by Jonathan Halder | Jul 23, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
If you are using DoEvents in your VBA code to allow form updates or preventing Windows from labeling your Access app as Unresponsive, make sure you consider the potential ramifications. DoEvents not only chimes in to the OS that it’s awake, but it also allows...
by Jonathan Halder | Jul 1, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access
I have just returned from a 12 day absence from my business. One week at a conference, the second with family in another state. I only wrote once during this absence. In my case this was already calculated. I knew I wasn’t going to write much and chose not to...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 14, 2024 | Blogging
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...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 10, 2024 | Blogging
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...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 7, 2024 | Blogging
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...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 13, 2023 | Blogging
So I have now written eighteen articles for this daily email list. It’s been a bit rocky getting it automated and easy to send out. My idea was to post a blog article on my Access JumpStart web site: Blog This was to kick off an automated email with the article...
