Tweeting Duck

Toolwindow toolbar menu dropdowns all just got a shiny new dropdown indicator. It's the little things... #UI #UX

Is late binding what you think it is? https://rubberduckvba.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/late-binding/

What is "late binding" in #VBA?

So, I'm working on .NET-based card game - OutOfMemory! Your goal is to build an app from Features which allocate Memory, you periodically need to play GC cards. You can play Span or ArrayPool cards or prank others with Memory Leak or Boxing cards! http://tooslowexception.com/outofmemory-a-nerdy-card-game-for-developers/ @dotnet

TDD: a 2003 paper studying the effect of the practice...

"The next best thing to having good ideas is recognising good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better." - Eric Raymond

Some say "learn by doing" is the best learning style. In programming, it's "learn by breaking".

8" floppy disk: You write what's on the disk on the little label

Btw you can still upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free, despite the offering being closed. Just go to download windows 10 page on MS website, do the create media option, then click upgrade. Doesn't need USB or storage, gives you a free license.

In #VBA with Rubberduck you can decorate a member with (no space between @ and Obsolete): ´@ Obsolete("Little bandage for the huge technical debt") Marks the procedure as obsolete; code inspections will then give you a warning for every usage. https://twitter.com/sputier/status/1118433966334386176

Due to me doing a lot of support for VBA code nowadays. I am going to have to check out @rubberduckvba

When performing a code review: 1. Mention what you like, don't focus only on the bad things 👍 2. If you are nitpicking, be clear about it. (nit: I don't like this name). 3. When you are not sure about something, ask for clarification. 4. Always be nice. Don't forget to thank.

https://youtu.be/EQc3_2Kau6I

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today. - Jordan Peterson

Two Rubberduck contributors are now officially "racing" to complete two very complex but thoroughly awesome features. Which one will ship first?

«Code that you *don’t* write can’t be wrong!» @PeterSommerlad #ACCUConf

I feel blessed. The Rubberduck dev team and supporters make a wonderful circle (more like a welcoming, all-inclusive "U" actually) - and "inspiring" would be a massive understatement for my fellow #excel and #office MVP friends #mvpbuzz https://twitter.com/AncientWisd0m/status/1115359197175123973

@scottgal @jbogard Code is legacy as soon as the first deployment.

VBA ranks "most dreaded" programming language in this year's Stack Overflow Developer survey. My thoughts on the "why" of that. https://rubberduckvba.wordpress.com/2019/04/10/whats-wrong-with-vba/

"The strength of JavaScript is that you can do anything. The weakness is that you will." - Reg Braithwaite

"The key to efficient development is to 'make interesting new mistakes'." - Tom Love

Read the button tooltips, and click all the things! Experiment, try, break things, un-break them, then break them again differently - "undo" is your friend, and every bit of functionality you learn to use is a building block for your next masterpiece! https://twitter.com/msexcel/status/1113803407402446848

Your first podcast will be awful. Your first video will be awful Your first article will be awful Your first art will be awful Your first photo will awful Your first game will be awful But you can't make your 50th without making your first. So get it over with, and make it.

More #duckumentation - how to use Folder annotations https://github.com/rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck/wiki/Using-%40Folder-Annotations

Duckumentation! "Controlling VB_Attribute values with annotations" is now in the project's wiki 😃 #VBA #VB6 #OSS https://github.com/rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck/wiki/VB_Attribute-Annotations

I learned a lot about #Excel at the recent MVP summit at Microsoft's campus in Redmond. Some brand new secret things and some things that are public but not well publicised. So read on... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/secrets-from-mvp-summit-wyn-hopkins

Tutorial: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Events https://rubberduckvba.wordpress.com/2019/03/27/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-events/

I'm writing a thing...

Rubberduck 2.4.1 is here! https://rubberduckvba.wordpress.com/2019/03/26/rubberduck-2-4-1-thunderframe-edition/

Wow @Tomamais thanks for doing this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bggGsaPEpI

My answer to What is the best Microsoft Excel version? https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-Microsoft-Excel-version/answer/Bill-Jelen?share=58d8d40e

Follow @LeilaGharani and watch her videos to help you learn Excel. https://twitter.com/LeilaGharani/status/1108751733134483458

#MVPBuzz visiting the treehouse with fellow #Excel MVPs

So happy I finally got to meet Ben at #MVPSummit!!

#mvpbuzz #MVPSummit

At Montreal airport, boarding in a little more than an hour for #MVPSummit! #MVPBuzz

So deeply shocked to hear that @attaelayyan lost his life in the New Zealand terrorist attack. He was a talented Windows Phone developer who created Metrotube. He was only 33, and was such a caring and talented young man. RIP Atta

@rubberduckvba @shanselman OMG. THANK YOU for all the hard work you've done on this plugin for years. You literally saved my sanity in a past life. Thank You!

If you know Visual Basic 6 very well and you're in or around NYC, let me know. There's a finance company that could hire you and pay you for some new work in 2019! Not a joke.

Last December we lost a very valued contributor and friend. Next release the Rubberduck splash screen will be in his memory: that devil ducky was his online avatar. We miss you @ThunderXFrame, rest in peace. PS - we might have slipped in an easter egg or two in your honor 😇

“ First, solve the problem. Then, write the code. ” - John Johnson

Ten years ago, I didn't know what unit tests, version control, or continuous integration were. Today, my code fails at each of these steps at least once a day. Follow your dreams.

New CustomUIEditor for Office Ribbon XML. I've just tested it for all of three minutes, and it looks like a great improvement. https://github.com/fernandreu/wpf-custom-ui-editor

Why use 'Me' in #VBA class modules? Some interesting ideas here... https://stackoverflow.com/q/54887822/1188513

https://github.com/rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck/pull/4825

PSA: it's now official, Rubberduck v2.4.1 will have a Spanish translation!

#VBA UserForm: how the Model-View-Presenter pattern changes everything! https://stackoverflow.com/a/47291028/1188513

Send a Frown https://peltiertech.com/send-a-frown/

This is AWESOME! Now we can remove our [pr-status-wip] labels! https://twitter.com/github/status/1096093162345508864

Yooo have you applied to @getsentry's $10,000 open source grant yet? https://blog.sentry.io/2019/01/29/apply-sentry-open-source-grant