Blog posts¶
These are cool blog posts I’ve come across in the journey to both put this software review together and also in my jorney to develop xlcalculator and FlyingKoala.
Joel Spolsky¶
An ex-Excel team leader discussing some how’s and why’s of working in the Excel team.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-invented-here-syndrome/
This blog post explains why Excel calculates numbers that are different to the ones you get through other tools.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/09/26/explaining-the-excel-bug/
Dirk Gorissen¶
The genesis of PyCel.
Vincenzo Arcidiacono¶
Formulas creator Vincenzo is involved in this project CO2MPASS which is a vehicle simulator predicting NEDC CO2 emissions from WLTP. Formulas is used in CO2MPAS. It’s a good illustration on how these tools can potantially be used.
Steve Holden¶
Steve Holden is behind PyXll and runs a blog highlighting the potential of tools in this space using PyXll in the worked examples.