Yes, I’ve gone over to the dark side and got myself an iPhone from Vodafone. I spent ages agonising over which deal, which network and tried to love any one of the other smart phone offerings, but eventually, the Apple marketing engine caught me hook line and sinker. And the 1GB data limit swayed me Read More
It’s Time for a Clear Out
Apparently, I have too much stuff. The attic is full to bursting, there’s no room in the shed to potter, and I can barely squeeze a single shirt into the wardrobe. So I have to get rid of some of it so that my wife has somewhere to keep all her old handbags “till she Read More
A Brief Introduction To Unified Modelling Language (UML)
I want to emphasise that it is really important that both Business and IT development teams understand UML because it is a powerful communication, analysis and design tool. An understanding of UML and how it can be used is a starting point for significantly more successful IT projects. Over the last 10 years or so Read More
Happy New Year
A very Happy New Year and a Happy New Decade to all who visit my blog. I’ve made a few vague New Year’s Resolutions this year – the usual ones about weight, health and fitness – but one thing I am determined to do this year is make better use of this blog. That is Read More
Kajabity Tools (for C#) version 0.1 Released
At last, I’ve finally managed to put together a release of the Kajabity Tools – this version just includes a completely rewritten JavaProperties class allowing a C# application to correctly load and store Java style properties from a “.properties” file. For more details see Kajabity Tools. The Kajabity Tools-0.1.zip file contains: Kajabity Tools DLL – Read More
Kajabity YearChart v0.3 Released: Print Any Date Range
Version 0.3 of Kajabity YearChart is now available for download. Key new features are: – Print any range of dates from 1 day to 5 years so you can create: – Academic Year Planners Financial Year Planners Project Charts Extra Columns – with better handling of both extra rows and columns. Print within maximum page Read More
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Problems With PageSetupDialog And Metric Margins
When I first wrote Year Chart (before I decided to publish it online) the printing seemed so easy – a print dialog, print preview dialog and a page setup dialog. I defaulted the margins to half an inch and had the Year Chart panel draw onto the printer page. Simple! This worked fine in my Read More
Paste Unformatted Text in Microsoft Word – Without Errors!
How to add a macro to Microsoft Word to paste unformatted text without causing a run-time error 5342 when you paste an image from the clipboard.
Recovering a Saved Email Attachment in Outlook
Yesterday (Friday) I did one of those painful little tricks that we all do now and again. I had spent most of the last two days filling in a spreadsheet with data that I had been researching for an application. The spreadsheet was embedded in an email, but, because I had spent so long Read More