Category: Technology
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Using APIs with Excel and Power BI
Introduction to APIs Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are a standard way for computers to communicate with each other. In this article I am going to show how to use Power Query to access data sources on the web via APIs. Power Query is a feature available in versions of the Excel desktop app after 2016…
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Rosetta Stone – Rust
In an earlier blog post I explained the motivation for a series of “Rosetta Stone” posts which described the ecosystem for different programming languages. This post covers Rust, the associated GitHub repository with some minimal code is here. This blog post aims to provide some discussion around technology choices whilst the GitHub repository provides details…
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Rosetta Stone – TypeScript
In an earlier blog post I explained the motivation for a series of “Rosetta Stone” posts which described the ecosystem for different programming languages. This post covers TypeScript, the associated GitHub repository is here. This blog post aims to provide some discussion around technology choices whilst the GitHub repository provides details of what commands to…
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Rosetta Stone – Python
In an earlier blog post I explained the motivation for a series of “Rosetta Stone” posts which described the ecosystem for different programming languages. This post covers Python, the associated GitHub repository is here. This blog post aims to provide some discussion around technology choices whilst the GitHub repository provides details of what commands to…
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A Rosetta Stone for programming ecosystems
The Rosetta Stone is a stone slab dating to 196BC on which is written the same decree in three different ancient Egyptian languages, it was key to deciphering these languages in the modern era. It strikes me that learning a new programming language is not really an exercise in learning the syntax of a new…
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