This is an update to the code that I posted earlier. The changes to the serveFile function deal with the relative path stuff I was seeing in Quatro and allow multiple directories and other more complex setups beyond a single index file. […]
Tag: Google
AI Lightroom and Claude Code Experiment
To see how it’d go, I used Claude Code to see if I could make a Lightroom Classic plugin to auto-tag photos with visible jersey numbers using the Google Gemini API. Adobe uses Lua as a scripting language. It did end up working but it took quite a while and, in general, I feel mostly […]
Email Templates in GMail
Another quick and easy option if you end up sending similar patterns of responses via email. We also use a more aggressive option that uses form submissions etc. but this one doesn’t require anything more than GMail account. […]
Auto-Built (and Linking) Table of Contents in Google Docs
I did a workshop on productivity and now know that I took a bunch of knowledge for granted that could be helping people. So my new goal is to do a better job documenting stuff just in case it’s of use to people. To be clear, I don’t really care what people do with the […]
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Spreadsheet Karma
=QUERY({C:C,C:C},”select Col1, count(Col2) where Col1 ” group by Col1″,1) This is just so handy for getting all the unique values from a column and spitting them out with the counts of their occurrences.1 I can’t tell you how many times I’ve done this a much harder way. I saw the function above as an answer […]
Embed Collector Tool
Some people don’t have websites handy or their blogs won’t allow iframe embeds. They should still be able to have their students do stuff and get it all in one place. This is the Internet! And this tool is meant to deal with that. You can see a working example with three submissions (via a […]
From “On the Internet” towards “Of the Internet”
creative commons licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Sean MacEntee We’ve talking a lot in our group about how people move towards more complex uses of the Internet. We started with a discussion around Internet1 search skills and dispositions. It’s simple stuff2 in a lot of ways but putting it in writing might […]
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In the beginning there was search
creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-ND ) flickr photo shared by Bramus! We’re playing around with some online content for instructors to access on their own or to use as part of some guided online learning we’ll be doing. We started the building some elements around search because it is a place where most people are […]
Scraping Wikipedia User Data w Google Spreadsheets
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by nojhan Alice Campbell in the VCU library hosted a Wikipedia edit-a-thon today. It was interesting and we had a variety of faculty and even some students show up. Gardner joked at one point whether we had a leader board for edits. It got me thinking. […]
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Improved Google Folder Shortcode Plugin
creative commons licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Steve Snodgrass In December I wrote a tiny shortcode plugin that would let you embed Google Folders in WordPress. It was mainly to get around the iframe embed issues in WordPress Multisite. This interaction seems to make a number of faculty members pretty happy. So […]
