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• ByRef, ByVal, COM Objects, and Excel

  I'm working on getting things into and out of Excel.  In one scenario I copy an Excel Range or Rows from one Excel Worksheet to a Worksheet in another Workbook.  This Workbook then acts as a storage repository for the Range of Rows and is saved...

  07-02-2008, 11:42 by Adron B. Hall to Loosely Coupled Human Code Factory - A.K.A. Mercenary Engineer
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• Transit Police BS

  Based on experience and the experience of many others, do we really want police everywhere all the time?  Especially when they don't enforce actual laws but instead harass and irritate the populace instead? Today I did my normal commute, which these...

  06-30-2008, 22:05 by Adron B. Hall to Transit Sleuth
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• Broken Unit Tests, Code Changes, and Refactoring

  So the build broke based on a unit test that failed.  Is the general rule of thumb that the build breaking check in person fixes the test?  What if they did something that broke someone else's test for something? ...hmm, the philosophy of project...

  06-30-2008, 18:34 by Adron B. Hall to Loosely Coupled Human Code Factory - A.K.A. Mercenary Engineer
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• Beaverton Police and Transit

  Ok, so maybe I'm just a person who likes people to respect each other.  Maybe I'm jumping the issue to think that police officers should be examples of respect and not those that need examples of respect. Ok, so maybe I'm expecting too much of our...

  06-29-2008, 1:24 by Adron B. Hall to Transit Sleuth
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• Modern Computer Power Rulez!

  I was running three virtual machines on my laptop and couldn't help but think, this is awesome.  I couldn't have imagined doing this 6-7 years ago.   That is three operating systems running in virtual machines.  Windows 2003, Windows XP,...

  06-28-2008, 17:24 by Adron B. Hall to Loosely Coupled Human Code Factory - A.K.A. Mercenary Engineer
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