Fortunately, as you??™ve seen in this chapter, FeedTools makes accessing it
easy, and CSS Graphs Helper is a great way to present that and other data quickly and
easily.
The next chapter shows how you can take data from a web application and make it
easily accessible on a desktop machine with Windows and Microsoft Office. This way,
Windows users can access data using familiar tools.
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Creating Reports with Ruby
and Microsoft Office
For many businesspeople, knowing how to use a computer means knowing how to use
Microsoft Office running under Microsoft Windows on a PC. While adoption of open
source office software like OpenOffice.org and open source operating systems like Linux
is on the rise??”and many developers, including myself, strongly prefer them??”Microsoft
software in ubiquitous in corporate America. Of course, this is less of an issue for webbased
applications, since HTML is well standardized, and with a relatively small amount
of effort, you can produce applications that work across platforms.
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