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11 February 2010
Demo: Where to get Pivot
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b r
Mar 17 2010Windows Only? Gary should have licensed or patented the software on his own! He could have had mac users, open source and windows!
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Roque Mocan
Apr 11 2010It is NOT only Macs. It doesn’t run in my Netbook that lacks a graphics card. But the control (building block) for Silverlight (programming platform) will be available for the summer of 2010. I suspect THIS version will be Mac Compatible (Silverlight runs on the Macs). I am eagerly awaiting it, to program web sites with it.
Meanwhile, if You have downloaded Pivot on a capable machine, You can see the “collection” (set of data) I made just to get to know the process – it isn’t that hard – here:
Fire the Pivot application and in the address bar type:
http://www.guanacosonline.org/Pivots/SVHotels/collectionTripAdvisorHotels.cxml
The process to create these collections is just filling an Excel spreadsheet with a Macro (unless you want to delve into XML programming). It wasn’t that hard! Just do it!
Albert Surjik
Ah… Windows only. Bummer. Makes sense I guess… I wonder when someone will come up with an open source version?