I'm currently exploring different integrations that can be done between Google App Script and Git. This is part of a bigger attempt to integrate Git data into my project management system. I'll post more on that later. GitHub supports a number of very nice sub-systems. One of them is the GitHub Issues ticket tracking system. It's fairly robust and comes with GitHub - which means it's highly integrated out-of-the-box. Integration with Google's App Script is done via the fetchURL command and JSON object manipulation. After a good bit of experimentation, I've settled on querying GitHub Issues with an "on open spreadsheet event" to avoid issues with Google's quota system. Essentially, Google prevents you from calling the fetchURL command more than X times (see the quota limits ) per day. That's not great if you have people actively working and changing data in a spreadsheet. Some of my other App Script routines are running thousands of times per d
For everyone who isn't hiding under a rock, Embarcadero has agreed to acquire CodeGear from Borland. I'm sure all of us who have been annoyed with Borland for the last 5 years are relieved that the other shoe has finally dropped. Why 5 years you ask? Let's call a spade, a spade, and say the last really good release of Delphi was Delphi 7 until Delphi 2007 hit the scenes. That comprises a 5 year window where Delphi basically floundered around trying to be things that the core audience really didn't care about in a way that hurt sales and led everyone to assume that there would not really BE another good version of Delphi... ever. Fortunately, Delphi 2007 came out and changed that. Not right off the bat, it did take a service pack (or two) to get things flowing relatively smoothly, but I think everyone pretty much agrees that 2007 is the version to beat now. The biggest question is probably, "What's the future of Delphi?" Not in a "Delphi sucks" s