I was just messing around a bit more with mashing up the YouTube API post from earlier with the Twitter post from earlier today. This Google Script will get the view count of a particular video (Gangnam Style) and send out the total views and the time elapsed watching the video (assuming I did the […]
flickr photo shared by Thomas Hawk under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) license Reclaim Hosting has a great status page that alerts you when stuff is not working correctly. We had a brief outage this morning and I just thought it’d be nice to see if we could proactively send out a message based […]
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flickr photo shared by Kecko under a Creative Commons ( BY-ND ) license Man. This was a slog and really highlighted gross inadequacies in my conceptual understanding of pretty much everything. That being said, with an end-around, it works. The whole thing is below but there were really two pieces where I got stuck and […]
Google sheets can do some neat tricks. Here’s how you can generate a chart of unique words submitted and their counts. The form for collecting a single word. Loading… The formula to paste in column C. All credit to this Stack Overflow post. =QUERY({B:B,B:B},”select Col1, count(Col2) where Col1 != ” group by Col1 label count(Col2) […]
Someone at work mentioned that the Flickr WordPress widget didn’t work with group photos. We use this group as part of our (sort of just getting started) Friday photo walks. Since I’m trying to learn stuff I figured I’d play a bit with the Flickr API and see how that worked. After getting an API […]