Google Charts makes it easy to show data visually and beautifully. You can show historical trends or by categories. Depending on the data your site gathers, you can show which users have the best reputation, which products sell best, or which topics are most active. You can display data with pie charts, bar graphs, or area charts. You could even display a map showing the importance of each country or city when looking at the number of users or the amount of time and money they spend on your site.

You may not have even noticed it yesterday but yes, Gmail went down again. Minor outages for Gmail have become so routine that most of us don’t even complain publicly anymore – we just hit Refresh until it comes back. At least that’s what a colleague of mine did yesterday, when she was trying to check Gmail during a meeting break. We both shrugged and rolled our eyes at the out of service message and chatted calmly until it came back up.

Unprepared Geeks is SmartBear’s bi-weekly video-podcast about all things tech and quality. Tag along as the folks behind SoapUI and LoadUI get together and discuss recent events, gadgets, and hot topics in the world of quality.

I think it's fair to say that we've gotten to the point where we can't get through any kind of significant global event without putting a huge strain on at least one social media site. These days, it's as though the significance of any event is measured by the strain it puts on Twitter or Youtube. Think about it: International sporting event? Check. Devastating natural disaster? Check. Man jumping from space? Double check!

Unprepared Geeks is SmartBear’s bi-weekly video-podcast about all things tech and quality. Tag along as the people behind SoapUI and LoadUI get together and discuss recent events, gadgets, and hot topics in the world of quality.

Alright, so we've got exactly one week before the world is blasted into oblivion by a giant rogue planet, aliens, zombies, solar flares or an extremely rare annual planetary-solar-galactic allignment. Right. So, since we'll all be busy dealing with that next week, I figured it was a good time to get in one last Software Scramble. 

Unprepared Geeks is SmartBear’s biweekly video-podcast about all things tech and quality. Tag along as the people behind soapUI and loadUI get together and discuss recent events, gadgets, and hot topics.

Today is Thanksgiving, and since SmartBear’s HQ is located in the state where it all began, we thought it would be appropriate to name just a few things that we're all thankful for.

Maybe you can’t use a map in your application to save the world, but you might set a more modest goal, such as helping the business improve sales. Fortunately, by using the Google Maps API, it’s easy to build in location-specific functionality that helps people visualize your application’s data. Here’s an overview and a simple example.

Unprepared Geeks is SmartBear’s biweekly video-podcast about all things tech and quality. Tag along as the people behind soapUI and loadUI get together and discuss recent events, gadgets, and hot topics.