Congratulations, that's very impressive! VBA seems like it will be around for many years to come, and there is probably good opportunity in and around financial centres (London's Canary Wharf/City, New York's Wall Street) for a financial orientated VBA course.
As far as I know, many mid-office support staff spend their lives writing VBA code to soup up spreadsheets for demanding traders. Sure plenty of them would pay for a head start (or the firms would)
Hugely impressive piece of work. I migrated a Wordpress blog to Jekyll a few years ago and was surprised how nice it was working with a flat file system.
However, things do tend to get a bit slow when you regenerate large sites, especially if you are using the "related posts" feature.
I also found myself endlessly hacking Rakefiles to generate tag clouds, embed twitter etc etc. You should ask yourself what you want from your blog before jumping off into Jekyll.
You are of course, correct (as ry0ohki states), but this one FOIA request could lead the way to more competitive favicon quotes from contractors in the future, leaving a net saving for HMG.
Sounds facetious, but it's this transparency that enables public scrutiny (and outrage). The expenses debacle being one such example.
I doubt that anyone, considering how much overhead there is in dealing with a government procurement process, charging anywhere like a reasonable hourly rate, could do it for significantly less.
Oh what, you wanted to be paid to attend that two hour meeting on diversity? Well sorry...
I think you might be underestimating the click-happy masses (myself included) who will happily pump the middle mouse button to queue up some even potentially interesting reads!
His title is "Appointment Reminder | Phone, Text Message / SMS, and Email Reminders", but knowing Patrick, he's probably going to start "Hair Dresser Appointment Reminders", "Massage Appointment Reminders", "Yoga Class Appointment Reminders" really soon.
Hm, I am not sure WePay is ready to be making these kind of gestures. I thought I would take a quick look to see if it would be a viable option to receive payments in the UK.
Their FAQ page (https://www.wepay.com/about/faq) features a nice little graphic of questions being asked from all over the world. Great, I thought - one thing PayPal was a bit rubbish at to start with was international payments - WePay must have cracked it.
I don't think anyone else will understand why you would want to use it either.
More competition, more innovation, better products for us to use in the future?
You probably don't need to pay attention to this project. Did you pay attention to Google when it first launched, or Apple when it made the Newton? If you're not that interested in the database technologies, you can just not pay attention, and hope that it becomes unavoidable if it is truly remarkable in the future.
As far as I know, many mid-office support staff spend their lives writing VBA code to soup up spreadsheets for demanding traders. Sure plenty of them would pay for a head start (or the firms would)