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Fuzzy Logic Google Sydney "Developer Day" about making the cloud more accessible to developers: Stocky
Fuzzy Logic Google Sydney "Developer Day" about making the cloud more accessible to developers: Stocky | Google Sydney "Developer Day" about making the cloud more accessible to developers: Stocky |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Wednesday, 18 June 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 7 Alan Noble, Google's Head of Engineering for Australia and New Zealand said that: "Developer Day 2008 has showcased the tremendous potential for Australia and Australian developers.”Featured Whitepaper
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Google also announced a new competition called the “Global Code Jam”, for developers in Australia and worldwide. Google says that the event “will see Australian coders have the opportunity to compete in Sydney for prizes and a chance to measure up against the best from around the globe at Google's headquarters in Mountain View”, with details listed here. During the afternoon, we had the chance to talk to Tom Stocky, Google's director of product management, who helped us take stock of Google’s developer initiatives and break ‘em down into some of the important parts. Stocky said that Google is “really interested in engaging with the developer community – improving the web platform, the open source platform and have global developers work with the developer team at Google”. Initiatives such as Google Gears, the Google Web Toolkit and the Android platform, all of which have cost Google a lot of money to build – which Google has given away to the community, leads to an improving web platform, more apps and drives usage of the Internet, which Stocky said was clearly of importance to Google. In a question on the progress with Google Gears and what progress had been made since its launch last year, Stocky said that a good example was MySpace using Google Gears to create a mail app that lets users search the messages they receive in MySpace, and that it had been great to see Gears being adopted by developers worldwide. Please read on to page 4. |
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