Comments for Tomas Varsavsky http://tomasvarsavsky.com Ramblings about life, the universe and everything Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:19:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 Comment on Simple Word document templating using Ruby and XML by Reuben http://tomasvarsavsky.com/2009/04/04/simple-word-document-templating-using-ruby-and-xml/comment-page-1/#comment-257 Reuben Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:56:20 +0000 http://tomasvarsavsky.com/?p=28#comment-257 Hi Tomas, looks like a great solution! Would you mind sharing how you generated/manipulated tables on the ruby side? Feel free to email a file my way if that is easier or saves you time... Thanks very much, Reuben. Hi Tomas,

looks like a great solution! Would you mind sharing how you generated/manipulated tables on the ruby side? Feel free to email a file my way if that is easier or saves you time…

Thanks very much,
Reuben.

]]> Comment on Simple Word document templating using Ruby and XML by jcran http://tomasvarsavsky.com/2009/04/04/simple-word-document-templating-using-ruby-and-xml/comment-page-1/#comment-254 jcran Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:24:09 +0000 http://tomasvarsavsky.com/?p=28#comment-254 tomas, any chance you could make the code for this public? i also have a requirement to drop data from a database into word format. this is the most straight-forward method i have found, but could definitely use a little bit of guidance in this method. jcran tomas,

any chance you could make the code for this public? i also have a requirement to drop data from a database into word format. this is the most straight-forward method i have found, but could definitely use a little bit of guidance in this method.

jcran

]]> Comment on TODO: Learn stuff by Rob Dawson http://tomasvarsavsky.com/2008/02/25/todo-learn-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-243 Rob Dawson Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:34 +0000 http://tomasvarsavsky.com/2008/02/25/todo-learn-stuff/#comment-243 Sorry about being late to ask... so what did you learn? Sorry about being late to ask… so what did you learn?

]]> Comment on JAOO Sydney 2009 Review by scot http://tomasvarsavsky.com/2009/05/09/jaoo-sydney-2009-review/comment-page-1/#comment-239 scot Sat, 16 May 2009 23:02:10 +0000 http://tomasvarsavsky.com/?p=44#comment-239 In regards to Mike Cannon-Brooke's 'emphasis' on code reviews: well, you have to remember that Mike's company will sell you a code review tool. ;-) I took some issue with a couple of other comments he made (fully documented on my blog) but overall I quite enjoyed his talk especially the parts you mention above. We generally use Hudson for CI and it started me thinking how to get those sorts of advanced statistics into that tool. Attendance in Brisbane must have been an issue also because in the last week up to the conference the market got flooded with $250 tickets (which I took advantage of). Luckily I thought it was fairly well attended, I didn't go last year, but a lot of the sessions were packed, people sitting on the floor because of a lack of seats. In some ways the two days off were more important than the price for me, it took me away from a client site, they are a little nervy about their project and their consultant's involvement for no really good reason. But the cheap tickets meant I could not resist. I saw a couple of good talks from your thoughtworker collegues, Erik Doernenburg in particular I thought was good - I didn't see Dan North's, it was competing with Erik's. As for Melbourne, it will have to prise the conference off Sydney, because of Dave Thomas's involvement he apparently insists it comes to Brisbane, where he's got some involvement with QUT. ;-) In regards to Mike Cannon-Brooke’s ‘emphasis’ on code reviews: well, you have to remember that Mike’s company will sell you a code review tool. ;-) I took some issue with a couple of other comments he made (fully documented on my blog) but overall I quite enjoyed his talk especially the parts you mention above. We generally use Hudson for CI and it started me thinking how to get those sorts of advanced statistics into that tool.

Attendance in Brisbane must have been an issue also because in the last week up to the conference the market got flooded with $250 tickets (which I took advantage of). Luckily I thought it was fairly well attended, I didn’t go last year, but a lot of the sessions were packed, people sitting on the floor because of a lack of seats. In some ways the two days off were more important than the price for me, it took me away from a client site, they are a little nervy about their project and their consultant’s involvement for no really good reason. But the cheap tickets meant I could not resist.

I saw a couple of good talks from your thoughtworker collegues, Erik Doernenburg in particular I thought was good - I didn’t see Dan North’s, it was competing with Erik’s.

As for Melbourne, it will have to prise the conference off Sydney, because of Dave Thomas’s involvement he apparently insists it comes to Brisbane, where he’s got some involvement with QUT. ;-)

]]> Comment on JAOO Sydney 2009 Review by Colin Goudie http://tomasvarsavsky.com/2009/05/09/jaoo-sydney-2009-review/comment-page-1/#comment-238 Colin Goudie Sat, 16 May 2009 11:43:08 +0000 http://tomasvarsavsky.com/?p=44#comment-238 I was very close to attending but in the end didn't mainly due to already having taken a month of work. However, I didn't realise attendance was an issue. In that case, I wonder if they're better off telling people this in advance and lowering the cost, it would then attract those who may even fork it out of their own pockets. I was very close to attending but in the end didn’t mainly due to already having taken a month of work. However, I didn’t realise attendance was an issue. In that case, I wonder if they’re better off telling people this in advance and lowering the cost, it would then attract those who may even fork it out of their own pockets.

]]> Comment on Simple Word document templating using Ruby and XML by Tomas Varsavsky http://tomasvarsavsky.com/2009/04/04/simple-word-document-templating-using-ruby-and-xml/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Tomas Varsavsky Thu, 14 May 2009 12:48:52 +0000 http://tomasvarsavsky.com/?p=28#comment-235 If they know ruby, yes. They create document properties with the right expression and can then insert them as fields. Our users don't know ruby so we give them a catalogue of pre-canned document properties with appropriate expressions in the document. We make the name of the property human readable so when they do 'insert field' they can choose one from the list of available properties. If they know ruby, yes. They create document properties with the right expression and can then insert them as fields. Our users don’t know ruby so we give them a catalogue of pre-canned document properties with appropriate expressions in the document. We make the name of the property human readable so when they do ‘insert field’ they can choose one from the list of available properties.

]]> Comment on Simple Word document templating using Ruby and XML by Gerald Clette http://tomasvarsavsky.com/2009/04/04/simple-word-document-templating-using-ruby-and-xml/comment-page-1/#comment-234 Gerald Clette Thu, 14 May 2009 08:31:22 +0000 http://tomasvarsavsky.com/?p=28#comment-234 Yes, That sounds pretty cool. One question remains for me : how do your users can add easily the fields in the docx if they want to ? That is to say : can your user "design" a docx which contains these fields and then pass this docx in a "black box" taht detect fldSimple and replace it ? If the answer is 'yes' : how can he find out which field to create ? Help file ? Drag & drop from a list ? Thank you Yes, That sounds pretty cool.
One question remains for me : how do your users can add easily the fields in the docx if they want to ?
That is to say : can your user “design” a docx which contains these fields and then pass this docx in a “black box” taht detect fldSimple and replace it ? If the answer is ‘yes’ : how can he find out which field to create ? Help file ? Drag & drop from a list ?
Thank you

]]> Comment on Simple Word document templating using Ruby and XML by Links for 05/04/2009 | Coded Style http://tomasvarsavsky.com/2009/04/04/simple-word-document-templating-using-ruby-and-xml/comment-page-1/#comment-233 Links for 05/04/2009 | Coded Style Tue, 12 May 2009 03:00:48 +0000 http://tomasvarsavsky.com/?p=28#comment-233 [...] (#LanguageTrollBait)  I came across a post that Tomas Varsavsky wrote a month ago on how to generate DOCX files from a template that includes Ruby source code, using a technique that includes actual Ruby source code within fields.  Very [...] [...] (#LanguageTrollBait)  I came across a post that Tomas Varsavsky wrote a month ago on how to generate DOCX files from a template that includes Ruby source code, using a technique that includes actual Ruby source code within fields.  Very [...]

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