To celebrate the new Google Docs editors, I've created a drawing that anyone can edit. Add something clever!

Google's working on a lot of cool stuff, and they want to hire a few thousand engineers this year. In Boulder, we have openings for Google Docs (Java, JavaScript), Native Client/Chrome developer tools (C++), SketchUp (C++), and more. Here's the job posting. (Note that it reads as if candidates need to know both C++ and Java; either one is fine ( Read more... )

I just used Google Reader Play and holy atom feed, that's the best user experience for informative time wasting I've seen in a long time. Snippets from Reader users' most-liked items, highlighting images both beautiful and informative. If you already use Google Reader, it'll take your own likes into account. If you've never used Google Reader, ( Read more... )

Google just announced that you can upload any file and store it in Google Docs. For anyone who's asked "What do you do at Google?" this project is the answer.

Among other things, this service will let me

• back up all the papers I wrote and projects I did in school (in case I drop my hard drive again)
• upload a file at home if I need to print it at ( Read more... )

NORAD intelligence reports indicate that Santa does not experience time the way we do. His Christmas Eve trip seems to take 24 hours to us, but to Santa it might last days, weeks or even months. Santa would not want to rush the important job of delivering presents to children and spreading Christmas to everyone, so the only logical conclusion is ( Read more... )

After two weeks of orientation and classes in Mountain View, I've spent a week in the Boulder office, where my desk and team reside. I'd committed code by Friday morning, which seemed like an impressive time scale to several people ( Read more... )

In the Google Handbook, they start with the founders' letter to potential shareholders from the initial IPO as the best introduction to what Google is all about. "Don't be evil" is a good one sentence summary, but reading the whole thing shows how strikingly how different Google's approach is compared to the conventional Wall Street approach. The ( Read more... )

My favorite Google perk so far? There were two baskets of fresh persimmons in the cafeteria for lunch. Not only are you never more than 150 feet away from free food, it's succulent tasty free foodOkay, so fresh persimmons might be more of a California perk than a specifically Google perk. I saw a guy yesterday with two persimmons in a bag, so I' ( Read more... )

At Halloween, Google sponsors a costume contest for engineers who dress up as their favorite line of code ( Read more... )

I've felt down or blue a lot in the past few days. At first, it was probably from eating milk chocolate fun size candy bars, but there was also a fair bit of self--doubt and existential moroseness. Thinking it through, I figured I'd internalized my perceived outside chance at getting hired by Google. Consciously, I knew my good answers were more ( Read more... )