Tag Archives: Google
Developer’s Guide to Social Programming: Building Social Context Using Facebook, Google Friend Connect, and the Twitter API
As the book’s title indicates, it covers using the APIs provided by Twitter, Facebook and Google to connect your site to them and share data between them. The book is organized into four sections, each looking at one platform and ending with a “putting it all together” chapter. It’s aimed at intermediate programmers familiar with PHP and web technologies including REST and JSON. Continue reading
Map Scripting 101: An Example-Driven Guide to Building Interactive Maps with Bing, Yahoo!, and Google Maps
When developers have looked to add an interactive map to their web pages Google Maps is probably at the top of the list of providers, however there are other choices and what if you want to change providers at some point in the future? Continue reading
Beginning Android 2
2010 is probably going to be remembered as the year Android’s luck changed. After several years of lacklustre phones, 2010 started with the release of the Google’s own Nexus phone and that turned out to be only one of several well-designed Android-powered phones that would be arrive in 2010. Of course, the other big news was the spring announcement of Froyo, a much-improved version of Android OS and that’s what this book will get you up to speed on. Continue reading
The Google Way: How One Company is Revolutionizing Management As We Know It
The Google Way explores what makes Google a different kind of company and the challenges it will face in up-coming years. At under 250 pages, the majority of The Google Way explains the factors the author feels contribute most to the success of the company. The book itself is an easy read that could be done in a day; It mixes management theory and Dostoevsky quotes — and not the one every teenage Arnold fan knows — into a very readable book. Continue reading
Developing with Google App Engine
Developing with Google App Engine shows readers how to create a delicious-style bookmarking application with Python while learning about the various services that App Engine makes available. Continue reading
Hello Android
Hello Android is an introduction to writing applications for Google’s Android OS, a Linux-based operating system programmed primarily in Java and designed to run well on SmartPhones and other similar devices. In the book, the reader learns though writing a Sudoku game while being introducing the main features Android offers developers. Continue reading
Google Apps Hacks
One of the new style O’Rielly Hack books, this one looks at how to use Google’s applications through a series of short examples (aka hacks) covering, not just the office applications, but many other applications under the Google banner. For web designers, there’s a lot of material here too on how to integrate Google’s services into your own website. Continue reading
