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Jon Udell on the Nerd's Spreadsheet

Posted by kdawson on from the easy-way-to-generate-code dept.

rcs1000 writes "Jon Udell has a interesting article on a new type of spreadsheet: one targeted specifically at techies. The skinny is that any spreadsheet is actually a computer program, only in Resolver One, the product profiled in Udell's piece, this is explicit rather than implicit. And the code is IronPython rather than VBA. There are some other cool things it does — allowing cells to contain objects, and allowing spreadsheets to back-end websites." Udell's screencast gives a good demo, though the presenters are a bit hard to hear due to the phone connection. Resolver's own screencast is an alternative.

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  1. Can it... by O('_')O_Bush · · Score: 5, Funny

    Multiply 850*77.1 correctly?

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  2. Allowing spreadsheets to what? by winkydink · · Score: 4, Funny

    and allowing spreadsheets to back-end websites

    munge them?
    hack them?
    copulate with them?

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  3. Re:Logical conclusion by Teun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Life is a grid with a logic tree, dude. It's called Tetris.
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