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use of google script editor

Hey so currently working on my first personal project so bear with the questions!
Currently trying to create a Javascript program that will parse info from google forms to produce slides displaying the info. So far from my research the best way I've found to facilitate this process is googles app script editor. However, I was wondering if I can run this code by requesting it from a different javascript (or maybe even java) program that I will write code on webstorm. If I cant do this what is the best way to utilize the google apps script editor?
Thanks!

Google Apps Script is just javascript with extra built-in APIs (like SpreadsheetApp, FormApp, etc.).
It also has a UrlFetchApp API.
So you can run code like this:
// The code below logs the HTML code of the Google home page.
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://www.google.com/");
Logger.log(response.getContentText());
As such, if you want to provide JavaScript from elsewhere, you could fetch it and then eval it on the Google Apps Script side. (but we all know how tricky eval can get)
One other option is to have your own server side written using Google App Engine (or any other framework) and use Google's OAuth and authorize your app to fetch data from the Forms form

Slides and Google Apps Script
You might like to take a look at the addon "Slides Merge" by Bruce McPherson. I've never used it but it sounds like it might work for you. Here's what it's looks like in the addon store:
Getting information from Google Forms is a snap with google apps script since your can link the form right up to a spreadsheet. The Google Apps Script documentation is really quite good these days. Here's the documentation link. Google Apps Script is loosely based on Javascript 1.6. If your already a programmer my guess is that you'll have few problems learning to use it. In my experience the most difficult thing was dealing with the arrays of arrays produced by the getValues() method of ranges in google apps script and I made a short video that might be of some help to you.
I also have a script that I wrote in Google Apps Script that produces a sheet show that is a slide show inside of a spreadsheet.
I've found that using the Script Editor is pretty easy. There's some documentation in the support section of the documentation. It can be a bit buggy at times but overall I think it's a pretty good tool.

Get started to build a Widget

I own a football community website (with RESTful web services available) written in Grails and I would like to develop an embeddable widget to be distributed into other websites or blogs.
My requirements:
This widget (written in javascript/HTML rather than Flash since I don't know Flash) will display the latest articles of my website (easy...since I have RSS feeds available).
However, the most difficult part consists in having remote users to make predictions or give a rate to football games directly from the widget itself.
Two modes are supported : anonymous user or user-authenticated (user account located and managed on my website).
Statistics from user actions of the client website (i.e. the website embedding the widget) will also be reported inside the widget.
My solution:
Here you go! Where do I start? Do you advise me to go with online widget creation tools like Widgetbox, KickApps, Widgadget, Grazz or any other ones you like? If yes, which one is the easiest to use and enough flexible to fit my requirements ?
Or is there another simpler solution like a Grails plugin?
Thanks for your help.

For something similar I have used Google Gadgets, which are very simple to create because you can use javascript with the API Google provides.
I wrote this post in my blog http://maricel-tech.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-create-google-gadget.html on how to create a google gadget that displays the news from CNN, it is a little outdated since Google changed their APIs, however the logic is the same you would just need to change the google method calls to use the new ones.
The example in the post reads the RSS feeds from CNN news and displays as a list the title and description of each article, in your case you would need to add some more logic to add the extra functionality you need, but I think you can find what you need in the Google API for gadgets.

rss help in iphone development

Since my last question was deleted without giving me a chance to reply: I want to build a similar rss parser feed to: http://misc.inexistent.org/ontd/
Can anyone give me really good tutorials that I could build a similar iphone app for my rss feed.
I can see it uses jquery, javascript, and ajax.
If any can check out the code to head me in the right direction.
Thanks!

If you are a paid Apple Developer, there is an excellent example project in the developer portal called Top Paid Apps. I've used part of that code in several projects that required XML parsing.
https://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/TopPaid/Introduction/Intro.html
That should be all you need to parse an RSS feed and present it in a list view.

The example you have provided is a web page.
So any of the many online tutorials should help you create a browser based RSS parser that will work in a most web browsers, including iPhone/iPad safari, example.
You might then want to style it look more like a native iPhone app, dashcode could probably help you out here.

Show google maps on mobile website

Is it possible to add google maps on a site designed specifically for the iPhone? I have never integrated maps in my websites before, so this question really goes more because of my inexperience.
Using basic html and javascript at the moment.

The Google Maps API V3 is specifically designed to work efficiently on mobile devices. There are some great tutorials here and here.

Any link to a Google Maps URL will automatically open in the Maps application, which may be more useful than simply embedding a map view in the website itself.
For example, a link to http://maps.google.com/maps?q=cupertino will automatically open the Maps application and run a search for "cupertino".

I think, if you only need a google map with some simple function. The simplest way is use the MapKit.Framework, it's a part of iphone OS. You can find the document here.
If you need to load your own web site, you need to use UIWebView. you can find the document here(http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIWebView_Class/Reference/Reference.html).
I think these two ways can help you solve your problem.
And sorry about the link, because I'm not allowed to post more than one hyperlink.

How to embed AsciiMathML in Google Sites?

We would need to embed mathematical formulas through AsciiMathML into Google Sites pages (internal wiki for a research team). I am stuck with the limitation of Google Sites.
Any idea how to do that?
(ps: I have finally found a poorly practical work-around, but better ideas would still be appreciated)

I used to use texify.com, but they're no longer available. Now I use Google Infographics Mathematical Formulas, which has more features and (IMO) is more likely to continue being available in the future.

I had the same problem, but found texify: http://www.texify.com/ as a complete solution. Texify is an online tex editor rendering gifs, and not AsciiMathML, but I found it quick to get the hang of. Just add the html code generated into your source in Google Sites, or insert picture from the GUI.

I don't know how if this is an acceptable solution for you, but you can upload your own HTML (or any other type for that matter) files on Google Pages. So the proposes solution would be: write manually the HTML pages with the necessary JS tags and upload them to Google Pages.

I don't think you can use manually edited HTML for this purpose. Google-sites strips off all "embed" statements in HTML. One solution is to build a google gadget with your AsciiMathML and then insert the gadget into the site. A smart solution would be to search for existing google gadget that servers your purpose ;-) Good luck!