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> a lot of us underestimate is the flexibility of things like spreadsheet Even though I love using cool and new tech I often ask first, "can a spreadsheet do t
by throwaway2016a 10y ago
> a lot of us underestimate is the flexibility of things like spreadsheet
Even though I love using cool and new tech I often ask first, "can a spreadsheet do this?" Or as is often the case now, a Google Doc spreadsheet.
For example, our office TV dashboard is just Chrome with an off-the-shelf plugin that cycles through open tabs that are mostly display Google Sheets.
It has two benefits:
- It took almost no time at all to set up and 0 code
- Non-technical people can update the numbers easily
Plus Google has an API so if we wanted to add data to the sheets programmatically we could.
- Bahamut 10y agoThat's pretty much what my company does, and we're a SaaS company. Simple is better oftentimes.
- zitterbewegung 10y agoA company I used to work at got burned because their scheduling system based on a google doc spreadsheet broke due to google pushing a new change.
- _coldfire 10y agoI've seen a few companies using google docs because no one knew excel also has a collaborative spreadsheet mode. All had MSoffice. Last place had about 60 users. Average load time for the gdocs page is ~90 seconds. Users access the page dozens of times a day, most leave it open as a tab but memory usage became an issue. Ever-increasing spreadsheet size eventually meant multiple computers were crashing/becoming unusable with the sheet open. I offered to migrate it to Excel/VBA, was an old tiny codebase for simple calculations. Management bought more RAM instead, made me laugh.
- dgfgfdagasdfgfa 10y ago> Excel/VBA I don't believe this works on the mac; has this changed?
- _coldfire 10y agoThere's MSoffice for mac, haven't used it but it certainly exists. Unless you mean VBA? Don't see why they'd sell office without macros.