Google fusion tables cheat sheet

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See below for commands using the Fusion Tables API. Example table is the oldschool message wall public table. Note that examples are shown first without the required url-encoding. Authenticating: Getting the auth token To authenticate you may use the following test account myjdoe. account: myjdoe@gmail.com password: JoesSecret curl -H “Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded” -d “accountType=GOOGLE &Email=myjdoe@gmail.com&Passwd=JoesSecret&service=fusiontables&source=skipperkongen.dk” https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin […]

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How to load Javascript dependencies dynamically

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Loading jQuery using plain Javascript:: // inject e.g. jQuery into a webpage var thescript = ‘http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js’; var newscript = document.createElement( ‘script’ ); newscript.setAttribute( ‘src’, thescript ); newscript.setAttribute( ‘type’, ‘text/javascript’ ); var head = document.getElementsByTagName(“head”)[0]; head.appendChild(newscript); To call this from your script with a test to see if jQuery is loaded: // Test if jQuery is

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jQuery ASCIIMATION plugin

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Today I’ve authored a simple plugin for jQuery that does ASCIIMATION. It was inspired by the classic Star Wars asciimation. You can have a look at the google code repository for jQuery asciimation or check out the online demo starring a spinning planet Earth. I’m going to use it in an upcoming demo project.

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Turning big hard problems into smaller, less hard problems.

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Here I have captured a thought process I had while reading about algorithms for hard graph problems. The thoughts are inspired by MapReduce, distributed merge sort and the more colorful newspapers of the world. Summary of thoughts Given an instance of an problem (think Max Clique, Traveling Salesman or another hard graph problem)… Thought 1:

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