Stefano Tranquillini

Since my last post. Many things have changed.

I should post more often, but I don’t have much interesting thing.

I've a problem, i often receive emails and i don't have time to read. i would like to postpone them later in the day or the day after (somehow as mailbox does in the iphone).I don't want to have them unread in the inbox, that's something that bothers me a lot. It feels like that i've things to do (and it's true). So what i need is a way to postone the emails. Something that moves away from the inbox the emails and put them back in the inbox (as if they were just received) when it's time.

So i did it.

To make this working you have to:

create a script on script.google.com and post the code.

create the labels (Delay/Midday, Delay/Tonight, Delay/Tomorrow,Delay/Nextweek)

create the triggers (the sort-of balloon with the clock inside) as in the picutres

  EDIT: change tomorrow from midnight to 1am. add morining from 7am to 8am

crash course on how it works:

nextweek: moves email every sunday to tomorrow in the evening of sunday. Thus they will be in your inbox when tomorrow triggers on monday monring.

markMailAsRead: reads your inbox and mark email as read and archives them. Thus, you just need to label them and that's it.

tonight: moves email into inbox at afternoon (4pm)

midday: moves emails into inobox at midday 

tomorrow: moves email into morining at midnight

Lately I discovered the Google App script http://www.google.com/script/start/. Basically you can write scripts for all the google apps.

I found it very worth for Gmail, to keep my inbox clean and tidy.

Basically i have two problems:

- when i receive a message on the phone the notification pop-up only have archive and reply. this means that mails get archived but still are unread (and i find it very annoying).

- i often forget to archive emails, so my inbox is full of stuff.

GApp Script are amazing for this. 

here following the script i wrote.

Lately I've been writing functions for managing data for the Crowdcomputer.

I just tried out hte new Android Studio. i had problems to run the demos.

here are two answers that helped me.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/13719616/1257185

Lately i'm working on AMT APIs and i found out that there are a lot of things that probably are good to spread around. i've in my to do list to post some examples.

I bought a couple of days ago the Arduino Starter Kit. Worth to buy.

While ago i lost a lot of time struggling on how to crawl user's data from facebook once he logs in with it.

If you need a free hosting that allow you to host PHP/Java/Python/Django plus DB and other services AppFog is the best. 

Well, the only drawback so far is: It's not much reliable when you do update. sometimes it takes DAYS to have your application running on their server. 

While developing our crowdcomputer we run into an annoying problem that just raised (to us) due to the new google forms. The fact is, when you try to access via curl&similar to a google form link, it returns a 302 error. The reason is on what google did. Thy put a list of forwards to check if it's a browser (which follow forwards) or a machine/bot. In our case, we used curl inside a php page. 

This is what you should write to be able to access your page via CURL

this is a snippet about how to add to your settings.py in order to run the application on localhost or AppFog.

Just finished to read the book. It's OK, not a masterpiece as someone said but still a good book for being read in spear time. The story is a mix of surrealism and "real" facts.

If you don't know what to read give it a try.