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the projects I am currently working on require miniaturised circuitry and low power consumption. So board size would be perhaps slightly bigger than a coin-cell. I have a number of other projects where the board size is limited to the 2xAAA cells that it uses for power. I'm really struggling...

Any recommendations for: * cheap; and * quick fab-houses for 2-4 layer boards in prototype quantities (10 or so); who will also produce stencils ideally? In the past I have used seeedstudio who satisfy the cheap bullet (you can get down to less than $1 per small board - quite a bit less if...

Ho Arduino is open-sourcing imagination hat-tip to jrbarnett for the link.

I'm helping out a community in the US designing a database webapp to hold information on medlab tests and similar. and ... I'm running into some design issues that have meant I haven't progressed for a while. Some background 1. i design apps so that there is a mapping between classes and...

Hello Does anyone have any thoughts on how credible it might be to use a compiled add-in to emulate worksheets in a trying to create a properly secure workbook?

before we get started on this, MS IRM is not available in the organisation in which I work. so that is not an option. I've been thinking about how to build complex pricing tools with sensitive data in them and preventing that from being misappropriated. my current mechanisms include this: 1...

Hello I have what I thought was quite a simple macro that fires on exit from a form control. When I step through the macro using f8 it works correctly. When it runs uninterrupted it crashes the app. every time. this is the code Public Sub miscellaneousTableAddRows() Dim RowCntr As...

Hi i now have a working solution for an Office 2013 word document that neatly intercepts the open, close, print and save events. Can anyone advise on how best to normalise the event models between mac Office and win Office so that these events can be intercepted (and cancelled) on macs too...

Hi I have not developed in VBA for many years. and i find myself struggling somewhat! at a high level I'm just wanting to explore the event model that will work across multiple versions of Word. i.e. Word for Mac 2011 and Word 2003 and later. at a more detailed level, I am building a tool...

After the recent announcement of hack (new php language variant from fb) does anyone have any thoughts on the usefulness of this new player? Anyone intending to migrate? I can see some advantages in migration for large scale apps in the same way that hip hop offered benefits over plain php...

I had to take a technical test for legal skills recently. And that got me talking with a client of mine that uses technical tests to assess coders prior to hiring them. This post is to talk about the test he uses, whether you think it is good and whether you would like to have a go. Here is...

Hello i have a document that is currently a 'travelling draft' between two sets of companies. The document is meticulously set up to use user-defined styles for every paragraph to ensure that automatic outline numbering and cross-referencing work painlessly. unfortunately it has been garbaged...

Hello Some assistance please: Scenario I am creating a pro-forma agreement (and NDA) for a client. There are various elements of content that are mapped to customer document properties. So far so good; I've worked like this for more than a decade. For this particular client I want to provide...

it will not work. the text area is not like an input tag. <textarea name="txtComments" rows="4" cols="37"><?php echo trim($_GET['Comments']);?></textarea> note that within text area tags whitespace is preserved so, if you don't want lots of trailing spaces and/or line breaks, make sure that...

I am running ubuntu 11.4 live CD on a generic 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo with 4GB ram. I am having some interesting issues with rsync on which I'd love some advice. basically I am trying to clone a 2TB hard drive (that is completely full but for 10GB). The source drive is formatted with HFS+. the...

It is sometimes useful to be able to parse and navigate (and manipulate) the DOM of a page from within PHP. For example, for scraping or automation applications. Whilst tools exist in native PHP, I have always found them cumbersome compared to, for example, the jQuery selector and...

I'm having a brain fart on this and can't see the wood for the trees. i have a table of transactions as follows CREATE TABLE `transactions` ( `id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `user_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL, `txtime` datetime NOT NULL, `amount` decimal(10,2) NOT NULL, `fee`...

to all who use php's OO functionality: beware of a nasty trap in php 5.3.3 + if you have a class in a namespace then you can no longer rely on the php4 method of creating constructors. this should not matter to those who are not coding for backwards compatible apps since you will, by now, be...

I have a task to create a no-tables, no-images version of a form that must mimic precisely its paper progenitor. imagine a long box for data entry where each character of that entry is delineated from the next with a half-height border rising from the bottom edge, with the totality of the...

I'd like some help with whether there is an easier way to achieve the stated aim without lots of sub-selects. sql looks like this (simplified) create table users (userID int(11), country int(11), name varchar(255)); create table countries (countryID int(11), countryName varchar(255)); create...