Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Worth a thousand

On the side and in my copious free time, I do some custom database work for small businesses. One such business is Brookline Textiles. They have offices scattered all over the country and needed a way to submit and track orders, check inventory etc. I designed an Access data project front end sitting on an SQL Server backend. Their admin office is particularly tech-shy and when they had errors, it was particularly challenging for them to explain them over the phone to me. I finally hit upon a low-tech solution.


The keyboard combination Ctrl-Shift-PrtScn takes a picture of your current desktop so I had them do that, paste it into an email and send it on. Here is one I got today. I cant tell you how many painful hours on the phone this has saved me.

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