Finn Smith

My first Google sheets add-on is published! To be totally honest, I made it mainly to see what was involved. I really like the work that Andrew Stillman has been doing with New Visions for Public Schools, including Doctopus and formMule, and I wanted to see if I could do similar things for higher ed or international ed.

My add-on is called Text Adder, and it pretty much just does what the name indicates. Once it’s installed, the user can select a range of cells, and Text Adder will add a chosen text to the beginning or end of every cell in the range.

Text Adder in the add-on store

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When I started this blog, I tried out Squarespace and found its UI kind of annoying. It felt like I was spending too much time learning how to use Squarespace, rather than simply editing HTML and CSS directly.

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One of the biggest issues with Google Apps Script (GAS) is that it doesn’t have any real version control system. Last month I started using GitHub (through this course on Udacity) and was disappointed to discover that there is no way to directly integrate Git with GAS projects. If you’ve never used Git, it’s an awesome way to keep track of and merge code file versions. Without it, it can be extremely hard to try out new things or discover when bugs have been introduced. There’s a GAS ticket open for this lack of version control, so please star it if you agree that it’s a problem.

Fortunately, there’s a workaround. The Google Plugin for Eclipse 
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