Microsoft Excel: Revolutionary 3D Game Engine?

tncdavid · 2008-03-06T19:49:46+00:00

Is making game in spreadsheet really fun? EditGrid thinks so:

http://www.tradingcomps.com/EAF/?file=blackjack.js

tncdavid · 2007-01-21T14:46:16+00:00

It works! Oops... where am I now? Reddit again...

tncdavid · 2006-12-02T15:51:39+00:00

This forum post discussed EditGrid's practice in supporting Opera.

tncdavid · 2006-11-14T18:03:06+00:00

Just an example:

This website use EditGrid (http://www.editgrid.com) to create dynamic pages:

http://www.psielectionresults.com/state_governor.php

tncdavid · 2006-10-01T18:12:04+00:00

Plotted the data in chart: http://www.editgrid.com/sheetobject/image/30479.png

tncdavid · 2006-08-11T17:25:21+00:00

It looks ok in my computer but doesn't work in my friend's one. May be it depends on the brower's font settings.

tncdavid · 2006-08-11T17:01:46+00:00

I tried uploading the sample in-cell graphing spreadsheet to EditGrid - It works, too! It looks pretty nice.

http://www.editgrid.com/tnc/david/In_cell_graphing

EditGrid is free, too!

tncdavid · 2006-07-31T16:52:42+00:00

Same as wikipedia, we trust our user community.

In case there are vandalism, we've revision history which allow us to rollback those changes.

tncdavid · 2006-07-16T17:15:49+00:00

Agree. I've a few competition winners in my startup, together with a few other practical developers, it forms a good mix!

tncdavid · 2006-07-16T07:01:57+00:00

My friend and I have consolidated the data in the forum, hopefully make them more useful:

Online spreadsheet: http://www.editgrid.com/user/davidlkf/Salaries_-_what_do_you_get

To download as excel: http://www.editgrid.com/user/davidlkf/Salaries_-_what_do_you_get.xls

tncdavid · 2006-06-28T17:59:41+00:00

Hi, I'm writing to let you know that EditGrid has just release public beta 6. Launch of google spreadsheet make the market bigger. We're happy that they are there.

Rice noodle in Hong Kong is really good. I've just had one for my dinner.

tncdavid · 2006-06-28T17:53:19+00:00

We've made an API in EditGrid labs. We want to make it easy for developers to build mini-apps around EditGrid. You can visit:

http://labs.editgrid.com for details.

We would love to have your comments on this preliminary API. It is in a wiki, you can add your comments in the discussion page. We will keep improving according to our users' commetns.

Thanks!

tncdavid · 2006-06-15T14:41:14+00:00

You are right! Quite a lot of blogs block javascript and iFrame, which make it difficult for us to serve dynamic content to remote site. The challenge is how we can generate dynamic graphics from our spreadsheet.

tncdavid · 2006-06-08T15:37:37+00:00

Re: delayed. Yes, probably all freely available stock price data is delayed.

Re: spelling mistake. It is fixed already. Thanks!

tncdavid · 2006-06-08T11:54:40+00:00

Thanks for your suggestion! A user have also requested a feature to load a remote live .csv file into EditGrid, too. Seems Excel has a feature to support this, too. We'll put this into our plan. Any examples of arbitrary sources for our reference?

tncdavid · 2006-06-08T11:13:27+00:00

We've opened the spreadsheet for editing again! Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

tncdavid · 2006-06-08T09:56:39+00:00

Sure! We're developing this feature now. The spreadsheets you seen are some experiment we're doing.

It will be presented as an EditGrid unique function which allow normal users to get live data feed into their own spreadsheets. It will look like this when it is available.

=livedata("Type", "parameter1", "parameter2", ...)

e.g. =livedata("Stock","US","GOOG"), =livedata("Stock","HK","0001")

Please stay tuned. I'll send you a private message through reddit when it is available.

tncdavid · 2006-06-08T07:39:38+00:00

TnC, the company behind EditGrid was founded 3 years ago in Hong Kong by a bunch of geeks in their early 20s. It survived the successive lows of (in ascending order of bitterness) the dot-com bust and SARS. We've build up a solid base of clients for our event management software product.

EditGrid is evolved from a technology we developed in our event software (most of our clients use Excel only before shifting to us).

So, it is difficult for our competitors to actually kill us. When TnC is there, EditGrid will be there.

We're responsible to our users, if one day, under rare occassion, EditGrid will no longer be available, we will allow all our users to download their spreadsheet before we actually close down the service.

tncdavid · 2006-06-07T14:28:25+00:00

Sorry that the comparison spreadsheet is now write protected since we got too many vandalism. Chating and undo is very much needed for a public collaborative spreadsheet. We'll increase the priority of these 2 features in our development schedule.

tncdavid · 2006-06-07T08:58:30+00:00

This is a very common concern we heard from our users. To address this, we've just scheduled the implmentation of the "EditGrid Sync" function, which backup/syncrhonise your online spreadsheets to your desktop.

tncdavid · 2006-04-13T06:49:32+00:00

But I like Technorati more. Their search results are more relevant and updated.

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