The Best Google Add-ons for Docs, Sheets, Slides and Google Forms
The availability of third-party add-ons for Google Docs, Sheets and Google Slides have certainly made the Google Office productivity suite…
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The Best Online Teachers for Learning Web Development
For the past few months, I have been on a learning spree looking to enhance my existing coding skills and also learn new programming…
How to Move Files Uploads from Google Forms to a Specific Folder in Google Drive
The File Upload feature of Google Forms lets you receive files from form respondents directly in your Google Drive. You may add the File Upload question in your Google Form to receive PDF assignments from students, résumé applications, portfolio…
How to Send a File to Participants After they Submit your Google Form
When someone fills out your Google Form, you may want to send a file or two to the form respondent. For instance: A school teacher can send a Word document containing a copy of the answers to students who have completed the quiz. A musician can…
JavaScript Design Patterns
This article is a summary of the various design patterns in JavaScript that help us create clean, easier to maintain code without polluting the global namespace. Object Literal Design Pattern To avoid the possibility of collusion with other variables…
YouTube Email Alerts – Monitor Videos around your favorite Topics
The Google Alerts service makes it easy for you to monitor brand mentions and your favorite topics on the Internet. Just specify one or more keywords and Google will send an email notification when new web pages matching your search keywords are…
How to Share User Properties between Google Apps Script Projects
The Properties Service of Google Apps Script is used by developers to store app configuration and user specific settings. The properties data is scoped to a specific user, or a specific project, and cannot be shared between different projects. The…
How to Create JSON Web Token (JWT) with Google Apps Script
You can use Google Script to create JSON Web Tokens (JWT) that can be provided to secure routes so that only authenticated requests that contain a valid token can connect to the APIs (e.g., the Zoom API ). All JSON Web Tokens have three parts: The…
Useful JavaScript Functions
The code snippets are from a JavaScript course on Udemy . Create a function that can be invoked only once. Measure the time it takes for a JavaScript function to run. A debounce function that delays invocation until a certain amount of time has…
Lite YouTube Embeds – A Better Method for Embedding YouTube Videos on your Website
It is easy to embed a YouTube video but you’ll be surprised to know how much extra weight a single YouTube video embed can add to your web pages. The browser has to download ~800 kB of data (see screenshot) for rendering the YouTube video player…