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Taking the Mystery Out Of Taking Credit Cards

One of the more frustrating and potentially expensive aspects of opening an on-line store is being able to take credit cards for payment. Taking credit cards is not always essential to a successful on-line store operation, but it sure helps.

A look at four approaches.

1) Use an intermediary.
2) Use a third party processor.
3) Process transactions in-house.
4) Use an Application Service Provider.

Pulling a list of Unique Values from XML

When you have to work with HTML controls in a web-based application, 100% of which are populated and whose properties are set via dynamically-generated XSL transformations at runtime, you get to be pretty inventive. And one of the first things you learn is how NOT to “reinvent the wheel”. That is to say, if there is an example somewhere or some existing code that you can borrow from or re-use, there is “no shame and no blame”.

The Typology of Financial Scandals

Tulipmania – this is the name coined for the first pyramid investment scheme in history.

In 1634, tulip bulbs were traded in a special exchange in Amsterdam. People used these bulbs as means of exchange and value store. They traded them and speculated in them. The rare black tulip bulbs were as valuable as a big mansion house. The craze lasted four years and it seemed that it would last forever. But this was not to be.

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