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Are Mashups EAI 2.0?
Mashups are a lightweight, agile approach to application integration that utilize the protocols and standards of the web. Gregor Hohpe explores the use of Mashups and asks the question - Are Mashups EAI 2.0?
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Google Base vs. Microsoft's Astoria
Dare Obasanjo has done a comparison of two new protocols for access database style data via HTTP. These protocols, based on REST, are the Google Base and Microsoft's Astoria.
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Steve Yegge Ports Rails to Javascript/Rhino
At Foo Camp this past weekend, Steve Yegge of Google gave a talk called "Google Rails Clone" where, as John Lam reports, he talked about his experience porting Ruby on Rails to Javascript at Google. InfoQ summarized the community reaction and took the opportunity to speak with Steve Yegge, who was kind enough to answer some questions.
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Google Scalability Session Report
Dare Obasanjo shared his notes on a session given by Jeff Dean at the Google Conference on Scalability, "MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets".
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Google Gears: Industry Reactions The Day After
As part of their developer days activities this week Google announced a new offline web application API Google Gears.
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Google Developer Day 2007
The Google Developer Day 2007 took place in 10 cities spanning the globe beginning in Sydney, Australia and ending in Mountain View, California. This is a report on some of the sessions at the event in Hamburg, Germany, on May 31, 2007.
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Unit Testing Tips from Google
The QA engineers at Google share their unit testing advice in an ongoing series titled "Testing on the Toilet." The latest installment tackles a common problem: how can the unit tests themselves be refactored without accidentally invalidating the tests?
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14 Ruby projects accepted for Google Summer of Code
14 Ruby projects were accepted for the Google Summer of Code bounty program. The projects range from a debugger for Rails, to a project writing an RSpec specification for Ruby, to protocol implementations using EventMachine and Ragel, and more.
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Google Deprecates SOAP Search API
Google has deprecated its SOAP Search API, withdrawing one of the most prominent examples of Web service usage on the Internet. The remaining AJAX Search API is only a partial replacement.
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Google Releases Search Engine Specifically For Code
Google has released Google Code Search, a search engine explicitly for code. Google is crawling all the publicly available code they can find including archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip), CVS repositories and Subversion repositories. Searches can be performing using regular expressions and limited by language and license.
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Reviews Mixed on Google's New Project Hosting Service
Last week Google announced a new hosting service for open-source projects. Developer comments around the web have been mixed. Some developers have been impressed with the service while others feel underwhelmed.