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Solving Access Subform flickering woes
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...
Refactoring in VBA with RubberDuck: Encapsulate Field
I have discovered another source of documentation from the RubberDuck git repository which contains some descriptions of the refactoring options. Here is the link: Refactorings · rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck Wiki · GitHub According to this page, the Encapsulate Field...
4 of a million possible ways for customers and developers to work together
A while back I was searching for an alternative to hourly billing (all I knew was there was either hourly billing or fixed cost billing). I wanted to see what others were doing out there. This led me to Jonathan Stark's Hourly Billing Is Nuts series of articles and...
Adding a deployment script to an existing Access JumpStart app (Part 5)
I wrote a script to deploy my Microsoft Access application which utilizes my company's Access JumpStart framework which is available for purchase from our store. In the previous parts I've explained how I've done the first 5 steps of my script: Step 1 – Update the...
Fixed Price billing (Cost plus margin) Pros & Cons for Programming
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...
Refactoring in VBA with RubberDuck: Move Closer To Usage
Here is another entry on the VBA RubberDuck Refactoring menu: What exactly does this mean? Initially, I was thinking the scope was a function in a module, and it would move a function closer to a function call made. I was just DEAD WRONG! It's actually something to...
Refactoring in VBA with RubberDuck: Reorder Parameters
Using some sample code I was playing with in my last Refactoring article, we will see what RubberDuck does when reordering parameters. Here's the code: HAL_BasicEncryption Option Compare Database Option Explicit Implements IHAL_Encryption Private Function...
Adding a deployment script to an existing Access JumpStart app (Part 4)
In the first 3 parts of the series I'm writing, I've shown the first 4 steps in a deployment script I'm writing for a customer application. Here are the steps I've gone over so far: Step 1 – Update the version number based on the latest commit to my versioning...
Refactoring in VBA with RubberDuck: Introduce Parameter
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...
Hourly Billing Pros & Cons for Programming
I'll be honest, I don't particularly like hourly billing. This list will likely show you why. Description: Hourly billing (Rate * Hours): This seems to be the favorite of the industry. It is based on an hourly rate and the concept that time is money. It also is...
Adding a deployment script to an existing Access JumpStart app (Part 6)
I wrote a script to deploy my Microsoft Access application which utilizes my company’s Access JumpStart framework which is available for purchase from our store. In the previous parts I’ve explained how I’ve done the first 6 steps of my script: Step 1 – Update the...
Adding a deployment script to an existing Access JumpStart app (Part 3)
I have created a deployment script which is meant to prepare an Access JumpStart application for a specific live production environment. Access JumpStart is the framework Steve Halder and myself use in creating Access Applications for our customers. I have already...
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