Google Launches Google Code 235
ibjhb writes "Google is at it again and has launched Google Code. It appears to be "Google's place for Open Source software". " Can't say that I'm surprised that our old friend (and former Slashdot Author) Chris DiBona is working on this one. They have links to several open source projects, as well as to Google API information.
Bad title (Score:1, Interesting)
Well done, Chris! (Score:2, Interesting)
-russ
Re:uh oh (Score:5, Interesting)
**What is code.google.com?
Code.google.com is our site for external developers interested in Google-related development. It's where we'll publish free source code and lists of our API services.**
besides than that.. *Why are you releasing code through Sourceforge?
Well, because they were nice enough to oblige, and because developers here like Sourceforge. Future homes for new projects might include Tigris.org or language specific sites like the Vaults of Parnassus and CPAN. *
yeah. ALL THE PROJECTS ARE ON SOURCEFORGE!
Re:Bad title (Score:5, Interesting)
Google and 20% time (Score:5, Interesting)
From the FAQ [google.com]:
People at Google keep saying that they get ~20% time to work on personal projects. I'm curious about a couple of things here.
Re:Google (Score:2, Interesting)
Good to see (Score:2, Interesting)
it now 404's, yet was working yesterday as a 'prototype' of what a google for mac and on other systems could look like. Obviously the labs are having a fun week.
Commercialization to come? (Score:5, Interesting)
But who will be the first to throw open the floodgates and actuallly provide unlimited API querying at a price? Businesses (such as (plagiarism detection), [copyscape.com] (rank tracking) and [seocount.com] (advanced alerting) are starting to be built out of this stuff, so there's obviously a genuine economy out there for the taking. [googlealert.com]
Interesting observation. (Score:4, Interesting)
What a coincidence!
Google Too (Score:5, Interesting)
However, hosting all those Google API apps solely on Google is a bad move. Too many eggs in one basket. Better to host them on both Google AND Freshmeat/SourceForge. In fact, one great Google API app would be an automirror. Hosting at one is automirrored at the other. Which has immediate benefits in load balancing and uptime (no single point of failure). And longterm benefits of keeping the code free of capricious corporate decisions down the road
Could code a zombie checker? (Score:1, Interesting)
Good Show! (Score:5, Interesting)
The ubiquity of google and the respect they have gained over the years make them somewhat of a model company. While im sure there may be a couple of people who might dispute their company motto to "not be evil" I think most people would agree that google seems to be doing things the right way.
Google is well thought of by anyone who uses the web, not just geeks, but the PHB's and Grandma's alike. This brings me to the next point...
Google have got Microsoft worried - frustrated that they couldnt "own" google they paid google the greatest compliment- they redesigned their search engine that is functionally more than just similar to google - and to a certain extent the low graphic - no-frills feel!
It is interesting to see Google innovating and re-thinking many of the ways we use the web. Now that google are being visibly more active in open source - It couldnt be better press for F/OSS at this time - and damn that's really going to p*ss Microsoft off - I'd like to see them match this idea. In addition to this its certainly going to help to legitimise F/OSS to those PHB's who have been toying with the idea but afraid to test the water.
Its going to be extremely interesting to see what google has deep in the bowels of its R&D department waiting to come into fruition. Lets hope that they can keep their face clean in the process!
My favorite is perftools (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Bad title (Score:5, Interesting)
Updates Blog (Score:3, Interesting)
The code.google.com update blog, and an easy way to subscribe to the RSS feed with Firefox
Re:Google and 20% time (Score:2, Interesting)
"Personal stuff" for me also includes photography, music, politics, blogging, etc. While those interests would likely influence I would spend my "20%" if I worked for Google, the "personal stuff" itself remains mine.
If you are paid as a software developer, it's not healthy career-wise to have all of your "personal stuff" also be programming as well. If you feel the need to draw lines in the sand between work tasks and personal R&D in the same field, you should consider self-employment--you'll be happier if your loyalties are not split between the job that pays you and the one you wish would do so.
Or, go work for Google, where you can be paid to work on the cool stuff, leaving more time for family and non-programming "personal stuff" that you won't have to feel like you are hoarding from your employer.
Not invented here (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm also glad to see that they are using an existing and respected license (BSD 2.0) rather than invent their own. The other big companies (eg. Sun, MS) always have to create their own pseudo-FLOSS licenses when they release code, with their own little catches and gotchas.
Re:Nice (Score:1, Interesting)
Indeed, to convert PDFs to html in google desktop they use a pdftohtml.exe which comes from http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]. Let me guess what other desktop search engines will do....reinvent the wheel?
Re:uh oh (Score:3, Interesting)
All you really need to do is spider freshmeat.net, download the tarball of the latest release of each app, and do a massive grep whenever anyone submits a query. OK, not quite that simple. But almost - the total source code size is tiny compared to, say, a Web search engine, so you don't have to be that clever with indexing. You could do a keyword search as the first stage and then grep.
Yellow Stickies (Score:5, Interesting)
An engineer wanted something to mark pages in choir books at church. He found an adhesive that they'd previously dismissed as too weak to be useful, diluted it further, and now we don't have to paint our monitors and walls . .
hawk
Re:uh oh (Score:3, Interesting)