Nov 4, 2012 · Comments
My current side project involves creating an Excel Add-in for Excel 2007 and 2010. Here are some useful tips and “gotchas” that I came across/experienced:
Incredibly helpful: Searching the web for Excel help can be a painful experience - follow the VSTO team’s advice! Enable the Developer ribbon, start recording a macro, complete an action, then view the resulting VBA code. It will get you most of the way! Use .
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Aug 15, 2012 · Comments
I am currently at “That Conference”, a brand new 3 day software development conference located in the Wisconsin Dells. Last night, I participated in a 4 hour hackathon - my first ever! Categories included “Best Use of Twilio”, “Best Use of Windows Azure”, and “Best Summer Camp theme”. My app won first place for “Best use of Windows Azure”! It’s easy to forget things if you don’t write them down, so I use Evernote for organizing my thoughts, daily todo’s and projects.
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Jun 12, 2012 · Comments
I am pleased to announce that my team has won 1st place in the Q2 2012 SAVO Innovation Challenge!
Last week, my team presented our app to SAVO’s Senior Leadership Team, which includes the heads of all departments as well as the CEO. After a bit of a rocky start (my laptop could not connect to the Internet), the SLT was greatly impressed with our application. We were the only team with a cross-departmental team (two of us from Consulting and one from Sales) and combined our software development skills with sales/business knowledge to create a simple, elegant solution.
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