Finally Google Opened the Protocol Buffer's source

openpractice.blogspot.com — Good news for XML developers; Protocol Buffer is a data format has been in development at Google since 2001. Well Google said it has many advantages over XML.It could be 3 to 10 times smaller and 20 to 100 times faster than XML for serializing structured data. read more...

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Turn Google App Engine into your own Personal Content Delivery Network

published 1 month, 8 days ago, submitted by zigamorph 1 month, 8 days ago

coderjournal.com — As anybody who has run a growing website or blog knows, response time is going to get worse with the more users you have visiting your site. The users come from all angles, RSS feeds, homepage visits, search engine visits, people sealing your static files that you host, and pretty much anything else that can be served over HTTP. The solution to this problem is to off load your static content on to a Content Delivery Network or CDN. CDN providers cost a lot of money though, so it is nothing for us mere mortals with one server can afford. But thanks to Google anyone can now run their own CDN for free on Googles servers. Lucky for you and me Google has made the process really painless and you can even have the CDN under you own domain name. In my case static.coderjournal.com. read more...

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Quick and dirty reporting with the Google Chart API

published 2 months, 11 days ago, submitted by SuperJason 2 months, 15 days ago

ytechie.com — A quick example of how to quickly create a graphical report using the Google chart API, and driven off of your database. read more...

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How to send HTML Email from ASP.NET using your Gmail account?

submitted by spavkov 3 months, 20 days ago

aspdotnetfaq.com — Yes it's possible so why not use it? This little tutorial shows you how to set up your web application to send emails using your Gmail account. Just don't abuse it, ok? :) read more...

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Google Lets You “Chatback” With Your Visitors

published 4 months, 22 days ago, submitted by zigamorph 4 months, 24 days ago

coderjournal.com — I love Google Talk. I love it because of its light foot print both on my hard drive and when running in memory. I love the integration with all my Google services. And I love the flexibility that it provides. However the Google Talk team just gave me another reason to love Google Talk. It now allows me to have direct conversations with my visitors with a simple click of the mouse on the chat bubble you see to your left. read more...

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Google Charts in .Net

codeproject.com — Google Provided an open API for generating the charts which can be used in our commercial web applications. We can generate various graphs using the google chart api. The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. To see the Chart API in action, open up a browser window and copy the following URL into it: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=s:hW&chs=250x100&chl=Hello|World The following types of charts are available: read more...

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Another Asp.Net Control for Google Charts

submitted by HoolieMan 7 months, 11 days ago

blog.spontaneouspublicity.com — I realize that I am not the first or only one to get the idea to create a Google chart Asp.Net control, but since my approach is so different, I figured I would go ahead and submit my own. Plus, this has many more features. read more...

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Free Google Charts API Released

published 7 months, 13 days ago, submitted by gt1329a 7 months, 14 days ago

code.google.com — I'm not sure if this is .NET related enough, but it's got the potential to be very useful for any web development. You just pass the data and chart parameters on the QueryString and it returns a PNG with your chart. Pretty nifty. read more...

3 comments | category: Web Services | Views: 5