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Re: Google's Code Editor

#11

This is actually pretty cool, one step closer to making Google Docs a worthy competitor to Office. If they combine this with an Access-type database app, it could be a great tool for businesses. Although using the interface builder brings back memories of VB...

The UI designer from old-school VB the best part about it. Obviously, the language part was crap. I think that forms designer still represents a rapid UI development environment that many languages/environments have not reached.

Re: Google's Code Editor

#12

Is there an article explaining this or anything? I couldn't seem to get to it anywhere from the main google docs/drive page (although I didn't look very hard). 'docs.google.com' also isn't being translated to 'drive.google.com' like it normally is. I hope they end up expanding this and using it for things like phone code interviews, though. Coding via the regular google docs interface was a bit of a pain.

Checkout the help menu, it has links to:

The documentation[1] And the old support channel[2]… …which is now officially at[3]

[1] https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guide [2] http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/apps-script [3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-apps-script

Re: Google's Code Editor

#13

This is actually pretty cool, one step closer to making Google Docs a worthy competitor to Office. If they combine this with an Access-type database app, it could be a great tool for businesses. Although using the interface builder brings back memories of VB...

I think the interface builder resembles more interfaces builders for Java than Visual Basic and Delphi ones...

And that's good IMHO

Re: Google's Code Editor

#16

This is an awesome tool. Has anyone tested to see if it supports collaborative editing the same way other google docs tools do? If so, this would be a great alternative to screen in some cases, and would definitely go in my interviewers toolkit.

It does not.

Re: Google's Code Editor

#18

This is an awesome tool. Has anyone tested to see if it supports collaborative editing the same way other google docs tools do? If so, this would be a great alternative to screen in some cases, and would definitely go in my interviewers toolkit.

FWIW, Google used to (still do?) use Google Docs as their recruitment tool for code screening.

Re: Google's Code Editor

#19

Is there an article explaining this or anything? I couldn't seem to get to it anywhere from the main google docs/drive page (although I didn't look very hard). 'docs.google.com' also isn't being translated to 'drive.google.com' like it normally is. I hope they end up expanding this and using it for things like phone code interviews, though. Coding via the regular google docs interface was a bit of a pain.

See http://developers.google.com/apps-script/articles/yourfirsts... .

Re: Google's Code Editor

#20

This is actually pretty cool, one step closer to making Google Docs a worthy competitor to Office. If they combine this with an Access-type database app, it could be a great tool for businesses. Although using the interface builder brings back memories of VB...

The UI designer from old-school VB the best part about it. Obviously, the language part was crap. I think that forms designer still represents a rapid UI development environment that many languages/environments have not reached.

Probably not a very popular opinion here on HN, but the raw productivity you can achieve in the VBA/Office world is hard to reach anywhere else.
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