changed its domain name to MSDN2. Beginning last fall, the MSDN Microsoft Developer Network group has been using a new publishing tools and had to keep the content published with the old tools separate from the new. As you have probably figured out, MSDN2 is the site that uses the new tools. nbsp; You might also have noticed that the URLs have changed more than just in the domain name. To keep our file names unique, the file names are for the most part now page IDs, rather than page titles. For example, item is a property of many objects and there are several item topic pages in the Library. The IDs make sure that no two item topic pages can have the same URL. Over the winter, documentation sets were slowly migrated from one domain to the other. At some point in the future, the MSDN2 domain will once again become just MSDN and will keep the new scheme for file names. So, what does this mean to you? Well, actually not much. If you re creating links today, you will have to use the MSDN2 URLs. Old URLS that point to MSDN the old domain name are redirected to MSDN2, so you don t have to worry about them. If you link to MSDN2 pages, redirects will be put in place when MSDN2 reverts to MSDN. These redirects will not go away. Over time, you might want to correct them, but they will always work. For more on the reasons behind these changes, please see http: msdn.microsoft.com msdnmag issues 05 02 InsideMSDN default.aspx. Keep watching the http: msdn2.microsoft.com nbsp; for more information. Will