Google Plus Hangout API

Real-time applications are more engaging, fun, and interactive, but are hard for developers to deliver. Until now. We'll teach you how to add your own experiences to Hangouts and instantly build real-time applications.

 

Go Version 1.0

Go has released the first version that is guaranteed to be backwards compatible.  Learn what this will mean for the future of server side software.

 

 

A lot of our presentations are just that--presentations.  This month we will focus on how to solve specific problems with Google technologies and the languages used at Google (i.e, C++, Java, Python, Go, and Javascript) and not just present the end result.

We are going to use the same format that we used at the December meeting.  We will break into 3-5 groups, each with a leader who will guide the group on a specific topic.  We will limit the time in each group so that you will be able to participate in two groups.Our initial thoughts for the groups are:Problem Solving and Algorithms - Bob Hancock

Android - Dario Laverde,  Ralph Yozzo, Kevin Galligan

Optimizing Web Performance -Serguey Chernyshev/Kai Mallea

App Script - Jan Kleinert

 

Near Field Communication on Android - Ralph YozzoRead NFC chips with your Android phone.  Plus, how to secure your chips and transmission. 

Building Android 4.0 (ICS) with AOSP - Dario LaverdeQuick primer on building the latest code drop for ICS for targeting the emulator and devices and why you would want to.

Threading versus Goroutines - Bob Hancock A thread is the smallest unit the OS can schedule and it requires a context switch and is an expensive operation.  Learn how Go gets around this limitation and uses only 4k of memory and one command.  If there is interest, we can discuss how it differs from node.js.

Android Security - David WoodYou think you are safe?  Do you just click yes on each application update and allow it to read your phone call records and location?  Find out what your liabilities are and what Android is doing about them. 

Google Plus - Jay ZalowitzYou know the user interface, but what can you do programatically?  Jay has tapped into the Plus-sphere. 

Regular Expressions Can Be Simple and Fast  - Anthony FogliaRegular expression are used extensively throughout Google, but not in the same version that you use in grep.  Russ Cox, one of the principle engineers on the Go team, broke them down to demonstrate how to achieve maximum performance. http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

 

An Apps Script Hackathon presented by the GTUG and Google Dev Rel.

Bob Hancock - A three hour tutorial on the Go programming language for Startup Weekend participants.

 

OAuth2 for Google Apps - Jeff Posnick, Google

OAuth2 is quickly becoming the new Web standard for authentication.  Learn how Google is using it to allow you to access their applications and protect your own Google based apps..

 

Web Security 101: Phil An, Google

Web applications today represent one of the largest attack surfaces and custom code bases for many enterprises.  Learn about common web vulnerabilities, defenses against them, and how to test your own applications.

 

Go Techiniques - Bob Hancock

1) Ever used an anonymous deferred function?  It sounds complicated, but in Go it is simple and the language takes care of all the hard bits.  2) Using function literals as arguments to functions - when you need a small one time function.

 

 

SVGo, the Go library for SVG - Anthony Starks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajstarks/sets/72157623441699483/

The talk will cover design, and usage as an interactive "sketching" tool, and asthe engine for several infographics and IT architecturediagramming tools.

 

Android Security - David Wood

A discussion of security models leading up to Android, the serious human factors issues around Android's permissions model, and possible enhancements that could help Android avoid the dramatic failures of previous open platforms.

 

Automating Lists with the Meetup and Google Doc List APIs - Bob Hancock

 

 

Chrome -  Arne Roomann-Kurrik, Developer Advocate, Chrome Developer Programs Engineer, Google 

Get a handle on the newest browser features you'll be using in the coming year.  Through a series of demos featuring file access, graphics, sound, and system integration, you'll learn how to integrate these APIs into projects that give desktop apps a run for their money. HTML5 Showcase for Web Developers: The Wow and the How

 

Best Practices for Accessing Google APIs on Android - Yaniv Inbar, Technical Lead for the Google API Client Library Team, Google

Integration with Google APIs (such as Buzz, Latitude and Translate) can enrich many Android applications. In this session, we will demonstrate how to do so easily, efficiently and securely using the Google API Client for Java. Best Practices for Accessing Google APIs on Android

 

Quick demos on Google's recent launches for Geo and Commerce - Ossama Alami, Manager, Geo Developer Relations, Google

Some new, some hidden, and some surprising features of the Maps API, Earth API, Fusion Tables and other APIs you may not even realise exist. Secrets and surprises of the Google Geo APIs

 

Lightning Talksopen to anyone at the meeting to give a brief recap on a session or topic - time permitting!

 

Go and App Engine - Bob Hancock

The experimental SDK for Go.  How Office Hours helped me reduce my application run time from 58 seconds to 8 seconds.

 

Android and App Engine - Dario Laverde

A brief recap of the "Android + App Engine: A Developer's Dream Combination" session which introduced App Engine Tooling for Android with a demo that also features some of the new Android layout editor features from the "Android Development Tools" session.

 

How I Went to Google IO by Writing Cool Code - Lance Nanek

3 open source entries for the Last Call for Google IO contest. Two of the entries passed their respective Round 2 competitions to qualify for tickets to the Google IO conference. Google technologies employed were GWT, AppEngine, HTML5, YouTube APIs, and Android.

 

Mobile Security - David Wood

 

 

Google Docs Apps Script - Saurabh Gupta 

The New YouTube HTML5 Player - Jeff Posnick

Go Interfaces - Bob Hancock

Lightning Talk by Ralph Yozzo on his latest Android App

Goroutines and Channels - Bob Hancock

----------------------------------------------------------------------This is part of the ongoing series on the Go language.  In this session we will write a small web crawler that uses goroutines for parallel execution and communicates via channels.  We are going to limit this month to goroutines and channels, and talk interfaces next month.A Ralph Yozzo Project

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pubsuhub with Android so you can avoid those alternate side parking tickets.  Check your phone and know where to park your car.

 

 

Featured speaker: Andrew Gerrand on the Go language.

Andrew Gerrand will also give a full day course on Go on February 16, 2011.  See http://nyc-gtugs.org for details and registration.      

Additional lightning talks include Dario Laverde on Securing your Android Application.

 

Introduction to the Go language - Bob Hancock 

Bring you laptops so you can follow a along and try an example program. If you don't know what Go is, see golang.org. If you have programmed in C, C++, Java, Python, or Javascript you already have a good foundation for learning Go.

The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive. Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

You won't want to miss this, because we are working on having Andrew Gerrand, the Google Developer Advocate for Go, at a meeting in February for an in depth presentation.

Google App Engine: A Practical Application - Ralph Yozzo

 

Dissecting HTML5 in an interactive tutorial ----------------------------------------------------------- Vini Dy, Director of Technology at The Wonderfactory, will present on ""

New, powerful browser capabilities allow us to develop experiences like never before. In this presentation, you'll learn how The Wonderfactory used HTML5, CSS3, and JS to create a completely animated, interactive tutorial. This will be an in depth look at a JS framework that supports the entire application, efficient CSS practice, and use of new HTML5-specific tags.

Python Client for the Google Prediction API -- http://goo.gl/ErVIb... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Hancock on the Python client that you can use to integrate the Google Prediction API into your apps.

Michael Bolin, the author of Closure: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly) will present on: "Introduction to Closure Tools and plovr"

and Jeffrey Posnick on: "Working around various App Engine limitations and restrictions"

Additional slots still open for this meeting - contact organizers if interested.

And we're always open to lighting talks from our members, feel free to show up and give a short on any Google Technology related topic (no slides required but feel free to bring some)

Google Prediction API ------------------------------- The guys that wrote it will show you how you can use it and incorporate it into your programs.

Go, Buzz, Prediction ----------------------------- An application that uses all three - Bob Hancock Which has turned into how to deal with Open Source when you encounter one bug after another.

Lightning Talks --------------------- Kai Mallea - App Engine stats. Jan Kleinert - Chrome Web Store

Speaker: Timothy Jordan Timothy is a Developer Advocate at Google working on the social web. He has a B.S. in Computer Engineering, a Theater Arts graduate degree, and an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media from UC Santa Cruz. In his spare time he runs half marathons and announces for the Santa Cruz Derby Girls, the Silicon Valley Roller Girls, and any other Roller Derby team that asks. As an engineer he enjoys solving problems for the benefit of fellow humans. As an artist he enjoys the search for truth and beauty. Contact: timothyjordan.com

Come join us as we talk about how you can build on Google Buzz. We'll quickly cover several open standards (including Activity Streams, OAuth, PubSubHubbub, and Salmon) and go in depth with the Google Buzz API and libraries. After a short break we'll have an extended hacking session and be on hand to answer all your questions. At the end of the evening we'll have some special prizes for the coolest applications developed that night.

The Android NDK and Froyo Daniel Galpin, Developer Advocate for Android

Google Buzz API What is Buzz and how it fits into the Social Graph. How to access Buzz with the new Python API. Plus, OAuth and how it works. Bob Hancock

Open to lightning talks from members! Talk for five minutes about your experience with a Google technology.

Google Apps Script application in progress - Lightning Talk.

The highlights of IO 2010:

Bob Hancock

• Google APIs
• pubsubhubbub, 
• AJAX Push Down API
• Checkout element
• other new Web Elements
• AdSense for AJAXB
• Localized site search
• Font API
• Buzz API
• Sidewik
• Embed the Wave in your site
• How write a Wave robot with a demonstration of Crunchy and a code reveiw
• Go programming languages and the changes since the November presentation
• App Engine - Next gen queries, optimizing piplines with zigzag, mapper api
• Prediction APIs

Dario Laverde

• What is new in the Android SDK
• Announcements from the keynotes
• Google TV
• Froyo  

A teleconference with 2 Google Android testing engineers. Stephen Ng and Noel Yap, on how to structure testing for your Android project.  Included were bets practices, quirks in the test architecture, and pitfalls to avoid.

The Social Web - Timothy Jordan, Google Developer Advocate

The conversational web and Buzz. We'll look at the evolution of the conversational web with particular attention paid to Google Buzz. Also to be highlighted, the recently released Post To Google Buzz widget as well as the technology and standards that the forthcoming Buzz API will be built upon (including ActivityStreams, OAuth, PubSubHubbub, Salmon, and Webfinger).

Timothy is a Developer Advocate at Google working on the social web. He also teaches New Media at the Academy of Art University and announces Roller Derby. As an engineer he enjoys solving problems for the benefit of fellow humans. As an artist he enjoys the search for truth and beauty

Building Wave Robots in Python - Bob Hancock What a Wave robot is, what it can do, and how you can build one in Python.

Open to lightning talks from members!

2/22/2010

 

  February 22, 2010 Our monthly meeting continues - speakers to be announced, in addition to your hosts we encourage any member to speak on the Google Technology of their choosing.   Google App Engine internals

Bob Hancock - Co-manager Google App Engine internals including the life of an request, transaction isolation, and how indices and entities are built and stored. Familiarity with BigTable concepts discussed at the January meeting will be helpful: http://docs.google.co.... N.B. This is different from the topic originally posted and is a continuation of the series dealing with what I'll call "Under The Hood."    Android NDK (Native Development Kit) i.e. using Java JNI to access C/C++ native code.

 Dario Laverde - Co-managerAn intro on Android NDK (Native Development Kit) i.e. using Java JNI to access C/C++ native code.  JSON-CJeff Posnick - GoogleAa lightning talk on JSON-C. http://code.google.co...We will raffle off two copies of "Programming Google App Engine: Build and Run Scalable Web Apps on Google's Infrastructure" by Dan Sanderson courtesy of O'Reilly Publishing. 

 

 

 

 

We're back, 2010 is looking like a another good year for Google Technologies..Next Meeting: January 20, 2010This is a joint meeting with the New York Web Performance Group.Sergey Chernyshev - Web Performance and Google Page Speed.  Want to improve the performance of your website?  This talk will show you how to profile the performance of your site and implement best practices to increase speed and efficiency.

Bob Hancock - Bigtable Internals and The Google App Engine.  Once you know how the data is structured in  BigTable and how the App Engine uses this you will be able to effectively structure your data.  Find out how App Engine/Big Table optimizes for reads and why RDMS normalization does not apply.

Dario Laverde - Google's Protocol Buffers, an intro in C and Java (and more time permitting)

Lightning talks - come up and talk for 5 minutes about a Google technology that you have used.Thanks to Sun Microsystems for hosting the location and Google for door prizes

YouTube Direct

Jeffrey Posnick - Google

Data Liberation and the Google Data APIs

Robert Hancock - Co-manager

You'll see an application that downloads a large base of Tweets, applies a naive Bayesian classification, queries Google Books, and then writes the results to Google Docs.  Follow at: http://bit.ly/8WuZWm

 Latest Developments in Android

Dario Laverde - Co-manager

The latest developments in Android including how to build from source the AOSP (Android Open Source Project).

The Google Web ToolkitSumit Chandel - GoogleGWT is a platform for developing ambitious Ajax applications, and has seen a surge of adoption both within and outside of Google since it's open source debut back in May 2006. GWT was used to create applications like Google Wave and the new Google AdWords 3.0 interface, as well as a number of high performance, full-featured web applications now deployed to the world wide web. This talk will focus on some of the technical advantages that make such applications possible, as well as some of the latest advantages to look forward to in GWT 2.0.

Sumit Chandel, a Developer Programs Engineer at Google, recently relocated here from San Francisco. He spent the first couple of years in his career focusing on the Google Web Toolkit - supporting developers, presenting talks, writing technical articles and creating reference sample code. He is now focusing on the AdWords API product, working with reseller partners and developing an online AdWords account management tool for partners and agencies

 

Go: A New Language Robert Hancock - Co-manager

An overview of the newly released language from Google and how it could affect your future.  Included are arrays, slice, the new testing paradigm, how structs are different from C, maps, interface, goroutines (concurrency without the headaches), and channels.

 

AppEngine with a use case using Android.

Dario Laverde - Co-manager

 An intro to AppEngine with a use case using Android.

Building a Web Application with the Google App Engine Robert Hancock - Co-managerI'll build a an application to collect comments about our first meeting using the Web App framework.  I'll build it step by step and then deploy it and ask members to submit comments. Intro to Android Dario Laverde - Co-manager

 

Combining Android, Near Field Communication, and App Engine - Ralph Yozzo

Near Field Communication? What is it and how can you use it?  We will show examples of practical (and not so practical) uses of the NFC reader/writer that is built into the Nexus S phone and soon many other phones.  NFC can be used in applications use as credit card payments.  We will also show examples of using the Android In-App Billing support.  And a preview of usage of data encryption to make sure your NFC tags are really yours.

 

Leveraging Go's Concurrency from Other Languages with JSON-RPC - Bob Hancock

Working in another language like Python, Java, Ruby, C++ that does not support native coroutines?  Off load your your parallel and concurrent tasks to Go via JSON-RPC.

We will also cover how to build the Go gcc compiler.

 

Kizuna Cranes - Luba Libarikian Conceived as a fundraising initiative for the victims of the earthquake and Tsunami in Japan this year. Rather than simply asking for donations, the mcgarrybowen LABS team created a social experiment using the power of social networks to raise awareness for Japan through physical objects, origami cranes, offline to symbolize the message of hope. The Japanese regard the crane as a symbol of good fortune, and it is customary to fold one thousand paper cranes when making a special wish. On KizunaCranes.com, users donate cranes to the cause and watch their cranes fly all over the globe, spreading messages of hope.  In this session we will demonstrate how we used Google Maps API to tie in with user donations to map out each crane's journey. Additionally, we will explain our open source, scalable backend stack which includes Tornado, a non-blocking web server and our NOSQL document storage implemented with MongoDB

 

Lightning Talk

An Unofficial Google Plus API - Jay Zalowitz

Over the past few months you may have seen many applications developedoff of what would seem to be scraped content, most people are actuallyusing api's that are discoverable. This will be a quick guide to someof these api's and what they contain, as well as some cool things youcan do with them

 

 

App Engine and Go

 

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Ikai Lan from the San Francisco Google office will be in town to speak about App Engine and Go. In the last few months, App Engine has launched several important features such as backends ad high replication. He will give a quick program update, a quick roadmap update, then discuss why he's optimistic about the Go programming language on App Engine and Go in general.