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Create Time Dimensions with this handy Office App for Excel 12 Aug 2013 | 08:04 pm
If you have done a lot of model building, you have built more time dimensions than you care to remember. It’s tedious, annoying, and you usually build just what you need at the time, and then want mor...
Resize and Update Linked Tables in Power Power Pivot with VBA in Excel 9 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
In keeping with my last blog post, there was another task I had to accomplish in Excel. My workbook, which I’ll post when I find the time to clean all of the PII out of it, is using some VBA to take d...
Create Running Totals in Power Pivot with DAX 8 Aug 2013 | 10:28 pm
Recently I needed to create a calculated column in Power Pivot that calculated a running total. Although this seemed pretty straight forward, in practice I found the DAX expressions to be a little cou...
Microsoft Surface RT First Impressions 30 Jul 2013 | 12:47 am
Last Friday I did the unthinkable. I bought a Microsoft Surface RT to do a little development exploration with a few ideas that I have. I was going to get the $349 version, but as they were actually s...
Teaching Enterprise Users to Fish 29 Jul 2013 | 09:44 pm
I had an interesting thought while walking my dog this weekend. We’ve all struggled with enterprise application adoption and training. We know people resist change naturally and are creatures of habit...
It’s good news, bad news for Apple Logic X 13 Jun 2013 | 02:55 am
I’ve been doing some thinking and tea leaf reading concerning Logic X/10. It’s led me to one conclusion. It’s coming, but it’s going to be awhile. Not only did Steve Jobs respond to an email query fro...
Raising Awareness 7 Jun 2013 | 02:10 am
Today Twerps are raising awareness for child abuse. Thursdays are hashtag # StopChildAbuse day. Add #StopChildAbuse to your tweets on Thursdays to help Raise Awareness! helpspreadthis.org/tweetyoursup...
People always underestimate technology 6 Jun 2013 | 10:59 pm
This is a bit of a general thought predicated by an interesting music-related Facebook discussion that’s taken place over the last few days. A company has announced solid-state Vacuum tube replacement...
This is what truth looks like 5 Jun 2013 | 03:58 am
Someone sent me a link to an Adobe Creative Cloud Petition online. I read through the petition’s description and felt like adding a few thoughts of my own. As of right now, over 25,000 people have sig...
Canon SL1 and 40mm Pancake Impressions 4 Jun 2013 | 11:03 pm
It’s probably not news, but I am an avid photographer. I travel with a big bag filled with a Canon 5D mkII and a bunch of L series lenses. I love my camera, but I take a ton of photos with my iPhone b...
