On June 12, 2018, Google disabled inline installation of Chrome extensions. This means that now you can’t directly install an extension from a company’s website–you can only do it directly from… Continue reading "How to handle Google’s disabling of inline installations of Chrome extensions"
If you’re a developer using any part of Google’s API, you’ve likely received notices informing you that come March 7, 2019, the Google+ API will be shut down. There’s been… Continue reading "How to get a Google user’s email address after the Google+ API shutdown"
If you’re the developer of a Chrome extension, after a user installs your extension from the Chrome Web Store, you may want to redirect the user to a particular website. For… Continue reading "How to redirect the user to a website after installing a Chrome extension"
People have been walking around with microphones in their pockets for years but only recently has mobile browser support reached the level required to build a fully cross-platform, feature-rich, browser-based audio… Continue reading "How to record audio from a mobile web page on iOS and Android"
As the developer of two Chrome extensions, GMass and Wordzen, I’m always on the lookout for what other Chrome extension developers are doing. Mailtrack is a popular Chrome extension for Gmail… Continue reading "Mailtrack just did something brilliant"
In October 2017, Google released its Gmail “Add-on” platform, allowing developers to create add-ons for Gmail that work on both desktop and mobile (well Android right now, iOS coming later).… Continue reading "How to develop a “Gmail Add-on” without going insane"
GMass runs entirely on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and it runs mostly on the Microsoft platform of web and database technologies, including using Microsoft SQL Server to store all user… Continue reading "Measuring the speed of AWS’s Cold HDD EBS Volume Type for SQL Server backups"
This article is geared towards software developers interested in the Gmail API. GMass makes extensive use of two APIs — the Inbox SDK API, made by Streak, and the Gmail… Continue reading "How to call the Gmail API in .NET without using the client library"
If you’ve sent a Gmail mail merge campaign with GMass and were notified that this error was generated while sending to your email addresses: An Error occurred, but the error response… Continue reading "What the “An Error occurred, but the error response could not be deserialized” error means"
