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Sign in Best Practices: Reflecting the User

June 28, 2013 · by gguuss · in best practices, Google, Google+, HTML, JavaScript, patterns, Plus

In the recent Google+ Developers Live episode: Google+ Sign-In Best Practices: Greeting the user and reflecting the profile, I showed you a few tweaks that you can make to your site’s experience to make it more engaging. This blog post…

Using the one-time-code flow with Google+ Sign-in

March 22, 2013 · by gguuss · in best practices, Google, Google+, howtos, HTML, JavaScript, Linux, Mac, Plus, programming, ruby, samples

OAuth v2 background In this post, I’m going to assume that you understand a little bit about the traditional OAuth v2 flows for authorization. If you haven’t already checked it out, you can get acclimated hands-on through the OAuth2 playground….

Creating HTML documentation in C# using Visual Studio and Sandcastle

February 25, 2013 · by gguuss · in CSharp, howtos, HTML, Tools

I had a coworker ask me today about creating documentation in C#/.NET ala javadoc by rendering embedded developer remarks into HTML.  It’s actually pretty simple to do because most developers use the built-in XML documentation features of Visual Studio when…

Switching to pure HTML for Google+ badge, +1, and Share

January 8, 2013 · by gguuss · in Google, Google+, HTML, JavaScript, Plus

As you may have noticed, Google+ has been pushing to an updated approach to rendering the +1 and share buttons. I for one have been a guilty party and have needed to update my +1 and share links on my…

Retrieving Google+ profile data client side with the sign-in button

July 26, 2012 · by gguuss · in Google+, HTML, JavaScript, Plus

Overview profile data retrieval As you might have noticed, the sign-in button, used in the Client Side Flow Example for Google+ history and the Server Side Flow Example, is a very easy and lightweight way to integrate Google+ communication into…

Even more schema.org markup examples

July 10, 2012 · by gguuss · in HTML, Schema.org

In my last post, I introduced the basics for OpenGraph and Schema.org markup. In this post I’m going to look at more examples of content types. Some background on Schema.org markup Schema.org markup lets you specify objects to let search…

Schema.org, Open Graph, and making links to your site from social look pretty

June 25, 2012 · by gguuss · in gotchas, HTML, Plus

I have only been working on Google+ for  two weeks and I have already learned so much about what Google is doing in this space and why they are doing it.  I recently started learning more about the publishing features…

My intro video to Windows 8 development

April 12, 2012 · by gguuss · in HTML, JavaScript, videos, Windows, XAML

Right before the build conference, I produced a video that was going to be the intro to Windows 8 app development.  Various red tape blocked us from shipping it, but the brief intro actually is still actually relevant – various terms changed and the diagrams are…

CanvasChart.js, my HTML5/JS Charting Library

April 9, 2012 · by gguuss · in HTML, JavaScript

For a Windows 8 sample I was working on (the example Stocks App) I needed to produce a first-party library for charting the actual stocks.  The following video shows the library I created: There have been various bug fixes and…

Fun with HTML Canvas

February 9, 2012 · by gguuss · in canvas, HTML, JavaScript

Just for kicks, I created a little script that would generate gradients, and put it as a placeholder on one of my domains. The following code shows how I’m rendering the gradients. <html> <script type="text/javascript"> var i; var rfactor =…

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