by Jonathan Halder | Aug 20, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access
Is Microsoft Access really a low cost option? It certainly can be if you are a DIY person who already owns Microsoft Office and think of low cost as “not spending lots of cash”. There is always a learning curve which takes time to work through, as well as...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 19, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Yesterday’s message: Writing tests for legacy code – Part 4 | Access JumpStart Here is the full code I am discussing: ‘@TestMethod(“DeleteAction”) Private Sub GivenConcreteGroupDeleteTriggered_WhenReadOnlyStatusType_RequirePassword() On Error...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 16, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Yesterday’s message: Writing tests for legacy code – Part 3 | Access JumpStart Before diving into the next piece of the function, the Act, here is the full code: ‘@TestMethod(“DeleteAction”) Private Sub...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 15, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
See yesterday’s message in the archive here: Writing tests for legacy code – Part 2 | Access JumpStart For reference, here is the full function I am discussing. ‘@TestMethod(“DeleteAction”) Private Sub...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 11, 2024 | Blogging
In the consideration of charging customers for custom software you are writing for them there are different terms here that sometimes get used interchangeably. I’m going to define them for this article as two very distinct and separate things and will do so in...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 5, 2024 | Blogging
This is one reason why I don’t like giving time estimates to customers. You know the drill: Customer: So how long is it going to take you to do X? Me: Uh, when do you want it? Customer: Yesterday. Me: Not that fast… how about on Friday? My decision for...
