Mike Wolfe - No Longer Set (Page 2)

Throwback Thursday: November 21, 2024

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we revisit my annual twinBASIC talks at DevCon Vienna in honor of my presentation to the UK Access User Group yesterday.

Presentations

UKAUG 2024: twinBASIC: Past, Present, and Future

Links and resources from my talk today at the UK Access User Group 2024 Autumn Conference at the historic University of Oxford.

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: November 18, 2024

Highlights include step-by-step instructions for building PhotoDemon with twinBASIC, a timeline update for the next BETA release, and the passing of a BASIC icon.

twinBASIC

Building PhotoDemon with twinBASIC

PhotoDemon is one of the most complex VB6 open-source projects still actively maintained. And you can build it yourself in about 10 minutes with twinBASIC.

Week in Review

Week in Review: November 16, 2024

Highlights include measuring the height of CanGrow controls, exporting an Access chart to PNG/GIF/JPG, building a photo cataloguer, and tabbing to the form footer.

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: November 14, 2024

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we explore a topic near and dear to my heart: Version Control with Microsoft Access.

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: November 12, 2024

Highlights include a video player sample project from fafalone, a trick for exporting .tlb files from tB builds, and a recap of twinBASIC highlights from 2024.

Week in Review

Week in Review: November 9, 2024

Highlights include updated development priorities from the Access team, adding a row number to queries, and a treasure trove of VBA content at Awesome VBA.

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: November 7, 2024

Follow along to see how I used Test-Driven Development to replace hard-coded holiday dates with a robust, history-aware date engine in today's edition of Throwback Thursday.

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: November 5, 2024

Highlights include a twinBASIC-built utility to strip the Mark of the Web (MOTW) from files and an upcoming feature to check packages for updates.

Week in Review

Week in Review: November 2, 2024

Highlights include the Monaco SQL Editor release, TDD implementation techniques, intro to Cross Joins in SQL, and the inaugural meeting of the Access Beginners User Group.

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: October 31, 2024

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we revisit my RegEx wrapper functions for VBA, while looking ahead to a future without VBScript.dll.

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: October 29, 2024

Highlights include more info on my upcoming visit to Oxford University to present the latest twinBASIC developments, including twinBASIC for Applications (tBA).

VBA

"Microsoft Print to PDF" Default Output Folder

A recap of what I discovered while trying to set the default save folder for the "Microsoft Print to PDF" driver using VBA in Access.

Week in Review

Week in Review: October 26, 2024

Highlights include a video intro to the new Modern Charts feature, combination query techniques, and handling bit fields in SQL Server.

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: October 24, 2024

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we demystify the WithEvents keyword in VBA and then dive deep into some practical uses for it.

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: October 22, 2024

Highlights include a new tB-based Magnifier Windows utility from fafalone, a project status update from Wayne, and a metaphor involving rubber ducks, hippos, and oxpeckers.

Week in Review

Week in Review: October 18, 2024

Highlights include a deep dive into parentheses in VBA, ChatGPT's new canvas feature, and the official bug fix list for Access versions 2408 and 2409.

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: October 17, 2024

Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about one of my two favorite programming books: "Code That Fits in Your Head," by Mark Seemannn.

SQL Server

Using PRINT to Improve Safety of Live SQL Server Updates

[Me]: Let's DELETE 5 records. [SSMS]: (7,393,253 rows affected) [Me]: {Updates LinkedIn profile: "#OPENTOWORK"} Avoid nasty SQL surprises with this easy technique.

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: October 14, 2024

Highlights include a 64-bit Quick Rename Shell Extension project from fafalone and perpetual licenses offered to longtime early subscribers.

Week in Review

Week in Review: October 12, 2024

Highlights include disabling shortcut menus on reports, drag and drop with Alessandro Grimaldi, and single sign-on cached ODBC connections.

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: October 10, 2024

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we address Access consultants' biggest fear: the dreaded software proposal.

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: October 7, 2024

Highlights include a SQLite COM wrapper twinPACK from Krool, tB documentation updates, a WinDevLib bug fix release, and Got/Lost Focus behavior fixes.

Week in Review

Week in Review: October 5, 2024

Highlights include the official release of the new modern chart feature, the release of Access 2024, and dynamically loading a DLL without registering it first.