Mike Schaeffer
Staff Software Engineer. Pragmatic Problem Solver.
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Table of Contents
October 2005
Excel 12 Databars, Now. (Sort of)
Excel: 'Repeat', the Simplest Macro
Formulas Driven from AutoFilters
September 2005
MoveAfterReturn, OnTime, and the Excel Status Bar
The world's most popular functional programming language...
Programming Well: Write (and Read) your Data ASAP
Dusty Decks, Lisp, and Early Computing
August 2005
I had a dream...
Bell Labs group 1127 has been disbanded...
Arc Hub
July 2005
Interesting links and blogs...
List filtering with Formulas in Microsoft Excel: How it's done
Apple's new iBook
PS: I think that AutoFilter is typical of Excel...
List filtering with Formulas in Microsoft Excel: Motivation
Using Internet Explorer as a non-Anonymous FTP client
June 2005
Mapping XML to S-Expressions
UseHR, High Resolution Displays, and the Internet
Some historical context around Apple/x86
The Inspiron has arrived...
The "Star of the American Road"
Inspiron 6000d (and Laptop Shopping Advice)
So it's true...
Apple on Intel - Not^H^H^H gonna happen
It looks better on an LCD, honest!
"Saving Excursions" in Excel
A Pretty Printer for Excel Formulas
Some things never change...
May 2005
Dell Service Manuals
Anti Grain Geometry
Better Text for GDI Applications
Seymour Cray
April 2005
Visual BASIC
Programming Well: Global Variables
What is a Company for?
March 2005
Sony Ericsson T-637
Outsourcing vs. Offshoring
A few good Lisp and Scheme (and Smalltalk) Related Links
I guess I had forgotten how slow I/O was, particularly bad I/O.
Michael Kaplan's Blog and a Few Other Good Links
Programming Well: Embrace Idempotence, Part 2 (It works at runtime too)
February 2005
Jef Raskin
Larry Osterman on Concurrency
Programming Well: Embrace Idempotence, Part 1
Blosxom, Annotated
The Portland Pattern Repository
Joel is Right
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vCalc
Noisemaker
A couple Lisp/Programming Language Blogs