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Carl Icahn is back in the news again; he’s agitating Apple to buy back shares as a way of increasing shareholder values. But why should Apple give money to people like him who are providing nothing of value to the company? All Icahn and his ilk are doing is sucking money out of corporations. Instead, that…
Dashboard driving: running your business solely on the numbers without considering your long-term prospects or intangibles. Do you drive your car solely by looking at the dashboard, measuring your speed and fuel usage? Or do you mostly drive by looking out the window to see where you are and where you are going and possibly…
When you develop programs, you have to test, test, test. After this past month, I see at least 2 areas where you have to do some serious testing: 1) Test different sites/units/businesses that will be using your program. Each site or unit may have different ways of entering data or have different terminology. Even the…
“No, they hand key that in”…. “No, that is manually input.” “No, that’s also keyed in.” I was going over the result of the testing with my boss and as I went through each section, she kept asking how the field folks pull in the data. Each time I had to say that it was…
“One, two, three, four, five, …, eleven, twelve. Twelve characters.” “So why does Excel len() function gives me 13?” “Maybe there’s a blank character at the front. Let’s try =left(cell, 1)…Hmmm, R.” “Maybe it’s at the end. Try =right(cell, 1)…An e, nope.” Normally, if you are working with a download from SAP, you will be dealing…
There’s a lot of bad actors in this world. They range from the infantile teenagers to the truly malicious. The latest set of news are about the massive breach at JPMorgan, which, being a financial firm, would have one of the strongest set of security plans in place and yet, they’ve been hacked. This means just about everybody is…
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