This is one of the more interesting “features” I’ve found lately, and it took me a while to figure out, so I figure I’d better post it here.
Excel provides an ODBC driver through the Jet driver, which basically means you can access Excel spreadsheets just like you access database tables, provided they are [...]
Not so much me as everyone who is forced to develop in VB6. I mean, what do you expect: Visual Basic has been around longer than I’ve known what a variable is, so it stands to reason that a majority of the applications I am now forced to maintain are Visual Basic applications.
Unfortunately, Visual [...]
After some downtime last week, I’m running at about 90% capacity. The only thing that is holding me back is needing to get some of the code off of the old hard drive. Luckily, the data recovery service we sent the drive to was able to get all the info off the drive. [...]
Read: Up and running again
Ah, good ol’ Windows dealt a crushing blow to my productivity today. About mid-morning, my laptop core dumped and just never restarted. I tried running chkdsk, fixboot, fixmbr, all the big guns, but to no avail. And, being that I’ve been incredibly busy around here as of late, my “backup” plan is [...]
If I’ve learned one thing this week, it’s that documentation is probably the biggest and most neglected aspect of software development. What should be the simple matter of installing an application on a new server becomes very time consuming and frustrating without the proper documentation.
I’m a huge fan of the .NET/C# xml code commenting [...]
Read: Documentation is key
