Google I/O – Web Forward

May 28-29, 2008: two-day Google developer event, Moscone West, San Francisco, CA
Google I/O features: OpenSocial, Google App Engine, Android, Google Maps API, and Google Web Toolkit….

Google Friend Connect – The Social Web

Exciting Stuff! Google introduced the preview of Friend Connect to developers. Friend Connect is an amazing tool that allows webmasters a quick and easy way to add social features to their existing websites. … Want to be part of the beta?

The Messy Desk – Brilliance Revealed

Brilliance?
Well, this may be a bit of an overstatement, but organization, productivity and even creativity exist behind a messy desk.
Quite a bold statement, isn’t it?
A popular view of a messy desk suggests just the opposite – chaos and disorganization. I won’t bother to cite references for this one; you can find them on your [...]

Hello, world! – Google Style

I hadn’t really noticed how often the ‘Hello World’ code is used. It is the same awareness that you have when you learn a new word – suddenly it is everywhere – in conversations, on TV, in books… Well, the same thing seems to be happening with the ‘Hello World’ code. In just the [...]

Hello world!

OK. So everyone’s first blog entry has “Hello World” as the default entry; every first program does too for that matter.
I couldn’t resist, so I looked up the original C program code.
#include < stdio.h>
void main()
{
printf(“\nHello World\n”);
}
Isn’t it beautiful? Even elegant?
Code is poetry.
At least that’s what I’ve heard that they [...]