March 2009 - Posts

• Microsoft Excel and Twitter via Smart Tags in a VS 2008 Solution

  I recent wrote (“ Twitter from Excel 2007 ”) about how Chandoo (Plus JP) caught my attention with their quirky take on updating Twitter from Excel. In there, I said I would lay down an expanded, more useful version. In so doing, I believe I have also Read More... Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 3:16 PM by johnrdurant | 5 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System, VSTO

• Saving Money in IT: Maximizing Value is Key (+ review of new U2 album)

  In a recent post to a blog, a writer, Guy Creese , writes that the key to saving money in IT is ‘granularity’. In short- he suggests that the IT cost-saving key is to figure out what the basic use experiences are for people and match them to the cheapest Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:13 PM by johnrdurant | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• www.iheartonenote.com

  I truly enjoy being enthusiastic about OneNote. I’m not ashamed of my unguarded devotion to this application (share the love via the new site: www.iheartonenote.com ). Here at Microsoft, new ideas spring up every day, and those ideas/prototypes/proofs-of-concept Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:20 PM by johnrdurant | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• Twitter from Excel 2007

  I cannot think of any compelling reason for sending a tweet from a form in Excel other than it's kind of cool to know it can be done. Nevertheless, the little add-in for Excel has its charm as an odd little novelty: How to write your own Twitter client Read More... Posted Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:30 AM by johnrdurant | 6 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System