Google Updater, aka “Omaha”, has gone Open Source! This is the auto-update system that’s key to keeping Chrome secure by always ensuring that the version you’re running is the freshest it can be. It’s huge for the Omaha team to be out in the open, particularly given how many inaccurate articles have been penned about [...]
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What’s All This Then?
I'm Alex Russell, a web developer working on Chrome, Chrome for Android, Chrome Frame, and the broader web platform at Google London. I'm guilty of many JavaScript transgressions. Through the Chrome team I serve in various standards-facing capacities, most-directly as a Google representative to ECMA TC39 (the standards body for JavaScript).
My goal is to make the web suck less and to the extent that I can keep politics and economics from creeping in, that's what this blog is about.
Other facets available upon HTTP request: twitter, facebook, flickr, and quora. Expect much less self-restraint there.
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