Author Archives: dougaj4

4 Year Report

Posted on 25/02/2012 by dougaj4

As in previous years, I have downloaded the statistics for this blog for the previous year, and pasted them into a worksheet. The link to each post is preserved in the spreadsheet, so it makes a convenient index to what … Continue reading →

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Strand7 API GetNode functions

Posted on 19/02/2012 by dougaj4

As promised in this post, I have written and documented Excel User Defined Functions (UDFs) to interface with all the Strand7 API functions that return node attributes or results.  These 22 functions allow node attributes and results to be read directly … Continue reading →

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Embedding Skydrive worksheets in WordPress

Posted on 16/02/2012 by dougaj4

On the Download page of this blog I have a list of files available for download, in the form of an Excel spreadsheet stored on the Microsoft Skydrive site.  I recently discovered that this link had stopped working, and that the … Continue reading →

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Animated Pythagoras

Posted on 13/02/2012 by dougaj4

Two animatations of a “wordless” proof of Pythaoras’ Theorem provided by SSSF regular PM 2Ring. This animation is a “wordless proof” of Pythagoras’ theorem. The basic design is an interlocking pattern of coloured squares overlaid with “shadow” squares. In most … Continue reading →

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Elegant solutions, 192 of them

Posted on 09/02/2012 by dougaj4

The Edge is a place where they seek: To arrive at the edge of the world’s knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they … Continue reading →

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