Riccardo "Battlehorse" Govoni
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24-May: OpenSocial article on DevX.com
DevX.com has published my latest article, an introduction to OpenSocial and how to write OpenSocial aware gadgets and applications. Read the full artile OpenSocial: the power of social networks in your applications , or see my full list of articles for other topics.
13-May: Train Power!
Today I was at the Google office in Amsterdam, to shadow a training session directed to some of my users (aka, the users of the project I work on). Even though the training wasn’t directed at me, I learned an important lesson. Use the trains!
16-Apr: Borg now supports Google Talk chatback
A new feature is now available on Borg is available! Borg is the software which is responsible for this whole site and it’s based on Ruby On Rails. Check this link for further info. You can now integrate a live chat on your pages using the Google Talk Chatback feature.
09-Jan: Looking for mail?
Have you ever tried looking for a very popular term on different search engines? You can learn very interesting things. In addition, if you try searching for a popular service which every search engine owner also offers, your results will probably be even more fun. For example … mail . Both Google, Yahoo and Microsoft ( and many others ) offer both the search engine and a free mail account. Let’s see what their search engine answers when you search just mail ...
07-Jan: Mountain View, day one
Hi, fellow readers! January is going to be a month full of events. I’ve just arrived in Mountain View, California, where I’ll spend the full month with my Google colleagues to do some training and get in touch with the rest of the team ( my team is partially located in Dublin, where I work, and partially, mostly actually, in Mountain View ).
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04-Dec : The foosball philosophy
As a Google engineer, I could tell you any sort of things about the challenges we’re facing and what people, team members and management expect from us (even if, after having been here for three weeks, my productivity isn’t yet exceptional , so the previous statement is nonsense in relation to my current situation :-) ). But, to be honest, there’s only one thing that really matters once you work for Google: be an excellent foosball ( aka Table Football ) player.
22-Nov: Offsite!
As I told you some posts ago, today we were at the Avon Ri Resort , located near here for the team offsite! We spent the day in various activities from shooting to archery … fortunately it didn’t rain, but it was damn cold! Some photos here, many other at Bartek Picasa webalbum.
21-Nov: I’ve found an house!
This afternoon I was out of the office to do a bit of homesearch for an apartment ( the one I’m right now is a temporary one ), and I have finally found the right one! It is located exactly 96 meters away from my desk :D , in an apartment block which is right behind the Google building. Ahh, the nice feeling of waking up at 08:50 AM to arrive in the office by 09:00 AM :-) . This picture is a blurry photo of the inner gardens of the apartment block (as soon as I move in, I’ll post some photos of the apartment itself)
11-Nov: Starting at Google in Dublin
So, for the few ones which still don’t know, I am here in Dublin and tomorrow I’ll start my job as Google Software Engineer :-) ... It seems a reasonable thing to upload some photos ( sorry for the scarce quality of the night shots).