Remote mounting SSH filesystems from Windows 8
There are a number of great reasons to mount SSH filesystems from Windows, and there is a great library and utility, Dokan SSH Filesystem, that makes it really easy to do. First, you need to download the Dokan library. This…
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…
Google+ Server Side flow in C#
Out of date Heads up dear reader, a whole lot has happened in the past 18 months and so this post is out of date. Please read my latest here – How to: OAuth 2.0 Flows in .NET using C#…
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…
PSA: Attachments for Google+ Activities have changed
Earlier this week, we talked about some upcoming changes to the Activities API in the Google+ office hours. You can see our short demo here: If you want to see a demo / example of the changes, I put together…
Counting the number of mentions for a hashtag
A Google+ user was interested in getting a count of the number of mentions for a particular hashtag on Google+. Seeing as the Activities API and Search should be able to enable this functionality easily, I wrote a web application…
Debugging Google+ client-side Web Apps
You’re a developer. As you know, you don’t get everything right the first try. Sometimes, it takes hours of frustration figuring out what is going wrong in your program. This post is a collection of resolutions that I have found…
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…
A roundup of my Google+ posts by category
I have now been working on Google+ for about 3 months – boy how the time flies. Since starting, I have tried to grasp the core technologies for Google+ and been careful to document my learning in this blog. The…