chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

pamelafox

// Includes functions for exporting active sheet or all sheets as JSON object (also Python object syntax compatible).
// Tweak the makePrettyJSON_ function to customize what kind of JSON to export.

var FORMAT_ONELINE   = 'One-line';
var FORMAT_MULTILINE = 'Multi-line';
var FORMAT_PRETTY    = 'Pretty';

var LANGUAGE_JS      = 'JavaScript';
var LANGUAGE_PYTHON  = 'Python';

veganista

var arrayToTable = function (data, options) {

    "use strict";

    var table = $('<table />'),
        thead,
        tfoot,
        rows = [],
        row,
        i,

mogsdad

Google Apps Script Gmail Utilities

##sendAndLabel(recipient, subject, body, options, label)##

An alternative to GmailApp.sendEmail(), which applies a label to the message thread in the sender's account.

Sends an email message with optional arguments. The email can contain plain text or an HTML body. The size of the email

derekconjar

<?php

/**
 * All custom functions should be defined in this class
 * and tied to WP hooks/filters w/in the constructor method
 */
class Custom_Functions {

  // Custom metaboxes and fields configuration

vitorbritto

Regular Expressions

Basic Syntax

• /.../: Start and end regex delimiters
• |: Alternation
• (): Grouping

Spencer-Easton

/**
 * Converts an XML string to a JSON object, using logic similar to the
 * sunset method Xml.parse().
 * @param {string} xml The XML to parse.
 * @returns {Object} The parsed XML.
 */
function xmlToJson(xml) { 
  var doc = XmlService.parse(xml);
  var result = {};
  var root = doc.getRootElement();

dDondero

function deleteRows() {
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var rows = sheet.getDataRange();
  var numRows = rows.getNumRows();
  var values = rows.getValues();

  var rowsDeleted = 0;
  for (var i = 0; i <= numRows - 1; i++) {
    var row = values[i];
    if (row[0] == 'delete' || row[0] == '') { // This searches all cells in columns A (change to row[1] for columns B and so on) and deletes row if cell is empty or has value 'delete'.

Spencer-Easton

function exportSpreadsheet() {
 
  //All requests must include id in the path and a format parameter
  //https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/{SpreadsheetId}/export
 
  //FORMATS WITH NO ADDITIONAL OPTIONS
  //format=xlsx       //excel
  //format=ods        //Open Document Spreadsheet
  //format=zip        //html zipped          
  

nicobrx

/*
updated 2018-04-28
source lives here: https://gist.github.com/nicobrx/2ecd6fc9ca733dcd883afebba5cf200e
standalone script ID for use as a library: 1gZ78JObyrYiH0njoZ86fQ2NgMwavUgiXVhRDrIFetPZL256e31PSNiHq

Functions included here:

Sheets data array and object functions
  objectifySheet(sheet,propertyNames,newPropertyNames) - Takes a sheet with a header row and converts it into an array of objects
  arrayFromSheet(sheet,propertyNames,newPropertyNames) - creates an array from a sheet, can specify column headers