by Jonathan Halder | Jul 1, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access
I have just returned from a 12 day absence from my business. One week at a conference, the second with family in another state. I only wrote once during this absence. In my case this was already calculated. I knew I wasn’t going to write much and chose not to...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 26, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
I now have a real-world scenario for requirements for this class. Requirements are coming from customer requests and then interpreted into a list for myself. Test Driven Development then takes requirements and you translate them into tests (one at a time). Just...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 17, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
I had an application today with lots of flickering on a form containing two subforms in continuous mode. When I first load the main form it flickers a little bit, sometimes longer than others (seemingly depending on where my mouse is sitting). Often moving the mouse...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 14, 2024 | Blogging
Defnition of Fixed Price billing (Cost plus margin) This I believe is the next favorite behind hourly billing. Typically a consultant will try to determine the features the customer is asking for, then determine a fixed cost based on their costs plus a margin of some...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 13, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
According to the RubberDuck refactoriings page, the definition of the Introduce Parameter refactoring is: Introduce Parameter Select a local variable to promote to a parameter. Call sites for the containing procedure will be updated with a TODO argument, which must...