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PTS Blog Inaugural Post

by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved.

Welcome to the PTS blog. I’m Jon Peltier, host of the blog and owner of Peltier Technical Services. I develop utilities for Excel, dealing with automation and with data processing and display. I have an extensive web site with lots of pages about Excel, particularly charting and programming.

I’ve started this blog so I can show off some of the projects I’ve worked on, share some Excel and Charting tips and techniques, show how to make some tricky charts that people ask about in forums and newsgroups, and talk about the various utilities I’m working on. The first one, my Box and Whisker Chart Utility, will hit the market within a week or so.

I hope to post two or three times each week. I’ll also be tweaking the layout a bit. Stay tuned.

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Comment from Jorge Camoes
Time: Monday, February 18, 2008, 4:27 pm

Jon, just to hi. Great to see you blogging and and finding another way to share your expertise with us.


Comment from Dick Kusleika
Time: Monday, February 18, 2008, 6:36 pm

Hey, didn’t you just comment to Simon that his blog only took 1/3 of the screen? :)

Congrats on the new blog. I look forward to reading it.


Comment from peltiert
Time: Monday, February 18, 2008, 8:05 pm

Dick -

Ha, I did make just that comment. But he’s had that blog for a long time, and I haven’t even figured how it works yet.

Jorge -

I can’t let you and Dick (and Nathan and Simon and Kaiser and all the rest) have all the fun.


Comment from Debra Dalgleish
Time: Monday, February 18, 2008, 8:10 pm

Congratulations on the new blog! Now you’ll have something to do with all that spare time.


Comment from Jan Karel Pieterse
Time: Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 12:54 am

Hi Jon,

Congrats on the new blog. Interested to see if you can kep up with the 2-3 posts a week. That’s a challenge all by itself!


Comment from Nick Hodge
Time: Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 1:48 am

John

Congrats on new blog, look forward to reading it. Add it to your profile at excelusergroup and it’ll give you another link. Also, can I add it to my mirror feeds there too? I have Dick’s and the Excel team?

Look forward to hearing from you


Comment from Andy Pope
Time: Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 3:58 am

Good luck with your blog Jon.


Comment from Dennis Wallentin
Time: Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 4:32 am

Jon,

I’m looking forward to take part of Your blog. Keep in mind that it’s easy to post frequently when the blog is new but it becomes more difficult to keep the same pace in the long run.

Kind regards,
Dennis


Comment from Roger Govier
Time: Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 5:24 am

Hi Jon
Great. looking forward to regularly reading, and improving my charting abilities


Comment from Will Riley
Time: Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 9:14 am

Hey Jon,

Here’s to another good resource on charting in Excel.

Regards,

Will


Comment from Rich Shields
Time: Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 9:36 am

Thanks, Jon. Always enjoy reading you site, and now this blog, and learning something new and challenging. Wish you well with the pace of 2-3 per week.


Comment from Mike Alexander
Time: Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 11:18 am

I’m still waiting for your metallurgy blog.
Oh well…good luck with this one.


Comment from Jon Peltier
Time: Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 11:45 am

Thanks for all the comments.

Mike - Metallurgists aren’t generally too advanced with computers. Though, as I pointed out to an obnoxious computer science administrator while I was an obnoxious graduate student, if it weren’t for metallurgists who refined silicon from its ore and who taught them to build useful structures from it, the CS geeks never would have been able to build modern computers.


Comment from Sandy Cavalaris
Time: Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 4:33 pm

Jon,

I’ve made use of the great content on your main site for quite some time, and look forward to more of the same here.

Now I’m off to subscribe to the RSS feed.

Best of luck with your blog.


Comment from Misange
Time: Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 4:35 pm

Good news ! A true challenge to post twice a week… I hope you will not be spammed. Good luck


Comment from Modeste
Time: Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 5:58 pm

Another new good source of supply for an EXCEL addict !!!
Good luck and long life…


Comment from Andrew
Time: Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 12:01 am

Hi Jon,

I’m just starting to work more with charts so this is a happy day for me. Good luck with the new blog, I’ll add you to my links :-)


Comment from John Mansfield
Time: Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 10:04 pm

Jon - glad to see your new blog and am looking forward to the content. Will you also maintain an RSS feed for your site? Or, will all of your new material flow through the blog?


Comment from Jon Peltier
Time: Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 11:55 pm

John - I’ve discovered how easy it is to handle the blog with WordPress, so I think I’ll add new content through blog posts and pages. Let WordPress handle the links and all that.


Comment from Tony
Time: Thursday, February 21, 2008, 9:00 am

Jon - I was wondering when you would get a blog up and running. Great work and I look forward to reading more.

I agree with many of your readers that your site is one of the best for Excel.

You may want to sign up with Feedburner, which will allow readers to view your posts in a feedreader.


Comment from Doug Glancy
Time: Thursday, February 21, 2008, 12:08 pm

Jon, Thanks for doing this. It looks great!


Comment from Simon
Time: Friday, February 22, 2008, 8:57 am

Well done on the blog Jon.
Good luck going forward
cheers
simon


Comment from Will Riley
Time: Monday, February 25, 2008, 6:12 am

By the way Jon,

I find Windows LiveWriter works extremely well for authoring blog posts with my Wordpress site. There’s also a handy little code plugin for enabling the embedding of nicely formatted VBA in your blog posts.

Regards,

Will


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