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A tale of two RESTful API queries…

December 20, 2012 · by gguuss · in Google+, JavaScript, Plus, programming

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

December 18, 2012 · by gguuss · in demos, Google+, JavaScript, samples, Tools

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…

Rendering comments from Google+ related to a post (or URL!)

August 24, 2012 · by gguuss · in Google, Google+, JavaScript, programming, WordPress

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…

Google+ read API: activities and comments

August 21, 2012 · by gguuss · in Google+, JavaScript, WordPress

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

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…

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 =…

JavaScript: the programming language of the future

December 21, 2011 · by gguuss · in JavaScript, programming

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:…

Adding an application bar to an HTML/JS app

November 4, 2011 · by gguuss · in development, JavaScript

I recently created a post on Adding an application bar to a XAML/C# application on Windows 8. This is fine if you’re a C# dev. But, how do you do this on the Windows developer preview if you are using…

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