Showing posts with label Google Apps Script. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Apps Script. Show all posts

Thursday, October 7, 2010

GTUG Meetup on Google Apps Script: A Review.

This meeting on 6 October 2010 was primarily about Google Apps Script by Martin Omander, Developer Advocate at Google.

After a greeting by Van Riper, lead organizer of the Silicon Valley GTUG Meetup Group, the following initial announcements were made.
  1. Bess Ho gave out the discount code for Paypal X Innovate conference; also mentioned games design, Oct 12.
  2. Kevin Nilson talked about the upcoming Silicon Valley Code Camp, October 9-10. 
  3. Wesley Chun, the chief organizer of the Google tracks in the camp, briefed the audience on what is to come in those tracks.
The main talk began by showing the home page of Google Apps Script:
Subsequently, Martin went through examples of different functions created by Google and others in the Script Gallery, e.g., =weather(), =getTweets(). He also went through a simple mail merge example.