by Jonathan Halder | May 15, 2026 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning
I didn’t make tons of progress on my Access AI setup yesterday and today other than I started to transition one project fully to Git, the Version Control System plugin, and utilizing cursor. I’m not too far in yet, but I set up a page on my internal...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 12, 2025 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
Let’s say you really want Access to go slow, maybe so it was unusable, maybe so it wouldn’t even work and corrupt your databases consistently. How would you do that? First, make sure you add in a LOT of latency. So create a front end Access database that...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 3, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features
Ok, been a while since I last posted. This quarter I was really trying to revamp my processes to focus on getting billable stuff done. So my writing took a bit of a back seat while I tried to figure it out. Last week and this week I had 2 different clients that I had...
by Jonathan Halder | Oct 3, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features
I was updating an app launcher to use Microsoft Graph instead of legacy Sharepoint API login credentials for authentication. The transformation went very smoothly and I was able to use Microsoft CoPilot with ChatGPT-5 mode to handle a lot of the grunt work! It...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 4, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
Don’t be afraid to refactor something if it’s getting too complicated. One of my customers often will have new ideas for reports or forms in the Access app that would really help him make his business better and his life easier. Many times these ideas will...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 3, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
Ever wonder what a developer running a sole proprietorship does? Here’s a little snapshot of my life this week. This week i’ve been up to a couple of things: I’ve updated a client to provide a button to their navigation to open a particular query....
