Convenience Can Be Costly : Understanding Cash Advances
You’ve just opened your credit card bill and attached to your statement you find a “convenience check” included. It may already be filled out with a dollar amount such as $300, $500, or even $1,000. Your mind fills with ideas of what you could buy with this “instant” money. A new summer wardrobe, a nice dinner and tickets to a concert, a weekend getaway.
Things You Might Like to Know about Copyrights
You may be under the false impression that before you can get your text published, you must “get the copyright” to your own written material. You might also think that in order to get the copyright, you must “apply” for it. This is just not so. In the following few paragraphs, I’ll give you some simple facts about copyrights that may help you in your quest to get published.
Watching Folder Activity in VB .NET
Have you ever wanted to write an application which constantly monitors a folder and raises events when there is any activity in that folder? In the good old days using VB6 or older you had to use windows APIs to do something like this, which was not very simple and required lots of coding. The Microsoft .NET Framework has introduced classes like System.IO and System.Diagnostics, which contains the FileSystemWatcher class which can raise events when a file is created, renamed, updated or deleted from the specified folder or any other activities.
What Does A MCSE Certification Get You?
With the IT industry in a rather sorry state, a few of you may be considering a certification to get ahead of the pack. Question is, does the MCSE certification mean as much as it once did?
Using Network Functions in Visual C#.NET (Part II – Group Functions)
Welcome to the second installment of articles on how to use Platform Invoke to manage users and groups using Visual C#.NET (Click here to read Part I).
Regular Expressions in T-SQL
I recently had the problem of trying to search for a regular expression in a database field. There is no version of SQL Server that supports regular expressions natively, but I discovered a way to add all sorts of regular expression goodness to your T-SQL applications. In order to use regular expressions easily, we can use a User Defined Function to help us out and abstract the work for us.
When the Watering Hole Shrinks
I’ve heard it said that when the watering hole shrinks, the animals look at each other differently. That’s the way it is at work when downsizing is occurring, too.
How to Get More Personal Power
What is the most powerful thing you can do? The lesson we get from the world religions, and from myths of the world, and the thing we know intuitively is – the most powerful thing you can do is create. We all create our own world.
Change-Proficiency
You just got downsized, you just got a new boss, your partner just broke up with you, you just found out you’re going to be a father, you’ve enrolled in college, you just got married, your son just had a daughter, you’ve been transferred, you’ve been promoted, you’re going into the army now . what do all these things have in common? Change!
Are You Making THESE Mistakes With Your Affiliate Program?
You spend a few weeks putting together, or finding your product – now you can sit back while your own ARMY of eager sales people drive sales and fill your bank account.