How to Use Google Code for Uploading Files

Google is not only number one search engine but also launches free products every next day. Blogger, Youtube, Orkut etc are one of the well known free services given by Google. Google Code is one free services and it was launched in 2005 for developer tools, APIs and technical resources. Google Code features a variety of developer products and tools built specifically for developers. Google App Engine is a hosting service for web apps. Now, lets talk how a normal blogger (which is not a developer) can use Google code.

If you are a blogger and using blogspot platform for blogging then you must feel need of a place where you could upload your javascript and xml files because normally, when you start a blog using blogspot, you ad several hacks to blogger templates such as blogger page numbers and for this, you have to use javascript files .js.

Normally bloggers use to upload .js (javascript files) and .xml (blogger template files) on their shared hosting BUT just after few days, they start getting overload warnings from their hosting companies and their hosting accounts are also suspended due to overloading as Javascripts uploaded on shared hosting put alot of load because these files are executed several times and thats why .js files put alot of load that a shared hosting account can not afford

To Get rid of all above problems and to host your javascript files and xml files on reliable servers. You can use Google code. You are allowed to upload 2GB of files at Google code and bandwidth is unlimited. So, You dont have to worried about anything as its GOOGLE. Now, mostly bloggers that provides blogspot hacks and tricks also upload files to Google code.

Here is How you can upload your project files to Google Code!

• Open www.googlecode.com
• Click on Create a new project (for example, see picture)
  

• Now, you will get a form (see picture of the form)

How to Fill Google Code Form ?

• Project Name: Write your project name. This will be the URL of your project. Like, if your project name is “myjavascripts” then your Google Code URL will be http://myjavascripts.googlecode.com and your uploaded files will be accebable via http://myjavascripts.googlecode.com/files/FILENAME.xyz. Remeber, No space in project name.
• Write project summary and descriptions in second and third field.
• Version control system: select Mercurial
• Source code license: select GNU V3 (or other accordingly)
• Project labels: Write few labels related to script you are going to host.
• Now click on Create Project
• You will see a new page, on this new page, Click on Downloads (see picture)

• After Clicking on Downloads, click on New Download

• When you will click on New Download, you will get a form for uploading your javascripts or project file.

• Now Simply, fill this form, browse/upload the file, write few related labels and Click on Submit file.
• Your file will be uploaded and you will see a new page.

• Now, Click on the file name and you will be navigated to a new page from where you will be able to get Direct URL of file uploaded at Google Code.

• Right click on the file name and select COPY LINK (firefox) or Copy Shortcut (Internet Explorer).
• The Direct URL of file is copied, Now paste that URL and Save it for further use !

Hope this article helped you for using Google Code for uploading your project files, javascripts, xml files etc