Sometimes, I am a front-end web developer. Frequently, I meet new people at work who want to turn really complicated Excel documents into dazzlingly interactive web applications.
Besides
Excel's "Save to Web App" or "Save to SharePoint" features, such people ask if I can tap into an industry to support this -- perhaps scads of agencies and web-based or downloadable tools that make "websites" or at least customizable, interactive reports from Excel spreadsheets, data, and calculations.
I'm yet to find this an abundance of examples of this. Are there? If so, what do you call them?
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posted by metajc
on Jan 9, 2013 -
2 answers
In this game, you roll a number of six-sided dice to get a
total. The total is either the highest single die result, or the sum of any multiples rolled, whichever is higher.
For example: If I roll three dice and get a 3, 4, and 6, my total is 6. But if I roll a 4, 4, and 6, my total is 8, the sum of the two 4s.
What I want to find out is the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation of the possible totals given N dice. How might I create a simple script to compute this?
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posted by j0hnpaul
on Nov 30, 2012 -
24 answers
I'm working on learning Ruby on Rails right now, and I'm starting to feel like I'm in way over my head. For those who have been there, what resources helped you find your footing?
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posted by ella wren
on Jan 21, 2012 -
14 answers
How does Ruby compare to C#/Java in terms of speed of development, quality of code and long-term maintainability? A broad question, I know, but my focus is on enterprise applications that might pull in from several large data sources and might be rather large.
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posted by geoff.
on Jul 30, 2011 -
15 answers
I've been doing LAMP web development for about ten years. I'd like to learn a new language to diversify my skills. What language should I choose?
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posted by ixohoxi
on Jan 7, 2011 -
32 answers
I'm teaching myself to program. I learned the basics with Ruby on Rails, and I'm now coding in Python and Javascript, but I want to try an Android app, and that requires that I use Java. Going from Ruby to Python to Javascript was relatively painless, but I feel like I'm starting all over looking at Java code. Does anyone have any tips for going from scripted languages to Java? Or any really great tutorials for getting started in Java? Or any great tutorials for beginning programmers for Android?
posted by empath
on Jan 25, 2010 -
13 answers
Foreword: No ruby background aside from basic tutorials.
Here's the deal. I've tired the Agile Web Dev (2nd edition) book for rails, very out of date. I need to learn something. I want to learn ruby on Rails. I've gone through the Rails guide on creating a rails blog (
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started_with_rails.html).
So, rather then buy it now (3rd edition of book as beta) or just wait, I want to get on the fast track to learn rails 2.2 (soon to be release 2.3) .
Basically I'm looking for a online resource super cheap or free that provides quality information relating to rails and ruby.
Help and suggestions welcome
posted by BoldStepDesign
on Feb 3, 2009 -
6 answers
I'm trying to learn Ruby. I know more than a little bit about VB Script, and have written some scripts to automate some windows tasks, mostly by editing existing scripts, things like pinging workstations, WMI connections looking for files and such. I've read http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram and worked through the tutorials and think I understand them. Now what....
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posted by TuxHeDoh
on Dec 5, 2008 -
7 answers
Is there a free library that will decode/read a barcode from an image?
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posted by Maia
on Dec 3, 2008 -
5 answers
Rails on Ubuntu.
I've followed this tutorial: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnUbuntu
Now how to do I access ror from my browser? Where do I put files for dev? Help please!!
posted by BoldStepDesign
on Oct 31, 2008 -
4 answers
If my favourite reference on C++ is
The C++ Programming Language by Stroustrup, what would be my favourite book on Ruby. (And my favourite book on Python.)
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posted by chunking express
on May 21, 2008 -
17 answers
How do I learn new programming languages and start using modern web apps without getting frustrated and angry?
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posted by Zarkonnen
on May 14, 2008 -
33 answers
I'm trying to compile and run a Java class from Ruby, but I'm having some problems. I'm not very experienced with Ruby- please help me figure out what I'm doing wrong.
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posted by version control
on Mar 24, 2008 -
7 answers
In my quest to learn Ruby, I'm struggling to find everyday usable code examples that i can relate to. Might you suggest some ?
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posted by jmnugent
on Mar 1, 2008 -
28 answers
I'm interested in attempting some work with Ruby on Rails. Other than some very elementary BASIC programming and HTML (yes, I know it's not a programming language), I have no programming experience.
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posted by joshrholloway
on Dec 29, 2007 -
6 answers
Parse freetext postal addresses to structured form for geocoding to KML?
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posted by joshwa
on Nov 1, 2007 -
3 answers
Looking for guidelines, principles, etc. for grokking the decision process for splitting up a Ruby on Rails application into controllers.
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posted by jxpx777
on Aug 25, 2007 -
4 answers
What's the best way (using the internet, and/or books) to learn how to query SQL databases with Ruby?
posted by anonymous
on Jun 10, 2007 -
3 answers
Which programming language can I learn relatively quickly for simple interpretation and manipulation of text files on my Windows box?
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posted by poweredbybeard
on Apr 12, 2007 -
28 answers
Rcodetools, possibly in conjunction with
Icicles, seems like it should be the bee's knees for doing Ruby code completion in Emacs. I need help getting it to actually work.
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posted by dmd
on Mar 7, 2007 -
2 answers
How can I efficiently and elegantly calculate a rolling sum of count-of-events in a time period from a list of event times?
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posted by dmd
on Jan 11, 2007 -
10 answers
What web technology/language should I learn to make simple online apps and just generally enhance my bare-bones knowledge of HTML?
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posted by Robot Johnny
on Dec 10, 2006 -
18 answers
I'm searching for a simple ruby/python database application tutorial.
A long time ago, like six years ago, I came across this simple tutorial for php/mysql that showed you, from the ground up, how to put a simple database of your video collection online.
Is there a similar tutorial that emphasizes creating a simple front-end for a mysql database using ruby or python, geared toward n00bs?
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posted by mecran01
on Sep 12, 2006 -
5 answers
Need a tinker-free Linux/MySql install for Ruby On Rails. Also, seeking advice for getting started in RoR.
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posted by Afroblanco
on Jun 27, 2006 -
19 answers
Everyone seems to love Ruby. But does it lend itself to web development, and is it "polished" enough to be used as one's primary language?
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posted by TheCowGod
on Jun 16, 2005 -
21 answers
