How Spammers Avoid the Gmail Spam Filter through Google Forms

Gmail is very effective at filtering spam emails but spammers seem to have figured out a new way to bypass the spam filters and send emails that land right in the user’s inbox. The emails are sent through Google Forms and because the messages originate from Google’s own email servers, they do not get caught in the spam filters. ...

Feb 2021

Learning Vim for Beginners

Vim, or Vi Improved, is a powerful text editor that lets you do almost everything using keyboard shortcuts. You can replace text in a document, move or delete lines, automate edit actions, and more, without ever reaching for the mouse. Vim is the favorite source code editor of programmers but there’s no reason why you cannot use this editor for writing...

Jan 2021

How to Move Files Uploads from Google Forms to a Specific Folder in Google Drive

The File Upload feature of Google Forms lets you receive files from form respondents directly in your Google Drive. You may add the File Upload question in your Google Form to receive PDF assignments from students, résumé applications, portfolio images from contestants, and so on.When a respondent uploads a file through Google Forms, the file are stored...

Dec 2020

How to Send a File to Participants After they Submit your Google Form

When someone fills out your Google Form, you may want to send a file or two to the form respondent. For instance:A school teacher can send a Word document containing a copy of the answers to students who have completed the quiz.A musician can send her latest composition as an MP3 file to users who have completed her website survey built with Google...

Dec 2020

JavaScript Design Patterns

This article is a summary of the various design patterns in JavaScript that help us create clean, easier to maintain code without polluting the global namespace.Object Literal Design PatternTo avoid the possibility of collusion with other variables of the same name in the global namespace, take all your variables and functionn and make them part of...

Dec 2020

YouTube Email Alerts - Monitor Videos around your favorite Topics

The Google Alerts service makes it easy for you to monitor brand mentions and your favorite topics on the Internet. Just specify one or more keywords and Google will send an email notification when new web pages matching your search keywords are found on the web.The YouTube Email Alerts service is similar to Google Alerts but instead of scanning the...

Dec 2020

How to Share User Properties between Google Apps Script Projects

The Properties Service of Google Apps Script is used by developers to store app configuration and user specific settings. The properties data is scoped to a specific user, or a specific project, and cannot be shared between different projects.The Email Form Notifications add-on also uses the Properties Service to store rules that are defined by the...

Dec 2020

Useful JavaScript Functions

The code snippets are from a JavaScript course on Udemy.Create a function that can be invoked only once.const once = (fn, ...args) => { let called = false; return () => { if (called === false) { called = true; return fn(...args); } return 'Cannot call again'; }; }; const printName = (text, time) =>...

Dec 2020

How to Create JSON Web Token (JWT) with Google Apps Script

You can use Google Script to create JSON Web Tokens (JWT) that can be provided to secure routes so that only authenticated requests that contain a valid token can connect to the APIs (e.g., the Zoom API).All JSON Web Tokens have three parts:The header that specifies the hash algorithm that is used for signing and decrypting the JWT.The payload in JSON...

Nov 2020

Lite YouTube Embeds - A Better Method for Embedding YouTube Videos on your Website

It is easy to embed a YouTube video but you’ll be surprised to know how much extra weight a single YouTube video embed can add to your web pages. The browser has to download ~800 kB of data (see screenshot) for rendering the YouTube video player alone. And these files are downloaded even before the visitor has clicked the play button. ...

Nov 2020