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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...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
Adding a deployment script to an existing Access JumpStart app (Part 2)
Yesterday, I explained that the Access JumpStart system Steve Halder and I developed as a framework to use for our Access database clients has a nice little feature that allows you to set a whole set of global options and then define overrides for those options based...
Adding a deployment script to an existing Access JumpStart app (Part 1)
This writing is specific to my Access JumpStart framework I've developed alongside Steve Halder for making our development projects more reliable and less time consuming. For a particular customer, I have a local development Access environment where I make changes to...
Refactoring in VBA with RubberDuck: Remove Parameters
Ok, next let's try removing some parameters from a function and see what happens. Here is the code I set up for the test in a class module. HAL_BasicEncryption Option Compare Database Option Explicit Implements IHAL_Encryption Private Function...
Refactoring in VBA with RubberDuck: Implement Interface
I extracted an interface in the last two articles for an encryption algorithm class. It's pretty basic, but that's ok, I'm just playing with the various refactoring tools to get familiar with them and understand how they work. Now I want to implement an Interface. I'm...
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