After a relatively lengthy hiatus from this series, I’m going to bring back the Practical Math series, but with two changes. First, in spite of my rather intense predilection for symmetry and order, I’m going to dispense with the stock set of headers to fill out and get a little more free form with these….
Today’s episode is one with a pretty directed focus. I’m actually typing this prior to doing the screen capture, but I know what I want to do ahead of time. I want to implement the King piece, and I have a relatively good idea how to do it. Here’s what I accomplish in this clip:…
Last night I got an email asking for some perspective on something, and it’s prompting me to go “meta” and write a post about being a techie blogger. The question basically boiled down to “how do I make a cathartic blog post about Expert Beginner coworkers without getting myself in hot water at work?” If…
I’d like to tell you a harrowing, cautionary tale of my experience with the MS Office Interop libraries and then turn it into a story of redemption. Just to set the stage, these interop libraries are basically a way of programatically creating and modifying MS Office files such as Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. The…
Persuasion tends to happen at the micro-level, in terms of information volume and breadth. For instance, if I explain that I use “var x = 6” instead of “int x = 6” because a productivity add-in squawks if I don’t, you’re likely to be swayed if you find my case persuasive. If, instead, I explain…
