Week in Review Week in Review: August 15, 2026 Highlights include a talk on anonymizing Access & SQL Server data, tips & techniques for working with AI, and fine-tuning the new Access Zoom feature.
Brace Things Make it Impossible for AI to Delete Your Database Backups AI will ruin your day if you let it.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: August 13, 2026 In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we revisit a few of my favorite hidden features of VBA.
Brace Things Functional Core, Imperative Shell These four words are like a cheat code for AI-assisted software development.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: August 11, 2026 Highlights include a progress update on LLVM implementation along with tB drop-in replacements for the VBScript.RegExp and Scripting.FSO libraries.
Tools Tools of the Trade: AI Edition These are the key tools a Microsoft Access developer needs to unlock the full potential of AI-assisted software development workflows.
Week in Review Week in Review: August 8, 2026 Highlights include a DAAUG talk on modernizing Access, how to send SMS text messages from Access, and my return to regular writing.
Technical Debt The Trouble With Side Effects Side effects in code are a form of technical debt that create compounding complexity, but they won't ruin a marriage, right? Right?!
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: August 6, 2026 In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we revisit Microsoft Access's surprising folder locking behavior along with a couple of tools to deal with locked files and folders.
AI Probabilistic vs. Deterministic This concept is the fundamental distinction you need to understand when developing software with AI.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: August 4, 2026 Highlights include LLVM progress updates, first-class twinBASIC support included in a recent hardware project launch, and a military drone simulation app written in twinBASIC.
Meta I'm Back Ready or not, I'm going to start writing (regularly) again. I hope you'll join me. It should be one wild ride.
Week in Review Week in Review: August 1, 2026 Highlights include two new Microsoft Access MVPs, a video primer on class modules in VBA, and a function to sort by up to three fields in an Access form.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: July 30, 2026 In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we revisit a group of seemingly unrelated articles. The common thread? Key concepts for safe and effective AI-assisted development.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: July 29, 2026 Highlights include an update on the forthcoming LLVM release and community discussion of source control GUIs, localization, and RTL support on Win 7/10.
Week in Review Week in Review: July 25, 2026 Highlights include a class module for docking Access forms, a file/folder operations module with 80+ functions, and a talk on managing a team of AI agents.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: July 23, 2026 In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we explore the pitfalls of "big bang" cutovers and how to reduce the risks of complex migrations.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: July 21, 2026 Highlights include sneak previews of fafalone's forthcoming features, a planned RegEx library for twinBASIC, and a couple of community demos with nice UIs.
Week in Review Week in Review: July 18, 2026 Highlights include new built-in cascading combo boxes, bigger forms for modern monitors, and a SQL-to-HTML tool with action query previews.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: July 16, 2026 In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we revisit one of my favorite pedantic distinctions: Complicated vs. Complex.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: July 15, 2026 Highlights include the addition of fafalone as an official member of the twinBASIC dev team, a target date for the LLVM beta release, and a sample tB BITS implementation.
Week in Review Week in Review: July 11, 2026 Highlights include Win API calls for GET requests, migrating to SQL Server in the cloud, raising custom events, and a talk on new Access features (plus UI tips and tricks).
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: July 9, 2026 In honor of the built-in lightweight testing framework in VCS Add-in's recent v5 release, we revisit testing in this week's edition of Throwback Thursday.