links for 2011-05-10

With App Engine, you can build web applications using the Go Programming Language. Your Go application runs on Google's scalable infrastructure and uses large-scale persistent storage and services.

The key thing to remember, always, is what the federal government does: it is basically an insurance company for old people that also has an army. 

Here is a list of courses and innovative resources to help CS students, faculty, and instructors. These are examples of the training Google engineers use to learn new skills.