Google openning a second research center in Israel

According to this, Google is opening an R&D center in Israel in the Tel Aviv area.
This is the second center, the first one opened in Haifa.
Microsoft has a research center in Haifa from 1991 and it was published in the Israeli press (sorry, I couldn’t find an English reference for this) that they are planning [...]

posted in Google by Eran Sandler

Google Ctemplate

I just saw that Google released the Google Ctemplate library.
While they do need to get some kudos for their efforts of releasing various code bits out as open source, I do have a problem with the Ctemplate library itself.
I don’t know when they wrote this library, but what I do know is that its yet [...]

posted in Code, Google, Rant by Eran Sandler

Zoundry Blog Writer – a new version

Zoundry released a new version of their Blog Writer product. Some of the more prominent features added (which a lot of users including me asked for) are:

XHTML Editor – You can now see and edit the generated XHTML
Spell Checker – No more copying and pasting stuff to another spell checker

Check out the full [...]

posted in Blogging, Tips n' Tricks by Eran Sandler

The feed reader of my dreams

I’m what you may call a medium to heavy feed junkie. I read most of the information today using my favorite feed reader RSS Bandit.
While RSS Bandit is a great feed reader it does have its limitations. The biggest one being that its a client side application and it doesn’t sync to one of the [...]

posted in Blogging, Opinion by Eran Sandler