How to retrieve and manipulate the Google Tag Manager data layer using JavaScript
There may be occasions where you need to retrieve or modify Google Tag Manager data layer values on the client using JavaScript. Trying to directly access the values …
Setting up search shortcuts in Google Chrome
If you are regularly conducting searches on the same sites (or web apps) you can speed up time by using search shortcuts in Google Chrome. In this example we’ll look …
Setting up Google Cloud DNS for a GoDaddy domain
This guide walks you through setting up Google Cloud DNS to serve requests for a domain name purchased via GoDaddy. Why use Google Cloud DNS? Using this service takes advantage …
Google Sheets: Triggering Google Apps Script functions with buttons
This guide walks you through creating “buttons” in Google Sheet’s UI to trigger Google Apps Script function calls. Google Apps Script is very handy for automating common tasks …
Configure WordPress to send emails through Gmail’s SMTP servers
Sending emails from WordPress Without any doubt, you will require WordPress to send out emails. Examples of these emails include: Sending out password reset instructions Notifying new users of their …
Using the Unix find command
The Unix find command The find command is a convenient way to search for files on your machine through the command line. The general form of the command is find …
Installing Stackdriver monitoring for Apache 2
This guide walks you through implementing Stackdriver monitoring for an Apache 2 server. Google Stackdriver is a freemium service that monitors and logs performance metrics of your applications and infrastructure …
Copy file contents to the clipboard in Mac OS X Terminal
Here is how to copy the contents of a file to your clipboard while you are in Terminal on Mac OS X. pbcopy < file.txt To confirm that the contents were …
Google Cloud Platform: assigning a static IP address to a VM instance
An external IP address is assigned to every Google Cloud Platform virtual machine (VM) instance that you create. This IP address can be used in your DNS settings so that …
Google Sheets: Joining data from two sheets based on a common key
This guide will walk you through combining data between two sheets in a Google Sheets spreadsheet. It makes use of a formula that utilises the MATCH(), VLOOKUP(), and ARRAYFORMULA functions. …