by Jonathan Tuppeny | Nov 30, 2021 | Non-technical, Not IT Related
I do panoramic photographs made up hundreds of individual pictures and I was hoping to use the Gigapan Epic to be able to scenes using very small angles between each picture, but I found that the batteries simply didn’t last. As standard, the Gigapan runs on 6...
by Jonathan Tuppeny | Jan 11, 2018 | Non-technical, Not IT Related
For reasons that I won’t go into, I recently had to re-pack an Alesis Strike Pro drum kit back into its box in order to return it. However, this was no easy task due to the fact that the main box is packed full of smaller boxes that fit together like a Chinese...
by Jonathan Tuppeny | Nov 7, 2016 | Technical
One of the problems that often comes up when working with Excel programmatically is that dates are often converted to American date format automatically. So for instance you might open a csv file with the value ’07/11/2016′ in dd/mm/yyyy format only for...
by Jonathan Tuppeny | Apr 11, 2016 | Technical
CSV files are ubiquitous – they are the most common means of transferring data from one system to another using a text file. They do, however, have one major drawback – commas. A string of comma separated values is no problem when all the values are numbers or text...
by Jonathan Tuppeny | Mar 4, 2016 | Non-technical
As the world becomes more mobile and cloud orientated, I have been working hard trying to get a database to run on a smart phone in some form. Ultimately I’d like to host a database in the cloud and then be able to use Access as an interface not only on a desktop PC...
