The Week of the Doctor: Day Two – You Will Be Upgraded

Over seven days, I’m watching a selection of stories from the rebooted Doctor Who series, and reviewing them in celebration of the 50th anniversary. Rise of the Cybermen・The Age of Steel By Tom MacRae The TARDIS is dead.  The Doctor and his companions discover themselves on a parallel earth, complete with Zeppelins.  Every person wears…

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The Week of the Doctor: Day One – Are You My Mummy?

Over seven days, I’m watching a selection of stories from the rebooted Doctor Who series, and reviewing them in celebration of the 50th anniversary. The Empty Child・The Doctor Dances By Steven Moffatt A little boy appears outside, ostensibly looking for his mother.  He’s wearing a gas mask.  “Are you my mummy?” he says in his…

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Why I’m Supporting Naheed Nenshi.

Naheed Nenshi is far from perfect. Just like everyone else. He gets tired like you and me, he gets grumpy at times, just like you and me, and, just like you, he makes mistakes. He is also, as far as I can tell, quite, shall we say, “Liberal” on may of his personal beliefs. He hasn’t confirmed this to me, but I’m making that assessment of his ideological slant based on some of the things I’ve heard him say.

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Metrics Tracking Application

The Issue: The customer is a data management company for a number of large customers in a very large market sector.  As their customers had a large amount of documents being checked out and checked in, updated, maintained, indexed, and, where necessary, destroyed, the customer needed a distributed application for data entry which could have…

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Excel Merge Macro

The Issue: The client used SharePoint to distribute data entry across a number of different locations.  Each location would update the data in an Excel workbook, and the customer needed that data integrated into a centralized Excel workbook to manage their inventory database, from which would be uploaded and synchronized with a Magento-based eCommerce platform….

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