Ben Griswold on December 17th, 2006

Earlier this month, Jeff Atwood dubbed December 1st, Support Your Favorite Small Software Vendor Day.  If you haven’t already, read the post and the comments.  You’ll find it is chock-full of free to low cost software endorsed by fellow developers which could most-likely use your support. While reading the post, it struck me that one of my co-workers [...]

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Ben Griswold on December 17th, 2006

What’s the worst thing about using a wireless mouse?  The batteries eventually die.  What’s the best thing about using a wireless mouse?  The batteries eventually die. You see, I have a problem.  I am a mouse addict.  I’m nearly helpless without one and when the mouse batteries die, I come face to face with my addiction [...]

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Ben Griswold on December 14th, 2006

My current project has me exercising a number of financial formulas on security and benchmark data. I have 2 – 3 sets of data which based on their type (benchmark or not) have varying calculations which set similar properties.  I won’t bore you with the details, but the calculations do require more than the four basic math operators.  In [...]

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Ben Griswold on December 6th, 2006

This morning, I received an email from my bank announcing the release of “the new and improved Internet Branch.”  I think my bank did a nice job with the announcement since they kept the communication short and sweet yet included everything that needed to be said.  The email’s largest emphasis was on the newly-implemented, long-awaited enhancements.  [...]

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Ben Griswold on December 4th, 2006

I typically cringe when online reporting is included in a web application’s feature list. It may just be me, but I’ve always found building professional, print-friendly reports to be very difficult, very time consuming and error prone. Notwithstanding, I have produced my fair share of dynamic PDF reports over the years and with very few [...]

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