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How do I insert into non-default Google Calendar using Zend / PHP

I'm trying to insert a new event into Google Calendar, which I can do fine by the following: $sname = Zend_Gdata_Calendar::AUTH_SERVICE_NAME; // predefined service name for calendar $client = Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin::getHttpClient($userName,$password,$sname); $service = new Zend_Gdata_Calendar($client); $event = $service->newEventEntry(...

Does the Google Ad javascript really need to be in the HEAD tag?

The google ad manager help site is pretty prescriptive about how the calls to their Javascript API need to be made and how combining blocks of javascript calls could cause code to break. (http://www.google.com/admanager/help/en_US/tips/tagging.html) I don't really like the idea of inserting so much JS in the head of my pages. I would p...

How to prevent robots.txt passing from staging env to production?

I had happen in the past that one of our IT Specialist will move the robots.txt from staging from production accidentally. Blocking google and others from indexing our customers' site in production. Is there a good way of managing this situation? Thanks in advance. ...

How do I test Google Adsense targeted for Canada when I'm in the US?

I am setting up targeting for our networks, and would like Canadian clients to have specific targeted ads, which Google bases off of IP address. I, however, am in the States, and don't know how I can test this. Is anyone aware of a solution? ...

Is the Software Construction Toolkit (from Google) any good?

Is anyone using the Software Construction Toolkit from Google? Is it good enough to replace make and/or ant? How good is it with its many advertised platforms (java, .net, C++)? What are your opinions on it? Actually this is Google´s modification on top of the Scons. EDIT: No answers yet! So, nobody is using? I'll post my impressions ...

Google image search

In C#, how can I extract the URL's of any images found when performing a search with Google? I'm writing a little app to get the artwork for my ripped cd's. I played around with the Amazon service but found the results I received were erratic. I can't be bothered to learn the whole Amazon API just for this simple little app though, so th...

Google search in grails application

I am creating one web application in GRAILS framework.In that I want to implement google search feature.Can we implement this feature? If we can, How to implement this feature in grails application? Can anyone provide help on this? Thanks... ...

Can I limit users to a specific range and zoom level on Google Maps?

I'm implementing a Google Map on a web-page. For the purpose of this project, I want to limit how far users can drag the map, so that they can only view a certain area that falls within two co-ordinates (one specifies north-west, the other, south-east, if you get my meaning). What's the best way to implement this using the Google Maps A...

Tricks to Google for desired page quickly

I like to use Google to quickly locate API documentation. To get better results, I type some keywords that give desired results as top lines. For example: JavaScript: MDC Array slice MDC String indexOf Ruby ruby doc Dir glob rubyonrails ActionMailer What are your favourite tricks to pick the desired pages quickly? P.S. ...

What is the CSS secret of the Google search box?

I am studying the css methods Google uses to create their ui. I realized that the css code on their home page contains no reference to their search box; it seems like just a naked input tag, with not a border, background image or any of the conventions normally used to stylize a border. And yet it can display not only a hue and a kind of...

How does Google determine to send the Virus page?

When I was a Windows user, I received many times the Virus page in Google. I thought things change in Mac. I received today my first Virus page in Google. I am flabbergasted. The experience raises a question: How can Google know that there is a virus? How does such a "virus" act? How does it determine to send the Virus page? ...

Google Internship Interview

Has anyone interviewed for an internship at Google? This is for a BS level position. How was your experience? How would you compare it to interviews at other companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, etc? I have a pretty good grasp of CS fundamentals -- the essential/common algorithms and data structures. Any tips? Oh yeah, I've read ...

Getting Started with Google Programming

I'm just beginning a project that involves working with a few of Google's APIs (for .NET), specifically the Contacts List, Calendar and Gmail. While Google does provide a wealth of information through their code.google.com network, finding what I need to get started has thus far proven to be a monumental task. What I'm hoping to find i...

Google search returns blank page

When I do a google search for any string it is retuning a blank page. The html source of the returned page looks like this. <html> <body> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=test+search&amp;meta=&amp;safe=active"&gt; </body> </html> i.e. there is nothing at all returned to the browser. ...

Is there a free/open-source JavaScript-to-JavaScript compacting compiler (like Google's)?

If you look at the source of Google pages with JavaScript, you'll find that the JavaScript is clearly not readable -- or maintainable. For example, all variables and functions are one-letter named (at least, the first 26 are...); there are no extraneous white-spaces or linebreaks; there are no comments; and so on. The benefits of this c...

Google: Disabling the appliance-hosted search page?

Is there a way to disable or password-protect the search page hosted on a Google Mini appliance? I'm referring to the page descriped in option 1 here. I basically want to prevent someone from stumbling onto this URL and searching here rather than through one of the actual sites using the appliance. ...

How to tell Apache ignore/block 404 error and redirect to hander page?

The concept So, I've already made (upgraded actually) this website with its own Content Management System (CMS) that everyone likes. As with most CMS, the default behavior was the access pages with the ugly and utterly unhelpful url like such: www.mysite.edu/index.php?pageid=xxxx So the idea was to change it so that we could have "r...

ColdFusion.navigate alternative?

In another question, "Using Google Map with ColdFusion", I ran into a problem of not able to display a google map using CF. After much experimenting, I found out that if you use ColdFusion.navigate to point to a page from one cflayoutarea to another cflayoutarea, the map in the destination cflayoutarea would not show. (However, if you ju...

Google PageRank: Does it count per domain or per webpage

Is the Google PageRank calculated as one value for a whole website (domain) or is it computed for every single webpage? ...

Google Gears SQL Lite DB and C#

Under the covers, Google Gears uses SQL Lite as its data store. Has anyone successfully connected to the Google Gears SQL Lite DB with C#? Thanks ...