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Merge multiple columns into a new column in Excel

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 Posted in Blatherings, Development | 2 Comments »

I was asked today to help out a colleague with merging 3 columns in an Excel spreadsheet into a single column for better formatting into a mailing address. Seems simple enough, right? So I thought. So I headed downstairs engulfed fully ...

Return from the 3rd level of malware hell

Sunday, August 8th, 2010 Posted in Blatherings, Development, Geeking Out | Comments Off

There are days, that the interwebs suck dynamically placed, interactive Donkey Balls. Yesterday, was one of those days. Come to find out at some point on Friday, Flogging English was, for lack of a better word, hacked. Two JavaScript files had ...

Using the iPad for business

Saturday, May 1st, 2010 Posted in App Development, Blatherings, Mobile Dev | 2 Comments »

Since the iPad was announced, and subsequently launched, there has been a lot of talk about the viability of the platform, the fact that it doesn't support Flash, and that it will likely take a huge chunk of business away ...

Apple could learn a thing or two from Microsoft

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 Posted in Blatherings, Development, Op/Ed | Comments Off

Apple takes a lot of heat from it's developers for its processes and rules regarding iPhone application development mainly because of poor decisions, lack of communication and the simple fact that they don't embrace their developers. This is further emphasized ...

Social media mistakes are great lessons too

Saturday, March 20th, 2010 Posted in Blatherings, Marketing, social networking | Comments Off

It's easy to find the success stories, and everyone likes to point out, look at, and use examples where the implementation is top notch. It's equally as important however, to look at the complete and utter failures. Not everyone is ...