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I've built a mobile airpollution sensor together with a few other parents and their kids at my 8-year old son's primary school in London. Air pollution is a big topic as the school…

I quite like daff (have used it for diffing Excel sheets): https://github.com/paulfitz/daff

True. But isn't it a bit too easy to just tell people to stop using Excel (which they won't do anyway) instead of giving them something to help them solve their problems _within_ t…

feel free to drop me an email: bjoern.stiel@zoomeranalytics.com

great story. I used to train on a C152 and knew a few guys at the local aerodrome who had done ferry flights from the US to the UK. Which is something I (as a shitty weekend VFR pi…

We have a tool that makes Git understand Excel workbook files: https://www.xltrail.com Is that something that might help?

Ok, here's he full story: We have a product ( https://www.xltrail.com ) that makes git diff and all that work with Excel workbooks. So you get a lot more out of it than dropbox/dri…

In general, yes. However, from my own experience, there is a (small and industry-specific) subset of "Excel developers", especially in investment banks, hedge funds etc that know b…

Commit your Excel workbook to a Git repository. I know it's a binary file so you can't diff or merge out of the box, but at least you get the commit history. Does that make more se…

I would say that Joel Spolsky's video is one of the best ones out there (I used to be a die-hard Excel dev on a trading floor). Other than that, we have a collection of open-source…

It's an interesting idea (though I'm not sure how much appetite there is out there). We've built a version-control app on top of Git for workbook files (www.xltrail.com) so I know …