Author Archives: dougaj4

Links to link VBA to C#

If you search the Internet for information on how to link Excel VBA to C# you will find thousands, if not millions, of links with details of how to connect to Excel from C#, but very few about going the … Continue reading

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More moves through the fair

Following the last Bach instalment, here are three more versions of She Moves Through the Fair. The first is the “official” Fairport Convention release, with Sandy Denny on vocals.  Much more polished than the demo version posted last time, but … Continue reading

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Polynomial Update

Following a comment here: Solving cubic and quartic equations with Excel the Quartic and CubicC User Defined Functions (UDFs) have been amended to fix a problem occurring with some combinations of coefficients. The updated spreadsheet (including full open source code) can be … Continue reading

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Mohr’s Circle and Plate Stresses and Actions

The functions described in this post can be found in the download file PlateStress.zip, including examples and full open source code. The function MCircle returns the plane stress components (XX, YY and XY stress) for any specified stress field, when rotated through a … Continue reading

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Ghost Stories

The first video was directed by my daughter whilst at the Australian Film Television and Radio School last year, and weaves together stories of hard times in the early days of Sydney’s Newtown district: Plug in the headphones, switch off … Continue reading

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