I’m a fan of both Apple and Adobe, which puts me in rather an odd place at times. Apple makes the hardware and operating systems I like best. Adobe makes some software that I can’t live without. Up until now, a lot of what I create with Adobe Captivate won’t play on the iPhone and…
Where is the Excel Personal Macro Workbook Located?
[Latest update: 26 April 2019] Sometimes I blog things mostly so I can remember them and in the off chance that they might be useful to others. This post falls into that category. If you use Microsoft Excel, and you have a macro that you want to be available globally–in any open workbook–you can place…
How to Show All Files in the OS X Finder
When you’re doing development work on an OS X box and need to shuttle your files to a web server, you’ll notice that the Finder (OS X’s equivalent of Windows Explorer) hides “dot files” like the all-important .htaccess files used by many web applications. You can tell the Finder to show you all files, including…
An ASP port of Cp2DB
I wanted to thank Ian Meinert for creating an ASP/SQL Server version of Cp2DB, my PHP/MySQL reporting solution for Adobe Captivate. He has documented his changes to the code in a series of blog posts: Publishing Captivate to SQL using ASP, Part I Continuing with Captivate Publishing Captivate to SQL using ASP, Part III Publishing…