Congratulations to matthewspatrick - our newest Double Genius

Everyone,

Brad wrote:

> Patrick has steadily progressed to a second Genius certificate in the
> Excel TA, and there aren't many people site-wide who can make that
> claim--most of them having burned out by the effort to get the first
> certificate. Even more amazing, Patrick is also close to a Genius
> certificate in Access.
>
> Rather than answering the same questions over and over again, Patrick
> started earning points in Access, Visual Basic, SQL, Word and Outlook.
> As a result, he is very proficient at answering questions that involve
> integrating two Office applications.

Thanks, Brad!  I have been trying to branch out into other areas, and I
take it as a point of pride that I am on track to be the first person to
get Genius certs in more than one Office zone.

angelIII:
> respect!

Back at you!  My accomplishments look meager next to yours.  I hope that
I have been able to add at least a bit to your Excel knowledge.  I know
you have greatly added to my knowledge of SQL Server and SQL in general.

jeggburt:
> Only a couple of years to catch zorvek now... :-)

As if :)  I am more concerned right now with keeping Jim and Rory at bay...

Rory:
> Congratulations, Patrick - it's impressive enough to have earned genius
> in one TA; to get it twice over in one and be about to get it in another is
> more than I can imagine! Keep up the good work, and thank you for all
> I have learned from you in the past year!

Rory, I am very happy I was able to help you expand your knowledge of Excel.  
In the short time you've been here, you may have taught me more than I've
taught you!

Kanwaljit:
> Race is hotting up. A few weeks back I had a dream in which
> Matthewspatrick and PatrickB were running neck to neck..... Strange
> obsession with Excel is catching up now. Thanks to you geniouses.
> And Patrick, Thanks again for the following. It really solved a lot of
> mystries for me. http:/Q_22394958.html

A dream, or a nightmare?

:)

Jeroen:
> It just seems not a long time ago we battled for points to get ahead
> of each other. IMpressive how you manage to get this double genius
> in Excel and besides all those other ewards on different topics.

Thanks, Jeroen!  BTW, a funny thing has happened in the Access zone:
somehow I have acquired the reputation for being the "RegExp Guy" over
there.  Dave Brett is probably chuckling over that :)

Kevin:
> He is one of the few experts who I have never seen get in a spat. I'm
> not saying he hasn't, just that I haven't seen one.

Oh, sometimes I get snippy.  Occasionally my mirth detector malfunctions,
too: http:/Q_21568627.html

> He can generate more unusable lines of code than Nigel (although
> some might argue those lines are necessary to use the other lines of
> real code and I would have to agree). I couldn't find an example of this
> code on EE so we have too look here:
> http://vbaexpress.com/kb/getarticle.php?kb_id=817. Fortunately he
> does not do this on a regular basis, unlike Nigel.

Well, to be fair, that is from the VBAX knowledge base, and they have
strict rules that anything you put in the knowledge base has to be
thoroughly documented.  Some of my other submissions come with reams
of comments also because they are bits I reuse from solutions I build
at work, and I try to document (most) of my work stuff.  At least, I
try to document the stuff I expect will be reused.  I tend not to
bother with stuff that's "use once and destroy".

One thing I could definitely learn from Nigel is to be more dilient
about validation and error handling!

> He knows every character's name on Battlestar Galactica (and their real
> life name). Is Starbuck really dead? Wait, this has nothing to do with EE
> and Excel...sorry...

Favorite show on TV right now.  I liked Farscape even more, though :)

> As far as EE goes Patrick recently made this comment about me in one
> of my congrats threads: "I've lauded your skills before, so this time I will
> focus on something different: the way you contribute to our little corner
> of the EE community.  Lots of regulars here have remarked on how the
> Excel "zone" is a friendly, civil, and supportive place.  Brad usually gets a
> lot of the credit for that, but you are a key contributor in that area too."
> Given that you were here long before I was and I learned the code of
> conduct from you, Brad, Jeroen, Sébastien, Jim, Matt, etc., I would have
> to say you are the better and more consistent influence. So right back
> at you buddy!

Thank you fo that, Kevin!  I try to do my part, but it is work shared
by many hands.

> Question for Patrick: How many of your posts has Brad deleted? My
> guess is none. I have not had many of my own deleted but I know
> there have been a couple ;-)

None spring to mind, but there must have been at least a couple :)

> On a related but sort of side note, Patrick recently lamented on the
> recent passing of QP: "At the risk of repeating what hundreds
> (thousands?) of Experts must have said in the past, without the late,
> lamented QP I could not have participate in EE at anywhere near the
> level I had, and since the new site went on line, my EE productivity
> has plummeted, mainly because the new site doesn't play nice with
> QP." I could not agree with his feelings more. Here's hoping that
> someone, anyone, gets some kind of second version QP going sooner
> versus later so I can enjoy seeing his cool solutions again.

Wayne has been steadily enhancing TubbPost, since renamed QuickEE.  Once
he gets through another couple of rounds I think I will be among the
happy users!

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Community_Support/Input/Q_22438617.html


Best regards,

Patrick