Friday, last week, 15th Feb, two of the services I most depend on, failed. Now as it turned out, neither really concerned me at the time, as that same day my brother was taken seriously ill (he’s now doing fine and on the way to recovery). It’s only now I’ve had the time [...]
Archive for February, 2008
A Tale of Two Services.
Posted in Web2.0, data, excel, tagged Callidus, eadestown, fixed wireless, HAMACHI, IFA, omnitel, problem, problems, service, sucks, Torque Internet, VPN, Wordpress.com on February 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
xlAWS - Excel VBA Code for accessing Amazon’s S3 and SimpleDB
Posted in AmazonAWS, S3, SimpleDB, VBA, excel, programming, tagged API, VB6, xlAWS on February 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been using Amazon’s S3 service from within Excel for sometime now and as there are no libraries or examples for calling AWS services from VBA (or VB6) I had to roll my own. As with most things Excel, getting the job done always triumphs over elegance and industrial strength implementations, in other words [...]
Google forgets to renew JotSpot domain!
Posted in GAFyD, GoogleApps, Web2.0, tagged Google Sites, JotSpot, Network Solutions, wiki on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over the weekend I dusted down my JotSpot Wiki, cleaned out some old Wiki pages and generally made it useful as a client collaboration tool. I created some new pages and few “project diary” type blog entries to do with a proposal for work. I also set up a potential client as a [...]
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