by Jonathan Halder | Dec 23, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
I’ll boil it down to this: SDOpenAI API is like doing chats with CoPilot. It forgets everything between each question and the Access plugin needs to resend the context of your questions each time. It does this in the background, but doesn’t know anything...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 20, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
I’ve been sick for the past two days, and kept getting too tired to create a post for the day. So I did what I could for my clients first, then slept. 😛 I’m feeling much better today, so I’m back in the messaging chair. I ended up scrapping my idea...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 17, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Today I was struggling with trying to come up with tests for a new feature for an existing Access database. The feature is changing the way addresses are entered for work jobs. Basically the job structure which has had embedded address fields like street, city, state,...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 16, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning
Karl Donaubauer hosted the Access development team at his German Access Developers Conference and there are some cool things coming down the pipe for us. One of them is re-integrating source code control back into Access: https://youtu.be/dP-YljKct5M?t=943 At one time...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 13, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
In my message yesterday, I installed the SDOpenAI plugin: Pair programming with AI – SDOpenAI – installing the plugin Today I setup an OpenAI API account (I had already done this in the past so I was beyond the free trial). I purchased $10 worth of resource. The...
