Google apis dot net

No more Beta

Yesterday on the Google Developers blog  they announced the release of version 1.8.1 of the Google APIs client library for dot net.    The big change in this version is the removal of the  -Pre and -Rc tags.     That’s right we aren’t in beta anymore.      All of the Google.Apis packages on […]


The Road to GDE 3

 You may not have heard of the term GDE before. Up until a month ago, I’m not sure if I had even heard of it. From what I have been able to find out, the GDE program started sometime in 2010 in Japan as an API Expert program. The idea […]


Is Open Authentication really secure?

I have been using Open Authentication for over a year now, in that time I feel I have become comfortable with the knowledge of how it works.   That knowledge lead me to start thinking a little out of the box, with regards to how we are allowing people to access […]


Google Analytics

Length of Label In Event-Tracking

Yesterday I posted a question to the Google Analytics community on Google+. I was looking for information as to the max length that could be sent to a label in a Google Analytics Event Tracking. You can follow the question here: Post As you know the Event Tracking code takes […]


Google Analytics Developers

I thought it was time that the Google Analytics Developer Community unite under there own Community on Google+.    Google Drive Developers and Developing with Google+ both have there own community just for developers I thought it was time that we as a group have one as well. My hope for […]


Google 3 Legged OAuth2 Flow 28

The following is a quick reference example of three legged OAuth2  request to Google. Note: client_id, redirect_uri, client_secret are all values that you have set up for your app in Google Developers Console. Scope will depend upon which Google Api you would like to access, more then one can be […]


Google Analytics Logo

Ga Makeover Logo edition

It looks like the Graphics department at Google has been hard at work.   Last week they changed the sidebar for Google Analytics you can read about that in my post GA Makeover – SideBar Addition.  This week there’s a new Google Analytics Logo.   As of yet I have […]


Google Developers console 1

Its time we take a look at the new Cloud console, its quite different then the old Google Apis console.     I don’t think we have much longer before the turn off the old version completely so we might as well get used to using the new version now. […]


Google Analytics

GA Extreme Makeover – SideBar Edition

It looks like they are changing Google Analytics again.   I started getting wind of this change a few days ago but until today I couldn’t see the change myself.  The changes are to the toolbar/SideBar and the header/Nav bar to me they look purely cosmetic.    If you don’t have […]


Google Analytics

Custom Dimensions and Metrics 7

In this post we will be taking a quick look at custom dimensions in Google Universal  Analytics.     Before Universal Analtyics we used to create custom variables to track extra information.   As an example we are going to use the Catagories and Tags here on my website.    I […]