In the builtwith.com api rest library entry for Excel I covered how to get data about a given web site using the builtwith.com API. I went against my usual rule here, by including an api that […]
I came across a great site, builtwith.com, that shows the technology being used in a given web site. You can also take a look and see the usage of various specific technologies over time. Now, […]
In Google Caching and faking jsonP, i showed how to use google cache to avoid multiple calls to the same json data. One of things i discovered was that the key value in google cache […]
In using Google Apps Script as a jSONP proxy, I covered how you could use GAS to get over javaScript same domain restrictions. If you need to access jSon data from javaScript, jQuery and so […]
Enterprise Architects often like to refer to Winchester Mystery House as an example of what you get if you build something with no plan, blueprint or end game in sight. This is a house with windows opening […]
In plotting functions in Excel I showed how to create plots from equations without needing to create a data table. Using the same template, here is the Excel version of the well known Batman Plot. Using […]
Roberto Mensa share this post today on G+, reminding me about the Google instant graph capability, and of course I wondered if the same thing could be achieved in Excel. Excel doesn’t really know how to […]
I’ve been messing around with the google Drive API lately, and haven’t really found out how to use it to host images for web sites satisfactorily. That was one of the things that prompted this […]
Continuing the theme of using Google Apps Script Content service and scriptDB for lots of things, today’s post cover a few tricky topics. How to convert an image to a blob so it can be […]
Creating d3.js tree diagrams directly from Excel, shows how to take a simple list of Excel data and create d3.js diagram that looks like this, I had a question on the Excel Liberation forum the […]
Lately I’ve been posting about the Google Apps Script Content Service and how to use it as a ‘serverless’ Rest API service. In addition, I covered how to use the ScriptDB as a secure repository for […]
Today I’m going completely off topic. I was fascinated by a G+ plus by John Walkenbach where he referred to this gizmodo post. This was about how people used to mail recorded message tapes to each […]
Today’s entry is pretty cool. I came across the urbarama site, which describes itself as “a collaborative world atlas of architecture and civil infrastructure”. What’s more it has an API, which will return details on […]
All of you who run a web site or a blog will probably be able to relate to this. The first month you see a drop in visits. It happened to me for the first […]
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