In trying to get a better handle on how we’re going to manage our plugins in the future, I found the API for the WordPress.org plugins data. Not like they were hiding it but I’d not seen it before.Consider me Columbus– absent the genocide, slavery, and other terrible things. Replacing *slug* in the following URL […]
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Image taken from page 12 of ‘Guide to Cambridge: the town, university and colleges … To which are added, notes upon the villages within ten miles, a map, etc’ flickr photo by The British Library shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) This is more playing with Martin‘s TAGs in Google Script and then moving […]
Image from page 60 of “Children’s ballads from history and folklore” (1886) flickr photo by Internet Archive Book Images shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) Driven mad by curiousity after this Matthew Baldwin tweet, I built this little thing. It uses the amazing Martin Hawksey’s TAGS for gathering the Tweets in Google Sheets and […]
Image from page 93 of “Elementary and dental radiography” (1813) flickr photo by Internet Archive Book Images shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) This is the blow-by-blow documentation of a failure of sorts. Nothing makes me angrier than failing to deliver on something I said I could/would do. I ended up delivering what was […]
Image from page 589 of “Modern magic. : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring.” (1885) flickr photo by Internet Archive Book Images shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) Our Social Work program has traditionally done large paper-based student portfolios. They wanted to move to something digital. That led to some conversations about […]
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flickr photo shared by Internet Archive Book Images with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) Sometimes you want a Google Sidebar element to be able to pull variables from a Google Script. The key element is google.script.run.withSuccessHandler. I’m still not entirely sure I have this in my head deeply/correctly but this is functional and might help […]
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flickr photo shared by Internet Archive Book Images with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) Often, people really like the workflows enabled by Google Forms but they’d like it to go one step farther . . . like adding up two submitted items, or running a particular function/formula against the submitted data. You can certainly go […]
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flickr photo shared by OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) As part of a future project, I’m looking for easy, automated ways to push/pull CSV files around. Initially I thought I’d just do the =importdata(‘http://theurl.com/data.csv”) function but I realized that had some drawbacks that made it less ideal […]
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flickr photo shared by NASA on The Commons with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) It’s that time of year when you try to prove to your institution that the work you do matters . . . and I am prepared to make it rain datums.1 I’m not sure how valuable this will be to others […]
Sometimes the options given in Google Forms just won’t quite work for what you want to do. Maybe you want a particular look, or an interaction, or whatever that Google Forms just won’t do. Luckily, it’s not too hard to make a custom form that can do whatever you want and still has the ability […]