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June

23

Google Analytics Data Export API with Google Chart Visualizations

You can punch into the Google Analytics Data Export API, pull out some stats, and stuff them into some nice graphical charts using Google Chart Visualizations. This demo is done in PHP. Authenticate the User The user can authenticate via the ClientLogin or using the AuthSub login which is actually more secure. For the ClientLogin, [...]

February

5

Using Google Docs to Create a Survey

After creating the pop-up survey in jQuery, further exploration on creating online polls has turned up Google Docs quick and dirty form creation. Google posted a 2-minute video on Google Docs form creation that pretty much sums it up. This has actually been around for a couple of years now but, even though it’s a [...]

July

23

Google Visualization API and ColdFusion: Create a Data Table

The Google Visualization API is fun to play around with and it’s quite powerful. There are a number of charts and graphs to choose from and filling them up with data from ColdFusion is a snap. At least it was for this table example here. Most of this code comes straight out of Google’s documentation [...]

June

7

Cfpop with Gmail and Other Pop Accounts: Processing Emails and Attachments

Accessing messages and attachments in gmail via cfpop can be done in a relatively straightforward way. An example of connecting to and reading messages and attachments from gmail is shown here. Enable POP on gmail First things first. POP access must be enabled on the gmail (or other) account before attempting to download the mail. [...]

May

27

3 Steps to Remove Pages and Cached Content from Google Search

Google’s indexing of websites for its search is quite good, quite fast, and quite thorough. There are times, however, that pages on a site should not be indexed. For example, admin sections or include files. Asking Google to remove content is easy and Google’s response is reasonably fast. If you don’t own the website that [...]