12 January 2010 by Ross McLean
I reckon 2010 is going to be a good year. It’s getting off to a great start here on MIE, with a podcast from Rob Collie of Microsoft. Rob, for those of you who don’t know, is a leading light in the world of powerpivot, and run powerpivotpro.com, a blog devoted to powerpivot and BI.
If you haven’t head about powerpivot yet, have a listen and find out more, if you’ve been playing with it, I think you’ll find this quite interesting.
Hockey Hero - Rob Collie
Feel free to leave some comments with any feedback about this podcast, and also any ideas for future podcasts, thanks.
Side Note:
I believe that we will need to find a suitable acronym for poweropivot, suggestions? pvp, pp, pptv, pvt??? Important stuff!
Get listening here:
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Tags: 2010, MOSS, Podcasts, powerpivot, Sharepoint
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20 December 2009 by Ross McLean
In the third MIE podcast I caught up with Dick Kusleika, father of the Excel blog and founder of the Dailiy Dose of Excel. We talked about his blog, his passion for the keyboard, SQL, ADO and DAO, amongst other things. Dicks sure is a nice guy, no matter what people say ;-).
Dick Kusleika, King of the Keyboard
Get the goodness here:
[podcast]http://mie.jellycast.com/pod/20091125 Dick Kusleika on SQL and Data.mp3[/podcast]
Please leave some comments with any feedback about this podcast, and also any ideas for future podcasts.
I'd also like to say a big thank you to the guys at Jellycast.com (Luke and NickM) for their help in getting the new hosting set up, great support guys.
Enjoy
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Tags: ADO, DAO, Podcasts, SQL, VBA
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12 December 2009 by Ross McLean
I know a few folks might be wondering how the popular the podcasts are. Well the answer is I don't know, because what's "popular". I think they have been quite popular, because 20 gb of bandwidth per month is what people talk about when they say things like, "and if your podcasts gets popular..." I'm running at about 12-14gb. Not sure how you factor in file size/#.
Looking at the log files, the 2 I've put up so far have had about 1500 hits between them, not too bad I guess, I only get about 4k hits a month on the blog anyway. All of that traffice has come from Dick's, Mike's and Simon's blog, very little from searches.
There is one side effect though!
Time to dig deep and open up the bandwidth a bit, not too much of a hardship, since I've added goggle ads to the site I'm making millions*.
If you have any feedback about the podcasts, or if the site has been slow for you drop me a comment.
Thanks, Ross.
*Not one click so far lol!!!! oh the power of advertising!
Tags: Blogs, Podcasts
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9 December 2009 by Ross McLean
There are a few ways to listen to the MIE podcasts.
Right here on the blog, via your browser, just use the built in player that's displayed whenever a podcasts posted.
Download it. Right under the player there will always be a link that can be used to download the podcast directly, then you can listen to it however you like!
Get it in iTunes. Apples don't make it easy, and the store is a bit slow to update, but it's there if you want an easy way to get it onto your iPod etc. (Tip: search for "The Methods In Excel Podcasts")
Get it in Google. Use the RSS feed for the podcasts (http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/feed/podcast/) and add it to you RSS reader, if your using Google reader you get a nice little player there too.
Of course if you're cool like me, then you'll have Aandriod phone in which case you can add the RSS URL to Listener.
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22 November 2009 by Ross McLean
I'm pleased to announce a new feature here on Methods In Excel - Podcasts.
In the first podcast, I caught up with Simon Murphy of Codematic and Smurf on Spreadsheets for a chat about professional spread sheet development, it was great to catch up with Simon and probe him for his thoughts! Enjoy.
Listen here, or download from the link.
[podcast]http://www.methodsinexcel.co.uk/Downloads/Podcasts/20091109%20Simon%20Murphy%20On%20Professional%20Excel%20Development%20.mp3[/podcast]
Please leave some comments with any feedback about this podcast, and also any ideas for future podcasts.
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Tags: Dev Tools, Podcasts, VB.Net, VSTA, VSTO
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