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Humorous

Sometimes, I try to be funny on purpose. Occasionally, I succeed.

Commentary

Breaking Changes: New Outlook Auto-Migration Begins January 2025

Microsoft announces timeline for breaking your Access applications: automatic migration to New Outlook begins January 2025. Here's why you shouldn't rush to rewrite everything (yet).

Tools

Ditto: My Newest Favorite Micro-Productivity Tool

"That's what she said."

Debugging

SSE Setup: Fix for Error -2147024671

This is a great example of how we can break down seemingly random Windows error codes to guide our debugging efforts.

Quotes

Byte-Sized Wisdom: Debugging

You know what debugging is like? Debugging is like...

Commentary

PICNIC: The Underlying Cause of Many Technical Support Calls

A PICNIC is the most frequent source of problems on technical support calls.

Conventions

Naming Conventions Matter: Making Wrong Code Look Wrong

Joel Spolsky and Antonin Scalia join forces to help illustrate the importance of sensible code naming conventions.

Humorous

Reproducing Errors

A physicist, a mechanic, and a programmer were in a car driving over a steep alpine pass when the brakes failed...

Commentary

Microsoft and VBA: A Love(less) Story

Whatever happened to the passion Microsoft once had for VBA? From love story to marriage of convenience, this article is one weird ride.

Technical Debt

Overuse of Global State

You wouldn't control the water temperature in your entire house from a single location. Why would you write your code that way?