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Get my Customizable Excel-VB Church Records Manager FREE [N50k Value]: True Story + Screenshots Inside

August 31, 2016

In 2007, I got hired by the "Warden" of a popular large non-protestant congregational church in Lagos, to build this Excel-VB driven Church Records Manager app. This happened a few weeks after I'd completed the maiden phase of a large automation project for his consulting firm, which involved generating dynamic reports from a National Scale […]

Excel-VB Solutions

PII 029 [Best Practice Parenting]: Could Your Child's Teacher be Misinformed?

August 29, 2016

When a "teacher" at a religious retreat, in discussing "Creation" told children that a white couple could NOT produce a black baby, none of them raised any objection. But when she went on to say a Black couple could equally NOT produce a white baby, 2 siblings - a 13 year old boy and a […]

Excel-VB Solutions

How To Get The URL for a FACEBOOK Post, status or comment

August 27, 2016

This video demonstrates the steps I described in the answer to my FACEBOOK PRODUCTIVITY QUESTION (posted 4th December 2011) - which was as follows: "Sometimes you want to tell OTHERS about a certain Facebook post, that interested you. The "Share" feature does NOT work in cases when you need to share the Post in a […]

Excel-VB Solutions

[RECOMMENDED] "Why I’ll never wear hair extensions again" - by pop star Jamelia (BBC Report) & "The hair trade's dirty secret" - by TheGuardian.com]

August 12, 2016

It was in 2012 that I first watched a documentary revealing shocking details about the source of hair extensions eagerly bought by many Black women. That video revealed shocking facts highlighted in the BBC sponsored investigative report (featuring an interview of a young female Black Pop Star - Jamelia). I've linked to the full piece […]

Excel-VB Solutions

Be Willing to ACKNOWLEDGE Good in Others Even If They are Rivals and You'll Succeed Better

August 11, 2016

It's easy to show and voice approval of something or someone you like or admire. We all do it everyday. But what if you see (read or hear about) a person you dislike (or even hate) do(ing) something good or worth being commended for, what would you do? Yes...what would YOU do? Would you be […]

Entrepreneurship

Get my Customizable Excel-VB Hotel Restaurant & Bar Manager FREE [N50k Value]: True Story + Screenshots Inside

August 10, 2016

In 2005 I built a custom MS Excel-VB driven Restaurant & Bar Manager app for a Lagos based outfit. It was designed to help the owner (who today is serving a second term in the Lagos State House of Assembly) do the following: 1. Use the computer to very easily, and accurately record their restaurant […]

Career Development

PII 026: You Can be Competent Yet Lack Confidence!

August 8, 2016

To boost your chances of making sales, you need to have sales conversations as often as possible. And that requires creating systems to generate a regular stream of sales leads/prospects. I learnt that truth the hard way, and today, I apply that learning with diligence. My ability to succeed in making sales in spite of […]

Excel-VB Solutions

[RECOMMENDED] Blocking Brute Force Attacks

August 4, 2016

A common threat web developers face is a password-guessing attack known as a brute force attack. A brute-force attack is an attempt to discover a password by systematically trying every possible combination of letters, numbers, and symbols until you discover the one correct combination that works. If your web site requires user authentication, […]

Career Development

PII 025: What Every Business User of Spreadsheets Needs to Boost Productivity

August 1, 2016

Quick Take-Away: This article will benefit ANY business user who wishes to understand how to get more productive work done by him/herself and/or others who work with/for him/her - using spreadsheets. My discussion is based on MS Excel, but the ideas I advocate apply to ANY spreadsheet application that offers code driven automation functionality. Over […]

Career Development

PII 024: Use Custom Modeless Floating Data Entry Forms to Effortlessly Post Unlimited Entries into Large Spreadsheets Without Stress (Video Demonstration from Real Life Apps)

July 25, 2016

This week, I've chosen not to write much. Especially because what I want to share is better appreciated audio-visually. That's why I've added 2 of the user demonstration videos for my Excel-VB driven apps to illustrate my point. And what is the point? It is that when you're a business user of Microsoft Excel, especially […]