Everybody knows Excel. The world’s leading spreadsheet application. but do we really use it to do just spread-sheets editing or can we do more with it?
Excel could be used to Automate tasks, to analyze data and go beyond just creating reports.
In this article I try to expose some of the functionalities I mostly use in Excel as developer and production support staff at the same time.
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One morning, while you are taking the elevator to get to your office, you meet the CIO, you have 3 minutes time-window where you have the attention of CIO and you need to convince him about an idea you have. What would you say ? In which order you will discuss your ideas and arguments?
We all see that scene in movies where the corporate-fox-hero meets the CEO and 3 minutes later he gets out of the room with a big smile on his face. They never show what happened in between. Well this article is about Elevated Pitch.
We Developers, always have a hard-time explaining ourselves in an executive sort of way. One of the biggest mistakes: we start by explaining an approach to a problem only us are aware of. We always assume that everybody is aware with our everyday work problems and challenges.
Elevated pitch used in engineering commercials, speeches and seminars to capture attention and provoke actions. Also In today’s sort of hierarchical organizations, could be used in writing internal project proposals or sell new ideas to management.
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I have been trying to publish some of my Power Points to the web for a while now, and I was looking for an easy and straight forward way to Export *.PPT files in to a web-friendly format.
In this short article I will explain the steps taken to publish my work to the Internet.
License:
Why do I want to publish my work? and to which purpose.
I used the Creative Commons License website to help me choose the License I wish to brand my work .
Web-Friendly Formats:
After looking at what others do to publish Slides, it comes down to some of those options:
- HTML static pages.
- HTML static pages with frames.
- PDF format .
- Flash SWF.
- *.PPT downloadable and locked file viewable with the free Power-Point viewer.
Tools:
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Tags: Creative Commons, HTML, Internet Publishing, License, Macro media flash, Office, OpenOffice, PDF, Power Point, PPT, SWF
Open Office, Productivity Tools, Web Technologies | asmaklad, 27 Sep 10 | 
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Dunning–Kruger effect:
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.
The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority.
This leads to the situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people.
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