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AI being useful – fixing styles in Word
One of the services I provide as a freelance project manager is reviewing project outputs for accuracy and styling. If the output of a project is a Word document then we want it to be as good as possible. One of the characteristics of British business is that almost no-one receives any IT training and…
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Will Windows become a Linux emulation layer?
Amid the tedium of the new normal, a fun article to read. The argument is that Microsoft’s present and future is cloud services and therefore maintaining the Windows operating system will become a tedious expense that is better passed to the open source community (ie. people who write and test code with no expense to…
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Buying a laptop to use with Teams
Like many other business users I am now using Microsoft Teams everyday and unsurprising sometimes my laptop runs slowly. When selecting devices for my clients my default specification has been i5 CPU, 8 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD. A typical user would only be using 50% of the devices resources with normal workloads and…
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Can railway tracks support solitons?
A soliton is a wave that can travel through its medium for long distances without dissipation. Usually the different frequencies in a sharply peaked waves will spread out as they move. It is this dispersion that causes the rumble of thunder. However in some special cases the medium might allow all frequencies to travel a…
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Ultimate guide to local businesses that deliver in SE4 and SE13
My start-up Support My Local is a directory website like the Yellow Pages but I also offer e-commerce capability. The challenge of building any double sided market is that you need both buyers and sellers. To encourage both to the site I have created an “ultimate guide”. Ultimate guide to local businesses that deliver in…
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How to add a row number to an Excel table 2020 using Power Query Editor
Back in 2013 I wrote post on how to add a row number to an Excel table. This post is still popular and the method still works well. But it is now 2020 and I would do it differently. Every Excel power user should become familiar with the “Data” tab which gives access to Excel…
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no-more-tables responsive table
Yesterday I posted about responsive tables. I am pleased to report that I have implemented the no-more-tables solution to wide tables for the purchase screen on SupportMyLocal. It was really easy. You can see it here – simply resize the window on the local delivery page
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Creating responsive tables for mobile
“Mobile first” is a real thing. I find that over 88% of my traffic to SupportMyLocal.org is on mobile phones. This poses a bit challenge because not only are customers who are ordering deliveries from local companies using mobile phone the small traders are as well. This means that I have to mobile optimise backend…
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Brilliant introduction to WordPress
I have been using WordPress for many years but have never taken the time to get familiar with the new block editor Gutenberg because I use a mix of WPBakery and handwritten code to create my sites including SupportMyLocal.org which arranges deliveries by small businesses. I have just found this brilliant video with gives an…
Dr James Bayley
Creating successful projects
Dr James Bayley 