That looks fantastically useful. It is impossible to overstate how big a draw this could be.
-Marshall On Jun 25, 10:41 pm, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: > (A continuation > ofhttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/669c9c...) > > A spreadsheet in Sage. Social Calc is by Dan Bricklin, who was > involved with building the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc. Artistic 2.0 > License, which FSF says is GPL-compatible. Pure Javascript, with some > PERL. Seems responsive enough, though I did not stress it. > > 1) Download a tar or zip file from https://github.com/DanBricklin/socialcalc > and unpack anywhere > > 2) chmod 700 socialcalcserver.pl (or whatever) > > 3) Execute socialcalcserver.pl > > Now a small web server will fire up and you get back a URL to that > server you can point to with your browser. Allows for saving files, > just answer with defaults on first use. > > 4) Applyhttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11489(Bruce > Cohen's iframe command) > > 5) In a worksheet run html.iframe("http://127.0.0.1:6557/";, 600, > 1000), adjusted to taste, and/or port > > OR, the idly curious can see a screenshot at > > http://buzzard.ups.edu/misc/social-calc-sage.png > > This is used by the One Laptop Per Child project on the XO, and there > seems to be a commercial project which wraps it with users, logins, > site admin, etc. > > Maybe there is is enough exposed to > > (a) make it easy to tightly integrate in a Sage worksheet, or attach > to a command-line session > > (b) and/or implement Dan Drake's idea of allowing Sage commands in > cells > > Rob -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
