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Google Launches Google Code
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.
Freshmeat just got a 'best if used by' date.
** "It's not my job to stand between the people talking to me, and the ones listening to me." -- Pego the Jerk
I got my hopes up. I saw Google Code and thought they were releasing thier code for goodle. After reading, I found out its another "service" thing. What ever its pro OSS
That's K-Rad.
:-M
Well done, Chris! You know that I voted for you.
-russ
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
It looks like rather than try to reinvent the wheel, they are utilizing SourceForge for hosting their code. It's nice to see that they aren't suffering from "Not Invented Here" syndrome.
Forget the whales - save the babies.
Google Code FAQ: http://code.google.com/faq.html/
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. A lot of people worked together to both prepare source code for release and prepare code.google.com for launch and ongoing maintenance. We really care about free and open source software (F/OSS) at Google, and this site is one aspect of that affection.
Read the rest of the FAQ: http://code.google.com/faq.html/
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Was Chris the editor who politicized everything and got the boot?
When I first read the article blurb, I thought it meant Google was announcing some sort of source code repository, like SourceForge. Instead, it's a listing of their various open source projects.
That's cool, certainly, but nothing terribly exciting. Isn't this stuff that's already been floating around on the Google website? Or is this a quick-and-dirty attempt to match developer.yahoo.com, which still looks to be more capable.
concrete5: a cms made for marketing, but strong enough for geeks.
Google googles google google. Google!
What next?
Google Personals?
Google Quotes Database?
Google Car Insurance?
From the FAQ:
People at Google keep saying that they get ~20% time to work on personal projects. I'm curious about a couple of things here.
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Gee, I've always been pretty good at that!
In other news today on /., Google wiped its ass.
Well, I guess we'll be seeing alot of duplicate projects posted there.
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I hadn't seen a Google story in a couple of days, I was starting to suffer withdrawal.
I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. - Q
When I read the headline I thought Wow Google copies koders.com . But no - it's just a "look people use our great API"-advertisement page.
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Good to see apple moving more towards open source software, but has anyone worked out what happened to GoogleX (http://labs.google.com/googlex/)
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.
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C'mon Bowie, you know that you can't resist trolling Chris DiBona. Let us know about how Google Code was all your idea until he stole it from you!
Do you even know anything about perl? -- AC Replying to Tom Christiansen post.
(I am from the future. I have seen it.)
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), (rank tracking) and (advanced alerting) are starting to be built out of this stuff, so there's obviously a genuine economy out there for the taking.
Wouldn't it be easier to just send all queiries to normal google searches with the parameters "site:sourceforge.net" and "site:freshmeat.net" rather than build an entire new search system?
And on AYM Network it was noted that if you view the organizations that Google is taking part in, Mozilla is right there at #2. Google Browser anyone? It's been rumored before.
What a coincidence!
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Using the Google API is the best way to encourage its growth. The more apps that use it, the more those apps become "Google" - and the more Google will grow itself by growing its web services.
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
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I remember complaining for months that /. didn't even have an icon for Google. Now I wish they'd make google.slashdot.org and get this stuff off the front page. Maybe take the place of Apache, which has had a grand total of one article in all of 2005.
Auto-reply to ACs: "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect."
Given the article today about zombies http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/03/17/1551255.shtml?t id=172&tid=220 ..it would be interesting if an online zombie checker could be linked into google code. Create a passive system scan and you can bet alot of users would try it.
It is great that Google are visibly supporting the development of open source software - to whatever degree.
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!
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So would this site only contain porn or something else too?
This sig is funny.
You can see code that Google is opening up here. My favorite is the perftools code because it helps with things like heap profiling. Very handy stuff, and it's hosted with Sourceforge. I'm pretty sure these four projects were just added in the last day or so.
open source gadfly?
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
i downloaded their hashmap implementations, but when i type "use Google::Hashmap" i get some module not found error!
;)
am i doing something wrong?
Does this mean a Sourceforge that doesn't suck?
Does it mean a Sourceforge that you can actually search?
Since this is for dev related to Google, this could be a great opportunity to attract lots of talent to their company. This has the opportunity to be a great thing for all parties involved.
"We're going to feature a new one every week or so and we'll send a fabulous, always fashionable, t-shirt to the maintainers as a small way of saying thank you!" anyone seen the pic. where a dud is holdig a poster that say "I well do html for food"
Why is that anything related to Open Source has to have a terrible interface? This is only google page I do not like and it looks like it skipped the UI team.
The code.google.com update blog, and an easy way to subscribe to the RSS feed with Firefox
What I've been hoping for is a specialization of Google that would search for open source code and commentary/documentation on same.
So many projects have names that tend to return a lot of unrelated links when doing a search, it would be nice is there were a categorized search similar to that which they've created for Linux (NICE! Helps significantly. I've given it a browser link on my toolbar.).
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
Come to think of it, isn't SourceForge vulnerable to the same sort of Blitzkrieg?
The thing about things we don't know is we often don't know we don't know them.
We are all familiar with the indisputable benefits of open source. At this point, anyone who's still hung up on the lack of solid statistical evidence to support this obvious truth just doesn't get it.
There can also be no doubt that Google is a true believer (rather than simply trying to exploit the goodwill of the OSS community). Therefore, I propose that Google open source its search algorithms. Millions of eyeballs helping to improve the system: fixing bugs, adding features, increasing performance...what could be better!
I'm sure once Google gets wind of this idea, they will begin implementing it immediately. Do you want me to call them or do one of you guys want to do it?
Thanks for adding nothing to the conversation you AOLamer!
As a general hobby of mine, I've learned the basics, mostly console, of a few languages. C++, Java, PHP, etc. I make little programs for fun, but nothing great. I really would like to get better at this stuff so I could help out Mozilla or open source projects, but it's only a hobby and I have no direction. What should I do? Should I pick one language, or learn them all slowly; what books should I buy or whatever? I just need some direction.
Just a thought.
Uh oh...
I am defenseless. Use your button. Mod me down with all of your hatred.
Just kidding!
MOD PARENT UP!!! Google is teh taking ovar liek teh borg!!!11
With all the great projects google is creating lately, I can't wait until they create their own search engine. That would be radical!
Don't blame me, I voted for Cthulhu.
CmdrTaco and the rest of the /. editors have been made the bitch of Google.
/. are belong to us.
or
[Google] all your
Hashtables that use memory the way you want them too.
hah! fooled you! not f$£king likely. More bandwidth than god.
Several people have commented that it is nice to see Google using an existing code site (sf) rather than create their own.
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.
and I anounce my new Russ Key FireFox extension that allows users to type in TextArea and Text HTML fields in phonetic Russian and translate 'translit' (Russian typed in English letters) into Cyrillic.
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I feel so small and insignificant
You can't handle the truth.
Google's "no evil" policy is really leading to some kind of "no evil"-empire.
I just wonder how much longer they can keep fighting the urge to declare world domination.
Absolute power will corrupt absolutly. Just a matter of time. Not that I mind.
At least its a step up from Bill.
koders.com attempts to be exactly what you describe.
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(Sorry, the irony was too much to resist!)
It was a sad day when SCO eclipsed the ::cue::cat stories !
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Apache, which has had a grand total of one article in all of 2005.
What? You mean there was no dupe for Apache yet?
Shit editors, what are you doing!?!
Coming SOON google girls, google houses, google gear, google this, google that... world domination!!! muhaHAHAHAH
WTF??!!111
I'm pretty hooked on the Picasa photo organizer from Picasa. It's only missing one thing: an extension to upload photos to your Flickr account.
I'd like to see some work done on this.
returned 250000 hits. Thanks.
google, thankful for all the free publicity it gets on slashdot, is planning to launch slashdot.google.org...
isn't the lamest piece of crap on the planet (unlike other dot.org sites we could mention).
Do they reserve the right to insert adds in your code?
http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/
maybe not the type of news they'd like, tho. :-)
I believe that it is/was 3 hours/week at 3M.
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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
How long until code.yahoo.com?
See here for a laugh: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/03/google_guns.htm l
http://www.koders.com/ is what you want.
Why is it that people think this guy is great? He typically does NOT do a good or even acceptable job on anything he manages.
Chris DiBona is *the* guy that single-handedly killed themes.org.
For those of you who have not been around long enough to remember themes.org it was a wonderful, one-stop-shop for themes for everything. Until Chris took over that is, and then it went into a year and a half long dormant period where no updates were allowed by themers, only to eventually be folded into freshmeat when it was apparent that Chris was never going to deliver.
How the hell did he ever get hired by Google?
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - BF
C is a wonderful first language, because it shows you all the annoying things that high-level languages take care of for you. Furthermore the standard library is relatively small, meaning you can get to know the entire language substantially more quickly than learning CPAN modules, Java/Python classes, or even lisp constructs (but lisp/scheme is a great second language).
But, your first lesson as a hacker is to never listen to anything Eric S Raymond says. The man has taken shameless self-promotion to a new plateau, and the degree to which he tries to get everyone to behave like him is astounding. He says some correct things, but on the whole it's better to avoid Eric Raymond's influence.
Will it find the code I need for my CS homework?
Google already does most other kinds of homework. But when I try to use it for a programming project it usually sucks. Hopefully that's what this is for.
Is anyone having problems with Google's Adwords? I get a connection refused whenever I try to get to it.
Visit www.seriouslythough.com
hmm...
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hey, Why not make google algor. open source?
http://ablaze.fr/GoogleX.htm
This
Story breaking tonight. Absolutely amazing. Apparently investors learned absolutely nothing from the last dot.com collapse.
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 . . .
First of all, he was NOT an engineer, but a scientist. Second of all, the 3M inventor of the Post-It note, Dr. Spence Silver, was NOT looking for a way to mark pages at churg, but rather "looking for ways to improve the acrylate adhesives that 3M uses in many of its tapes". Spencer walked around for 5 years with it an wasn't able to find an application for it.
It was Art Fry, again NOT an engineer, but a new product development researcher, who found an application for it. And only then the whole church bookmark idea came into the picutre.
Here is a full article.
Just because your point was that 3M had a similar approach to empowering employees to innovate, that doesn't give you the right to oversimplify and spread convoluted versions of history.
Inaccurate info is the pits. Makes the baby jesus cry.
1) Google is sincere to computer scientists --- hires PhDs.
2) Google doesn't sell by cheaty means like translucent plastics.
3) Google doesn't promote worship --- behaves just like one of us, use sourceforge, use BSD license.
Google's values are consistent with mine --- that's why I pimp Google. And by doing so I pimp my own values.
Now if you still have a problem, spit it out.
CIA targets monopolization of world information
assets via TIA. So it's only logical that they
would seek to take over code development resources
offered to the world. This way they can insert bugs, eliminate developers, etc. at will.
Are you the same Chris with whom I chatted following an LtU thread?
I don't see Picasa on the list
Shame, really, for they're making heavy use of GPLed code, and to publish under the GPL would be in better reciprocal spirit (incidently promoting free software over non-free), but really, who can blame them? BSD licensed code is likely to penetrate further, and reach more programmers, even if it results in the creation of less free software.
Wikileaks, no DNS
koders.com does exactly that, and quite well. But we sure would enjoy the google touch on a specialized search engine like this.
> In other news, slashdot announces new moderation level. '-1 Only funny the first time you hear it' Which is what this post is.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.