Phil Quinn

Thanks to Neil Harris for putting me on to Robert Cray. Here is Phone booth a song published on his 1986 release Strong Persuader

Display a full command prompt history for Windows XP:
doskey /history

and a list of most popular command (with a little help from Perl):
C:\>doskey /history | perl -ne "END { map {print ++$i.qq|: $_\n|;} splice(@{[sort {$h{$b}<=>$h{$a}} (keys %h)]},0,5); } m/(.*)/; $h{$1}++;"

Inspired by:
One liner history command counter
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This little Google Reader API call gives you a feed of your 100 most recent starred items. Substitute [userid] for your Google User ID.

http://www.google.co.uk/reader/atom/user/[userid]/state/com.google/starred?n=100

Magic!

This week's track of the week is by the London dark-pop outfit Life in Film. Enjoy.

The default administrator password for KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 2490MF printers is MagiMFP.

Eric Carter's article Writing user defined functions for Excel in .NET offers a fantastic introduction to developing UDFs in C# for Microsoft Excel using Automation Add-ins.

Here is a choropleth map of England showing ceremonial counties. Thanks go to Robert Mundigl for his help and encouragement in getting this particular version of the map to work in Excel 2003.

This map has been tested in Excel 2003/2007 and Excel 2010 (Technical Preview).

Inspired by the choropleth map templates produced by Tushar Mehta, Robert Mundigl and Paulo, I decided to try my hand at creating one of my own.

Today I created my first custom user interface tab for the Microsoft Excel 2007 ribbon. The intended purpose of this custom tab is to hold a collection of controls for accessing useful functionality not available as part of the default ribbon.

The Dictionary object in the Microsoft Scripting library is useful when a key-value data structure is needed. This article explains how to late-bind this object in VBA and provides code examples for test purposes.