Archive for the ‘Books’ Category.
Raymon was randomly selected from all of the entrants and he will be getting his copy of the book shortly. Thanks for all who entered.
As for spreadsheet names:
Bestspread - sounds like a margarine products
Buckwheat - O Tay
CalcEase - laxative?
Calcium
CalcXPress
Cell U Like
CellBoard
Cirrus - in honor of cloud computing - clever
Count
Crunch
DataHusker - my personal favorite
DataMiner
Dataplane
EasySheet
Ellexx
Enumerate
FigureItOut
Formula
FormulaGrid
Formulator
GNEWTON (Gnewton’s [...]
Mike from the Northeast won the 4-year anniversary contest. A copy of Dalgleish’s Excel Pivot Table Recipes is soon to be rushing to his house from wherever Amazon rushes stuff. In the contest, I asked for your favorite non-Excel blogs, and here are some of them:
Office Live Small Business… - Why are Microsoft [...]
The 4-Hour Work Week
From page 115 of The 4-Hour Work Week:
Honey has completed her first project for me: research on the person Esquire has chosen as the Sexiest Woman Alive. I’ve been assigned to write a profile of this woman, and I really don’t want to have to slog through all the heavy-breathing [...]
Professional Excel Development has a chapter on optimization that discusses the PerfMon utility (available on the companion CD). I used it for the first time on a 40 second process and I thought I would share the results. Thrilling, I know.
One hundred fifty thousand calls to class properties? Yikes! Noting that [...]
A while ago, Patrick O’Beirne sent me a copy of his book Spreadsheet Check and Control to review. I read it, but I never reviewed it. It’s a very well written, well organized book and I recommend it. But book reviews are hard and I’m a little lazy. Needless to say, [...]
The contest, Free Stuff, was itself an April Fool’s joke. There really is no book.
Actually, the previous sentence is yet another April Fool’s joke, as there actually is a contest. But only one person put “Stupid Contest” in quotes, so he wins.
Just kidding (boy, I’m on a roll). The actual winner was [...]
Today I received 10 copies of Excel 2007 Power Programming With VBA.
Six copies are up for grabs. Just tell me what you'll trade for an autographed copy. To keep things simple, post your item-for-trade offer at my blog.
Last week this blog turned three years old. Thank goodness the terrible twos are over. And yet, sometimes I pine for the days when it was just an infant. Back when I had time to post three times per day.
In honor of its third anniversary, I thought a give-away would be in [...]
