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Spreadsheets: Headers

Published on April 18, 2018.

During my undergraduate, I barely used any spreadsheet software. One of my friends told me that spreadsheet software helped to turn the personal computer popular and Wikipedia can confirm it:

VisiCalc was the first electronic spreadsheet on a microcomputer,[9] and it helped turn the Apple II computer into a popular and widely used system.

Why I didn’t used spreadsheet? That’s a good question. Probably because I was more interested in learn Python. In the last two years, I spent a lot of time with spreadsheet software in front of me and I collected a long list of things that I hated in Microsoft Office Excel, LibreOffice Calc and Google Sheet. This is the first post of a serie covering my list.

National Coding Week: Full Stack of Pancakes

Published on September 19, 2017.

My friend Niall Beard recommended me to Sophie Ashcroft as a Git instructor for the National Coding Week activity that Sophie is organising with other members of Full Stack of Pancakes. After exchanged a few emails, the information that I have to try to plan the lesson was

• 2 hours long
• basic level
• mix of backgrounds
• focus on motivation

It is going to be a challenge and based on some of my previous experience teaching Git, the motivation part is very hard if you work with just one file or with isolated files, i.e. that don’t interact with any other. Over dinner, I was thinking of what game I could implemente in Liquid template language in less than 2 hours that could be interesting for learners to get motivated to learn Git. The solution, at the moment, is a Rock Paper Scissors game. If you look at the Git repository, it only has

R Markdown and Pandoc Template: releasing your super powers

Published on September 11, 2017.

This is a write version of my presentation at the R user group at the University of Manchester.

Motivation

Meet Alice and Bob.

Alice and Bob are researchers. Sometimes they have awesome ideas.

And sometimes they collaborate in an shared idea.

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Skrooge: Forecast report

Published on September 2, 2017.

I’m trying to better manage my personal finances and for that I spend some time looking at accounting software that offer a good forecasting report. Understand how to get the report from Skrooge wasn’t very easy so I’m going to write how I could get it.

Account

Skrooge support different accounts so you need to create one. Just fill the information on the form and the “Add” button will be enabled.

GUADEC 2017: Ecosystem

Published on July 30, 2017.

Today is the thirday and last day of GUADEC 2017 as a conference. There will be more three day as a unconference.

On the previous two days, I learned how much a integrated ecosystem of software application can make the user experience more pleasured and, for the case of first time users, more friendly. Unfortunately, have the completely ecosystem is hard to implement and keep consistence between the softwares is even more difficult.