Hosting your own instance of Jira, using your own equipment, is fairly easy and can be a lot cheaper. You don’t need a special server, or even need to mess with specific server software. You can put it on your… Read More ›
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Open Offices Suck
Background noises, a dozen conversations, and coworkers gnashing on their lunch. The ring of someone’s phone every couple of minutes, an impromptu meeting being carried out that has nothing to do with me, and someone is talking louder and louder… Read More ›
Hacking Excel: Creating a Search box Automation Tool
My guest blog post on using Selenium Basic in Excel to automate web navigation, user text entry, and button clicking. Originally posted on The Hack Post. This is a more intermediate level tutorial on Excel Visual Basic, but a beginner tutorial… Read More ›
Excel Visual Basic #4: Create A Web Favorites List
This tutorial is a little more complicated than the prior three tutorials. It takes what you have learned in those, combines them and adds some additional features. If you haven’t done the prior tutorials and know nothing about VBA, you… Read More ›
Excel Visual Basic #3: Loops, Combo Boxes, and Saving
This is the third part of the Excel Visual Basic tutorial series. It is recommended that if you are new to VBA, you begin with Excel Visual Basic #1: Getting Started. You can view all available tutorials on the Excel VBA Tutorials page…. Read More ›
Osmotic Communication: Flawed Communication Practices
A communication plan, you should have one in place anyway. Whether your team is all in one building, room, or distributed; a plan to deal with how everyone communicates is critical to the success of your activities. We need rules… Read More ›
Excel Visual Basic #2: Variables and Decisions
In this tutorial, we will cover the basics of variables and decision structures. Then we will create a more advanced version of the simple message box created in the first tutorial. If you are unsure how to access the developer… Read More ›
Excel Visual Basic #1: Getting Started
Below you will find two videos. The purpose of these videos is to show you how to gain access to the VBA development capabilities of Excel and to show you how to create your first “Hello World” application inside of… Read More ›
5 Challenges of Telecommuting
Telecommuting may not be for all people. You are alone and you have to collaborate with others. You are not likely to interact with your coworkers extensively or get to know them on the same personal level as you… Read More ›
