Embrace politics to enhance IT/Business alignment

Every January, we're treated to a plethora of surveys about IT executive priorities for the next year. From year to year, the top one or two items seem to change, but virtually everything below that level stays the same. Beyond the current hot topics, the priorities and problems of IT departments tend to be relatively stable.

Which Web Server Is “Winning”

A November 2003 survey published by the UK-based Internet services company Netcraft made the claim that the Apache Web server "has a significant percentage gain" over its chief rival, Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS), and now controls over two-thirds of the global Web server market. Only days later, Port80 Software released a survey stating that "Microsoft IIS maintains dominance of the corporate Web server market"…

Retrieve the Autonumber Value in Access using C#

This sample deals with the retrieval of the value of the Autonumber field for a data row inserted in MS Access 2000. SQL Server provides access to new Identity values through SCOPE_IDENTITY, IDENT_CURRENT and @@IDENTITY based on the scope and session boundaries. In Jet 4, Microsoft added support for ANSI-92 SQL syntax, including support for @@IDENTITY. This feature can be very useful in the Internet…

How To Start a Profitable Book Review Business

Writers in general are a huge, lucrative, and sometimes desperate market. Fiction writers however, are the cream of the crop. For some reason, it seems like *everyone* dreams of being the next Stephen King.