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At work we built a BI tool around Scratch (Blockly) back in 2013. It’s still seeing daily use: https://www.dialogic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/demo1.gif http

At work we built a BI tool around Scratch (Blockly) back in 2013. It’s still seeing daily use: https://www.dialogic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/demo1.gif https://www.dialogic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/demo1.gif

alonmln 4y ago
Awesome!
cphoover 4y ago
Very cool
solardev 4y ago
Cool! It's like a homebrewed alternative to Google Data Studio.
anyfactor 4y ago
This is the coolest thing I have seen this week! Is the program open sourced? I firmly believe Scratch should be taught at university level for business students. We studied C, C++, VB and MS Access. We didn't understand crap, nor the instructors had any interest in teaching that crap. Scratch is a wonderful tool for any people to dip their toes in programming. And stuff like this makes me double down on this idea. Scratch should be the first thing to be taught to teach programming regardless of education level. BI tool and database interaction is the perfect and practical application of Scratch.
tayloramurphy 4y ago
This is genuinely amazing - I'd love to give it a try. Any chance any of the work your team put into it is open source?
- misterdata 4y ago
  This was actually built between 2012-2013 - it is quite a tangle of old and rusty (but very reliable) PHP code and IE9-era, 'jQuery-esque' JavaScript. Realistically this can't be usefully made open source (and if it were it would probably have to be rewritten in order to be more generally useful). That said I would be very interested in an open source re-implementation of this using modern techniques!
  - blacksoil 4y ago
    Please let us know if you decide to open source it! Very cool :)
sagaro 4y ago
this is pretty amazing
tomthe 4y ago
Please post this gif as a show hn, so it gets some attention and maybe someone builds on top of this idea!
- misterdata 4y ago
  See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32130444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32130444 (not Show HN, but as it is not that new I thought a retrospective blog post would be more interesting)
  - tomthe 4y ago
    Thank you! It is a nice article. When I saw it on the frontpage I went to my comments to check whether it was submitted by you or someone else.
raydiatian 4y ago
Blockly is great. We were able to deploy it as an interface for managing complex business rule configuration files, for non-cs types.

alonmln 4y ago

Awesome!

cphoover 4y ago

Very cool

solardev 4y ago

Cool! It's like a homebrewed alternative to Google Data Studio.

anyfactor 4y ago

This is the coolest thing I have seen this week! Is the program open sourced? I firmly believe Scratch should be taught at university level for business students. We studied C, C++, VB and MS Access. We didn't understand crap, nor the instructors had any interest in teaching that crap. Scratch is a wonderful tool for any people to dip their toes in programming. And stuff like this makes me double down on this idea. Scratch should be the first thing to be taught to teach programming regardless of education level. BI tool and database interaction is the perfect and practical application of Scratch.

tayloramurphy 4y ago

This is genuinely amazing - I'd love to give it a try. Any chance any of the work your team put into it is open source?

misterdata 4y ago
This was actually built between 2012-2013 - it is quite a tangle of old and rusty (but very reliable) PHP code and IE9-era, 'jQuery-esque' JavaScript. Realistically this can't be usefully made open source (and if it were it would probably have to be rewritten in order to be more generally useful). That said I would be very interested in an open source re-implementation of this using modern techniques!
- blacksoil 4y ago
  Please let us know if you decide to open source it! Very cool :)

sagaro 4y ago

this is pretty amazing

tomthe 4y ago

Please post this gif as a show hn, so it gets some attention and maybe someone builds on top of this idea!

misterdata 4y ago
See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32130444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32130444 (not Show HN, but as it is not that new I thought a retrospective blog post would be more interesting)
- tomthe 4y ago
  Thank you! It is a nice article. When I saw it on the frontpage I went to my comments to check whether it was submitted by you or someone else.

raydiatian 4y ago

Blockly is great. We were able to deploy it as an interface for managing complex business rule configuration files, for non-cs types.