LOUIS GRAY: Welcome to "Google Developers Weekly" for
September 30, 2013.
I'm Louis Gray, and this is our highlight reel of what's
happening in the world of Google Developers
on the set and off.
This week, we welcome back the "Root Access" team, led by Don
Dodge, for a pair of shows highlighting issues faced by
most every startup as they grow.
The first show included guest Izabel Idris, who talked about
how to capture a product's persona and deliver a great
user interface.
Your product not only has to be smart
but be smartly designed.
Our second "Root Access" show is all about ideas.
When you're coming up with your startup ideas, you might
worry that someone would steal your idea outright and build
their own competing company.
Don Dodge takes the time to answer viewer questions and
tell you the inside scoop on his experience at Napster, the
music-sharing pioneer.
By popular demand, Nasir Khan returned to our studio to
debut the much-awaited documentation for the new
Wallet Instant Buy API, helping you accept payments
for goods and services in your application.
And if you're among the many looking to get started with a
cloud platform, this was your lucky week.
Martin Omander and Alex Maier connected with Mandy Waite
from London and taught you the process of how to start over
at zero and end up with Hello World.
Sticking with the cloud, as we often do, Nick Bortolotti
delivered the latest from Latam with a piece focused on
non-rational cloud data storage.
It is by far the best rundown of BigQuery and Google Compute
Engine I've ever heard, in Spanish.
And this week, Jeff Posnick phoned in from New York City
to demonstrate how you can discover great videos and
channels using the YouTube Data API Version 3.
The event was a companion piece to an introductory blog
post that debuted earlier this month.
And meanwhile, the Wallet Developers duo of Mihai
Ionescu and Peng Ying introduced us to the newly
released Wallet Objects Platform with special guest
Tania Depasquale, which helps merchants acquire and engage
loyal customers.
Making the web universally accessible is a big part of
Google's mission.
David Tseng and Volker Sorge joined us to once again talk
about ChromeVox, a screen reader for Chrome.
ChromeVox can now read all kinds of
mathematics on the web.
As a developer, you will be able to customize reading of
your own math content and make your content work for
low-vision users.
Also, recently on GDL, Felipe Hoffa and Michael Manoochehri
talked to you about the great new
correlation features in BigQuery.
This talk inspired Googler Josh Livni from the Maps team
to mash up Maps and BigQuery data to show airport delays.
Josh generated the data with Felipe and Michael's code,
then wrote some JavaScript to build the map.
This powerful correlation can be used to predict the
likelihood of future delays, so you know just how close you
can cut it when leaving for the airport.
Also last week, the Android Studio team
released version 0.2.10.
Of course, it has some bug fixes and probably some new
bugs, but you'll also find improved quick documentation,
integrated traceview, better layout
rendering, and other goodies.
Be sure to upgrade if you haven't already.
Security is easy.
You just have to be perfect every single time.
Those are the words of Mike West, who gets our attention
with the scary advice in his talk about how to prevent
cross-site scripting attacks.
Check out Mike's talk and his slides.
It's a great investment in making your site safer from
bad things.
In the world of politics, last week saw the
German federal elections.
And Google developers were there with an election results
map built in Dart.
Google's Jason Brooks built the app, noting that Dart
provided great power and flexibility.
The map displayed results by district as
well as national totals.
And finally, Andres Leonardo Martinez Ortiz continues his
series of posts about
entrepreneurship in sunny Spain.
This time, he focuses on Valencia.
If you're looking for some new places to explore, check out
all of his posts.
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I'm Louis Gray, and I'll see you in the studio.