Google Tech Talks
October, 23 2007
ABSTRACT
For most of us who work on the Internet, the Web is all we have ever really known. It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without browsers, URLs and HTTP. But in the years leading up to Tim Berners-Lee’s world-changing invention, a few visionary information scientists were exploring alternative systems that often bore little resemblance to the Web as we know it today. In this presentation, author and information architect Alex Wright will explore the heritage of these almost-forgotten systems in search of promising ideas left by the historical wayside.
The presentation will focus on the pioneering work of Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush, and Doug Engelbart, forebears of the 1960s and 1970s like Ted Nelson, Andries van Dam, and the Xerox PARC team, and more recent forays like Brown’s Intermedia system. We’ll trace the heritage of these systems and the solutions they suggest to present day Web quandaries, in hopes of finding clues to the future in the recent technological past.
Speaker: Alex Wright
Alex Wright is an information architect at the New York Times and the author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages. Previously, Alex has led projects for The Long Now Foundation, California Digital Library, Harvard University, IBM, Microsoft, Rollyo and Sun Microsystems, among others. He maintains a personal Web site at http://www.alexwright.org/
Duration : 0:59:35
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The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in our New York office on August 23 and 24, 2007
Simon Stewart – Web Driver
Faster than a speeding bullet! Easier to maintain than something that’s really easy to maintain! Reliable! That’s what we want from our tests, but how do we get there? This presentation covers key strategies and patterns for writing test suites using WebDriver, a developer focused tool for web application testing similar in spirit to Selenium RC. We’ll cover why it was written, the problems it addresses and how to integrate it into your projects and testing process.
Simon Stewart lives in London and works as a developer for ThoughtWorks, specialising in Agile development and Test Driven Development. His Open Source contributions include the original integration of WebWork and Spring as well as WebDriver. He enjoys writing better software and beer, sometimes at the same time.
Duration : 0:45:46
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Google Tech Talks
November 13, 2007
ABSTRACT
Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance Team has identified 14 best practices for making web pages faster. These best practices have proven to reduce response times of Yahoo! properties by 25-50%. They focus on the front-end, for example, why it’s bad to use “@import” for including stylesheets and why ETags disable browser caching. In this talk I’ll go in-depth on these best practices and the research behind them. I’ll also demonstrate YSlow and do some live performance analysis of popular web sites.
Relevant links:
Exceptional Performance: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/
YSlow: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
Speaker: Steve Souders
Steve Souders holds down the job of Chief Performance Yahoo! at Yahoo! He’s been at Yahoo! since 2000, working on many of the platforms and products within the company He ran the development team for My Yahoo! before reaching his current position.
As Chief Performance Yahoo!, he has developed a set of best practices for making web sites faster. He builds tools for performance analysis and evangelizes these best practices and tools across Yahoo!’s product teams.
Duration : 1:0:34
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Google Gears: Building Better AJAX applications
Presented by Aaron Boodman
AJAX applications are at the core of web development, providing both opportunities and challenges. We’ll be discussing some of the ways we can address those challenges in this session. More details will be provided at Developer Day.
Aaron Boodman started life as a musician, a mistake he rectified early to the delight of his teachers and dormmates. Suddenly finding himself with more time on his hands, he taught himself to program and began experimenting with and writing about the collection of technologies that became known as “AJAX” many years later. His work from 2000-2001 continues to be referenced and reused today in modern JavaScript toolkits. More recently, he is the creator of Greasemonkey, a popular browser extension that allows people to “mash up” websites using JavaScript. At Google he works on experimental web technology, and occasionally lends a hand on UI for products like Gmail, Reader, and Blogger.
Duration : 0:33:28
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http://www.gsinc.co.uk/tips/ Gareth offers 5 website seo tips in this episode of ECommerce Rocks. Covers broken links, duplicate content, keyword stuffing and more.
For more info visit http://www.gsinc.co.uk/tips/
Duration : 0:3:57
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With Luc Claes, CTO at ContactOffice
Converting a large web application, counting thousands of JSPs, to a state of the art Web 2.0 user interface is a challenge, to say the least. This case study will tell you more about how the conversion process is currently handled at ContactOffice: selecting the ‘best’ framework, identifying the missing pieces and filling the holes, defining a scalable front-end and adapting the existing back-end architecture, organizing the development staff, tips & tricks and lessons learned.
Before joining ContactOffice as CTO, Luc Claes was a researcher in software engineering and held top R&D management positions in two Belgian companies. At ContactOffice, his current topics of expertise include the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), transparent data persistency, data synchronization and communication modeling. Luc is an industrial engineer in electronics and holds a master degree in computer sciences.
Duration : 1:1:40
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This video provides an overview of Google Web Toolkit (GWT), a tool which enables developers to produce highly optimized, browser-specific JavaScript for their apps. Andrew Bowers will demonstrate how GWT is incorporated into the development cycle by walking through a sample App Engine application utilizing GWT.
Join us at Google I/O, Google’s largest developer event, happening May 27-28, 2009 in San Francisco. The Google Web Toolkit team will be on hand to answer any questions and hold deep-dive technical sessions. Register to attend: http://code.google.com/io
Duration : 0:4:10
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Google Tech Talks
June 24, 2008
ABSTRACT
Eclipse Day at the Googleplex
Eclipse @ Ebay
Speaker: Michael Galpin, With introduction by Ian Skerrett, Director of Marketing – Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse is great for Java development. Eclipse is great for web development. Eclipse is great for Java web development. The list goes on, but as your business becomes bigger, more specialized and more demanding, chances are that you won’t find exactly what you need on that list. So what do you turn to? Eclipse. See how eBay uses the Eclipse you know and love, but also builds on top of it to handle its unique challenges.
About Michael Galpin:
Michael Galpin is an architect at eBay. He has worked on various projects in the past including eBay Neighborhoods, the next generation of My eBay, as well as eBay’s own web development framework, V4. He also is a frequent writer for IBM developerWorks, TheServerSide.com, and the Java Developer’s Journal. He has been programming professionally for 10+ years and holds a degree in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology.
Duration : 0:47:23
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Duration : 0:1:12
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Google Tech Talk
November 19, 2009
ABSTRACT
Presented by Steven Dow.
How does the structure of prototyping practice affect learning, motivation, and performance? In this talk, I will describe research on iteration and comparison, two key principles for discovering contextual design variables and their interrelationships. We found that, even under tight time constraints when the common intuition is to stop iterating and start refining, iterative prototyping helps designers learn. Our results also demonstrate that creating and receiving feedback on multiple prototypes in parallel — as opposed to serially — leads to more divergent concepts, more explicit comparison, less investment in a single concept, and better overall design performance. This talk highlights relevant research in cognitive and social psychology and shares the results of our preliminary design studies.
Steven Dow is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the HCI Group at Stanford University where he researches human-computer interaction, creative problem-solving, prototyping practices, and computing for education and entertainment. He is a co-recipient of a Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Grant 2009-10. He received an MS and PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in Industrial Engineering from University of Iowa.
Duration : 0:56:16
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