Life Beyond Tech

Learn the basics of HTML / CSS in 100 minutes!

April 28, 2024April 28, 2024 Andrew Comeau

HTML and CSS are the basic skills you need if you want to do any type of web design. HTML is the markup language that stores text like this in a way that your web browser can read and CSS provides the style instructions that makes text bold or italicized, shows it in different colors…

Education

When will A.I. be truly intelligent?

January 19, 2024April 25, 2024 Andrew Comeau

I was as blown away by my first conversation with ChatGPT as anyone could be. It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since I first logged in and thought about what to ask it first. Just for fun, I threw a Latin phrase at it during one of those first conversations to see what…

Articles, Commentary

How to Make PDF Forms – Quickly and Easily

December 22, 2023December 22, 2023 Andrew Comeau

(This article was also published on Medium) I hate filling out forms, especially if I have to print them out or do it by hand. Handwriting is uncomfortable for someone who rarely does it, especially if you were told all the time you were growing up how bad your writing was. The most handwriting I…

How-to

Software Development: A First Assignment

November 10, 2023April 29, 2024 Andrew Comeau

Software development starts with the understanding of a system and its rules. This article provides a first exercise in analyzing a system for the potential developer.

Articles, Careers, Education, Programming

Calling Parameter Queries in Microsoft Access VBA

November 4, 2023April 25, 2024 Andrew Comeau

Microsoft Access parameter queries enable you to pass criteria from outside a query. This article shows how they can be called from VBA.

Microsoft Access, SQL

Editing Excel Worksheets with Microsoft Access

November 2, 2023September 3, 2024 Andrew Comeau

It’s actually possible to populate specific cells in an Excel worksheet with information from your Access database. Here’s how you do it.

Databases, Microsoft Access, Programming

Rogue C# – Adding Scrolls and Potions

July 25, 2023January 9, 2026 Andrew Comeau

Coming back around to the inventory side of the game, I decided to add some extra variety to the available items, starting with the scrolls and potions.

C#, Programming, Rogue C# Series

Rogue C# – A Few Random Updates

July 13, 2023January 9, 2026 Andrew Comeau

For this update, I decided to knock out a couple of quick features – the Play Again feature and the spawning of new monsters mid-level. A couple of bugs got squashed along the way.

C#, Programming, Rogue C# Series

Rogue C# – Building on the Foundation

June 29, 2023July 13, 2023 Andrew Comeau

The game has a solid foundation and now we start building on it. There are still a lot of features to finish and bugs to work out along the way, especially the individual inventory items that will help the player survive in the dungeons.

C#, Programming, Rogue C# Series

Rogue C# – The Monsters Strike Back

June 14, 2023January 9, 2026 Andrew Comeau

After cleaning up from the program refactoring, I decided to complete the programming on the player stats. Then things got real when the monsters started fighting back.

C#, Programming, Rogue C# Series