You are probably familiar with the Google Apps Script Lock Service, which is a way of preventing concurrent access to sections of code. It works well, but the problem is that it’s a fairly blunt […]
There was a question on the Google Apps Script Community the other day. It went something like this. This is an important question, because if you have a webapp, potentially used by many people – […]
In Analytics and GAS libraries I described how I had started to use Google Universal Analytics to track what usage was being made of Google Apps Script Libraries (and even desktop based libraries for Excel). A […]
As you will know by now, ScriptDB is now deprecated. A year or so ago, I published some articles on alternatives to ScriptDB on the desktop liberation site, one of which was Parse.com. This has turned […]
I couldn’t let a Eurovision weekend pass without doing some kind of visualization. I’ve always been fascinated by how the relationship between countries is manifested through the way that they vote for each other, regardless […]
A few months ago, I posted something about instrumenting desktop apps with Google Universal Analytics to track usage, just like you can with web based analytics. In the meantime, I’ve added analytics to the 3 […]
I learned last week that I had been bestowed the honor of membership of the Google Developer Experts (GDE) program. It’s a great feeling to have your work recognised in this way, even though I […]
Last year, I started to experiment with Google Universal Analytics to measure usage of Excel Apps that people download from Excel Liberation in order to get insight into what’s being used, how it’s being used and […]
If you are a regular on this blog or on the Excel Liberation site you’ll know that I’m a great fan of scriptDb – the cloud base noSql database for Google Apps Script – and like […]
In December, Google released new Sheets, saying they are faster and better than the old – including working offline. I’ve made a couple of tests to compare the old and the new – a simple operation […]
Doing cross domain requests for JSON data from client jQuery apps are hard work. In the past, you would have needed a data source that had implemented JSONP, but nowadays you can use CORS (cross […]
If you use blogger.com you may want to get some data about your posts into a spreadsheet for analysis. For example, the d3 concept browser analyses the Excel Liberation site and blog each night. There […]
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