I was explaining the HTTP engine to a group at the bar there. And this one guy is watching, and he talks to me a little bit, and he goes off. We’re sitting around for the bar for like another hour, and he comes back and says, "Look at this." He had been to Google Spreadsheets, and what he had done was written a RESTful URL and placed it into the HTTP engine and then started collecting data off of a Google spreadsheet and displaying inside the database. So every time he did a SELECT on the database, it was actually pulling data from this Google spreadsheet that he had connected to
Interview with Brian Aker - LinuxWorld
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