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The entire 6-DVD Making Better Software series, which was produced after Aardvark'd, is now free on YouTube as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXZ75Ds5vOs&list=PLXOSex6PRP...…

Back in 2005, Fog Creek produced a documentary called "Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks", about their internship program. There are lots of great interviews in there, including Paul…

I was surprised that the JSONView Chrome extension wasn't working when I opened a tab with JSON that didn't get reformatted. When I checked chrome://extensions/, there was a note: …

Two things: 1) Being in debt sucks. Become incredibly passionate about the idea of never being in debt again. If you don't have a giant student loan weighing around your neck, you …

From what I gather watching the video, you only need the xlwing.bas module and the supporting VBA code if you plan to invoke python from within the Excel file. If you're only manip…

My favorite reference is the VBA Developer's Handbook by Getz & Gilbert from 2001. You can probably learn everything you need from Googling for solutions to problems, but that book…

> Does anyone have any suggestions other than browsing Amazon or strolling through a Barnes and Noble? Go back in time. Read classics. Re-read the stuff you glossed over in college…

That's the library.

While Fog Creek doesn't announce features and services prior to shipping, we do keep a fairly public account of what we're working on at http://trello.com/dev . Note the cards labe…

After OWS forgives random debt, is it also going to help teach people how to avoid debt again? By avoiding keeping a balance on credit cards? By saving up an emergency fund for a r…

I really like how the LookBook is viewed as a way of "increasing customer happiness." You're essentially helping the customer validate how great they feel about themselves for doin…

"Switching customers to annual billing radically decreases churn, one of the key risks to SaaS businesses long-term." Where I can I read more about annual billing decreasing churn?…

When I was teaching myself how to program in VBA, I remember thinking "there's got to be some syntax to take a list of things and iterate over each of them." I was of course lookin…

Sorry if my comments were confusing. I intended no sarcasm nor arrogance. I started off in VBA hacking recorded macros. I would then write hundreds of lines of code into a single f…

"Becoming a good Visual Basic 6 programmer took much less time than becoming a good C++ programmer." I love this line because it implies that you can actually become a good VB6 pro…

This resonates a lot with Spolsky's "How Microsoft Lost the API War": http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

I still have a soft spot for VBA, especially in Excel. I wrote a supply-chain management application in Excel+VBA that's still in production today. As comfortable as I am with VBA,…

My favorite line from the blog post: "If you are looking for a free solution, you can read the Posterous API documentation to create your own backups." Well said and great job on t…

I loved the Paleo button. Made it a lot easier to get started!

The site looks nice. Whether or not their methods are the best, I've worked for quite a few folks who would find their presentation very appealing. Because they've been burned by c…