I finished up my first Web service today using Visual Studio 2005 and C#.  As I do whenever I start with a technology that’s new to me, I turned to the Web to try to find a good example.  After quite a bit of searching, I found this article to be a great starting point.  It makes the…

When I joined the company, we talked about all sort of systems that we would need to get up and running pronto.  Things like a CRM solution, subscribing to a sales suite like salesforce.com, etc.  I made the rather bold statement that we should just use some spreadsheets to track things.  There were several reasons…

Many people are familiar with the idea of looking at a sales pipeline and discounting the potential revenue by the probability that the deal will close.  (e.g., a $1M deal that has a 10% chance of closing is discounted to $100k).   For relatively small organizations, it turns out that using this thinking and applying…

I’m doing some VS2005 development using a nifty tool called TallPDF.  It lets me build up a PDF from XML files from one of my clients (among other nice capabilities).  I ran into a silly problem, and thought that I should share some solutions to it.   I could open the compiled HTML help (.CHM)…

I posted an Excel spreadsheet to a document library in our Sharepoint 2003 site.  When I open it from there, all of the Pivot Table source data is ‘broken’.  Rather than using the named range ‘[rangename]’ that I had given when I set up the Pivot Table, it now points to https://[servername]/[sitename]/[filename]’![rangename] which it then…