Munge or do not
November 9th, 2007I’m highly amused at attempts I’ve seen in public forums to munge email addresses.
New Product and New Forum
November 7th, 2007We released a new product today, though it’s been on the website for about a month to start drumming up interest - and that it did. NebulaXLite allows MV BASIC to create "real" Excel workbooks - and it seems to work with OpenOffice and Google Doc Spreadsheets too! We also have a new forum to discuss our product and service offerings.
Local Fires 3
October 26th, 2007I’m updating my map with bits I get from here and there. Unless someone thinks it’s important for me to continue this effort, I’m only going to update once or twice a day now. I’ll leave this topic with some (uncommonly?) direct comments on how people view events like this.
Local Fires 3
October 24th, 2007There are power fluctuations so the network and phones keep going down. Seems like it’s only happening in one part of the building - weird. We’re a couple miles from the action but the air is rich with the smell of burning wood and some people are having issues with it irritating their eyes and minor throat irritation.
I’m having a helluva time getting good info from government or reporting services to update my map in the first blog entry. You’d think some official website would have updates to the hour. In this immediate area I don’t think we’re in danger but not knowing what’s going on is definitely unnerving.
Local Fires 2
October 23rd, 2007As of this moment it doesn’t look like the Santiago Canyon fire will be contained anytime soon.
Local Fires
October 22nd, 2007There is only one fire in this area at the moment. I’m posting a map showing the location of the fire and local MV businesses.
SQL with Excel
October 22nd, 2007This is a response to an inquiry in the U2 tech forum about the need to use [Worksheet$] syntax in a SQL query, and the idea that an Excel worksheet is treated like a System Table. This isn’t really a U2 topic so I thought I’d tackle it here.
Don’t Migrate - Integrate
October 5th, 2007Faced with a migration from your current software package? Lost a client to Oracle, SAP, Quckbooks? Many MV shops lose the war because they aren’t invited to the battles. And sometimes even the people who win wind up losing. There is a better way.
Mixed Messages
September 29th, 2007Why do I suddenly feel like someone just asked me if this computer thing will really catch on, or if water is a good idea?
D3 C Functions - Part 1: Confusing docs?
September 29th, 2007A recent forum posting said the D3 Reference Manual is "confused" about which %functions are for Unix and which are for Windows. I have a lot of comments on this topic but with just a couple minor exceptions I disagree with the statement that the doc is really "confused" anymore.