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Archive for March, 2007

VBA & JavaScript - glue languages

Posted in JavaScript, Proto, excel, kettle, programming, tagged , on March 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »

What have Javascript and VBA in common? Not much on the surface and their respective user bases rarely if ever overlap. What they do share are their roles as the imperative (the-if-then-else-loop-etc) programming languages of the “I’m not a programmer” programmers, the great unwashed, the “normal” people out there who [...]

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Mashup Match Making

Posted in Proto, RSSBus, excel, tagged on March 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been watching and trialing RSSBus since its initial public beta last May but had of late began to wonder had /N Software lost interest in the project.  But there appears to be light at the end of this particular beta tunnel with the announcement of the integration of the RSSBus engine into News Gataor’s NewsGator [...]

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Tables Vs. XML; the data lingua franca debate.

Posted in Proto, Web2.0, data, excel, programming, tagged on March 3, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Okay I’m exaggerating, there’s no debate, those using tables (mainly business-orientated techies/power-users) are blissfully unaware of the charms of XML; while those whose only answer to every data exchange problem is XML (or its Javascript cousin JSON) think tables are something people used to design HTML web sites before they discovered the delights of CSS [...]

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