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As part of our continuous efforts to help our users protect their information, we recently launched 2-step verification for all Google accounts. Starting March 14, we will also increase the minimum password length requirement for Google Apps accounts from 6 characters to 8.This new policy aligns Google Apps accounts with consumer accounts that already require passwords to be at least 8 characters long.Existing users can keep their current password even if it doesn’t match the new security...

Welcome to the Google Apps Developer Blog. Today were excited to introduce the Google Apps Developer Blog, for developers interested in building applications that leverage Google Apps. In this blog well cover topics of interest to Google Apps developers building applications on top of Google Apps, integrating with them or utilizing the APIs. Examples of some of the topics well cover and resources well provide include:code snippets and samplesreviews of customer integration and deployment...

Editors note: This has been cross-posted with the Google Analytics blog and the Google Developers blog -- Jan Kleinert Many people have been asking for a simple way to put Google Analytics data into a Google Spreadsheet. Once the data is inside a Google Spreadsheet, users can easily manipulate Google Analytics data, create new visualizations, and build internal dashboards. So today we released a new...

It’s time for the 2012 General Election in the United States and along with it comes the tedious process of finding your voter registration, polling sites, times, directions, etc. The previously announced Google Civic Information API provides a great service to programmatically obtain much of this information based on the your home address. Google Apps Script makes it really quick and easy to build...

The last session of Agile Vancouver 2010 was a unique opportunity to watch Linda Rising conduct a conference retrospective with the Agile Vancouver organizers. It was interesting to watch how she facilitated and I wrote down some of her techniques so that I could try them out. The following day during the tutorials Jeff Patton led us through a mini retrospective with his own interesting twists based on his story mapping experience. What follows is the fusion of their ideas.Note: This retrospective...

By Magnus Hyttsten, Developer Advocate, Google DriveWith todays developer preview of the Google Drive Android API in Google Play Services 4.1, you can add the convenience of Google Drive cloud storage to your apps without breaking a sweat.While Drive integration on Android was possible in the past, the new API creates a faster, seamless experience that enables your apps to integrate with the Drive...

Editors Note: Brent Frei is founder and chairman at SmartSheet. Smartsheet makes an online project management solution that employs a spreadsheet-like interface on top of a powerful work automation engine. We invited SmartSheet to share their experience with the Google Apps Marketplace.The ChallengeLast summer, the Smartsheet team had what I expect is a fairly typical Software as a Service (SaaS)...

Did you know you can write a complete Google Drive App with JavaScript that runs completely in the web browser? You can! Your browser-based application, including Chrome extensions, can take advantage of our client library, or just use CORS requests to the API. Your app can support all the functionality of the Drive API, including uploading files, downloading files, tracking changes, listing files...

Google Docs supports sharing collections and their contents with others. This allows multiple Google Docs resources to be shared at once, and for additional resources added to the collection later to be automatically shared. Class.io, an EDU application on the Google Apps Marketplace, uses this technique. When a professor creates a new course, the application automatically creates a Google Docs collection...

A simple thing was kinda blowing my mind lately. Theres a lot of fancy galleries out there. Jquery and others, where Highslide happens to remain one of the best. But as I went through all of them and being more or less impressed, on none of "XY most best wow galleries" have I noticed 1 to satisfy my ... kind of a simple need.What I (my client) wanted was a gallery that is inline as slideshow (with custom effects) and then as you click on the image, it enlarges into more-or-less full-screen...

Following up on our recent post about the new Doc List capability in Google Apps Script, we thought we’d take a moment to look a little more closely at another new feature in Apps Script - integration with Google Maps. Google Maps has had an API for quite some time, but now we’ve made it very easy to generate customized maps and driving directions straight from a script. A mail merge is often used...

At some point in your agile journey you begin to ask and/or hear this question: "Is agile suitable for all projects?"Here are some of the responses Ive heard from both those who are still learning about agile and those who have a lot of agile experience:Agile isnt necessary when you have a known problem and a known solution.Agile doesnt work in regulated environments.Agile doesnt work in government.Agile cant work in a large enterprise.etc.In my opinion and experience all of these answers...

Im going to make this post short and sweet!  Its a new month, which means its time for Farleys currently!Ive been working all day (literally all day!) on re-vamping my word wall, and I still have two Dolch lists to go.  Its amazing how much time we spend on making things just right for our classroo...

Link to article (By Roland Van Liew)"In the more than half a decade of e-learning availability, one thing has become clear: the Internet is not a good platform for teaching complex technical topics. ""But with over half a decade of e-learning availability, emerging statistics and studies conducted by a variety of institutions have yielded some interesting results: 57% of respondents to one study described their e-learning experience as "frustrating, lonely, and stressful;" The best e-learning...

Source This Article in other formats: Scribd SlideSharePDF  DISCOVERY The last time I looked in a mirror, I certainly didnt look like that! However, the DNA slide looks familiar. Oops, it looks like a slide from my DNA of a 21st Century Educator (Version 2) presentation. Awesome! Someone in China has translated my slide, and is sharing it with a group of local and international educators...

Okay, I admit it... I have been slightly neglecting my blog, but not because I havent been doing work!  Ive been working hard to prep for the new school year and for the Phonics, Vocabulary, and Comprehension PD that Katie (over at Kdots Learning Spot) and I have been working on!Well of course, this big TPT sale coming up tomorrow has inspired me to post a few of the things Ive been working on! ...