Having read a great deal around the subject of marketing within the 'modern age' it seemed like it was high time for me to start a blog. Whether this be to impart a tip about a little tweak to an Excel sheet, my ideas around a particular bug in Excel or in answer to any questions that may be asked of me. I figured this needed to be done in a format that is capable of prose longer than Twitter can provide. Also I like to put a human side to my work as I'm not very good at serious and corporate!
So *waves* I'm a human that likes to tinker with spreadsheets. Now that's something you don't hear very often but seeing as I have no hair to tear out when Excel provides me with that day's frustrations then I can remain fairly calm...
The idea behind all this is indeed a simple one, hence the name, I remain frustrated to this day by individuals and things that seemingly exist to obfuscate processes or add in extra superfluous layers for whatever reason. I aim to remove these and take things back to how it should be......simple. This is why I like coding. The process may be complex but the user doesn't care about that, they want it to be simple to use and understand. I want it to be simple as well as that's just easier!
My main method of achieving this is Excel. Excel can be one of the most frustrating, infuriating programs going but it is also highly useful and very powerful when used to its fullest. In the past I have used Excel to generate data from databases, web pages, other Excel sheets. I've used it as a makeshift web server, a means to shut down other programs and servers (I must admit to this one being by accident and probably annoyed a lot of people but it made me laugh when I realised what it had done), generate XML, JSON and create and plot maps. Oddly I've also used it to crunch numbers too! This is one powerful and overlooked tool and one pretty much everyone has access to at some point. I'll be pulling on this thread further in a later post.
Hopefully you'll find these witterings helpful or maybe even interesting at some point, who knows, but if you have any questions or points on the subject at hand then drop me a comment, or, if you fancy, I have a number of links on the side to contact me directly through my own website, Twitter or Facebook.
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