The Developer Show — TL;DR 036
Highlights: Chrome 53 Beta, Payment Request API, Parsey McParseface, Association for Computational Linguistics, AdWords, Google Cloud Platform, and App Engine.
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Chrome 53 Beta: Shadow DOM, PaymentRequest, and Android autoplay
It’s that time again: more Chrome! Head on over to the post to read about some of the great updates in Chrome 53 Beta including Shadow DOM V1, the PaymentRequest API, Android autoplay, and more.
Bringing easy and fast checkout with Payment Request API
Speaking of the Payment Request API — it makes checkout flows easier, faster, and consistent on shopping sites. And we have a great post for you with a video, overview, and code to get you started.
Meet Parsey’s Cousins: Syntax for 40 languages
Parsey McParseface is the the world’s most accurate English parser and it now has 40 cousins. “Parsey’s Cousins” is a collection of pre-trained syntactic models for 40 languages. Take a look at the post for the really cool way we built these models. Also, the GitHub link is there too.
ACL 2016 & Research at Google
We’ll be at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. If you can’t make it to Berlin for the conference, instead check out our post with links to all the Google research being presented.
Learn from Experts in the AdWords Community
Over the last six months we’ve made a number of improvements to the AdWords community, which is a great place to help you improve performance, share best practices, and ask an expert your questions. Take a look!
Building immutable entities into Google Cloud Datastore
Streak is a full blown CRM built directly into Gmail and *built on* the Google Cloud Platform. Read the post to learn how they added advanced functionality into the Cloud Datastore object storage system. It’s a cool post with a lot of detail and code.
App Engine Admin API
The App Engine Admin API lets you manage your application programmatically. With it, you can deploy to App Engine from your own custom tool chain, write your own A/B testing Framework, and more. Oh, and it’s now generally available. Check out the post for an example with code.
