Learning Computer Science The Google Way: Google Code University
Do you know that you can now learn the fundamentals of computer science from Google? Google Code University now offers such opportunities for those newbies wanting to pick up computer science as their future careers. Currently, there are four courses available:
- AJAX Programming
- Distributed Systems
- Web Security
- Languages (C++, Java and Python concepts are being covered)
Also included is the introduction to databases and MySQL. Embedded videos found on the site also makes learning and understanding a lot easier.
Below is one of the videos found on How to Break Web Software
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Rare Meteorite Crater Discovered On Google Maps
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Another day, another new discovery found in Google Maps. This time a rare meteorite crater was discovered by Dr Arthur Hickman. A crater credited to his name.
Measuring 260 metres wide and up to 30 metres deep, the divot is thought to be between 10,000 and 100,000 years old and was stumbled upon in the rich, rust coloured landscape of the Hamersley Ranges in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
If confirmed, the Hickman Crater will become just the 30th officially-verified meteorite impact crater in Australia and the first such discovery since 2005.
Sudden impact: Google unearths rare meteorite crater
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Google’s Early Success: Free And Delicious Food
You see most food lovers who often watched those cooking / food show, knows Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Anthony Bourdain, and blah blah, but have you heard of Charlie Ayers? Charlie who? He was an important person who played an important role during Google’s early infant startup days. As the first Google chef hired, his job is to cook and provide healthy and yummy delicious food for free for all Google’s employees.
It began in 1998, when Page and Brin started Google in a friend’s garage near Stanford University in California. A few months later, they recruited Ayers. “They said: ‘We are not going to charge for food here, ever.’
“I said: ‘That’s crazy.’ They explained my job was to create this ambience, to build this captivated audience where people wanted to come in super-early and stay super-late.
“They interviewed me above a bicycle shop. They thought they were going to go global. I thought ‘Good luck.’ The way they were playing with children’s toys, riding around on scooters, I had no idea they were doing any work.”
Fish fats does help engineers work more efficiently and smarter.
“The fat found in fish helps make the cell membranes round the brain more elastic and more able to absorb nutrients easily.”
I bet at that moment when he signed up, he could be thinking that this crazy startup wouldn’t last long with all these free food and the fun that the engineers had. Anyway here’s the full story on it, Google’s free beer and ‘big-ass’ barbies
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Mozilla’s 500 Horsepower
Feel the power!
Source: Who says there’s no money via Valleywag.
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New YouTube Homepage Leaked
Frequent YouTubers might or might not realized this, but YouTube is testing out a new homepage and also a smarter recommendation engine (taking a cue from their parent Google).
Make sure you are already logged in to your YouTube account before, accessing this new beta UI here, otherwise you will be redirected to the usual YouTube homepage.
Via Pop17.
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A Checklist To Improve Your Blog Or Website
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In an effort to regain my interest to get back to blogging 101 basics, I’ve tried to search for more information on actually improving and getting a few contents posted and so on… Here is an interesting post about how you can improve your blog in 5 minutes or so. For me, some of the tips took longer than expected. As you can see, this site is still a way on progress in terms of getting on the basics up such as contact form, sitemaps, and so on…
SEO
1. Add title attributes: Add relevant title attributes to your main navigation. It will strengthen on-page SEO with very little effort.
2. Create a Google site map: There are many generators and it only takes minutes. You can increase your website’s saturation almost instantly.
3. Optimise title tags: Check title tags are relevant on your key pages and improve them where necessary.
4. Check headers: Check that pages make use of H1, H2 and H3 tags. Check that these contain your main keywords (and still make perfect sense to the reader. No spammy tactics, else a kitten will tread on broken glass remember.)
5. Link from your copy: Often forgotten about, why not interlink from key pages deeper into the site?
Almost a month’s old stumbled upon post, but a useful and handy to get your blog more traffic: 25 Ways To Improve Your Site In 5 Minutes
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Vote For Your Favorite Malaysian Dreamgirl Online!
Ok… This poll is just for fun. The results does not resemble the actual contest that is currently running at Malaysian Dreamgirl. For those of you who do not want to spend your money on premium SMS and not interested in winning the RM 10,000, you can just vote here. You can only cast 1 vote every 24 hours. Or if you want to keep voting, just disconnect and reconnect your Internet connection (so you a get fresh unique IP address).
Check out the Malaysian Dreamgirl Top 12 before you vote!
Hmm… Also, we are considering if we should add those girls who do not make the cut into the top 12, based on the girls that’s being blogged over at Cheeserland. It would be more fun to add a few contestants just to see how it goes… Leave your suggestions below.
Cheers!
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How Bebo Got Its Start?
For those who are in touch with the latest happenings around the tech world, Bebo was recently being purchased by AOL at $850 million. Here is a brief profile written by Times Online.
With 40m users worldwide, the Bebo social networking site created by the 37-year-old Brit and his 36-year-old Californian wife in 2005 is ranked as the second most popular in the UK and the third globally, after MySpace and Facebook. Its sale last week for £417m to the AOL multi-media company will net the Birches some £295m for their 70% stake.
Check out: Making a mint as the laidback king and queen of gossip central
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