Week in Review Week in Review: August 17, 2024 Highlights include an intro to treeview controls, working with the Windows Registry, Access best practices, and understanding VBA libraries.
SQL Server Resolving SQL Server "Login Failed" Error for Recreated Active Directory Users When is the same person not the same person? Let's explore an unexpected fix for SQL Server 'Login Failed' errors when credentials seem correct.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: August 15, 2024 Teach your VBA editor new tricks: dark mode, a shortcut key for commenting blocks of code, and a probably-too-clever block-comment syntax.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: August 13, 2024 Highlights include predefined caption/text when adding controls, a progress update on form control implementation, and how to set the icon for your tB apps.
Week in Review Week in Review: August 10, 2024 Highlights include a free tool for building database diagrams, an intro to SaveAs/LoadFromText, and a showdown between hourly billing and value-based pricing.
Business Software Pricing Battle Royale Hourly Billing vs. Value-Based Pricing: What's the morally right way to bill for software development? Two software business superheroes face off.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: August 8, 2024 Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about pricing and estimating custom software development work.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: August 5, 2024 Highlights include improved array features (better non-Variant support, compile-time type checking, and assignment syntax) and a command line arg handling discussion.
Week in Review Week in Review: August 3, 2024 Highlights include a tablet-friendly UI technique, fetching current weather via a free web API, and a text file logger for my VBA logging framework.
Defensive Programming CrowdStrike and Delta: Victims of the Software Reliability Paradox As software reliability increases, so too does the degree of harm it has the potential to create. Just ask Delta.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: August 1, 2024 Today's edition of Throwback Thursday explores the paradox of reliable software: better software -> increased user trust -> more potential for harm.
Code Library loggerTextFile: Log Messages to Text Files with clsLog--The VBA Logging Framework This "logger" class module integrates with our VBA logging framework--clsLog--to write messages to text files.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: July 29, 2024 Highlights include in-place editing of label captions and a mini toolbar for quick formatting of font properties for form and report controls.
Week in Review Week in Review: July 27, 2024 Highlights include using a framework in Access, one Redditor's quixotic quest for an Access replacement, and localization efforts leading to British waterautumns.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: July 25, 2024 Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about the dangers of password reuse and a couple of tools to help you avoid the temptation.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: July 22, 2024 Highlights include two blockbuster features that Access developers will instantly recognize: an Access-style report writer and a lightweight expression service.
Bug Alert Access + Outlook PDF Bug Has Outlook recently started freezing when trying to send PDFs via email from Microsoft Access? If so, you may be a victim of the latest bug from Microsoft.
Week in Review Week in Review: July 20, 2024 Highlights include my VBA logging framework, a visual explanation of bubble sort, and how to properly relate students and parents in a relational database.
Class Modules clsLog: A VBA Logging Framework Introducing clsLog, the no-frills logging framework. Prepare to supercharge your Access logging with the closest thing to NLog or Log4j in the VBA world.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: July 18, 2024 Today's edition is all about Unicode, character sets, and Windows Alt Codes. It turns out English is NOT the world's only written language. Who knew?!?!
VBA 3 Methods of Logging in VBA Let's explore the various ways to log information in our Microsoft Access applications.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: July 15, 2024 Highlights include another week of progress on the upcoming report writer, including another sneak peek video of the feature.
Bug Alert Bug Fix: Generic / Text Only Printer Driver Memory Error Microsoft released a fix for the error, "There isn't enough free memory to update the display," when printing to the Generic/Text Only Printer Driver.
Week in Review Week in Review: July 13, 2024 Highlights include a talk on enhancing message boxes and forms, fun with text boxes, resizing list box columns to fit the content, and a deep dive into New Outlook.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: July 11, 2024 For those new to databases (and seasoned pros), queries are a mind-bogglingly amazing and infuriatingly obstinate tool. These tips help tame the beast.