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Watch: Amazing drone footage of a Space X reusable rocket’s first test flight

Apr18
by on April 18, 2014 at 6:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Shareables, video

Space X is scheduled to launch a Dragon capsule to the International Space Station today at 3:25 EDT. You can check out the live stream of launch on the company’s site. But, in addition to delivering food and scientific supplies to the ISS, it will conduct a test of its Falcon 9 booster as it aims to make the first stage rocket reusable. The Falcon 9 will have four 25-foot (7.6 meter) long landing legs. The legs will be deployed after jettisoning from the rest of the aircraft and the booster rocket will land in the sea. This is the…

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Watch: Amazing drone footage of a Space X reusable rocket’s first test flight

Apr18
by on April 18, 2014 at 6:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Shareables, video

Space X is scheduled to launch a Dragon capsule to the International Space Station today at 3:25 EDT. You can check out the live stream of launch on the company’s site. But, in addition to delivering food and scientific supplies to the ISS, it will conduct a test of its Falcon 9 booster as it aims to make the first stage rocket reusable. The Falcon 9 will have four 25-foot (7.6 meter) long landing legs. The legs will be deployed after jettisoning from the rest of the aircraft and the booster rocket will land in the sea. This is the…

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A VBA performance class

Apr18
by on April 18, 2014 at 5:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Automation, Classes, Excel Advanced, MVP, Performance, VBA, VBA Advanced

Hi everyone!

If you write a lot of VBA code you probably sometimes run into performance issues. A customer rings you and complains that the Excel file you built for them does not perform well. I’ve written a small article on my site, inspired by a post here: Error Handling via an Error Class. I needed a quick way to log and report performance of subroutines and I also wanted to see how many times a routine was called.

See: A VBA performance class

Enjoy!

Jan Karel Pieterse
www.jkp-ads.com

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Facebook’s Paper for iOS updated with birthdays, events, photo comments, group updates, and more

Apr18
by on April 18, 2014 at 5:02 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Mobile

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Facebook today released the first major update to its Paper for iOS app, adding a slew of new features just 10 weeks after the initial launch. You can download the new version now directly from Apple’s App Store. First up, Facebook has added notifications for birthdays and events. Just like on Facebook, tap the globe icon to stay posted. Next, photo comments are exactly what you’d expect: sometimes words just aren’t enough to explain what you want to say. To add a photo comment, tap the camera next to the comments field, snap a picture, and post a photo as…

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Simple is as simple does: The downsides of avoiding complexity

Apr18
by on April 18, 2014 at 4:53 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur

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Evan Hanlon is the Director of Audience Strategy at Xaxis. There’s a certain type of person I’ve learned not to trust: someone who insists that they can make things simple. I recognize how problematic that is for me, a person whose job it is to in fact make things simple. But I suppose it’s because I dive into what lurks behind the design studio slides and know just how deep the rabbit hole goes. It’s ironic that almost every eye-roll inducing invocation of the phrase “big data” is accompanied by a sales pitch for a tool that makes it easy….

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