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+ read API: activities and comments
In this post, I will look into how you can use the Google+ read API from JavaScript to retrieve activities and comments from a profile. I was interested in this because I believe it would be possible to make a…
Retrieving Google+ profile data client side with the sign-in button
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…
My intro video to Windows 8 development
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
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
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 =…
JavaScript: the programming language of the future
I have recently been gushing about how JavaScript is changing everything for developers and typically am greeted with an odd glare when I do this. So, I am going to summarize the reasons my mind has been blown by JavaScript:…
Rendering comments from Google+ related to a post (or URL!)
In my previous post on retrieving Google+ activity and comment data, I looked into aggregating comments from posts using the Google+ REST API. As useful as that is for specific posts, I was interested in pulling in “related” comments and…