ResolverOne - IronPython Spreadsheet

   I met Michael Foord (the kind of guy that runs Windows on MacPro. He also wrote a book IronPython in Action still in print by Manning ) recently and he was so passionate about what he's been doing in the IronPython  Space. He has this cool programmable spreadsheet application dubbed ResolverOne . Believe me, this will make you never want to touch VBA. 

A  similar implementation was demoed at Mix09 by John Lam (the IronRuby guy) with Silverlight 3 - this I learnt came with deep multimedia capability and can run out of the browser sandbox to run on the GPU.  ResolverOne is a pretty cool implementation of spreadsheet and I am yet to imagine the bound of it's limitation. You could actually do anything imaginable about spreadsheet. I have revved this since the summit and still amazed how easy to import any existing python library and use user custom functions/libraries. 

MVP Summit Update!

Arrived at the Seattle on March 1, after a very long flight and airport waiting. Checking my Lagos local time, I realized I had been awake for over 29 hours. That's crazy. My head was heavy, I was quick-tempered too.

Finally checked in to The Westin Hotel around 1am Seattle local time. Replied mails and other web stuff for another hour and went to Bed.

My room mate is a great guy - Joel Hebert. He happens to be a ASP/ASP.Net MVP and that was cool and can you believe it, he already has a solution hosted on Microsoft Azure. I find that very cool too.

The next morning (March 1st) was rather dull at first, woke up around 8am and showered quickly. Went to the Washington State CC for registration and had breakfast just around there and attended the MVP2MVP Sessions.

Quite a lot of brilliant presentations from the guys which I will discuss later in my blog post after the event and lots of pictures too.