Building the Impossible: The Cost Estimator
Doing the impossible – sometimes I think that is the actual job description for consultants. I have been asked to do the impossible many times over the years, both as a consultant and as an employee....
View ArticleEmployee Recognition Program
One of the first, if not the very first, ASP.NET applications I built was for an employee recognition program that was run by the Corporate Communications Department. I didn’t know it at the time but...
View ArticlePick Your Favorite Pumpkin!
I know, it is June and I am writing about pumpkins but I like this project and wanted to share it with you. I used to get calls from various departments with quick projects they had and the “Annual...
View ArticleHave you ever worked with….?
It is the question we have all heard – “Have you ever worked with C#?” or was it “Have you ever worked with VB.NET?” or any of the other languages and technologies that exist in today’s world. I...
View ArticleHTML to PHP to ASP.NET: Part I
Since 2008 I have been doing miscellaneous work for a client on an as-needed basis. My first job for him was a simple spreadsheet fix and it grew into other projects, the biggest of which was the...
View ArticleA Year in Review: 2013
The year 2013 saw The Happy Coder publish 15 posts after taking some time off. The blog was somewhat re-tooled from something that was strictly code-based, this is how you do it, to something that is...
View ArticleWord: Insert Fields with VBA
I have written quite a bit about SQL, C#, Visual Basic and Excel but until now I haven’t covered other Microsoft products. Today I am writing about some Microsoft Word macros I wrote recently that...
View ArticleInvoice Approval System – Part I
I have built a lot of applications during my career, some of which I have already shared with you, but the Invoice Approval System is one of my favorites. I actually created three (3) different...
View ArticleHow to: Multiple criteria VLOOKUP in Excel
Yes, you read the title correctly; this is all about using more than one value in Excel’s VLOOKUP worksheet function. Well, that is partially true. Everyone knows that VLOOKUP , and it’s counterpart...
View ArticleWord: Collect document information with VBA
I recently had a project containing a large number of Word documents of various sizes and the Project Manager wanted to know if the documents were “Letter size” or “Legal size” and whether they were...
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