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Power Pivot & Power BI training in Bentonville at Walmart Intl Building
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Power Pivot & Power BI training in Bentonville at Walmart Intl Building

Here are Harvest, we’re proud of our partnerships.  Last year we were fortunate to help Walmart International bring in Rob Collie who wrote the book on PowerPivot for training.  We’re very fortunate he’s back here this year again for private...

22 Feb 2017 By Randy Walker
DAX calculation for local time versus UTC
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DAX calculation for local time versus UTC

DAX is Microsoft’s powerful language behind Excel and Power BI.  Very few users of Excel know that you can utilize it, but it’s predominately available in one of the most underutilized features called PowerPivot.  Fortunately DAX is used also in...

13 Feb 2017 By Randy Walker
Spam domains
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Spam domains

So recently I’ve had some issues with people calling and emailing trying to get my business for outsourcing.  Looks like my information was “scraped” from LinkedIn.  In an effort to help others, here is a list of domains that I’m...

08 Feb 2017 By Randy Walker
Use VS Code to create PowerShell scripts to move files into folders by date
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Use VS Code to create PowerShell scripts to move files into folders by date

Recently while cleaning up a bunch of old hard drives and getting ready to sell / give them away, I found a ton of old photos.  Unfortunately I found that many of them had the same file names and weren’t...

19 Dec 2016 By Randy Walker
Continuous Integration with VSTS – Tips #1
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Continuous Integration with VSTS – Tips #1

Now that the blog is officially announced and released, I thought I’d show you a quick tip in how we were able to update our main website through continuous integration and continuous deployment.  Since this particular website is used just...

02 Dec 2016 By Randy Walker
Continuous Integration with VSTS – Tips #1
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Continuous Integration with VSTS – Tips #1

Now that the blog is officially announced and released, I thought I’d show you a quick tip in how we were able to update our main website through continuous integration and continuous deployment.  Since this particular website is used just...

02 Dec 2016 By Randy Walker
Updated Blog
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Updated Blog

It’s been a long time since our company has had a blog site.  We’ve decided to revive it including some posts we’ve made at other locations over the years that are still relevant today.  We look forward to having guest...

17 Oct 2016 By Randy Walker
Paypass and NFC payments with Windows 8 phones
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Paypass and NFC payments with Windows 8 phones

It’s been a long time coming, but it looks as if we may have NFC payments on our phones.  I’ve had to do quite a bit of research, but Windows 8 phones are enabled to do NFC payments (I recently...

18 Aug 2013 By Randy Walker