Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2009

Photo Credit: John 'Warthog9' Hawley This past weekend, approximately 250 Open Source developers from around the world gathered at G... Read more »

Announcing Android 2.0 support in the SDK!

I am excited to announce that the Android SDK now supports Android 2.0 (also known as Eclair). Android 2.0 brings new developer APIs for syn... Read more »

UI framework changes in Android 1.6

Android 1.6 introduces numerous enhancements and bug fixes in the UI framework. Today, I'd like to highlight three two improvements in ... Read more »

Fall at the OSPO

The leaves are turning here in Mountain View, but they are not the only ones blazing away. It's a busy time of year for open source for... Read more »

TalkBack: An Open Source Screenreader For Android

Earlier this year, we blogged about project Eyes-Free — a collection of Android applications that enable efficient eyes-free interaction w... Read more »

Boldly Talking Python in Boulder

On Saturday, October 10, the Front Range Pythoneers had a Python " unconference " at the Google facilities in Boulder, Colorado, ... Read more »

Fighting Bad Memories: The Stressful Application Test

We've just released Stressful Application Test (or stressapptest ), a hardware test used here at Google to test a large number of compon... Read more »

Testing Race Conditions in Java

Can you spot the bug in the following piece of Java code? /** Maintains a list of names. */ public class NameManager {    private List<... Read more »

MoinMoin's Google Summer of Code Wrap Up

We at the MoinMoin Wiki software development team had a wonderful time with our participation in Google Summer of Code™ 2009 . We greatly e... Read more »

Support for additional screen resolutions and densities in Android

You may have heard that one of the key changes introduced in Android 1.6 is support for new screen sizes. This is one of the things that h... Read more »

SIP Communicator's Summer of Code Adventures: Part Two

Ed. Note: You may recall that last week we published the first installment of Emil Ivov's report on SIP Communicator's participati... Read more »

ADC 2 Round 1 Scoring Complete

The response to round one of the Android Developer Challenge 2 has been phenomenal! We originally expected that it would take two weeks to ... Read more »

Perls of Wisdom: The Perl Foundation & Parrot's Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code™ 2009 (GSoC) was filled with fresh faces and exciting new projects for The Perl Foundation (TPF). As I write this, w... Read more »

Gestures on Android 1.6

Touch screens are a great way to interact with applications on mobile devices. With a touch screen, users can easily tap, drag, fling, or sl... Read more »

SVG at Google and in Internet Explorer

At Google we are doing some exciting work with SVG , including hosting the SVG Open conference , helping SVG to work on Internet Explorer , ... Read more »

Report from EuroBSDCon 2009

I'm no stranger to EuroBSDCon. After attending several very successful conferences in the US, three FreeBSD contributors and I dec... Read more »