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Google Cloud Functions local testing – auto releod
Posted on February 3, 2020 Leave a Comment
Cloud Functions is Google Cloud’s event-driven serverless compute platform. Run your code locally or in the cloud without having to provision servers. Go from code to deploy with continuous delivery and monitoring tools. Cloud Functions scales up or down, so you pay only for compute resources you use. Easily create end-to-end complex development scenarios by […]
Google Compute Engine: Monitor disk usage with Stackdriver
Posted on August 18, 2016 Leave a Comment
Setting up monitoring of your cloud servers are not only useful to get alerts when a server goes down or run out of disk. It’s also very good to have historical data over performance metrics when troubleshooting issues. In this post I cover the basic setup and issues you can run into using Stackdriver for […]
Front-end Demos on Github
Posted on August 9, 2016 2 Comments
I really like both JSFiddle and Plunker but they come with limitations. To counteract cross site scripting issues and other security concerns they sandbox the code with iFrames and similar methods. That is just fine when you do simple examples of front-end implementations. I actually managed to implement a connection to Google oAuth ina JSFiddle […]
Google Speech API – returns no result
Posted on February 12, 2016 Leave a Comment
Google Speech API takes a flac audio file and converts it to text. This API is aimed at Chromium and Android developers first and for most so the documentation for other plattforms isn’t that good. This article contains C# code but the principal is the same for other languages. I haven’t looked at this before […]
Implementing Google OAuth in JSFiddle
Posted on October 19, 2015 2 Comments
The implementation of Google OAuth for use with there API’s are simple with there API Client Library for JavaScript, if you are developing a normal webpage. If you want the functionality in a JSFiddle it’s a little more complex for several reasons. I have put together a demo on JSFiddle that shows how it can […]
SEO tracking
Posted on September 29, 2014 Leave a Comment
Before you start doing any search engine optimization (SEO) work on your site you should implement tracking on your site. If you don’t track events on your site you will not be able to target your SEO efforts and follow up on the results. If you haven’t read my SEO Basics post you should take some […]
SEO impacted by structured data
Posted on September 22, 2014 1 Comment
Structured data helps Google Bot and other web crawlers to understand and interpret your data. By tagging your data with structured data tags like MicroFormats h-entry Google can index all relevant information. The tags also affects your search appearance, i.e. what your site looks like in the Google search results. You can also be sure […]
SEO Basics
Posted on August 20, 2014 1 Comment
To be honest I had limited knowledge about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Haven’t really spent much time or reflected about it at all. But then I started looking through my Google Analytics info for this site and realized that most of my traffic isn’t from referrers, like links or articles I wrote on other sites, […]
Migrate WordPress to Google App Engine
Posted on June 30, 2014 1 Comment
Why not run WordPress on Google App Engine? You will get performance and stability while only paying for the resources you actually use. Reading the official Google tutorial “Running WordPress in App Engine” it gives you a fare idea what you are in for. But if you want to migrate a currently running site then you […]
Picasa Web Downloader Source
Posted on October 15, 2013 Leave a Comment
Had a few downloads of the Picasa Web Downloader that I put up yesterday. Also had a few request of the source code, people seem to be nervous about putting there login information into an application that isn’t open source. So now it is open source available at: https://code.google.com/p/picasa-web-downloader/ Compiled and readu to run: [wpdm_file id=4]
Hackviking aka Kristofer Källsbo 