In my last post, I included the outline for the series on Access VBA that I’m writing. Of course, an outline is just that – a rough summary of what the finished project should look like. It can’t be carved in stone. So while I’m working on the chapters for decision loops, I realize that I don’t have…
A few thoughts at 3 a.m.
I’m plowing my way through writing the next chapter of the Microsoft Access for Beginners series and have the insomnia to show for it. This chapter, an introduction to Visual Basic for Applications, is one I’ve been wanting to do for awhile and should have done a long time ago but always found a way to…
PDFCreator
PDFCreator is an free tool from PDFForge.org for creating PDF files from Windows applications. The installation adds a printer to windows which accepts the output from Word and other programs and outputs PDF files. It has a great autosave feature which will automatically save the files to the folder of your choice with a datestamp…
Understanding SQL
I’m trying to add some new articles to the site and finish out the Microsoft Access for Beginners series while gradually writing about more advanced topics. Microsoft Access is fun but it takes more than Access to make a programmer. One good example is Structured Query Language (SQL), the scripting language that Access and other…
Just had to step out for awhile …
There was a bit of an oversight while transferring the site to a new hosting service and the blog went away for awhile but it’s back now and hopefully I’ll be able to keep it up a little more than I did before. As I said, Drewslair.com was transferred to a new hosting service during…
Design Abstractions
While new technologies … might make things easier for the average professional, they will never replace a solid understanding of the technologies they are built on top of.