Paul The Programmer

Its hard to do, perfection. Infact, if you wait for it, you'll likely never stop waiting. So why do we want perfection in the first place?

• Is it to satisfy our customers wants?
• Is it to make sure we deliver precisely what they want?
• To make sure the design achieves what we expected ?
• Because we want to ensure the client was more than satisfied with the product, right?
• To add every conceivable additional service, that you knew would be needed from ...

Ask yourself what an agent does, is it worth it?

Are they putting you into contact with new customers or just trying to make a sale?

Don't you prefer working with clients who like to work with you?

If you're carrying out work at a client site, maybe amongst a group of employees, here are some tips that will move you ahead of the pack and get you seen as a valued member or the team, rather than an unwanted intruder into the employees' inner sanctum.

1. Make them a coffee. Nothing says "I'm on your level" more than offering to make/buy someone a coffee. Try it, you'll see. It's like sa...

It’s high, very high. Perhaps looking up you'd be forgiven for thinking that it can’t be climbed. Maybe you shouldn’t even try? Why bother, what’s the point?

This is what I have on the back of my business card, if it helps just one person keep their PC running then its done its job....My clients, friends and business associates can give my card to their contact, tell them to either follow my advice or refer me, so that I can do it for them - either way my card gets used.

Speed up and protect your PC

1. Free up disk space

The Disk Cleanup tool helps you free up sp...

My normal Friday morning routine is up at 5, wash dress. On PC by 5.30 for half an hour, reading, tweeting (twitter > follow paulthehacker - thats me). Out the door by 6.20am for my regular 7am BNI meeting (Business Networking) in South Shields, N.E. UK.

So what was different today?

Today, we had a 10 presentation by Katherine Scholes of Finchale Training College, County Durham. If you don't know who they are, go...

I had a conversation on twitter yesterday with some who asked a simple question "I want to start a business, any suggestions?".

Well, here was my advice.

Do what you love, what your passionate about.

I, myself, like to program computer code. Sad but true. I don't really care what the language is (though some are a little more obtuse than others), its the code writing and problem solving part that I like. I choose VBA because I thin...

Because I'm a programmer and I'm called Paul, I thought I'd name my website PaulTheProgrammer... simple, or so I thought.

One of my so-called friends asked me today....

Are you planning on releasing a children'...

In the good old days before the typewriter or the printing press there were many, many superb put downs that appear to have fallen out of favour and now are merely historical artifacts.

Well I say Bring Them Back! So here, presented for you are 5 common life experiences that warrant an insult and 5 new insults you can have, for FREE!

Twitter user, v1p1n,  asked ...  "I have three csv files (comma seperated). I want to merge these csv files to a single xls files with 3 csv files in 3 tabs of the xls. Please let me know how i can do this..... "

Here's some code to get you started, this will merge 3 CSV files (FILE1,FILE2 and FILE3) into a single sheet. You'll need to modify strFilePath to th...