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Software Project Completed

The Invoicing System application that I have been developing for the past few weeks has finally been released to the requesting party this morning. The project needed to be completed in the shortest time possible and I’m so glad that I manage to push the first production version before 2008.

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Setting Up An Online Shop? Consider Ashop Commerce

I’ve been programming web applications for more than a decade. Over the years, I’ve heard of all sorts of business ideas that need implementation, and one of the most common idea is setting up an online shop.

Sometimes the proposer has an almost perfect business plan except for one major flaw: not evaluating the online shop backend system properly. Most of the time the proposer only know of one or a few online shop system. However, I’ve never seen anyone who ever proposed on going with a hosted shopping cart system like Ashop Commerce.

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Excel Worksheet Removal Using VBA

I deal with Excel spreadsheets a lot in my work, but strangely I found that I never shared anything regarding MS Excel on HTNet! Well, this ends today.

I’m no fan of Microsoft, but I honestly think that their Office suite is the best office productivity software package bar none. And out of all the members in the Office suite, Excel is simply the best among them. There’s really a lot you can programmatically tell it to do.

One of most common ways to automate tasks in Excel is by using VBA. You can read more about VBA on Wikipedia.

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Web Applications Are Here To Stay

A lot of IT graduates from the 80s and early 90s will find that the skills developed from their university or college days are becoming obsolete with each passing day. Heck, some of the programming languages they’ve implemented projects with are probably no longer in existence today (or more likely to have evolved to the point of being unrecognizable).

One area that is almost unheard of back then is web applications development. Today, your web browser is not just used to explore web sites, it is an applications platform in its own right.

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When Customization Goes Too Far

What if you have 100% control over everything? Do you think this would be a good thing? I’m sure quite a number of you will go “Hell, yeah!”

Well, I’m in the systems business and I’ve gotten my fair share of seeing people who would like their software or equipment exactly as they wanted it and yet regret it when its finally delivered. Believe it or not, in the overwhelming majority of the time people don’t really know what they want.

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