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Google Apps Scripts
I was recently asked to review Google Apps Scripts as a potential platform for some simple business apps, tying spreadsheet data to Google sites. The organization already uses Google Apps, and it...
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Setting styles in Google Apps Scripts
I recently wrote a post reviewing Google Apps Scripts. Buried in that post was a code snippet that showed my workaround for the lack of CSS or global styling in Google Apps Scripts. The problem is...
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Testing variable types in Javascript
Anyone who has written more than a handful of lines of Javascript has found a need to find out the type of a variable. A quick search on their favorite search engine or in their reference book turns up...
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Async doesn’t have race conditions
I’ve been noticing comments about race conditions in async code, most specifically javascript used server side as in node.js. As someone who has written more lines of blocking code than I care to think...
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Time span sliders in jQuery
I’ve been working on prototyping a new application that needed a way for users to schedule things in spans of time on multiple days. It should be quick and easy for people to pick arbitrary time spans...
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