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Excel developers' workshop London July 12
Summary of 11th EuSpRIG conference, Greenwich, 15-16 July 2010
Risk and Quality
Michael Bolton in
Dublin Sept 2010
Spreadsheets
Excel developers' workshop
London July 12
Eusprig Conference Greenwich
July 15-16
XLTest 1.20 update released
ActiveData For Office / SQL is
now free
Off Topic
On Programming and Attitude
May 2010
Conferences in Dublin for May & June
Spreadsheets
What not to do in Excel
Off Topic
What not to do in Powerpoint
Risk and Quality
Data Protection Commissioner
2009 report
and further resources on the
topic
New book: A pocket guide to
risk mathematics
Spreadsheets
Medical errors and their
prevention
How to write a successful
EuSpRIG paper
Resources for the change from
Excel 2003 to 2007
Risk
Hack attack on SMEs
demands $700 to unlock data
Spreadsheets
Spreadsheet Pitfalls, Best
Practices, and Practical Tips
If a spreadsheet were music...
Spreadsheet error stories seen
in the news
EuroCACS Spreadsheet Auditing
workshop March 21, Budapest
Test your VBA knowledge
Off Topic
Trompe l'oeil 3D street art
Mar
2010
Risk
Hack attack on SMEs demands $700 to unlock data
Spreadsheets
Spreadsheet Pitfalls, Best Practices, and Practical Tips
If a spreadsheet were music...
Spreadsheet error stories seen in the news
EuroCACS Spreadsheet Auditing workshop March 21, Budapest
Test your VBA knowledge
Off Topic
Trompe l'oeil 3D street art
Feb
2010
1) Risk
Consumer password worst practices
IDQ Seminar 22-23 Feb 2010 - Dublin
2) In Other news
Social Media, Networking, Twits,etc
Free Accounting software
3) Spreadsheets
EuroCACS Spreadsheet Auditing workshop March 21,
Budapest
XLTEST special offer held open
4) Off Topic
LinkedIn group for Haiti Earthquake Disaster relief
1) Risk
Y2K+10
Irish Hospital Data Protection
problems
2) Quality
SoftTest Ireland
events February 16-18
Irish Computer
Society - 6 months free membership
3) Spreadsheets
XLTest enhanced with VBA
export to folders for Diff
4) Off Topic
1) Risk
IRISS Conference
19th November 2009, Dublin
LinkedIn group
Critical Infrastructure
2) Quality
Nov 11 is
World Quality Day
3) Spreadsheets
New: Spreadsheet Safe group on
LinkedIn
XLTest: Spreadsheet testing
and quality check add-in
4) Off Topic
Sharpeye OMR Music scanner
software
8 Web links in this newsletter
Fraud check list
"What am I supposed to do with this security prompt?"
2) Spreadsheets
Guidelines for Spreadsheet Development
Excel User Conference UK Oct 7,8
3) XLTEST Spreadsheet Checking Add-In
Version 1.09 released
5 Web links in this newsletter
Excel Development Guidelines
Named Ranges are being talked about
Eusprig 2010 Conference theme
Two MS employees want your help in making Office Better
Spreadsheet.com auction
Spreadsheet and other Tech Cartoons
1) Risk
Hackers unmask fake
ATM
450 year old
document control processes
McAfee data loss
2) Software Testing
Salesmanship
3) Spreadsheets
Antipodean Spreadsheet Gurus
LinkedIn proliferates Excel
groups
4) Off Topic
Holidays
20 Web links in this newsletter
1) Spreadsheet risk
Report from Eusprig
conference in Paris
2) Excel
Hotfix for vanishing range
names bug in Excel 2007
3) Off topic: LOL
1) Risk
ISSA Ireland open event on
Microsoft Security 10th June
Google Books Settlement Class
Action
2) Quality
Softtest Ireland :
Professionalism
CSE / ICS free event
on Agile
SoftTest free events June 16-18
3) Spreadsheets
Eusprig 2009 registration open
Excel 2007 unpredictably
losing defined names
4) Off Topic
Double-take exteriors of
buildings by a trompe l'oeil artist
15 Web links in this newsletter
1) IT
Java upskilling in Dublin for
only 45 euro
The end of the e-Voting Saga
2) Research
Online Meeting Rooms
DropBox
3) Spreadsheets
Eusprig 2009 Conference
Framework Development Project
Can you describe a financial
model as a city?
4) Off Topic
H1N1
19 links in this newsletter
1) IT Risk
EuroCACS 2009
Frankfurt
2) European research
EuroAfriCa ICT Forum
The Informatics
Development and Social Research Institute
3) Spreadsheets
Plus Prefix entry weirdness
Plus wait, there's more...
XLTest 1.06 beta version
available
4) Off Topic
April Fool stories
1) IT Risk
Survey on risk and
rationality
2) Quality
SQC Conference Report
3) Spreadsheets
Ray Butler and Patrick
O'Beirne at EuroCACS Frankfurt 15 March 2009
4) Off Topic
Graphing website structure
8 Web links in this newsletter
1) IT Risk
The Financial
Modeler's manifesto
2) Quality
20% Discount on
Software Testing Conference Dublin 4 March
3) Spreadsheets
Thirty Years of spreadsheets
Ray Butler and Patrick
O'Beirne at EuroCACS Frankfurt 15 March 2009
VBA + Excel Performance: MS
asks for your Feedback
4) Off Topic
Michigan man freezes to death
after electric company cuts power
10 Web links in this newsletter
1) IT Risk
EuroCACS 15-18 March Frankfurt
Software & Systems Quality Conference 3-4 March Dublin
2) Euro
Slovakia Enters Euro Zone
European art and culture archives online
Unfair commercial practices: advice to consumers
3) Spreadsheets
Tips for cleaning up sloppy spreadsheets
4) Off Topic
14 links in this newsletter
December 2008
1) IT Risk
Redaction Redux
Irish Reporting and Information Security Service
2) Euro debates
In or out?
3) Spreadsheets
The Daily WTF on the Uncertainity Principle of
Spreadsheets
4) Off Topic
Office Offline web comic
14 Web links in this newsletter
IT Risk
Barclays plead lawyers' mistake in Lehman purchase
Spreadsheet Safety
1) IT Risk
See no risk...
Euro conversion in Slovakia Jan 2009
2) Quality
Bleak Vista
3) Spreadsheets
Recession bites
Auditors: What do you look for
first
4) Off Topic
US Presidential Candidates and
spreadsheets
7 Web links in this newsletter
1) Software Testing
SoftTest Ireland events with
Lee Copeland 15-17 Sept.
2) An appalling Vista
Vista gets my back up
The cult of statistical
significance
3) Spreadsheets
XLTest nears release
4) Off Topic
Holiday snaps
12 Web links in this newsletter
Security flaws plague majority of e-banking sites
The risks of marketing your marketing
The $100,000 keying error
The risks of hacking
2) ICT for
Development
IEEE Computer Journal on
Computing in Developing Economies
Eusprig 2008 conference report
More spreadsheet error stories in the news
4) Off
Topic
Ecological Holidays
1) Risk & Security
What to do if you suspect or discover fraud
2) Quality
Presentations available on Software Testing
3) Spreadsheets
Eusprig 2008
XLTest: A New Addin for Spreadsheet Checking
4) Off Topic
Don't blame me, I voted ...
5 Web links in this newsletter
June 20081) Risk
& Security
E-Voting Banned by Dutch
Government
Medical IT risks
June SoftTest Ireland events
3) Spreadsheets
Eusprig 2008 programme
announced
Another Excel problem solved
ICAI Spreadsheet Risk briefing
Quotes
8 Web links in this newsletter
1) Risk & Security
Aer Lingus 5-euro flights to the US from test data leaked to web
Data Protection Commissioner Unprotected
Irish Computer Society Privacy Forum Launch
ICS Security Professionals Network presents ISO27001
2) Software Industry
SoftTest Ireland for software testers
Accounting for nothing
3) Spreadsheets
Eusprig 2008
Safety in Numbers
The bigger picture
4) Off Topic
$5/hr for Excel skills?!
Heathrow Terminal 5
Irish Microsoft Technology Conference
2) Software
Testing
SQC Dublin conference
SoftTest Ireland events
Presentation
4) Off
Topic
The Voice of the Tube
1) Risk & Security
171,324 Irish blood donor records stolen
Followup to l'affaire Kerviel
2) Quality
Software & Systems Quality Conferences Dublin, 5th March 2008
SoftTest Ireland events April 1,2,3
3) Spreadsheets
Jim Kaplan's AuditNet newsletter features spreadsheet tools
OSU Spinoff RedRover launches its Excel audit product
4) Off Topic
Interesting Photos of the day
13 Web links in this newsletter
1) Risk & Security
Societe Generale
2) Bank Direct Debit fraud
Jeremy Clarkson's challenge taken up
3) Spreadsheets
New certification on safe spreadsheeting being tested
4) Off Topic
Schadenfreude
15 Web links in this newsletter
1) IT Risk
& Quality
Bad Health Informatics can Kill
HMRC manual on data protection was protected data
Frequently Avoided Questions about IT auditing
15th EuroSPI Conference, Dublin, Sep 2008
2) Euro
Changeover
Cyprus and Malta switch to euro cash
3) Spreadsheets
Office 2003 update quietly zaps older file formats
Seattle Accountant offers free book on Excel for MBA
Dave Hawley's Golden Rules for Excel Development
4) Off Topic
My 2008 photo calendar
13 Web links in this newsletter
1) Risk
& Security
The biggest data loss in history ... so
far
and more...
Software Test Process Improvement
3) Spreadsheets
Excel User Conference
Excel tips & tricks
Manager and Auditor perspectives
A friend passes away
14 Web links in this newsletter
1) Risk
& Security
Standard of Good Practice for Information Security
Cyber Security Awareness Resource Center
Pirate copies of books
Audit Technology Conference, London 20-21 Nov
2) Irish
news
Ireland Corporate Enforcer impatience
ICS Security Professionals' Seminar, 5 Nov
SoftTest: Presentation by O2 and AGM, 8 Nov
3)
Spreadsheets
Excel User Conference Cambridge, Nov 29 - Dec 1
SPRIG sleepless at INFORMS, Seattle, 5 & 7 Nov
Did you spot a spreadsheet error from a mile away?
Excel oddities, annoyances, quirks
ScanXLS continues to be enhanced
VBA Code Quality - Project Analyser
4) Off Topic
Giveaway of the day freeware
13 Web links in this newsletter
October 2007
1) Risk
& Security
Nedap voting machines
de-certified in The Netherlands
Phishy education
Holistic Test Analysis and Design
Software & Systems Quality Conferences in London and Dublin
3) Spreadsheets
65535 calculation bug in Excel
2007 cell display
Mnemonics and pangrams
21 Web links in this newsletter
1) Irish Computer Society 50 years awards
Your vote is wanted!
2) Software
Testing
Free Software Testing Seminars
in Ireland
Apple Numbers introduced
4) Off
Topic
Tech Gripes
1) IT Risk
& Security
Risks from untested medical spreadsheets
Spreadsheets latest spam message carriers
2) Quality
Spreadsheet & Data Quality
3) Spreadsheets
Report from Eusprig 2007 conference
The Bug Hunt results
4) Off Topic
Spreadsheets considered harmful :-)
11 Web links in this newsletter
1) Risk
& Security
Global Technology Audit Guide (GTAG)
Guidance to ISO 27K Information Security Management Standards
2) Software
Testing
Automated Scripts push my buttons
3) Just read these a second time
4) Spreadsheets
Eusprig 2007 in Greenwich July 11-13
5) Off Topic
'Canada' explained to foreigners
10 Web links in this newsletter
June 2007
1) Risk
& Security
Quality Schadenfreude
Bogus reports of Canadian 'spy
coin'
Ryanair check-in site exposes
data
US Director National
Intelligence embeds spreadsheet in Powerpoint
SoftTest Ireland member survey
3) Web Content
How does your site look to a
spam sniffer?
What visitors to your web site
care about
Tip: Converting text numbers to values
New companies enter the crowded Spreadsheet Control market
Eusprig 8th Annual Conference
Excel User Conferences this Autumn (Fall)
5) Off
Topic
How to write a scientific
paper ( ...not)
1) IT Risk
& Security
Raising awareness of Information Risk
Profile of a Fraudster
Oxley Unhappy with SOX
Hidden in plain sight
2) What does the data
say?
Social Statistics blogs
3) Ireland
Irish Computing History: the Digital Media Archive
4) Spreadsheets
MS Excel Quality Wish List
On Error GoTo @##^! - sample chapter for VBA developers
Training course, software, book
5) Off Topic
Two stories of customer service
19 Web links in this newsletter
Biggest credit card theft - so far
Consequences - the stick
Human Error
2) ScanXLS version 3
List all your spreadsheet files with an
overview of their contents
Learn how to detect and prevent errors
4) Spreadsheet news
New products, free downloads
Photos and short video clips from Iceland
20 Web links in this newsletter
March 2007
1) Risk
& Security
German Federal Spyware ruled illegal
Teacher unable to stop
indecent adware faces prison
2) Tech Tip
Prevent PDF files hanging Internet
Explorer
PrimoPDF: an alternative to
Adobe PDF Writer
EMU reconsidered
Volcano, earthquake and glacier monitoring in Iceland
4) Spreadsheets
Spreadsheet addiction?
Iceland visit
17 Web links in this newsletter
February 2007
1) Risk
& Security
The ISSA / UCD Irish Cybercrime
Survey
'Certified' Cheque Scams
DST March 11 = Y2.007K ?
2) Quality
Fourth Information Quality
Forum, Dublin
3) ICS News
When Irish I.T.s are smiling
4) Spreadsheets
Free contributions to the
Eusprig yahoogroup
5) Off
Topic
Google Map Trek
Solzhenitsyn's advice for life
16 Web links in this newsletter
January 2007
1) Risk & SecurityResource websites on risk management
The risk of not reading flight reservations closely
2) IT Tech
Wireless Internet Connection Sharing
3) Europe
Slovenia joins the Euro zone
Bulgaria and Romania join the
EU
4) Spreadsheets
Data processing optimization
5) Off
Topic
Robert Fisk on the Middle East
11 Web links in this newsletter
Contents for 2005-2006 are at http://www.sysmod.com/praxis/archive0506.htm
Contents for 2003-2004 are at http://www.sysmod.com/praxis/archive0304.htm
Contents for 2000-2002 are at http://www.sysmod.com/praxis/archive.htm
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