I am a spreadsheet neophyte. Many years of extreme proficiency with sed, awk, perl, and korn shell scripting have made spreadsheets not very interesting to me. I am finding myself doing a few repeat tasks over and over and I thought it was time to teach myself a little something new. So I have been collecting data from the various primary delegate tracking sites and putting it into a simple spreadsheet that does the math for me:
http://web.mac.com/scottdavidnolan/Site/Blog
I am using iWork’s Numbers programs to generate these tables, and it has been fun. Numbers is easy to use, and limited, but a great first stab at the spreadsheet genre. I wish I could have a keyboard shortcut to export my work though.
I gotta say that for simple work like this the awk, sed, and korn shell scripts stomp all over spreadsheets though…
In other news, I just started playing with Colloquy (Mac OSX Internet Chat client) for IRC connectivity and it looks nice.
Oh, and both Solaris zones and Xen virtualization (on OpenSuSE) are quite handy at work.
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