Posted by
Andy Brown
on 29 March 2022
If you have a Power Automate Premium account you can share flows there, but otherwise this blog shows you how you can copy and paste flows between different users.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 29 March 2022
Need an idea for a present for the nerd in your life (which may or may not be yourself)? Here are 3 our favourite geek humour T-shirts (and one bonus Wise Owl one!).
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 March 2022
Emma Howard recently attended a Python course with us, and has sent through a photo of her cat enjoying the courseware manual.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 March 2022
How can you pass a value from Power Automate Desktop to a Python script, and then get the results back? This blog explains how.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 March 2022
To help understand what software can do, it can be useful to look at its strengths and weaknesses - which is what this blog aims to do for Power Automate Desktop!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 March 2022
After shortages of semi-conductors caused by COVID and other global supply problems, are Excel worksheets the latest resource to feel the pinch?
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 March 2022
It can be hard to track down that elusive animal, the Power BI Updates schedule, but we've found two hidden in the Internet undergrowth
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 26 March 2022
There are no significant new features announced in March's Power BI Desktop update, although error bars for line charts are now in preview.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 24 February 2022
Last month we introduced you to Wordle written in Python, Power BI and Excel; here are a clutch of other alternatives to this popular word game.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 18 February 2022
The February update enables the big new formatting pane in Power BI by default, as well as introducing changes to mobile view and multi-row cards.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 15 November 2023
Our archived websites only go back to 1998, sadly, but this still offers a fascinating (well, for us anyway) peek back into the past.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 15 November 2023
A look at how the nature of our clients has changed over the twenty or so years for which we've been recording data.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 15 November 2023
Wise Owl have come a long way since we started in a basement in Chorlton-cum-Hardy 30 years ago. We thought we'd retrace our steps …
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 15 November 2023
Much has changed in the 30 years Wise Owl has now been in business - and nowhere more so than in the software that we teach. Take a trip with us down memory lane to remember past applications!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 10 February 2022
This blog lists our 5 worst moments from the first 30 years of Wise Owl, and the 5 bits of advice these would prompt me to give to anyone thinking of starting their own business.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 15 November 2023
2022 marks the 30th anniversary of Wise Owl Training. Much has happened since we started work in a basement in South Manchester!
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 31 January 2022
Have you played Wordle yet? You should, it's great! We're a bit obsessed with it at Wise Owl so Andrew, Andy and Sam have all been working their own versions of the game in VBA, Python and Power BI(!) respectively. Check out this quick intro to Andrew's VBA version.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2022
A modest Python program to mimic the popular online Wordle game, using a Tkinter form and some basic classes.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 January 2022
Can you play Wordle in Power BI? Of course you can! This blog explains how you can get Power BI to do something which it is eminently unsuited to do!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 January 2022
The Wordle bandwagon is rolling fast downhill, but we managed to board it. This blog shows one Wise Owl's current stats, and links to our Power BI, Python and Excel VBA versions of this web-based word game.