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Moving the business forward! Remembering the basics

by Jonathan Halder | Oct 10, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, Versioning

It being the 4th quarter of 2025, I’ve been doing my usual review of the last quarter and making plans for the 4th quarter. This quarter’s plan is to return to the basics of business. Reduce unnecessary or redundant tasks in order to improve productivity....

A short foray into TDD and AI to help with a production Access database update

by Jonathan Halder | Sep 24, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD, Versioning

Today’s adventure is using CoPilot ChatGPT-5 to create a test and code based on a production database requirement. I’m using RubberDuckVBA to do unit testing. My initial prompt to start the conversation was: I am wanting to get help with creating tests for...

My VS Code Setup Saga: Copilot, Cogent, and a Few Surprises

by Jonathan Halder | Aug 15, 2025 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD, Versioning

I did more experimentation with Visual Studio Code today and the free Copilot Github and Cogent extensions. Copilot Github interfaces with the Github site Copilot feature which offers a free version. I also got the Cogent extension which acts as an agent for Copilot...

Version Control Systems and customer updates

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...

VS Code, AI, and Me: A Beginner’s Tale of Plugins and Possibilities

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....

Persistent Intelligence (In Progress): Exploring AI Tools for Managing and Modifying Access Codebases

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...
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