Google I/O

Friday, March 28, 2008 4:00 PM

Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor Team

Almost 9 months ago we released the first version of GME at Google Developer Day. Since then Google Developer Day has morphed into Google I/O, a two day developer gathering on May 28th & 29th in San Francisco. The purpose of the event is to bring developers together to learn about products, tools, and techniques which are moving the web forward as a platform.

There is going to be lots of discussion about client side development and mashups Google I/O. We hope to see you there.

For more information on the event and to register checkout the Google I/O announcement on Google Code.

SurfDocs

Thursday, March 6, 2008 4:01 PM

Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor Team

Check out this nice documentation mashup: http://surf.googlemashups.com

View slideshows and YouTube videos about any subject by searching for it through the interface. Nice work!

If you've built a mashup you'd like us to share add it to our mashup gallery and post about it in our developer forum.

Google Earth Outreach on GME

Friday, February 29, 2008 8:57 AM

Posted by Paul Mcdonald, Google Mashup Editor Team

Google Earth Outreach gives non-profits and public benefit organizations the knowledge and resources needed to reach the hearts and minds of charitable donors. To do this they are using a mashup, form and data feed created in GME to show how these non-profits are using Google mapping technology to improve their organizations.

Check out the Google Earth Outreach home page. The mashup on the bottom left was created with GME. If you are part of a non-profit you can add your organization to the map using the link below the map.

This is great way to showcase the utility of GME with a professional implementation using the same tools as our GME developers.

Do you have great examples of GME in action? Add your mashups to our mashup gallery or post about them in our developer forum.

Using built-in templates

Thursday, February 7, 2008 3:26 PM

Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor Team

Templates are a really powerful piece of the GME framework. They allow you to display data from feeds using Ajax UI controls without having to write feed parsing code and the hundreds of lines of javascript required to create these controls.

We've created a few built in templates to get you started and its extremely simple to create your own templates. Want to turn a simple read/write list into a task list with date pickers, ratings and checkboxes? All you have to do is change the value of the template parameter in your list and republish.

Simple Read/Write:

<gm:list id="simplelist" data="${app}/items" template="simple" pagesize="10">


Task List:

<gm:list id="simplelist" data="${app}/items" template="task" pagesize="10">


You can even use our JavaScript library to change your template on the fly.

If you want to find out about the other built in templates check out the Reading and displaying data section of our documentation. Let us know what types of information you like to see on this blog by going to our developer forum and posting.

New stuff - 1/18

Friday, January 18, 2008 11:53 AM

Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor Team

Today we released a minor update to the Google Mashup Editor.

• More fixes paging so that 250 items can be displayed per page
• Fixes to the compiler so that it no longer optimizes tags. This fixes many bugs that caused problems in the display of compiled mashups.
• More fixes to feed fetching. All Atom and RSS compliant feeds should now work correctly.
• Documentation fixes

As always the full release notes are available in the GME release notes app (http://gmereleases.googlemashups.com/). We'll continue to do minor bug fix releases while we prepare for a major update to the Google Mashup Editor. If you have small features or bug fixes you'd like us to address please let us know by posting in our developer forum.

Nice Work! Some great nature mashups.

Monday, January 14, 2008 11:55 AM

Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor Team

We continue to be impressed by the mashups GME developers are creating. We wanted to take some time to congratulate a few of you for some outstanding ones.

Floridoogle - Jack S.
This mashup combines photos and information about various plant species with Google Product Search to enable users to research and buy trees, flowers, seeds and bulbs from various vendors on the internet. Bonus points for being in Gadget form and enabling users to user the gadget on iGoogle, Google's personalized homepage.


Trails of Florianopolis - Ivan Linhares Martins
We've mentioned this one before but Ivan continues to work on this great looking mashup. His mashup explores the trails and the beautiful Nature of Florianópolis - an Island in the South of Brazil. Tips, trail rating, geographical information and other useful data describe each trail. The mashup combines data from Flickr, Google Base, Google Maps and Blogger.

Great work developers! If you'd like us to share your mashup on our blog please submit it to our mashup gallery and post about it in our developer forum. If you are new to GME check out our screencast gallery for videos on how to create mashups with the Google Mashup Editor.

Recipe of the Moment

Friday, January 4, 2008 3:06 PM

Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor Team

Michael Thompson, one of the top Google Gadget Developers, recently switched out his old Recipe of the Moment Google Gadget with a new one built with the Google Mashup Editor. His new gadget adds search functionality, and tabs so that users can find new recipes and do some easy measurement conversions.



Add this gadget to your personalized homepage and checkout the rest of Michael's Gadgets at his website: http://chronita.com/google_gadgets/

To learn how you can create gadgets using GME check out our latest screencast - Deploying a Mashup Gadget