It’s a common pattern in JavaScript to do this to assign a default value to a variable : var theThing = someThing || defaultThing; In other words, if someThing has a ‘falsey’ value (false, null […]
I’ve been dong a lot of writing over on Desktop Liberation looking at techniques to run Apps Script/JavaScript code directly from VBA, In this post I’m going to talk about how useful this can be if […]
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 […]
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 […]
Someone asked in our forum yesterday about Facebook Query Language – FQL. Could we get data straight into Excel from facebook? I dont use facebook, so I haven’t paid much attention to it. I had […]
I’m finding this ability to embed prettified source code a google site gadget or iframe really useful. The other day I added the ability to get and publish source code directly from a url (in […]
If you’ve been following the various posts about publishing source code from gists, google apps script, scriptdb and so on, you may have realizes there was one missing link. Publishing source code direct from a […]
It’s been a while since I played around with d3.js. Previously I’ve covered Sankey diagrams, trees, force diagrams and a few others – all straight out of excel. A couple of suggestions on the Google […]
I posted how to include and prettify snippets from GAS, Gist, and scriptDB the other day, adding the ability to select particular functions from within modules. See the Excel liberation site for more detail. With Google Apps Script, […]
In publishing gists and publishing Google Apps Scripts I showed how to prettify and embed snippets in web sites, blogs and so on. However, one last requirement is to be able to publish only particular functions. Although […]
The other day, I showed how to prettify Google Apps Script snippets and scriptDB contents, include them in web sites, blogs and google sites, and encode them in jSon and jSonP using the GAS content […]
Usually on this blog and the associated site I cover topics to do with getting data in an out of Excel. Lately though, I’ve been playing around with using Google Apps Script as a proxy and […]
In a previous post I showed how Google Apps Script could return the contents of a script as Json so you could format that for including script samples on web sites. Today, here is how […]
GAS just keeps getting better. I was thinking the other day about how I might be able to embed sample Google Apps Script code in Google Sites, or other web sites in the way that […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Google currency API Lately for this spot I’ve been selecting APIs that are out of the ordinary, and which allow me to incrementally improve the capability of the REST library. The wrinkle today is that […]
At last we can now create a library of useful stuff in GAS and access it (or share it) from other sheets. Those of you that have seen this blog or follow the parent web […]
In previous posts I covered a couple of conversions of Excel VBA projects to Google Apps Script, with particular emphasis on maintaining compatibility between the solutions to allow for dual maintenance. Previous conversions have been a GAS […]
In a post the other day i covered how to use the scriptcontrol to call javaScript directly from VBA. Considering that javaScript has plenty of useful methods for manipulating arrays and strings and so on […]
Those of you that read this blog, and the ramblings site, will know that the topic content is about equally split between VBA and javaScript. Until today, I had no idea that there was a […]
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