Google API clients: Why you should use them and how
Some of our older code examples, including many that I have authored on my blog have been using raw query execution against the Google APIs. This is undesirable and is absolutely not a best practice because you will not benefit…
Developing in C# from OS X using MonoDevelop
IMPORTANT NOTE – The .NET client libraries have had significant updates since this post was written. Please read this POST for the updated information. Before we begin, you can get MonoDevelop from here: MonoDevelop I have been playing a little bit…
Targeting Interactive Post recipients in Android
In the April 9th, 2013 Google+ Developers Live, Chirag and I demonstrated how to set the recipients for an Interactive Post in Android. You can watch the video below: Code from the show I have added a gist to GitHub for…
Credential recovery: Reconnecting Google+ if something goes wrong
In my last post, I discussed tricks for upgrading tokens and upgrading to the Google+ sign-in button. This spurred some discussion on the Google+ post, most notably the question, “When do we get the refresh token?” In turn, I figured it…
Google+ code tricks: Upgrading to the new sign-in / upgrading scopes
I have had many folks ask me how they can do the following things: Upgrade from the traditional OAuth flows to the new one-time-code flow Authorize with just plus.login and then add additional (optional but useful) services to the user’s…
Random useful stuff
Image by SP8254 Every day I find things that are insanely nice to have or useful. These things vary from a blog post that saves me hours of abort/retry/fail to really handy utilities and fancy frameworks. It’s worth mentioning a…
A tale of two RESTful API queries…
At the suggestion of +Will Norris, I updated this demo code for translating URLs to activity IDs to now use a filter. The following code highlights the differences: < + '/activities/public?fields=items%2Fid%2Citems%2Furl&key=' + key — > + '/activities/public?key=' + key The…
Getting an activity ID from a Google+ Post URL
Taking the URL to a post and then determining the post ID for additional API calls is a little tricky but also fundamental for the Google+ public data API. First, you have to list activities and then search through them…
Pulling Google+ data into Windows Store apps
If you caught the last GDL show for Google+, I demoed a few things I have been working on, most notably my Google+ demo for Windows 8. The following screenshot shows the app running within the Windows 8 Simulator: As…
The Google+ Book
Jennifer Murphy just published her new book, Developing with Google+, and I had the pleasure of reading an early version of it. This is a great read, I recommend it for anybody looking to learn Google+, especially if you…