Welcome to 2016! Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated. I was away from blogging, twitter and the Mr Excel forums for awhile... busy with too much stuff (both professional and personal). The good news is that is all behind us, and it is time to get crazy once again! Let's see what we have missed lately... Books! Rob and Avi have released a 2nd edition of their top selling book, and it has an amazing long title "Power Pivot and Power BI: The Excel User's Guide to DAX, Power Query, Power BI Continue Reading

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I have been really looking forward to reading The Definitive Guide to DAX by the fine folks we lovingly refer to as “The Italians”, Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari.  At over 500 pages, I still jammed through it in about one week… and now I am hear to let you know if it was worth my time.   Spoiler:  It was bad ass. I’m not going to go into a ton of detail about the contents of the book, as you can go look at the table of contents on Amazon.  I will say that the contents Continue Reading

The Tiny Lizard logo is over 7 years old!  And it was created via 99designed.com   For your amusement, I present the contest and alternatives images!  Some of them were really really awesome. https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/tiny-lizard-logo-11739/overview $120 for 100 designs from 29 designers.  I still feel a bit guilty… Continue Reading

I have written this post in my head about 93 times.  At least.  It’s hard to start, hard to finish.  The middle part isn’t super easy either.  I decided to just go for it!  Start writing!  I still haven’t decided what I am going to write in the middle or end… so, I’m actually pretty excited to see how that goes.  You? Background There are a few things to know here.   First, I have been a software developer my entire life.  I got my first computer in 1982 and to this day… really enjoy writing Continue Reading