Games Coming to Android Market in Korea

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] In the 24 months since the first Android device became available lo... Read more »

Bringing 64-bit data to R

The R programming language has become one of the standard tools for statistical data analysis and visualization, and is widely used by Goog... Read more »

Gathering of the Mentor Minds

The sixth annual Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit was held Saturday and Sunday, October 22rd and 23th, 2011 at Google headquarters in Mo... Read more »

Have You Discovered Pinterest Yet?

What is Pinterest ?  It is a collaboration of user-created virtual pinboards.  Users create pinboards based on topics of interest.  You brow... Read more »

Making Android Games that Play Nice

[This post is by Ian Ni-Lewis , a Developer Advocate who devotes most of his time to making Android games more awesome. — Tim Bray] Making ... Read more »

And we’re off! Google Code-in contest opens for students today

And we’re off! Starting today, 13-17 year old students enrolled in a pre-university program (high school, etc.) as of November 21, 2011 can ... Read more »

Doc Summit Wrap up: 4 Books written in 3 days!

In mid October a Document Summit was held at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California where documentation teams from 4 open source ... Read more »

Build great font tools and services with sfntly

Earlier this month we released the sfntly font programming library as open source. Created by the Google Internationalization Engineering t... Read more »

Explore open source with the Google Code-in contest

Correction: Students will not be able to start registering for accounts until the contest opens on November 21st at 12:00 am (midnight) PST.... Read more »

Humbled by our students

We were very excited about participating in the Google Summer of Code this year for the first time. We, the Theoretical Biophysics Groups ... Read more »

Desktop Summit 2011 visits Berlin

The Desktop Summit 2011 was held in Berlin, Germany , from 6-12 August 2011 and was the second joint conference of the GNOME and KDE comm... Read more »

Introducing Closure Stylesheets

(CSS is for programming, not for pasting) When the Closure Tools were first released a little over two years ago, they gave web developers ... Read more »

Updated NDK for Android 4.0

Today we are releasing an updated version of the Android NDK, now in revision 7. The updated NDK lets developers who are using native code g... Read more »

Area and Perimeter

Here are some interactive sites to learn about area and perimeter: Measuring the Playground : Finding the Area and Perimeter of Rectangles :... Read more »

New Layout Widgets: Space and GridLayout

[This post is by Philip Milne , who is part of the Android framework team. — Tim Bray] Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) sports two new widgets that ... Read more »

Google Code-in 2011 participating organizations announced

We are excited to announce the 18 open source organizations we have chosen to participate in this year's Google Code-in contest for 13-... Read more »

Voicethread in the Classroom

Voicethread is a site that will allow you to create a multimedia conversation around a picture or series of pictures, an example is above... Read more »

LinuxDay 2011 Italy celebrates 20 years of Linux

Every October in Italy we hold an event dedicated to GNU/Linux and open source software development called LinuxDay 2011 Italy . The event i... Read more »

Discovery Atlas: Interactive Map with Videos

Discovery's new interactive atlas is a great resource for teaching about geography, countries, and cultures.  Select a country by click... Read more »

More Android Developer Labs in Asia

A couple of months ago, we kicked off a series of Android Developer Labs in Asia, North America and Europe . To wrap up the 2011 series, we... Read more »

Scilab reaches for the sky

In France we say “Jamais deux sans trois” (everything comes in threes, if it's happened twice, it'll happen a third time). Scilab (... Read more »

Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom

I am currently teaching a college course for educators about Web 2.0 tools and I wanted a way to easily share the course resources and links... Read more »

Evaluating Student Multimedia Projects

Have you just stared using Web 2.0 tools in your classroom?  It is important to assess multimedia projects to ensure that students are using... Read more »

Simian Update Released

Simian , the enterprise-class Mac OS X package management solution, released an updated version this week at MacTech. Originally open sourc... Read more »

Google Earth in the Classroom

This week I will providing Google Earth training for middle and high teachers.  This slideshow includes rationale for using Google Earth in... Read more »

JNI Local Reference Changes in ICS

[This post is by Elliott Hughes, a Software Engineer on the Dalvik team. — Tim Bray] If you don’t write native code that uses JNI, you can s... Read more »