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Meet the Google Workspace Developer Experts – making connections with the community 

Meet the Google Workspace Developer Experts, a global network of experienced technology experts, thought leaders, and influencers who actively support developer communities around the world.

If you are starting out on a new product, environment or beginning to learn to code finding people to connect with within an existing community can often be a challenge. Thanks to the efforts of Charles Maxson hopefully those connections are made a bit easier.

Source: Meet the Google Workspace Developer Experts

Totally Unscripted: New workflow solutions with Tables and Google Apps Script – Thur 10 Dec at 1200 PST / 1500 EST / 2000 UTC

In this episode we’ll be joined by Carlin Yuen Co-founder & Product Lead, Tables (Google, Area 120) and Ben Collins Educator at benlcollins.com and Google Developer Expert. The Tables beta is the latest product to emerge from Google’s Area 120. Currently Tables is only available to US customers so this show is an opportunity to have an expert tour from the co-founder/product lead Carlin Yuen. We’ll also be joined by Ben Collins who has been using Tables and he’ll be sharing some insight into how Tables can be used with Google Apps Script.

Join Adam Morris (@clssrmtechtools) in the  Advent of Code with Google Apps Script challenge

When and where I can, I’ll be trying to complete the advent of code challenges in appscripts. You can follow along here … I find these sorts of exercises really valuable. It makes you think about the language you’re using very carefully. – Adam Morris

In the Google Apps Script Community Google Group Adam Morris is participating where he can in the Advent of Code

Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. People use them as a speed contest, interview prep, company training, university coursework, practice problems, or to challenge each other.

If you would like to play along with Adam follow the link to the Google Apps Script Community Google Group thread.

Source: Advent of Code w/ AppsScripts – Google Apps Script Community Google Group

Totally Unscripted: “The State of Script” address from Google – Fri 04 Dec at 1200 PST / 1500 EST / 2000 UTC

In this episode of Totally Unscripted we are joined by Keith Einstein Product Manager for Apps Script and Charles Maxson (TU host and Developer Advocate at Google). As part of this show Keith will review the current state of Apps Script and also exclusively reveal some forthcoming soon to be released features.

The show is also an opportunity to get your Apps Script related questions in which can be emailed to [email protected] or asked live via YouTube chat.

TU Special: Using the Google Video Intelligence API to index and disambiguate films by content – 24 Nov at 0800 PST / 1000 EST / 1600 UTC

In this TU special we are joined by Bruce Mcpherson who will share work on detecting similarities and duplication between films digitally using the trained ML models in the Google Video Intelligence API. With this the video content itself can be identified, tracked, searched, visualized and compared.

Mobile App Development: Legal Considerations (top level guidance for Google Apps Script Add-on developers)

This video comes via a share from Alan Wells on the Google Apps Script community group. As pointed out by Alan whilst this webinar recording from SCORE focuses on mobile app development and distribution via Apple and Google the principles in terms of privacy policies, terms of service and intellectual property broadly apply if you are developing a distributing add-ons or other products developed using Google Apps Script.

Totally Unscripted:  Getting hooked on AppSheet – 19 Nov at 1200 PST / 1500 EST / 2000 UTC

In this episode of Totally Unscripted we are joined by Praveen Seshadri co-founder of AppSheet, the no-code mobile-application-building platform recently acquired by Google. Joining Praveen will be Christian Schalk, Developer Advocate at Google and long time advocate of entry level application development tools. In this session we will discuss the AppSheet philosophy and how the platform can be used to help deliver Google Workspace based solutions.

If you have any questions for this episode they can be emailed to [email protected] or tweeted @AppsScriptInfo

Totally Unscripted: Getting Started with Google Workspace Add-ons Development – 12 Nov at 1200 PST / 1500 EST / 2000 UTC

Thursday, 12 November 2020 at 1200 PST / 1500 EST / 2000 UTC

Guests – Mike Rhemtulla (Product Manager, Google Workspace), Steven Bazyl (Developer Relations, Google Cloud) and Steve Webster (SW gApps LLC, President)

In this episode we are joined by Mike Rhemtulla and Steven Bazyl exploring Google Workspace Add-on development. As part of this with Mike will share the impact and opportunity of being of contributing to the Google Workspace Marketplace, while Steven will share tips on building Add-ons. Finally, Steve will share tips on migrating existing HTMLService based Add-ons to the new Card Service

Use the YouTube comments to share any Marketplace and Workspace Add-on questions before the show or email them to [email protected]

‘Totally Unscripted’ the Google Workspace and Apps Script developer show is back!

Totally Unscripted is a Google Workspace and Apps Script developer show organized by the community for the community. We invite members of the community to share their Google Workspace developer tips, tricks and triumphs.

Totally Unscripted the Google Workspace and Apps Script developer community show returns! The shows are an opportunity to learn about the very latest Google Workspace and Apps Script updates from both the community and Google. We are returning with a series of six weekly shows starting with ‘Meet the new Google Workspace Developers Experts‘ on 05 November 2020 at 20:00 UTC (TZ conversion).

In this show you have an opportunity to meet some of the new Google Developers Experts (GDE) in Google Apps Script. As well as finding out how our experts got involved in Apps Script, we find out why they think it is different to other platforms, their favourite killer app and why you should learn Apps Script. The show is also an opportunity to find out if you’ve got what it takes to become our next newest GDEs. For this episode we are joined by:

Below is a calendar with a summary of the other show dates and topics:

Source: Totally Unscripted

Develop My First Gmail Add-on via Google Apps Script: My Software Engineer Internship at dialoggBox

I’m a teacher-turned-developer actively searching my first software engineer job during the pandemic after graduating from Hackbright Academy. As a bootcamp new grad, I am lucky to get an internship opportunity to develop a gmail add-on product at dialoggBox to gain my first industry experience and learn how to work with stakeholders.

My article will be composed of three parts:

  • What service do dialoggBox and this gmail add-on provide?
  • What was my experience using Google Apps Script to build an add-on product?
  • How did I develop each section of the gmail add-on?

The actual details of the add-on developed by the author, Nancy Dai, are promised in a follow-up post but this post serves as a useful insight into the main things to look out for when developing Gmail Add-ons.

Bonus: Following the link to the dialoggBox website I spotted they were using icons from freepik.com which also took me their sister site flaticon.com, which in turn took me to their ‘Icons for Slides and Docs’ add-on.

Source: Develop My First Gmail Add-on via Google Apps Script: My Software Engineer Internship at dialoggBox