A Convenient Way to Fill-In Word Custom Properties

07.03.2009 computing

In a previous post, we discussed an easy way to fill-in forms and reports having recurrent data with the help of custom properties and fields. Thanks to a comment from Wayne, I found out that filling the actual value of the fields with the “conventional” method (the use of the default Word form) was not so handy and has big disadvantages …

Word Custom Properties: How to Improve Productivity

03.03.2009 computing

When working with Microsoft Word, a great part of administrative tasks consist in filling forms and generating reports on a pre-established templates or models. Now if within your document you have recurrent data (like customer name, company name, etc.) filling the document will be much easier if we would be able to enter this data in only one location and then populate the document automatically…

ISO9001:2000 Official Interpretation

05.02.2009 engineering

The new ISO9001:2008 is not bringing big change compared to the 2000 edition. Changes will be discussed in an upcoming post but meanwhile, i thought useful to publish the official interpretation made by TC176 of all confusing clauses of the 2000′ edition collected all over the last 8 years. (between parenthesis are the TC176 identification [...]

Si Seulement Tu Avais Tort, Papa

25.01.2009 blog

Je suis tombé par pur hasard sur un article récent du « journaliste » Chokri GHARBI, paru dans le journal La Presse. Pour résumer l’article en deux mots, je dirai simplement qu’il n’aurait pas dû être publié. La quantité de bêtises que le journaliste réputé disait n’a d’égal que son style médiocre et imprécis non [...]

ChlankMail: Extract Email Addresses From Any Text

21.01.2009 computing

When you get emails like “you’re not gonna be able to pee for 3 years, if you don’t forward this mail to 23.6 of your friends”, the best revenge is to spam the spammers, or at least ask them to remove you from their lists. Task is easy if you have few couples of addresses, [...]

2 Mois Avec Le Canon IXUS 85 IS

22.12.2008 blog

Après avoir acheté cet appareil voilà 2 mois, j’ai décidé d’en partager mes trouvailles. Tout d’abord mon choix s’est porté sur le IXUS 85 IS car tout simplement c’est l’un des plus petits modèles Canon disponible sur le marche …

Version 2008 of ISO 9001 is Public

23.11.2008 engineering

After 8 years ISO 9001 new version finally came out, ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and the IAF (International Accreditation Forum) have agreed on an implementation plan to ISO 9001:2008, the latest version of the world’s most widely used standard for quality management systems (QMS). The details of the plan are given in the joint [...]

ISO 9001:2000 Mandatory Documents

16.11.2008 engineering

I have been asked this question many times: What are the documents (procedures and records) aside the quality manual that ISO 9001:2000 requires and considers as mandatory? Well, the standard requires 6 procedures and 21 records. Depending on your system, the implementation of some of the records might be not applicable, (exclusions are here a [...]

Using WndProc to Disabe Text Box Context Menu

09.11.2008 computing

Whether you wanted to forbid users to paste like crazy within textboxes or you wanted to create your own, the default textbox context menu should be deactivated. It’s a good example of overriding the default WndProc method (which corresponds to the WindowProc windows function) and filtering the incoming messages. For our example we will listen [...]

Binary Wallpaper

31.10.2008 blog

My GEEKS wallpaper !