egradman

milosdakic

/**
 * Stream collection/model data.
 * @exports mixins/Stream
 * @module Stream
 */
var Stream = {
  /**
   * Is the collection steaming?
   *
   * @property streaming

jsvine

Tabletop.js is a fantastic, open-source JavaScript library that lets developers easily integrate data from Google Spreadsheets into their online projects. I've used it, even contributed a minor feature, and love it for prototyping. Non-programmers love being able to update a project via Google Spreadsheets' hyper-intuitive interface.

That said, I'm extraordinarily wary of using Tabletop in production. Instead, at the Wall Street Journal, we use a bit of middleware to "prune" our Google Spreadsheets-based data and then cache it on our own servers. A few brief reasons:

• Short-Term Reliability. With Tabletop, your project depends on Google not to rate-limit access to your spreadsheet. Google rate-limits access to their Spreadsheet API, though the thresholds aren't clear. If you're building an app you care about, you don't want to be i

syntagmatic

Improvements:

• Click a food to sort dimensions by that foods y values
• Scale to window size and resizes
• Click label to invert axis
• Drag label to reorder axes
• Rendering progress bar
• Keep selected button removes unselected data
• Exclude selected button removes selected data

mapmeld

/*
   Red Pen turns red (and blue!) dots on Field Papers tiles into markers automatically
   Tested with Sharpie and PaperMate ballpoint pens
   Write a description to save the marker
   I don't understand the server-side installation or the QR-scanning, so I'm using a bookmarklet
   Client-side HTML5 Canvas for tile inspection
*/

// collect the most zoomed-in tiles from the scan
var zoomimgs = document.getElementsByTagName("img");