by Jonathan Halder | Aug 5, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access
Every day I remind myself that I am working to help businesses simplify and provide software to streamline people’s work. I use that phrasing to keep my focus on why I am using my Access skills. I want to bring simplicity. I try to use these aspects in my work...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 4, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, Versioning
Versioning systems are great for me as a business entity. It gives me control over updates and changing objects and code, allowing me to go to previous versions easily and prevents the dreaded “Where did that feature go?” problem. But what if the customer...
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...
