From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30465 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2012 20:08:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 30452 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Mar 2012 20:08:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:07:44 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SDi6o-0003re-3v for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:07:42 +0200 Received: from 5520-maca-inet1-outside.broadcom.com ([216.31.211.11]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:07:42 +0200 Received: from Andrew by 5520-maca-inet1-outside.broadcom.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:07:42 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Giving interact with desktop permission to cyg_server Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:08:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20120329080630.GA30721@calimero.vinschen.de> <20120329143914.GH30721@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-03/txt/msg00831.txt.bz2 On 3/30/2012 12:10 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> I've asked about the need to use a spreadsheet and it seems the spreadsheet >> is used for both input and output of the script. The spreadsheet is read as >> input and then annotated and updated and given back. Personally I think the >> whole thing should be re-written as a web app... > The users wanting it their way is what keeps us employed doing > development work. Otherwise we would have stopped developing a long > time ago because everyone would live with just the way it works now. > :D We're still developing in VBA scripting producing excel reports > connecting directly to the DB from excel. Just because a user wants it one way does not necessarily mean that that way is a good way or that other better ways do not exist. The difference between a developer and a consultant is that the developer will simply implement the solution as requested. The consultant may advise a different way to solve the problem that in the long term is more efficient, flexible or scalable. While the former gets the instant task accomplished, the later is the longer term view and many times can make future request much easier to satisfy. I prefer the longer term view. ;-) Also, if I never had to look at or code Visual I would be a much happier guy... -- Andrew DeFaria Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple