Talk In Code

Google Code has turned the grand old age of 5 today, having been launched on the 17th March 2005. I’d like to say well done!

While some people may think Google Code is yet another SourceForge clone, they’re only half right. What Google Code brought to the table was more than just project hosting, it was a whole ethos of development which is now sweeping the world as if it were a brand new concept: open source.

With the Summer of Code schemes run by Google to promote open source development in universities, hosting of all of their own APIs on the service (going from a handful to a few dozen by now), along with the code for all their open source projects (now numbering in the hundreds), Google Code has shown off the more ethical side of the advertising giant.

So happy birthday Google Code, long may you prosper and others follow in your path!