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Google Drive API

by: Caleb Jonasson - May 10th, 2012   Filed under: Software, Web Development Add Comment

Introduction

Google Drive is out! Yes that’s right, Google’s Drive project which allows users to store content onto a Google server and pull it from any device is now available. This product offers 5GB free to google users with additional packages for extra money.

This is a pretty cool thing and not just because Google is doing drop box properly but more so because they are doing drop box across the Google platforms and offering an API to those of us that are interested in developing for it.

My plans

My plan over the next couple of days is to create a way to store server logs and general statistics for my server to the Google Drive. This will allow me to easily check on how things are going from my mobile device.

Google Drive API

If you are interested in working with Google Drive than I suggest that you take a look at the API that Google has provided us. https://developers.google.com/drive/v1/reference/

If you are going to work with the API that is available you will have to register your own app. https://developers.google.com/drive/register

Performance

The API has some interesting features for performance. When performing an update you can receive a partial response. This response type will only return the specific fields that you ask for rather than the entire object. The API also supports a header type of gzip to allow for speedier and smaller sent and received packets of information.

For more information on Google Drive API performance: https://developers.google.com/drive/performance

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Dream In Code User Widget

by: Caleb Jonasson - August 17th, 2011   Filed under: Projects 1 Comment

Recently I pulled an all nighter and coded a user widget using the Dream In Code API. The project is currently unfinished but it is very usable. The idea of the project is to allow the users of dream in code to show off their reputation, posts and group on their website, blog, etc. It also gives users the ability to support and promote Dream In Code and the community behind it.

The code for the user widget is as follows:

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<iframe
    scrolling="no"
    style="width: 282px;
        height: 76px;
        border: none;"
    src="http://atomicbucket.com/dreamincode/?id=175017"
></iframe>

Once the code has been added to a website it will look as follows:
Dream In Code User Widget
In order to get your own widget you must:
A) become a member of dream in code.
B) Take the id in your user profile and insert it into the id that is within the embed code’s url.

Note: There will be additions to this project regarding options for sizes that the widget can come in.

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