March 2010 Archives - JP Software Technologies

Another contest is in the "books"

March 31, 2010 by JP

Okay folks, it's time for the big announcement. The winners of the interview blog contest are:

1) Paul – VB 2010 Programmer's Reference
2) Mike – Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Inside Out
3) Ray – Microsoft Office Access 2007 Inside Out

Which is amazing because there were exactly three prizes. Next time I'll give out 20 prizes, maybe more people will be inspired to comment! Unless you can think of better prizes?

I'll send emails to the winners shortly, kindly contact me with your mailing address to collect your prize.

Winners workbook

Filed Under: Administrative

Tagged With: contest

Saving compressed attachments in Windows 7/Outlook 2003

March 26, 2010 by JP

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If you upgrade to Windows 7 and continue to use Outlook 2003, you might want to read Tip 700: Outlook 2003, Win7, and zip attachments by Diane Poremsky, which states:

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Filed Under: Outlook

Tagged With: archive, compress, event, zip

Interview with Rod Stephens and a book giveaway

March 24, 2010 by JP

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Rod Stephens is a well known author and host of the VB Helper and C# Helper websites. On the C# Helper Blog he posts useful code samples for C# .NET. He has written more than a 20 books and 200 magazine articles, mostly about Visual Basic and C#. During his career he has worked on an eclectic assortment of applications for repair dispatch, fuel tax tracking, professional football training, wastewater treatment, geographic mapping, and ticket sales. His VB Helper web site (www.vb-helper.com) receives more than 7 million hits per month and provides three newsletters and thousands of tips, tricks, and examples for Visual Basic programmers.

He has authored numerous books on VB, including:

and the recently released WPF Programmer's Reference and Visual Basic 2010 Programmer's Reference.

Filed Under: .NET, Office

Tagged With: contest, interview

The Census is coming!

March 22, 2010 by JP

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And here is my attempt at representing.

For your approval, this post contains a link to the last few years of census data from the U.S. Census Bureau, along with a simple PivotTable and chart.

Filed Under: Excel

Tagged With: census, chart, data, PivotTable

Learn from the real Experts

March 19, 2010 by JP

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From Jon Peltier's blog:

Mike Alexander of DataPig Technologies is teaming up next month with Dick Kusleika of Daily Dose of Excel and Jon Peltier of Peltier Technical Services to bring you a couple of high intensity training sessions on Excel and related technologies. Mike and Dick will hold their Excel and Access Power User Workshop on April 20-22, then Mike and Jon will present their Excel Dashboard and Visualization Bootcamp on April 27-29. Register before the end of March for a hefty discount. As usual, the Excel Dashboard and Visualization Bootcamp will be awesome. I’m sure the Excel and Access Power User Workshop will be pretty good, too.

Filed Under: Administrative

Tagged With: conference, training, Tutorial, workshop