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Comment on Updating a Google Calendar and Google Site from a Google Spreadsheet (the beginnings of an event booking system) by links for 2010-03-11 « Onlinejournalismtest's Blog

links for 2010-03-11 « Onlinejournalismtest's Blog — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:05:46 +0000

[...] MASHe » Updating a Google Calendar and Google Site from a Google Spreadsheet (the beginnings of an … The challenge I set myself was to take Tony’s work and see if I could use it as the basis on an online events booking system. The idea was to enter event details into a spreadsheet which would then be used to automatically populate a site and spreadsheet, delegates being able to book in via a form. Here’s how I got on … (tags: googledocs howto spreadsheets) [...]

Comment on Updating a Google Calendar and Google Site from a Google Spreadsheet (the beginnings of an event booking system) by Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:55:15 +0000

Ah suddenly the mists lift and a direction becomes clear … a reprise maybe in order ;-)

Comment on Updating a Google Calendar and Google Site from a Google Spreadsheet (the beginnings of an event booking system) by Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:38:52 +0000

[Way too kind... :-) Glad you find some of the things I post occasionally useful, or at least, interesting to play with!]

Re: there only being one form per spreadsheet, if each event is templated in the same way, can’t you have a field in the form that specifies the event and then use that to direct what info gets added to what event sheet?

If the form spewed items into a single form handling sheet, then you could run a script over that sheet that looks for new events, and copies the relevant details over to the appropriate event sheet?

I’m not sure if the onEdit function applied to the form results sheet could be used to automatically fire a function that copies results to a specific event sheet when a form is submitted?

There’d be privacy issues of course – being able to see details of folk in one sheet no matter what event they were registering for – but sys admins offer have that power anyway!

Comment on TwitterPad Plugin by J Martin

J Martin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:49:26 +0000

Fantastic! That worked perfectly, thank you SO much!!
One very happy Twitterpad user here :)

Comment on EverPress Plugin by Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:05:05 +0000

@Tom Afraid you’ve got it spot on, limited by what the rss returns. Evernote do have an API which would possibly allow direct access to full notes, but unfortunately this is beyond my programming abilities.
Martin

Comment on EverPress Plugin by Tom

Tom — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:44:16 +0000

Quick question.

Obviously it pulls the RSS feed out. Therefore you get a thumbnail.

Is there anyway to pull the whole of the notes (i.e. big images rather than just the thumb?) Or am i missing something basic?

Much appreciate the plugin ether way.

Comment on TwitterPad Plugin by Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:30:51 +0000

Hi J Martin – I think it is something to do with a conflict with an extension application used by both plugins called simplepie. You can get TwitterPad and SourcedForm to work together by commenting out lines 34 and 35 of twpad.php like this:

// if(! class_exists('SimplePie')) // require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/simplepie.php');

Martin

Comment on TwitterPad Plugin by J Martin

J Martin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:41:57 +0000

just for info, installing this plugin seems to break SourcedFrom. Other than that, works beautifully. Once I deactivate Twitterpad, SourcedFrom starts to work again.

Comment on Twitter powered subtitles for BBC iPlayer by New Toys, Old Thinking – Advertising in a new age « just another developer

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:32:51 +0000

[...] The BBC have been great pioneers in the UK for experimenting with online distribution of their content. Most recently they have integrated twitter into their subtitles so that rather than users sending a text message into a show with their thoughts, viewers simply tweet with a hash tag of “bbcrevolution” and their thoughts are displayed as subtitles whilst the show is being broadcast on BBC iPlayer. (via http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/2010/02/twitter-powered-subtitles-for-bbc-iplayer/) [...]

Comment on Twitter powered subtitles for BBC iPlayer by Stuff I’ve seen February 20th through to February 23rd | Podnosh

Stuff I’ve seen February 20th through to February 23rd | Podnosh — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:04:48 +0000

[...] MASHe » Blog Archive » Twitter powered subtitles for BBC iPlayer – "Whilst in the general populous there is still uncertainty over the benefits of sites like twitter broadcasters are already exploring how this technology can be used. A case in point in the BBC/Open University The Virtual Revolution series which is exploring how 20 years of the web has shaped our lives. Its not surprising that a programme of this ilk is exploring how technology can be used to support the broadcast (including allowing viewers to mash-up and reuse clips from the series), it is also the first programme that I’ve seen broadcast a hashtag within its opening credits. The hashtag is a community driven invention which allows comments and content to be tracked across the web including in comments made as tweets." [...]