Category Archives: Software Quality

A look ahead to Eusprig 2019

Posted on Jun 21, 2019 by Patrick O'Beirne, Excel/VBA developer

The 20th annual conference of the European Spreadsheet Risk Special Interest Group (http://www.eusprig.org) will be held on July 11 & 12 at The Barrister’s Court, Browns, 82-84 St Martin’s Ln, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4AG, UK. David Lyford-Smith of the … Continue reading →

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Extend Excel: London 18 Oct

Posted on Jul 23, 2018 by Patrick O'Beirne, Excel/VBA developer

Charles Williams is organising  a conference in London on October 18th, 2018. I’ll be there! This is a rare chance to meet leading developers from all over the world and hear directly from MS on Excel Extensibility. Expect to be … Continue reading →

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Irish Computer Society evening talk on Spreadsheet Controls

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Patrick O'Beirne, Excel/VBA developer

My talk on “Spreadsheet Management and Controls” is next month at the ICS. Monday 18:00 – 19:30 9th Jun This session outlines current concerns about risks from the uncontrolled use of spreadsheet-based information systems. The session will cover how to … Continue reading →

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Excel 2013 Inquire first looks

Posted on Feb 20, 2013 by Patrick O'Beirne, Excel/VBA developer

The Inquire Addin is better than nothing, but it seems to be only useful for small spreadsheets. For example, the Workbook Analysis Report lists all formulas individually, with no concept of how the same formula in relative terms has been copied … Continue reading →

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Excel Developer conference London January 2013

Posted on Nov 12, 2012 by Patrick O'Beirne, Excel/VBA developer

Simon Murphy has put out a call for presentations for the meetup of professional Excel Devs end-Jan 2013 in London http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/2013-excel-developer-conference-london-january-2013/

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EuSpRIG 5-6 July Manchester

Posted on Jun 19, 2012 by Patrick O'Beirne, Excel/VBA developer

I’ll be at the annual conference of the European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group in the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, UK, on 5 & 6 July. The programme has been announced. Jothi Philip, Financial Services Authority, UK, will talk … Continue reading →

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Spreadsheet Structure user study call for participation

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Patrick O'Beirne, Excel/VBA developer

This was posted today by Felienne Hermans in TU Delft to the Eusprig yahoogroup For hopefully 🙂 the final chapter in my PhD thesis, I am running a spreadsheet user study, see http://swerl.tudelft.nl/bin/view/FelienneHermans/SpreadsheetStructureStudy I would like to ask you all … Continue reading →

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Talk at SoftTest 26 Jan 6pm Dublin on “Test Centres of Excellence”

Posted on Jan 18, 2012 by Patrick O'Beirne, Excel/VBA developer

http://softtesteventjan2012.eventbrite.co.uk/ Annex meeting room in the Central Hotel, 1 – 5 Exchequer Street Dublin 2 Thursday, 26 January 2012 from 18:00 to 20:00  Too often companies are relying on hard work, experience and luck rather than planning and executing tests … Continue reading →

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Happy new year!

Posted on Jan 1, 2012 by Patrick O'Beirne, Excel/VBA developer

Twelve years ago I wrote the book on the Euro Changeover in IT systems (“Managing the Euro in Information Systems”, Addison-Wesley, 1999). I wonder will 2012 see the year some countries have to switch back? Internally it should be easy … Continue reading →

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SoftTest Event With Geoff Thompson and Graham Thomas in Galway, Dublin and Belfast

Posted on Nov 15, 2011 by Patrick O'Beirne, Excel/VBA developer

SoftTest Ireland (www.softtest.ie) in association with its sponsors (InterTrade Ireland, Sogeti and Software Skillnet) would like to announce the following events in Belfast, Galway and Dublin featuring two international speakers Geoff Thompson and Graham Thomas. Full details at http://softtest.ie/sign-up-for-our-next-event-with-geoff-thompson-and-graham-thomas/ “Testing, … Continue reading →

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