Dev conf social

This is where we plan to meet on the Tuesday evening prior to the conf:

http://www.themastergunner.com/

Hope to see you there

cheers

simon

Extreme Spreadsheeting

Got any pics of spreadsheeting in extreme circumstances?

How about doing the accounts going up a drag lift?

Or whilst skiing down?

Please post links to other extreme spreadsheeting pics or stories.

I think we should be able to give extreme ironing a run for its money. ;-)

cheers

simon

Excel Dev Conf Presenter Bob Phillips

Well known Excel MVP Bob Phillips is presenting a session on Self Service BI at our Excel Conference, his profile is here.

I am really looking forward to this session as the Excel BI story is getting better and better. Eventually people will actually start using the stuff and stop some of the current poor working approaches. Bob has been doing this stuff for a living for years so I am keen to hear how it actually works, rather than the Microsoft/Contoso fantasy stuff.

Conference bookings have been better than expected, but there are still a few spaces left. Booking will be open for another week or so if you don’t want to miss this excellent event.

cheers

simon

Stratfor RickRolled

You couldnt make this stuff up.

The BBC said they were a business intelligence firm, but didn’t seem to have much intelligence!

Bit harsh I thought, anyone can get hacked. Getting Rickrollered just adds insult to injury. Still funny though.

cheers

Simon

More conf presenters.

That Moiphie bloke.

I nearly forgot to put mine up.

 

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21. Nikon D4

I am a bit underwhelmed at the spec tbh (the next Canon has higher res and fps and iso), I look forward to the reviews. But it looks like the next couple of months will be a good time to pick up a reasonable second hand D3s (or x).

10. And I know I can’t technically claim this one yet, but its not far off is it…?

cheers

simon

5 years

I just noticed I have been blogging here for 5 years.

bloody hell!

Last few hours of conference discount

The Early bird discount for the 2012 Excel Developer conference expires tonight at midnight (ish). (European time, CET not GMT) (11pm for the Brits).

Please visit the booking page here ASAP and get yourself booked on.

After tonight, the price goes up to 250 GBP, still a staggering bargain actually.

Hope to see you there,

cheers

Simon

Excel Dev Conf Presenter – Charles Williams

Charles Williams, Mr FastExcel, Mr Decision Models, well known Excel calculation expert will be presenting at the stupendous Excel Developer Conference 2012 (Jan 25 London booking here…).

He has furnished us with some blurb on his talk and life outside Excel here.

There is still a couple of days before the generous 50 GBP early bird discount expires (on Friday 6th Jan). But even if you miss that, its still only 250 GBP to meet some of the top names in the Excel world, and learn what your fellow Excellers are working on. A snip.

cheers

simon

 

LinkedIn comedy

I don’t really use LinkedIn, but I happened to be on there today and saw something that made me laugh.

Recently I was approached about doing some work for a potential client. After a brief discussion and issues with my availability (I didnt have any), the project went to someone else. No problem (for me), but lets just say the work was quite specific, oh I don’t know let just say taking some data from Excel and creating a drawing.

I skipped over one of the Excel groups on linkedIn and lo, a question from ‘recently’ : ‘How do you create a [specific type of] drawing from [a very particular type of] Excel data?’ Made me laugh…

No idea if it is exactly the same project, but its a pretty damn close coincidence. (I didn’t bother to look if it had been solved.)

At least they didn’t wait until I had scoped it out and incurred time and costs then blow me out on rate. Although I guess if the forum approach fails badly they could be back in touch. With even less budget having blown half of it on the failed hobbyist version.

This sort of thing always makes me wonder if I should move over to a server based tech so I am not always in competition with hobbyists? No disrespect at all, I got into VBA as a hobby because it was more interesting than my proper job. But I am not sure how many people would get into the nitty gritty of Oracle, or Sharepoint just for fun?

Any of you passed up some work only to see it hawked around the forums shortly after?

cheers

simon