New in Gmail Labs: Smart Labels
Posted by Stanley Chen, Software Engineer People get a lot of email these days. On top of personal messages, there are group mailing lists,...
Chromium Notes: Ninja, a new build system
When we first started porting Chrome away from just Windows, we intended to use Scons to build Chrome on all our platforms. But early on in development I discovered that Scons, despite its admirable goals of correctness and ease of use, was quite slow — it could take 40 seconds from starting Scons before it decided to…
2011 Rubyist’s guide to a Mac OS X development environment
Update: A better approach is detailed in Laptop Setup for an Awesome...
Google's "Chrome Frame" plugin for IE no longer requires admin rights
We released Google Chrome Frame in September 2009 to expand the reach of modern web technologies and help developers take advantage of HTML...
So you think you own your Twitter name?
Update Tuesday 15th March An interview with @girlgeeks with the full story is available here: How-safe-is-your-Twitter-name/ Update Sun...
Fallen out of love with LinkedIn?
I had fallen out of love with LinkedIn a long time ago, but last week’s sneaky move (read about it here) pushed me over the edge. What a lost opportunity. LinkedIn was built on such a fantast…
Assault by GC
TL;DR; We had performance spikes, which we eased with some insane use of struct s. History For a while now, we had been seeing a probl...
Let us pay for this service so it won't go down
Google, please set a price — any price — that you determine is necessary to keep anyone’s account running smoothly at all times. I’ll gladly pay it. I don’t care if it’s $100 a year or $1,000 a year. It would be worth it.
Want to write some code? Get away from your computer
I’ve recently realised something. The best place to write code isn’t in front of your computer, with your compiler, IDE and tools. The best place to write code is far, far away from any of these tools – somewhere where you can think properly. For a language with which you are fairly familiar, the mechanics of…
Quotes from 1995 Steve Jobs Interview
I had the pleasure of catching the opening night showing of Robert X. Cringely's rediscovered TV interview with Steve Jobs in 1995. In the interview Steve mused...
Questions you have to answer correctly to get funding for your startup
Fundraising questions for startups: 1. Why do you need investment? 2. What does your service do? 3. Is there any competition? 4. Can you...
The Noob Guide to Online Marketing
“Get me to page 1 of Google, while emailing our customers a bi-weekly newsletter, engaging influencers on Twitter, maintaining a captive Facebook audience, capturing new leads, and putting out 3 blog posts a week.” Harsh? Yes. Familiar? Definitely. Everything a Non-Marketer Needs to Take a…