Google App Engine Python SDK version 1.2.4 released

Version 1.2.4 - August 6, 2009

• Added support for kindless queries, ie. transaction descendant queries.
• http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=913
• Composite indexes no longer required for certain types of key queries.
• Improved exception reporting in the bulkloader.
• Datastore transaction RPC sent at beginning of transaction rather than upon first Datastore request.
• PolyModel supports keys_only query.
• http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1630
• Remote API supports more API's (Images, Memcache and URLFetch).
• http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1596
• Remote API shell.
• Support for multiple inheritance for Model and PolyModel.
• Enhancement to SearchableModel allowing multiple properties to be indexed.
• Various code quality improvements.

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Google Chrome: a new Beta released, shows over 30% improvement.

at Wednesday, August 5, 2009 | 8:00 AM

There's a brand new beta for you to try out today. As always, we continue to focus on speed, and this beta release shows over 30% improvement on both the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks over our current stable channel release. We've also improved two of the most loved and most used features of Google Chrome: the New Tab page and the Omnibox. Plus, we decided to add a little bit of style by allowing you to deck out your browser with colors, patterns, and images.

~ Google Chrome Blog: A New Beta: Why slow down when you can speed up?

Download the New Beta

Google CEO Resigns from Apple

Google CEO Eric Schmidt stepped down from Apple's board of directors, marking the end of their buddy-buddy relationship. What does this mean for the two companies?
http://www.newsy.com

Simple version 0.1.1

Update: A couple more problems was fixed with the Windows binary distribution. The download file has been updated. Version 0.1.1 also contains a new component for a location sensor.

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Simple is a BASIC dialect for developing Android applications. It is particularly well suited for non-professional programmers (but not limited to). Simple allows programmers to quickly write Android applications by using the components supplied by its runtime system.

The Google Maps API V3

What is the Google Maps API?

The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages with JavaScript. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps (just like on the http://maps.google.com web page) and adding content to the map through a variety of services, allowing you to create robust maps applications on your website.

This Google Maps API V3 will look similar to the existing version 2 of the Google Maps API. However, much has changed under the hood: Version 3 has been designed to load fast, especially on mobile browsers such as Android-based devices and the iPhone™. The initial launch has a smaller feature set than that available in the V2 API. Additional features from V2 will be migrated while working to keep the size of the JavaScript code small and maintain our optimized loading speeds.

Chromium

Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. The site contains design documents, architecture overviews, testing information, and more to help you learn to build and work with the Chromium source code.

Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome. Google is releasing a first look at Chromium and invite you to join in to:

• Help build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web
• Create a powerful platform for developing a new generation of web applications

Google I/O 2009 - Building Applications with Google APIs

Google I/O 2009 - Building Applications with Google APIs

Ray Cromwell

Google offers a wide variety of APIs in many domains that together form a complete platform, from authentication and authorization, cloud computing, and social networking, to visualization, mobile computing, and Google Web Toolkit. In this talk, we will walk though a complex application that integrates many APIs together, how each can solve a different need in your application, how you can share code between GWT, Android, and App Engine, and how you can monetize your application with Google Checkout.

For presentation slides and all I/O sessions, please go to: code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html