Google I/O Developers’ Conference
27, 28 May 2009 – San Francisco

Pictured here is
1) Former student Solveig Kjartansdottir with Elaine, and
2) Elaine with current student Gisell Youn

This is the third annual conference for web application developers who want to use Google's free software tools that they make available to us. People travel from all over the world to attend and they weren't let down, because Google decided to give every registered attendee a free unlocked Android phone with one month's service from T-Mobile. The mood was one of collaboration and excitement, with approximately 1% of 5000 people attending were women.

Keynotes
http://htmlfive.appspot.com/
New additions to HTML in HTML 5:
-canvas tag
Until now, one could not even draw a diagonal line on the browser window. Apple made something like this for their widgets, and were far ahead of the game in making the browser be the desktop.
-Javascript executes MUCH faster
-Video tag so we can play videos without youtube
-geolocation so we can see where the client is
-ability to work offline
-running scripts in the background, i.e. worker threads

Wave was announced, an online communication and collaboration tool.
Wave is written in GWT, and the performance is extremely impressive!
You can write extensions to it, of course...

NewsBits
Google services 4 billion API calls per day
Google Web Elements allows you to copy and paste Google gadgets into your web page: http://www.google.com/webelements/
Webkit is an open source application framework upon which you can build a browser.
Make your web apps faster by concatenating and compressing your JS and CSS files.
If you can reduce latency by even 1 second, you will increase your adoption significantly.
Future: Browser access to client info will make browsers get security right.
google.loader.ClientLocation is a class that will tell the browser where it is located. I think it works today.

To watch:
• “Myth of the Genius Programmer” was filled so I couldn’t see it, but I must look for the video!
• thesocialweb.tv

Sabbatical Ideas
Attend Google campfire talks.
Attend Google Technology Users Group meeting.
Become a Google Qualified Developer: http://code.google.com/qualify
Learn OpenSocial, OpenID, OpenAuth.
Write new Foothill COIN classes that include all these technologies and more.