Seo Master present to you: 2013, By: Seo Master

Seo Master present to you: Over the last few months, I've started inviting web gurus I know to give tech talks at Google. It's been great to kick off this speaker series with such luminaries as John Resig, Doug Crockford, and PPK. (I snuck in there, too.) The biggest benefit from these talks is the release of the videos and slides. The videos are popular, with thousands of viewers. The videos make it possible to share these insights with a wider audience who might not be at the next tech conference or workshop.

For various reasons (t-shirts, YouTube playlist), it's beneficial to give this speaker series a name. I've decided to call it Web E^xponents. I use "exponents" in the sense of "a person who actively supports or favors a cause". The cause, in this case, is evangelizing innovation and best practices in web development. And now, thanks to fellow Googler Mark Chow, we have the Web Exponents playlist on YouTube. You can find all the past and future videos there.

Web E^xponents speakers coming up next include Rob Campbell (Firebug) and Nicholas Zakas (Yahoo! JavaScript expert). I'll write a blog post for these and other future talks, and you can subscribe to the playlist to make sure you catch all the videos.

And now for the mandatory cheesy tagline: Web E^xponents - raising web technology to a higher power.

By Steve Souders, Performance Evangelist2013, By: Seo Master

Seo Master present to you: Posted by Michael Kerrisk, Software Engineering Team

One of the attractive things for many engineers at Google is the opportunity to do a 20% project, working (on average) a day a week on some project other than their primary task. While many engineers work on another Google project during their 20% time, or use their 20% time to nurture new ideas that might turn into new Google products, there are also many who use their 20% time to write code for open source projects. The Google 20% culture is even amenable to allowing engineers to do things other than coding: recently my work on the Linux man-pages (for which I became the maintainer in 2004), became a 20% project!

The Linux man-pages project documents the programming interface of Linux, that is, man page sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7. Releases typically come out at intervals that vary from a week to a few months. The most recent release (2.44) contains a large number of updates, including revisions to document changes in the recently released 2.6.20 kernel.

See something broken or missing in man-pages? Submit a suggestion or even a patch! For information about how to contribute to man-pages, download the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages. The HOWTOHELP document in the tarball explains what parts of man-pages need work, and how to submit changes.2013, By: Seo Master