by Jonathan Halder | May 16, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
I have a form a customer wanted to track changes in. Not all changes, just the “important” ones which is a business definition. No problem. So what was my approach? I built a class object that could store the original state of a recordset, then compare...
by Jonathan Halder | May 15, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access
Hi folks, I got a few responses to my message yesterday, so here’s a summarized version of my sales, delivery, and follow up strategies for you to take a look at. I’ll tell you up front that I follow this very poorly, but it is what I intend to do from the...
by Jonathan Halder | May 14, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access
Hourly billing uses hours to measure productivity and rates to commoditize your work. Presumption: For an Access developer (in general) they should get an average hourly rate of $X. If that Access developer wants to make more money he or she must either work more...
by Jonathan Halder | May 13, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
I worked on copying some class objects and modifying behavior for them to allow the system to process different customers with different information. I am building the system based on exports from a database into a folder of CSV files. The user decides which files to...
by Jonathan Halder | May 12, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
This is a tip from experience. It is always better to work in smaller chunks and deliver them as quickly as possible than it is to take weeks, months, or gulp… years to deliver the product. The longer it takes to deliver, the less the customer will remember what...
