Written Meanderings

Turing School of Software Design: Module 1, Week 2 Week two of my Turing School Module 1 experience is in the books and I am feeling great. This week we finished a project called CompleteMe and had classes covering topics ranging from Agile Development to Test Driven Design to Ruby's Object... [Read More]

Turing School of Software Design: Module 1, Week 1 This week I started a new professional adventure at the Turing School of Software Design, a seven month long web application development program located in the heart of Denver, Colorado. As I began to research coding bootcamps, I struggled with the... [Read More]

Harvester for Google Drive Web Application I'm excited to announce the Beta release of Harvester for Google Drive, a web application that harvests information about files in a selected Google Drive folder and writes that data to a new spreadsheet. Several readers over the last few months have asked about... [Read More]

Objective Readers will be able to use Google Apps Script to take a response from a Google Form and turn it into a Google Calendar event. WHY THIS MATTERS Google Forms are incredibly useful for collecting information from users. By creating a form with date, start time, and end time... [Read More]

Objective Readers will be able to use the ARRAYFORMULA(), VLOOKUP() and MATCH() functions in Google Sheets to combine multiple sources of data on to a single sheet. Why this matters Schools may have multiple core data systems with limited integration. Getting an accurate understanding of a child's progress towards key... [Read More]