9 September 2010 by Ross McLean
In this podcast we chatted to Bill Jelen from MrExcel. Bill has been working with spreadsheets for over 100 years, and is the oldest man alive. Well, something like that.
Bill Jelen, its not easy being this cool.
This podcast was fun, we rambled our way around a lot of topics, and got some really interesting insights, here’s the (somewhat cryptic) roadmap:
• A day in the life of MrExcel
• The MrExcel Podcasts
• MrExcel Training
• How MrExcel came to be
• Lotus 123 (not lotus Notes, like I always say for some reason)
• Lotus v’s Excel
• 2 killer questions…
• Going full time, making the jump – Thank you Mr Warren
• A tip to get started..
• The writing process (darling)
• MrExcel consultancy
• The next big Excel book – (get writing it)
• The longest question in the world (un skillfully asked by me!)
Take a listen, there’s some interesting stuff in there, did you here about this book for example?
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23 March 2010 by Ross McLean
Purna Duggirala. Purna Duggirala. Purna Duggirala. You might better know him as Chandoo, but his name is Purna Duggirala. Chandoo is a very friendly fellow, and we had a great chat about charts and dashboards, how to design them what approaches to take etc etc… So if that sounds like your sort of thing, have a listen.
The PHD company christmas card circa 2009......
Purna runs a great Excel site Pointy Haired Dilbert, it really is super, but I reckon that anyone who reads this will know that much already. He has an MBA from IIM Indore and Computer Science degree from Andhra University, and he’s an Excel MVP, of course! only the best for the readers (and listeners) of Methods In Excel.
One thing I didn’t know about Purna is his ability to multi task, the bat eared amongst you will be able to detect Chandoo simultaneously talking and typing away… no doubt writing some more excellent blog posts for PHD!
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9 March 2010 by Ross McLean
A while back JW notice that some clever chap had been ripping content from his, and other peoples Excel blogs, and reposting it, un attributed. A bit more dig from part time PI Deb Dalgleish unearthed a few sites, all belonging to the same chap, with yet more content theft. Some of the stuff was from this blog, and I tried to get Microsoft to take it down. No luck there and I gave up.
Today I saw a tweet from Jimmy saying that he’d just raised “another” DMCA
Don't mess with the Jimster
Anyway, yesterday I listen to this podcast from Dot Net Rocks, which is about copyright trademarks and so on in software. It’s really interesting, and might be useful.
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28 February 2010 by Ross McLean
What can you say about Mike Woodhouse that has not already been written? Probably loads. Mike works in London for a rather large international bank, hosts a blog (Grumpy Old Programmer), gets up to all kinds of cool stuff with Ruby, bosses stack overflow (10k rep!), and likes cricket. Oh and he’s not the least bit grumpy.
Mike Woodhouse, he actually looks like this.
In this podcast I chatted to Mike about Test Driven Development, and it place in the Excel/VBA landscape, we also discussed his add in XLUnit, design to help developers test VBA classes using the TDD approach.
Warning, unfortunately the MIE server was a bit rubbish when we did this podcast, so the recording is a poor. I’ve spent an absolute age editing, but it’s still poor, but stick with it, its worth it.
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29 January 2010 by Ross McLean
For those of you who don’t know who Big Bob Phillips is (which lets be honest, is no one reading this blog), he’s an Excel MVP, the host of Excel Do Dynamic Does, an avid cricket enthusiast, and one presumes a fan of the late, great George Best, or Bestie as he was also know. Anyway this completely unnecessary detail is provided to basically flesh out what is in fact a very boring story. Bob pointed out that the last podcast was not showing up in iTunes.
In fact what has happened is that the wordpress plug in I used for podcasting has become compatible with the current version of wordpress. The result was the RSS feed did not get updated, hopefully this will now be fixed, as I have installed another plug in, so this is a repost to try and get the RSS feed sorted out, sorry…
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