AN enormous amount of my work revolves around e-mail. I get requests for work, and I get the components of the jobs that I’m working on through e-mail. I send the results of my work and progress reports out through … Continue reading →

MY oldest son, Christopher, is deeply interested in video games and, as a result, I’ve been exposed to computer gaming more that I probably wanted to be. I should also add that none of my three sons are computer programmers—or … Continue reading →

For someone who makes a sizeable portion of his income from technical writing (there are years when my tech writing revenue matches my consulting revenue), you’d think I’d be better at communicating. As I get older and deafer, most of … Continue reading →

THERE are a number of technology changes in the wind for Access developers, and they can be summed up in two phases: ADO.NET and Access 2002. It’s important to remember that none of these technologies make your current tools obsolete. … Continue reading →

I have to admit that I don’t pay much attention to bug reports. Most bug reports that I hear about are either so obscure (witness some of the problems in the Excel calculation engine) or so easy to avoid (like … Continue reading →