by Jonathan Halder | Aug 1, 2025 | Blogging
As you may have noticed, I haven’t been sending emails much lately. So what has happened? First off, I’m ok physically. I have been a bit overwhelmed lately with things to do both for clients as well as family and friends, which is my own darn fault. As I...
by Jonathan Halder | Jul 23, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, TDD
I’ve heard in many of the sources I’ve read that there are 3 dials for projects and optimizing for 1 or 2 of the dials will affect the other(s). The dials are: Cost (Expensive vs Inexpensive) Quality (High with lower bugs, Low with more bugs or inefficient...
by Jonathan Halder | Jul 18, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning
In my continuing AI adventures, I have decided to attempt to use a tool called Augment Code which can analyze and index my code base via Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Code: An open source Code Editing IDE for multiple languages with a large number of extensions....
by Jonathan Halder | Jul 17, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
I had a customer with an Access database who wanted me to tack a page with completely different info and format to the last page of a main report. This main report would run in an automated fashion and is emailed to a list of users and it is also able to be run...
by Jonathan Halder | Jul 15, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning
Today, I was thinking more about using AI and Access. Particularly VBA, but I’d also like to be able to see if AI can understand my exported Access object files (I’m using OASIS SVN to export the Access objects currently, but there are other apps that can...
by Jonathan Halder | Jul 11, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access
Following up my message yesterday, I had big plans to get some more client work done, but as it happened, I wasn’t able to accomplish what I initially set out to do. Why? A “perfect storm” in meteorology is when multiple weather patterns converge to...
