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How to make a Google Sheet published as TSV

Step 1

Publish the sheet to the web via share menu

Step 2

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What's in a Website?

A Short Look at What Makes Up a Website

Have you ever seen a website and wondered how it was made? How does a programmer even get started building one? Well, wonder no longer - I'm going to give you a quick rundown of the building blocks for a modern website.

When you access a website via your web browser, you are connecting to another computer that gives you back a set of files that make up the website. This other computer is referred to as a "server" because it serves your browser (the

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require './config/boot'

Dtime::Users::User.find_each do |user|
  user.set({
    follower_count: user.follower_ids.size,
    following_count: user.followed_user_ids.size
  })
end

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desc 'clears cache'
task 'cache:clear' => 'environment' do
  warn "Clearing cache.... #{$cache.flush}"
  warn "Removing cache.... #{`rm -rf tmp/body`}"
end

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Usage:

s3 = AWS::S3.new(...) 
s3.buckets['bucket-name'].objects['object-name.jpg'].url_for(:write, content_type: 'image/jpeg')

Generates a signed request allowing a PUT /bucket-name/object-name.jpg with an image file, so that an HTTP PUT can be used instead of a presigned_post request with HTTP POST and a bunch of hidden fields.

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I read this trick on the Soundcloud blog: http://backstage.soundcloud.com/2012/06/building-the-next-soundcloud/

You can return an existing object from a javascript constructor to avoid creating a new object. I'm using this as an identity map - one instance per id. Adapted to Coffeescript and adding a feature to update the existing class with any new information (me.set(data)), it looks something like user.coffee.

You have to copy-paste the simple return super constructor into every child class. Without this the code breaks. Not sure how to solve this issue.

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class Dtime.View extends Backbone.View
  # Call cleanup before removing completely,
  # unbind events from this and all children
  leave: ->
    @cleanup?()
    @unbindFromAll()
    @remove()
    @_leaveChildren()
    @_removeFromParent()

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Code overview

To interaction with the dtime API via Javascript, you need to be able to chain together API calls in a straightforward manner.

Hypermedia APIs rely on state machine logic - given a current state, there are a number of transitions you can make (Valid HTTP verbs on the available rels)

In the code, transition(current_state, rel, opts) is our way to transition.

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class ApplicationController
  # Sharing the setup of processors, since many actions will use them
  #   - thinking of switching this out for a facade
  def trigger_processor(name, listening_controller)
    processor_klass = processors[name]
    processor = processor_klass.new(params)
    processor.add_listener(EventNotifier.new)
    processor.add_listener(listening_controller)
    processor.process(current_user)
  end

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In this case, the API endpoint is dev-api.dtime.com.

http get https://dev-api.dtime.com

See a JS fiddle example:

http://jsfiddle.net/qV5kd/