Students announced for 2011 Google Summer of Code

We have announced the 1,116 students that will be participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code program. Students will now start the... Read more »

The DOs and DON’Ts of Google Summer of Code: Mentor Edition

This is the final post in a series of three posts on the DOs and DON’Ts for Google Summer of Code students, mentors, and organization admin... Read more »

Former student pays it forward as a mentor for Google Code-in

Charlie Gordon was a student participant in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest , an earlier version of Google Code-in that pairs... Read more »

Googlers @ Women and Open Source: Panel Discussion

Last week the SD Forum held a panel discussion in Mountain View, CA entitled Tech Women: Women and Open Source. The discussion focused on e... Read more »

Customizing the Action Bar

[This post is by Nick Butcher , an Android engineer who notices small imperfections, and they annoy him. — Tim Bray] Since the introduction ... Read more »

Android Developer Challenge, Sub-Saharan Africa!

[This post is by Bridgette Sexton, an innovation advocate for the African tech community. — Tim Bray] En Français . In the past year alone,... Read more »

New Carrier Billing Options on Android Market

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] Since last year, we’ve been working to bring the convenience of Dir... Read more »

Geek Time with Josh Bloch

In addition to being known as “The Mother of Java,” Josh Bloch is also the Chief Java Architect at Google. Josh sat down with fellow Open S... Read more »

Introducing CityHash

We’re pleased to announce the new CityHash family of hash functions for strings. We’re releasing two functions today: CityHash64 and CityHa... Read more »