Build Your Own Localized Events Calendar using Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph

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Finding out what’s going on in your city can be a bit of a chore. For me, I use a combination of Facebook, specifically accounts for local organizations and news channels, and our local Reddit forum. This is… haphazard at best. I’m sure local "city wide" calendars exist, but I’m not aware of any that is used by the majority of folks nor do I trust them to actually cover everything going on. Having played with Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph last month ("Automating and Responding to Sentiment Analysis with Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph"), I thought I’d do some digging to see what would be possible via their API. Here’s what I was able to... more →
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JavaScript print Events

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Media queries provide a great way to programmatically change behavior depending on viewing state. We can target styles to device, pixel ratio, screen size, and even print. That said, it’s also nice to have JavaScript events that also allow us to change behavior. Did you know you’re provided events both before and after printing? I’ve always used @media print in stylesheets to control print display, but JavaScript provides beforeprint and afterprint events: function toggleImages(hide = false) { document.querySelectorAll('img').forEach(img ={ img.style.display = hide ? 'none' : ''; }); } // Hide images to save toner/ink during printing window.addEventListener('beforeprint',... more →
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Monitor Events and Function Calls via Console

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Despite having worked on the very complex Firefox for a number of years, I’ll always love plain old console.log debugging. Logging can provide an audit trail as events happen and text you can share with others. Did you know that chrome provides monitorEvents and monitor so that you can get a log each time an event occurs or function is called? Monitor Events Pass an element and a series of events to monitorEvents to get a console log when the event happens: // Monitor any clicks within the window monitorEvents(window, 'click') // Monitor for keyup and keydown events on the body monitorEvents(document.body, ['keyup', 'keydown']) You can pass an array of events to listen for multiple... more →
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Google Maps begins letting users create public events – The Verge

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Google Maps begins letting users create public events  The Verge Google Maps’ first try at AR navigation is janky but exciting  The Next Web Google Maps is making it easier for us to spot public events, here’s how  Times of India Here is How to Set Google Maps Event  PhoneWorld Magazine View full coverage on Google News “map app” – Google News… more →
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How to add your calendar events to the Google Maps app – CNET

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CNET How to add your calendar events to the Google Maps appCNETLate last week, Google announced a closer integration between two of its very popular services, Maps and Calendar. Events added to your Google Calendar — either manually or automatically via Gmail — will be viewable in Google Maps for quick access to …Apple Maps in iOS 10: REVIEW – Business InsiderBusiness InsiderGoogle Maps Just Got Even More Useful | TrendinTechTrendintech (press release)all 5 news articles » map app – Google News… more →
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