Monthly Archives: December 2016

Evolution of LED Lighting

When the children were really young they had a very tiny little nightlight.  It didn’t really give off all that much light but it was enough to keep the boys happy.  But nothing lasts forever and as it turns out … Continue reading

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nobody’s IT is perfect – real life shopping

Have you ever made a mistake at work?  Either it is small and your colleagues rib you about it or it is bigger and the boss yells at you. What were you thinking?  Those crazy test case output went to … Continue reading

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windows scripting

I was asked the other day if I could take over a task that was running on windows machine. The sentence was hardly out of my boss’s mouth when he said that “you unix guys don’t like windows though”. Well, … Continue reading

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Machine generation of PDF files the easy way – final piece

This is essentially a refinement of the previous steps. I have added a lot of new list data but instead of being limited to what political party they are in or even if they like to party, I have extended … Continue reading

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Machine generation of PDF files the easy way – part VI

The entire example report up until this point has been nice with a cool feature or two but terribly unrealistic. It is important to have the data in mind when creating the form but the form that I have created … Continue reading

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Machine generation of PDF files the easy way – part V

While preparing these articles I didn’t have an overarching goal.  I probably should have began with the header and footer and kept that through all examples but I changed my focus while writing this all up. This fifth example just … Continue reading

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