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Google open-source projects that you probably don't know

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We used to use google perftools at work - for hooking malloc, etc, and other things (general memory manager replacement). It used to work fine, until it start breaking on some Win Server machine (one of 100+ machines). We did not have time to find whether there is fix for it.

Also we had an idea of replacing perl that was embedded in one of our tools with JavaScript (V8) but the programmer that did that left just after finishing it, and without support we decided to stay with Perl.

http://code.google.com/p/skia/

and the activex technology used in Chrome, forgot what's it called.

Are you thinking of Native Client?

Not NaCl. After some search it turned out to be ActiveX shim.

"On Google Code" != "Google open-source project"

While that's certainly true, is there an item in he linked that serves as an example of such a non-google project?

I thought it was odd that they would omit Guice, Gin, and GWT from a list that includes Android and Chromium.

SpriteMe?

"Q: Who created SpriteMe? A: SpriteMe was created by Steve Souders" - http://spriteme.org/faq.php

Passes the @google.com test, though as with other projects, not clear the level of Google affiliation.

http://stevesouders.com/bio.php

The project has the 'google' label, so it's at least an official %20 project.

I looked at about 10 of these that I hadn't seen before, and they're all either google-foo projects or their developers have @google.com email addresses.

The 'google' tag for projects on Google Code is privileged, and all officially sponsored ones use it: http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Google

There is a higher level for official Products and hosted APIs where there is a full-fledged team behind it and a much higher level of support. Instead of being labeled projects, they have top level sites:

  http://code.google.com/appengine/
  http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
  http://code.google.com/projecthosting/
  http://code.google.com/apis/wave
  http://code.google.com/apis/gears/
  http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/

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