Category: Coding

We’re going to see really cool stuff from this. I was curious if 3D Touch in the new iOS devices provided continuous values, or a few discreet ones (light press, semi press, hard press).

Excitingly, you get a nice float back.

Who’s going to be the first to react to users squeezing their phones in a rage? #canfinallyhitstuffharder

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    //@IBOutlet weak var buttonOutlet: UIButton!
    
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }
    
    override func touchesMoved(touches: Set, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
        let touch = touches.first!
        let force = touch.force.description
        print(force)
    }

}

The other day an idea popped in my head for a side project that would involve the Gmail API. Whenever this happens, I normally hit up the developer site, find a simple tutorial, and immediately get my hands dirty.

A quick search led me to this page. It’s called a “Quickstart: Run a Gmail App in Python.” Perfect. I’ll run this script and be on my way in no time. Well, not so fast.

This tutorial assumes I’m doing development on my local machine where it can pop open a web browser and authorize the API access. Most of the time I don’t operate that way – I use a remote Linux server of some kind.

To get this quick start guide working on a remote server:

1. In the Google Developers Console, generate a client ID for a native application (this may work with other types of client IDs, but I know it works with a native one)
2. Save the client_secret JSON to the script directory
3. Add the ability to read command line arguments and call the function ‘tools.run_flow()’ instead of just ‘run’
4. Run the script with “–noauth_local_webserver” as an argument

Now when you run the script, you’ll get a link to copy into any browser to authorize the access. Then, you’ll get an auth code to paste back into your script.

I’ve included both scripts so that you can compare easily. I hope this saves others from frustration and I also hope Google improves the tutorial.

quickstart_original.py
quickstart.py

This is something I created over a year ago and I’ve decided to share the code in case someone finds it useful.

It’s nothing more than an example of using JavaScript to dynamically add connectable SVG objects.

Usage: 

• Click a node and drag
• Double-click to generate a node
• Click a node, hold down shift, then release over another node to connect

GitHub

A super quick, super simple little example of how to get started with the AWS SDK2 for PHP. It connects to the S3 service with your credentials and checks to see if a file exists.

1. Assuming you already have a LAMP setup, you may need to install php-pear:

   sudo apt-get install php-pear

2. Add the AWS channel and auto discover dependencies:

   pear channel-discover pear.amazonwebservices.com
   pear -D auto_discover=1 install pear.amazonwebservices.com/sdk

3. Download the .phar file here and throw it on your server in this script’s directory (for this example).
4. Replace the items in brackets and run the script. The [OBJECT KEY] is just the name of the file, so ‘mypicture.jpg’ in the root of the bucket would have the key ‘mypicture.jpg’.

 <?php

require 'aws.phar';

use Aws\Common\Aws;

$aws = Aws::factory(array(
   'key' => '[KEY HERE]',
   'secret' => '[SECRET HERE]'
));

$client = $aws->get('s3');

echo $client->doesObjectExist('[BUCKET NAME]', '[OBJECT KEY]');

?>

You’ll get back the boolean response of that call (assuming it makes it that far without error). Refer to the API documentation for the other methods and their responses.