April 2004 Entries
Well I need to let of steam, so I think here is good as any a place to do that As a consultant you are thrown much crap in your day to day dealings with a client, mostly stuff that full time members of staff do not want to do, as it is not interesting and demeaning to them. The problem is that once the consultant leaves, no one knows how to do the demaning stuff, and in some cases all hell breaks loose and the consultant is then tared with doing a bad job. Unfair and quite wrong to make that assumption,...
Over the last couple of days I have been presenting an Introduction to .NET Seminars, one in London and one in Glasgow, and in general they were well recieved, but the following questions where raised a couple of times 1. What compelling reason is there for using .Net on the Server side 2. What compelling reason is there for migrating J2EE solutions to .Net 3. Mono has provided a .Net implementation for RedHat, that implements the published standards on the ECMA, but they have implemented more than...
Have spent a couple of days looking at the various ways to integrate C# with Excel and have found in the process a number of good references on the web providing ways to achieve this, I have included those at the bottom of this post My basic requirement at the moment is the following, I have a client that has many Excel Spreadsheets to support their business and they are looking to leverage the functionality in other applications, without having to re-write the current spreadsheets, so I need to...