This is Part 3 in a series about an example app that I put together to demonstrate and describe the use of various Google Apps Script features. See Part 1 for an introduction. This part is “Using the UrlFetch Services to interact with the Google+ API (after all, it’s REST-based!) and grab info on articles pointed [...]
This is Part 2 in a series about an example app that I put together to demonstrate and describe the use of various Google Apps Script features. See Part 1 for an introduction. This part is “Using the Tasks API to retrieve and insert tasklists, and the Ui Services to build the tasklist chooser component“. [...]
Over on the Google Apps Scripts articles section of the Google Code site there’s a great article “Integrating with Google APIs – Creating a simple reading list” which takes the reader through a nice example of using a couple of APIs that have recently been made available to Google Apps Script via the Google APIs [...]
Last night at the Manchester Google Technology User Group (GTUG) meetup we looked in detail at an example script that used various Google Apps Script services. More on that another time. At the end of the meetup, I suggested an example of something that would be really easy to put together using Google Apps Script, [...]
At tonight’s Manchester Google Technology User Group’s meetup at Madlab, I gave a talk on building ad-hoc data workflows with Google Apps Script. The Google Apps application set, combined with the universally accessible and always-on nature of Google Apps Script, with its access to a ridiculously large set of useful APIs (in the form of [...]
Or: Why you should attend my 2-day Omniversity course “Web Programming with the SAP Internet Communication Framework“ Last week I had the opportunity to attend an SAP Mentor Webinar on SAP Netweaver Gateway, entitled “Gateway Consumption”. Gateway is something I have a good deal of interest in, and have written about it in the past. [...]
I was honoured to be asked by the folks at Port Street Beer House to review one of their cask beers, Saison, from the West Sussex brewery Dark Star. I went down last Saturday, received a pint, sat down, and wrote this: http://portstreetbeerhouse.co.uk/blog/2011/05/31/review-dark-star-saison-by-dj-adams A thoroughly enjoyable time! And of course, I checked it in; fitting, as [...]
In “Quo vadis SOA“, Matthias Steiner has written a very readable blog post about where SOA is today, in SAP and beyond, casting a critical but balanced eye on what the service orientation approach has delivered. In the section “Did SOA deliver on its promise?”, the words (some quoted) that stand out are “critics”, “disillusionment”, [...]
John Appleby wrote a thought-provoking piece on university degree courses and how they relate to the IT industry in “When will graduates learn to monetize their education?“. I thought it was worth writing a few thoughts down to help re-balance the view. To a large extent I agree with John’s sentiments, especially on the context [...]
The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab for short) is the arts-craft-tech gravity centre of Manchester, and our gracious hosts for the Manchester Google Technology User Group. Recently a new group sprung up there – the jQuery Manchester Meetup, run by Jon Vines. I gave a talk there earlier this month, on JSON, JSONP and AJAX. Here [...]