Coping With VAT: EU’s New eCommerce Tax

The EU VAT directive has caused significant controversy amongst developers and online software registration services. Part of the confusion has comes from the vagueness in the directive and questions with regards to the jurisdiction that the EU has over the US to enforce its policies. The implementation has skewed the playing field in favor of EU companies, while putting a significant burden on US businesses that do not benefit from the tax.

Balancing Too-Much and Not-Enough Work

What’s more stressful? A workload that requires a long stretch of 10- to 12-hour days? Or a slow and quiet flow of work that forces you to eat up your financial cushion and leaves you borrowing to make your mortgage payment? Both extremes are troubling beyond measure and both are common in the unpredictable world of business ownership. Even the largest companies stretch and contract with the business cycle and with changes in the marketplace.

Build a Servlet-based Application That Executes SQL Statements Against a Database

This tutorial shows how to use a Java servlet, a JavaServer Page (JSP), and a static Java class to create an application that can be used to interactively execute any standard SQL statement against a database that’s running on a server. You can use an application like this one to work with a database as you’re developing an application. In this article, this application will be referred to as the SQL Gateway application.

Affiliate Merchants: Top Tools For Your Success

As an affiliate program owner running a program internally, you’ll want to have software which is user-friendly and provides the tools and reporting for affiliates to become successful (which means that you make more $$$). You’ll want to be able to concentrate on marketing and/or improving your products, perfecting your websites to increase conversions, recruiting new affiliates and supporting the ones that you have.

Making Sure Your Site is Crawler-friendly

I couldn’t find any “meaty” questions for this issue, so I thought I’d just talk generally about what makes a site “crawler-friendly.” I used to call this “search-engine-friendly” but my friend Mike Grehan convinced me that the more accurate phrase was “crawler-friendly” because it’s the search engine crawlers (or spiders) that your site needs to buddy-up to, as opposed to the search engine itself.

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