Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Wednesday, 18 June 2008 14:58
Opinion and Analysis
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Google’s second Australian “Developer Day” saw over 650 developers
making the trek to Sydney’s “Wharf8” venue for a jam-packed day-long
set of sessions for developers to devour. iTWire spoke to Tom Stocky,
Google's director of product management, to get the latest Google goss!
Today was a busy day in Sydney! Not only was Gartner running its “Outsourcing & IT Services Summit” and Apple giving a sneak preview to the media of its first official store in the Southern Hemisphere (and thus Australia) before its opening tomorrow, it was also the day that Google put on its annual “Developer Day” for, well... developers.
No, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer definitely made no appearances, and the monkey dance of “developers, developers, developers” was probably only in the minds of the mischievous (like myself).
Instead developers were treated to the latest and greatest from visiting and local big cheeses from Google to “celebrate a year of Australian accomplishments and innovations, learn about Google's newest developer tools and discuss the opportunities for Australian web developers to flourish on an open web.”
Tom Stocky, Google's director of product management, opened the day with a keynote that revolved around making “the cloud” more accessible to developers through things such as Google’s APIs, maps and more, making the “client”, or web browser, more accessible to developers and end-users, and about keeping connectivity to the web and online data pervasive through elements such as Google Gears and other Google tools.
After the main keynote, developer attendees were able to “move between a variety of breakout sessions and demonstrations by top Google engineers, covering some of Google's most recent innovations for developers” where new applications built by developers worldwide were showcase.
These included Google’s “OpenSocial”, a common API that makes it easier for developers to create social applications across multiple websites, and the “Android SDK”, Google's open mobile platform, which allows any developer to build applications that span across a variety of mobile devices, a variety of which hadn’t yet been publicly demonstrated in Sydney before.
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