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Quote: particularly when I get called in to sort out the mess of layers of linked spreadsheets into something useable
Oh you would have so loved one of the business critical systems I had to help look after 
Well over a hundred (I kid you not) linked spreadsheets spread over 3 servers and more VBA code sheets than I've had hot dinners. 
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Rolodex. Or tape them into a notebook or something.
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Agreed; for 90 cards you don't need an app. By the time you did the data entry, you'd have a lot of the information in your head.
Of course, if he's accumulating 90 cards every week/month/trade show, an app might be a good idea.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: an app might be a good idea
Yes, one that accepts scans. I think those are still available.
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: if he's accumulating 90 cards every week/month/trade show,
Can't predict it accurately, but a good guess is 4 or 5 more shows this year.
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Down with app. Up with flap.
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Whatever your more comfortable with , unless you're looking to learn a new language or use a new app.
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Door number 3. Don't reinvent the wheel. Booyah[^]
Jeremy Falcon
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Oh boy, software that can read printed text off of a card.
I have bridges for sale in New York and San Francisco.
Hope I'm not being caustic, but I have never seen any package that actually works.
The procedure I've found that does work is...
- Put a bunch of them on the scanner glass
- Open the image
- Type them one at a time, by hand
Tedious, yes, and it costs a lot of time.
However...
With business cards, collected after a face to face conversation with a brand new stranger at a trade show, the word "accuracy", even with the attendant probability of human input error, takes care of the word, "efficiency".
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I'd go for the Database, in the end it's more scalable and easier to put in new or delete old.
just my 2 cents
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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else
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Spreadsheet. MS-Excel has some nice database features, which can be accessed vic C# or VB.net 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Must have a database, you need to buy SQL Server Enterprise Edition.
(If this is all you are doing go with the spreadsheet.)
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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For 90 cards, the storage medium matters not. The bigger question would be how are you going to enter them into your system, whichever you choose? Business card readers are plentiful these days.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Just noticed this while in the middle of writing an article:
Razor code gets formatted oddly when you choose code formatting.
@{
ViewBag.Title = "Home Page";
}
The highlight and the first right bracket aren't really there.
I also noticed that I can use the emojis from the lounge in my articles
I know about Bugs & Sugs and I've reported this in the article location. Just chatting about it here.
Thanks,
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There is this tradition that if you promise a product or service, and fail to deliver, you return the money.
No goods, no service, then no pay.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Then shouldn't all Ryanair flights be free. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: if you promise
You think Ryanair is silly enough to promise anything beyond you get on the plane at one place and get off at another?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: You think Ryanair
I dont fly that often, but business rules still apply. Fail to deliver, no payment.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Now, I personally, don't have a problem with the questionable comment the stewardess made. I would not want to die on a plane, either, especially by ice on the wings.
However, after sitting in the plane for 8 hours, not going anywhere, I think I would want to die then.
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Dan Neely wrote: she made in the heat of the moment
They should have used her to de-ice the plane. 
Marc
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At least now in the US there are mitigations for that sort of thing
- If it takes too long, and 8 hours is too long, the plane must return to the gate and the passengers can debark.
- If it takes too long the airline might have to find different pilots because they are not allowed to be working for long periods.
- If it takes too long the airline will be fined for each passenger and it is a substantial amount.
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On his first flight the eldest innocently asked me what the brace position was for.
I reassured him that it was to allow him kiss his ass goodbye!
Did I mention - his mother wasn't with us on that flight...
Ger
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Have you ever noticed there are no stairs on the Death Star? It's all elevaders.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Luke out for some backlash over that bad pun.
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