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Intro to Google Charts and gchartrb

Community
Ruby
Topics
RubyGems

Google Charts is a web service for generating charts. Matthew Bass explains the basics of the Google Charts interface and the gchartrb library which makes it even easier to create the charts from Ruby code.

AgileAdvert Video Winners Announced

Community
Agile
Topics
Community

At Agile2007's Google reception, the audience voted to make the (very sad) clip "Developer Abuse" the number 1 video, thereby making "Matthew" (name changed to protect the innocent) this year's AgileAdvert famous Agilist. Five more videos were also recognized, sporting singing, dancing, a beating, "outside the box" thinking, expletives (deleted), and charming children (not all in one video!)

Using Google Web Toolkit

Community
Java
Topics
Rich Internet Apps,
Web Frameworks

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java-centric framework for creating AJAX applications. GWT cross-compiles Java source into JavaScript, allowing Java developers to use their existing Java skills and tools to create AJAX apps. GWT lead Bruce Johnson intros GWT including high-performance AJAX, internationalization, and integration with existing web app.

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Flash Content Now Searchable

Community
Java
Topics
Web 2.0,
Rich Internet Apps,
Rich Client / Desktop

In Adobe’s continuing push to eliminate the common objections to Flash adoption comes news that SWF files, the binary format for the Flash Player, is now indexable by Google and Yahoo’s search engines. This is important news for application developers using or considering using Adobe Flex, and the resulting applications will now be searchable.

Google App Engine load test result

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
Rich Internet Apps,
Software Testing,
Web Frameworks,
Cloud Computing

The result of the Google Web Toolkit on Google App Engine load test: The load was 10 reqs/sec for an hour, and 35 reqs/sec at peak. The result? No sweat.

Google App Engine public load test today

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
Rich Internet Apps,
Software Testing,
Web Frameworks,
Cloud Computing

Today, at 4PM GMT+2 (in about an hour), there is a public load test on the Google App Toolkit. Can Google Web Toolkit and Google App Engine handle the InfoQ effect?

What Social Networks Are Teaching Us About Data Portability

Community
Architecture
Topics
Technology,
Data Access,
Data Portability,
Open Source,
Community

As more social networking sites are popping up, the questions around the data they keep are rising. Data portability has become the watch phrase across the Web 2.0 world. Is there something to be learned about data access and portability from these services?

HBase Leads Discuss Hadoop, BigTable and Distributed Databases

Community
Java
Topics
Data Access,
Cloud Computing,
Database Design

Google's recent introduction of their Google Application Engine has created renewed interest in alternative database technologies. InfoQ recently sat down with the leads of HBase, an open-source, distributed, data store modeled after the Google's BigTable.

Google 'simplifies web development' with AppEngine

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Virtualization,
Web Frameworks,
Cloud Computing

At Campfire One on April 7th, 2008, Google introduced Google App Engine as a way to simplify the job of creating, running and scaling web applications, to make it 'easy.' In essence, Google App Engine allows you to build web applications locally using and then deploy them on Google's infrastructure.