Keynote for Google I/O 2008: Client, Connectivity, and the Cloud
Featuring Vic Gundotra, Allen Hurff (MySpace), Steve Horowitz, Kevin Gibbs, Mark Lucovsky, Bruce Johnson, David Glazer, Nat Brown (iLike)
Lecture 1 in a five part series introducing mapreduce and cluster computing. See http://code.google.c om/edu/content/submi ssions/mapreduce-min ilecture/listing.htm l for slides and other resources.
Lecture 2: The MapReduce programming model. See
http://code.googl e.com/edu/content/su bmissions/mapreduce- minilecture/listing. html for slides and other resources.
Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. In this video, Google Product Manager Mussie Shore walks through the steps required to add Google Friend Connect to a sample website.
This video introduces developers to building apps on Google App Engine. For more in-depth information and deep-dive technical sessions, come to Google I/O, Google's largest developer event: http://code.google.c om/io/
Google App Engine enables developers to build their web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.
For more info on Google App Engine:
http://code.googl e.com/appengine
An Introduction to Android
Jason Chen
Android is the Open Handset Alliance's mobile software platform. In this session, we introduce Android and discuss our vision for more open, powerful, and useful mobile devices.
Google Software Engineer Brett Slatkin builds and deploys a sample guestbook web app on top of Google App Engine.
For more info on Google App Engine:
http://code.googl e.com/appengine
I had the pleasure of chatting with Steve Yegge, of long blogging fame, at the Google Kirkland office. We discussed the birth, growth, and future of the Rhino on Rails (RnR) project, as well as other web development issues.
Lecture 3: The Google File System. See
http://code.googl e.com/edu/content/su bmissions/mapreduce- minilecture/listing. html for slides and other resources.
Improving Browsers in New Ways: Gears++
Chris Prince (Google)
Google Gears has progressed by leaps since its initial launch -- and in ways that many developers may not realize. Come learn all about what's new in Google Gears. (Hint: it's not just about offline!)