Microsoft is offering free developer and design software for students all around the world. Students can download professional-level Microsoft developer and design tools. The downloads currently (as of this posting) listed are: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition Microsoft Expression Studio xna Game Studio 2.0 xna Creators Club…
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I ran into an interesting situation the other day when trying to import some data into Excel. I had a text file with words and definitions that I needed to have in two columns in Excel, one for the word and one for the definition. The words and their definitions were separated by a hyphen (-), so I could have…
I am pleased to announce that I will be starting a guest post series. I am inviting programmers and coders from all languages and platforms to share their coding tips and tricks, snippets, and stories. It doesn't matter what your level of experience is, anything you have to share is a welcome addition, so if you would like to share…
In response to my post on importing large files into Excel by first splitting them, one of my readers, JP pointed out to me that you can bypass the splitting step by using a VBA macro to do the import. As you may know, Excel has a cut off of 65,536 rows, and so if you want to import a…
Have you ever wanted to transfer/upload many files using FTP, and sat there for hours watching the process and hoping that your FTP connection doesn't time out?? Well, I have. This especially happens when I am uploading images, or a CMS. Well, I learned a little trick from Bo on how to use zipped files and PHP to make the…