About

Hi! I’m Gus, and I write this blog. The perspectives presented here and their associated content are expressly my own.

In my current role, I work with developers to enable the Google+ social platform. Here you can see a picture of me talking about the importance of social media to a group of CS graduate students at UCSB:

Later in that talk, with the help of some CS professors in front, I hobbled through a live coding demo showing an OAuth2 flow in JavaScript.  I consider myself a programmer, but I’m humbled by the amazing developers that I have learned alongside and encounter every day. I love talking to developers, helping people build products, and diagnosing bugs while large systems are being designed and updated.

I did a brief stint as a developer at an internet startup  in Seattle where I programmed web mail systems in Java and front-ends in the then nascent JavaScript. I later worked on developer content and content experience for Microsoft.

Outside of work, I snowboard, DJ, rock climb, and play the occasional video game.

You can find out more about me on my website, gusclass.com.

3 Responses

  1. Varun April 18, 2013 at 10:34 am · Reply →

    Hi Gus
    I am working on a project that will require us to have a google+ share button or a interactive post button on our website.
    What I want to do is to get the activity id from the response when the user clicks on the share button.
    e.g. A user on my site shares a link using the google+ share button.
    When i look at the HTTPS response using Fiddler, it returns the activity id somewhere in json string as z1324hdsfgjhfg….. This same id is there in the user’s post on google+ page that is generated somewhere in the div tag.
    Are there any reasons why the share button doesn’t have a response yet and activity id?

    1. gguuss May 9, 2013 at 12:07 am · Reply →

      Yes, please feel free to add to your comment or ask the question on stack overflow:

      https://stackoverflow.com/tags/google-plus

  2. Eurig Jones May 30, 2013 at 1:11 pm · Reply →

    Hey Guss,

    Could you look at this stackoverflow question I’ve created and point me in a good direction?

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16836841/databuffer-personbuffer-leaderboardbuffer-etc-listadapter-integration

    Thanks 🙂
    Eurig

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