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The invite to connect in LinkedIn read: “I read your fine post/synthesis ‘Skills you will need for the future’. Thank you for sharing your reflections. I’m a friend of Marty and I’ve followed Ito’s work for a long time.” Kenneth MikkelsenThis personal message led me to buying and reading his book. And I’m glad I…
In my last post I mentioned that I was testing a revamped spreadsheet and was having a difficult time of it because the testing required detailed testing of each cell. The revamp was extensive and the testing is massive (large number of cells and probably at least 15 tabs to go through). I’m not really…
The past week I’ve been reviewing a revamped budget file. The budget file is totally revamped which means extensive testing is required. I was able to design an automated checking of whether cells are appropriately locked (or unlocked) using the CELL(“protect”, ref) function. I also have a user defined function CellFormula (a macro) that shows…
“The Dutch chess grandmaster Jan Hein Donner was asked how he’d prepare for a chess match against a computer like IBM’s Deep Blue. Donner replied: “I would bring a hammer.” From Thank You for Being Late, Chapter 7, by Thomas Friedman, which itself has pulled from The Second Machine Age.This is a common feeling among…
Last couple of weeks I’ve been doing some research trying to learn some new skills or new concepts and while I do that research, I come across some sites. I will peruse those sites to see what is being discussed and how that site is structured. One thing I’m learning: there’s a whole lot of…
I keep learning new things.Lately, my boss wanted an easy way of “printing” her budget file as an Excel file but without formulas to send to our customers. Previously, she sent the budget file as a PDF but you know you can’t use the information in Excel unless you have the professional version of Acrobat to convert…