Category: VBA Code
Stop Claude Guessing. Force It to Debug Like an Engineer.
If you are doing 20 builds before finding the real issue, the problem isnot intelligence. It is workflow design. Claude defaults to probabilistic reasoning. It produces the most likelyexplanation. That is useful for writing. It is disastrous for debugging. You must force it into instrumentation mode. This article shows exactly what to configure, where to […]
Read more →Simple Guide to Publishing Your Code on GitHub
GitHub is not just a code hosting platform. It is your public engineering ledger. It shows how you think, how you structure problems, how you document tradeoffs, and how you ship. If you build software and it never lands on GitHub, as far as the wider technical world is concerned, it does not exist. This […]
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Building a Better Code Block for WordPress: CloudScale Code Block Plugin
If you run a technical blog on WordPress, you know the pain. You paste a markdown article with fenced code blocks, Gutenberg creates bland core/code blocks with no syntax highlighting, no copy button, no dark mode. You end up wrestling with third party plugins that haven’t been updated in years or manually formatting every code […]
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Vibe Coding: AI Can Write Code But It Cannot Own the Consequences
AI is a powerful accelerator when problems are well defined and bounded, but in complex greenfield systems vague intent hardens into architecture and creates long term risk that no amount of automation can undo. 1. What Vibe Coding Really Is Vibe coding is the practice of describing intent in natural language and allowing AI to […]
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Darwinian Architecture Philosophy: How Domain Isolation Creates Evolutionary Pressure for Better Software
Darwinian Architecture Philosophy How Domain Isolation Creates Evolutionary Pressure for Better Software After two decades building trading platforms and banking systems, I’ve watched the same pattern repeat itself countless times. A production incident occurs. The war room fills. And then the finger pointing begins. “It’s the database team’s problem.” “No, it’s that batch job from […]
Read more →High Performance Timer
Below is a sample class containing a high performance timer. Example usuage: }
Read more →Importing Data From an Excel Workbook into a VB array
The following code can be used to import the contents of an excel workbook into an array from within a Visual Basic application.
Read more →Simple function to Add a number of weekdays to a date
Below is a simple function to add or subtract a number of weekdays to a specified date.
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