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Office 2013 upgrade – red pill or blue pill?

The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are pop culture symbols representing the choice between the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue) and embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality...

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How the Internet has Changed the Spread of Information

Something new today, a post by a guest blogger John Harris on how the internet has changed the spread of information. Away you go, John, – In the past couple of decades, the Internet has transformed...

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SQL Server Import Wizard cannot import fields containing more than 255...

I have been importing data from Excel to SQL Server using the SQL Server Import Wizard. Usually there is no problem but I have found a bug. 1. To reproduce: Try to import a column containing more than...

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Opera joins Google/Apple in-crowd with shift to WebKit and Chromium

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A T-SQL SPLIT function

When taking existing data to put into a data warehouse one hopes that it is nicely formatted. This is seldom the case and recently I was faced with the problem that single field contained a rather...

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How to add a row number to an Excel table

Excel tables provide a lot of support for data processing and the use of structured references can improve readability. We want to number rows in an Excel table and we can do it really easily using...

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Create the Union of two tables in Excel

It is very common in Excel to need to create a single table from the two or more other tables. For example, different users may edit different worksheets but you need to aggregate all the data for...

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PyCon tweet proves email is not worst form of communication

I have long thought that email was the worst form of communication; primarily because it involves no real conversation, only the author giving his views to the recipient. But Adria Richards, who in her...

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Netgear WNR1000v3 router port forwarding bug

My router was supplied by Plusnet (firmware V1.0.2.30_53.0.66B1). It has several bugs in the port forwarding function. First the good news: It WILL forward port 80 to port 80 on another server Now the...

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Choosing Manual Scheduled or Autoscheduled in Microsoft Project

A Microsoft Project task has many options and I am often asked how to choose the correct ones, Task Mode can be, “Auto Scheduled” or “Manual Scheduled” and task Type can be “Fixed Work”, “Fixed Units”...

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Doctor Who? Voting is fierce

Voting is fierce for the next Doctor Who over at The Register.

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How to create a union of n tables in Excel

In response to my post showing how to union two tables in Excel  a reader writes, I have seen your blog post about combining two tables, which I have working for me, however I would like to combine an...

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ant install, deploy does not work after upgrading from Tomcat 6 to Tomcat 7

There are several issues the manager URL has changed the default tomcat-users does not give the necessary permissions ant needs access to additional jars the task syntax is less forgiving (to me...

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Amazon AWS adds another high availability solution – DNS Failover

In the past each “9″ on your availability cost about 10x more. So for example, 99.99% availability cost 10x more than 99.9% availability. Amazon is making inroads into these costs. Amazon Elastic...

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Skype stops Tomcat 7 working on port 80

I recently reinstalled my Rialo application server on a Windows 7 Home Premium PC. I changed the port in server.xml from 8080 to 80 but Tomcat no longer would serve pages. After about an hour I found a...

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SCRUM, PRINCE2 and ElephantPM

I have received several questions recently about how agile project management methodologies such as SCRUM can be used with deliverable-centric methodologies such as PRINCE2 or ElephantPM. ElephantPM is...

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Keyapt SMS: Type on your PC, send from your phone

Chris and I have just released the second version of Keyapt SMS for Android phones. It lets you see your contacts and send and receive SMS in your web browser. The SMS are actually sent from your...

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How to use Outlook with Gmail

As a freelance project manager I have email accounts with many of my clients. I find that Microsoft Outlook 2010 is a very good client because it can support many email accounts and many calendars. I...

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Tomcat 7 on Windows is not UTF-8 by default

When building web applications one typically uses UTF-8 encoding thoughout to ensure that you can send and receive text in multi-byte languages such as Russian, and Chinese. The Window 7 version of...

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Who cleans the toilets at Valve Corporation?

There is recently been some press coverage of Valve Corporation which famously has no bosses. As a management consultant I spent most of my working days putting in hierarchal management systems  to...

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