December 2009 - Posts

Early Enough For You?

Published Tue, Dec 15 2009 15:24 | Bob Phillips

Interesting post from Jeff Attwood . He makes good points about not pushing your code the extra mile to get it absolutely perfect before shipping, although the Rumsfeld quote is always unfortunate IMO, and there is a lot of truth in it. However, it is...

Filed under: Quality, shipping

Conditionally Yours

Published Mon, Dec 14 2009 14:23 | Bob Phillips

VBA is a very simple language and programming environment, very easy to get something up and running very quickly, but it is showing its age these days, and with Microsoft making no improvements to the language it will not get better. Which all means...

Filed under: VBA, compile, conditional compilation, conditional

One King Bearing Gifts

Published Wed, Dec 9 2009 11:28 | Bob Phillips

I got a new laptop on Friday (my old one gave up the ghost as explained here ). One of the major pains of a new laptop is re-installing all of those applications. It takes so long, and inevitably you will be working and you realise that you need another...

Filed under: Excel, XP, Laptop