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Gantt charts in Microsoft Excel

Posted by Tariq • Tuesday, December 16. 2008 • Category: Computers, Rants
As mentioned in other articles I sometimes like to output data in CSV format and redirect to a file and then open that file with my favourite spread sheet application to create pretty charts instead of using awk to create command line graphs or gnuplot. However I recently found out that Microsoft Excel doesn't do Gantt charts by default, so what follows is an explanation of what I was trying to do and how I simulated a Gantt chart in Excel.

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Getting logins per day in Moodle

Posted by Tariq • Tuesday, December 2. 2008 • Category: Moodle, One liners
Today I got the urge to see how many logins we had on some of our Apache servers in November. We host more than one moodle site on one server and so I wanted the total number of logins we handled. As usual this ended up becoming an awkward but useful one liner.

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