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		<title>XL Dev Con &#8211; Wrapping up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well that&#8217;s end of a great day of Excel goodness, all that&#8217;s left now is a quick trip down the pub, and for Roger to convice me that Named ranges are as good as he thinks they are!!! Bring on the beer!!!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2012/01/25/excel-dev-con-wrapping-up/</link>
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		<title>XL Dev Con &#8211;  The Fast Standard &#8211; Morten Siersted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Morten Siersted, from conference sponsors http://www.f1f9.com, talking about FAST, a simplified set of rules his company is using to build clean models. Its interesting to see this take on an approach to a standard, F1F9 have tried to give it an independent life, by passing it on to 3rd parties, I guess the concept is like open source, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2012/01/25/excel-dev-con-the-fast-standard-morten-siersted/</link>
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		<title>XL Dev Con &#8211; Writing addins in C &#8211; Charles Williams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was looking forward to this one. Charles has huge respect in the Excel commuitely, and has a list of achievement&#8217;s as long as I am tall. Charles is talking about how hes getting on with writing addins in C. This is proper C  not that C# rubbish! Charles first makes the case for why he&#8217;s moved over to C, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2012/01/25/excel-dev-con-charles-williams-on-writing-adding-in-c/</link>
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		<title>XL Dev Con &#8211; VSTO the Hammer &#8211; Mathias Brandewinder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post lunch, and it&#8217;s Mathias, with a run down on VSTO, and what&#8217;s new and exciting in the .Net and Excel world, excellent day so far. Here&#8217;s Mathias opening up visual studio, it didn&#8217;t crash, and he knew where everything was, what an IDE!!! A few examples of how to use VSTO, including the famous/infamous &#8221;Click Once Deployment&#8221;. Its interesting to listen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2012/01/25/vsto-the-hammer-mathias-brandewinder/</link>
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		<title>XL Dev Con &#8211; Lunch Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every good conference needs a lunch, and this is no exception! The slaughtered lamb&#8230;. This being an excel event there&#8217;s also beer, but no beer for Simon, professional to the end.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2012/01/25/excel-dev-con-lunch-time/</link>
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		<title>XL Dev Con &#8211; Portable Code &#8211; Mike Staunton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr Mike Staunton author of such modern classics as Advanced Modelling in Finance Using Excel and VBA (The Wiley Finance Series) and Advanced Modelling in Derivatives Using VBA and C++/CLI (The Wiley Finance Series) and Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns and a few other ones as well, gave a entertaining talk about making [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2012/01/25/excel-dev-con-dr-mike-staunton-on-portable-code/</link>
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		<title>XL Dev Con &#8211;  Self Service BI &#8211; Bob Philips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right Excel legend Bob Philips up next,  self service BI with power pivot&#8230; better concentrate. Bob demo-ed the new features of Power Pivot (did, we ever get an agreed TLA for Power Povit?, I&#8217;m going to run with PPVT). There was some interesting debate at the start of Bobs talk about exactly what the point of PPVT is, can you just use Access to link table together and stuff?? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2012/01/25/excel-uk-dev-con-big-bob-on-bi/</link>
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		<title>XL Dev Con &#8211; Laptop of choice&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll return to the matter of what laptop is best for an (Excel) developer at a later stage, but I did have a quick chat with Bob and Charles about while at the Dev Con, needless to say we were all more or less in agreement. I&#8217;m not too sure what Charles is trying to convey here, but I&#8217;m sure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2012/01/25/laptop-of-choice/</link>
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		<title>XL Dev Con &#8211;  Sponsored by F1F9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[F1F9, (http://www.f1f9.com/) have kindly agreed to sponsor this year&#8217;s conference. More over, they are going to be taking some short videos of some conference goers for their site, with a few hints and tips, I believe these will be put of there free learning page at some point in the not to distance future, look here: I spent quite a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2012/01/25/excel-uk-dev-con-sponsored-by-f1f9/</link>
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		<title>XL Dev Con- Control Statements &#8211; Stephen Allen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting presentation from Stephen Allen on how to track and manage spreadsheet development, and possibly audit them. Stephen described how after having been tasked with a fairly simple development job, the complexities of the business issue meets spreadsheet model found him out. Drawing on his background in auditing, Stephen pulled together a framework of control like statements to ensure a track-able path though the process. One thing that I took away form this was the [...]]]></description>
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