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smittey
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My first gig straight out of uni was on a project where my role required fixing an FTP client to upload files from a clients machine to our server. It was a spreadsheet. VBA. An excel spreadsheet. FTP client. A spreadsheet.

Me: "why are we using VBA for this?"
PM (was a dev 10+ years ago and started the basics of this 'ftp client'): "VBA is great." *Stern face*

Brilliant

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  • 2
    I have done VBA and some cool excel stuff, but a VBA ftp client? Wow. Did not know it could be done. Nice
  • 1
    Thanks, it wasn't an easy task! It used some libraries put together by some wizard back in the 90's so I can't take all of the credit, but the entire thing was so convoluted
  • 2
    "when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail"
    I do have to give credit though, getting that to actually work is quite impressive. I have to fight to get a VBA macro that sends out an email with a copy-paste of some pivot tables from an excel spreadsheet to work properly
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