Holiday Happy Easter "For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive."
Week in Review Week in Review: April 4, 2026 Highlights include advanced menu-building techniques, a list of fixes in Access v2603, a recap of the annual Access Day conference, and an AI-powered Clippy reincarnation?!
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: April 2, 2026 In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we revisit some of the problems with global constants in VBA and my preferred alternative.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: March 31, 2026 Highlights include the release of twinBASIC Fusion Technology, enabling 32-bit ActiveX controls in 64-bit environments, plus an async MsgBox class and WinRT Composition demo.
Week in Review Week in Review: March 28, 2026 Highlights include integrating AI into your Access dev workflow, understanding recursive functions, designing clean forms, and new SysCmd values.
Presentations Access Day 2026: Long-Term Care for Access Links and resources from my talk today at J Street Technology's in-person Access Day conference at Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, WA.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: March 26, 2026 In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we review some common gotchas of the SQL BETWEEN statement and how to avoid falling victim to these potential logic errors.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: March 24, 2026 Highlights include an XInput demo (for processing gamepad input) and a Direct3D demo with HLSL shaders and other advanced features (both from fafalone).
Week in Review Week in Review: March 21, 2026 Highlights include the beta release of the Zoom feature, retirement of the Database Compare tool, and talks on recursive functions, AI, and ADO recordsets.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: March 19, 2026 In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we revisit a few articles on VBA's most powerful underused feature: class modules.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: March 17, 2026 Highlights include an emergency release to fix an IDE bug caused by a recent WebView2 change and the announcement of a new project of tB algorithms and data structures.
Week in Review Week in Review: March 14, 2026 Highlights include news about the Rubberduck VBA project, a video on building custom chatbots with RAG, and a free 5+ hour intro to SQL Server for Access users.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: March 12, 2026 With the coming end of life of SQL Server 2016, we revisit a few articles with tips on scripting those migrations In today's edition of Throwback Thursday.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: March 11, 2026 Highlights include a demo of twinBASIC's upcoming support for running 32-bit ActiveX DLLs in 64-bit tB EXEs, plus the alpha launch of Karma Kargo, a trading game written in tB.
Week in Review Week in Review: March 7, 2026 Highlights include Monaco query editor fixes, group-wise ranking with class modules, message boxes with timeouts, and visual badges over the Access taskbar icon.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: March 5, 2026 Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about autonumbers and primary keys.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: March 3, 2026 Highlights include a mini Battle Royale between fafalone and VanGoghGaming over which is the simpler path to media playback in twinBASIC: WinRT or ... not WinRT.
Week in Review Week in Review: February 28, 2026 Highlights include mutually exclusive checkboxes across records, API calls for the clipboard and env vars, and personalized Access popup forms.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: February 26, 2026 In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we explore the wonderful, mysterious world of COM, the tech that allows us to automate Excel from Access.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: February 24, 2026 Highlights include a new feature being added to the v1 roadmap: support for running 32-bit ActiveX controls in 64-bit twinBASIC processes.
Week in Review Week in Review: February 21, 2026 Highlights include an advanced data grid for Access, AI-assisted development of a Monaco SQL Editor, and tips for handling the Not In List event.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: February 20, 2026 Take your VBA string-building skills to the next level in today's edition of Throwback Thursday.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: February 17, 2026 Highlights include quality of life improvements to the official twinBASIC documentation site and a Reddit post accentuating the polarizing effect of twinBASIC in online forums.
Week in Review Week in Review: February 14, 2026 Highlights include a tutorial on boosting the performance of tab controls, how to cancel long-running loops with Esc, and tips for creating JSON files from Access.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: February 12, 2026 In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we review one of the most important concepts in SQL Server security: role-based access control.