Sound Advice for Old Gamers

Sometimes we just can’t let go of old habits. After more than a decade, we still find ourselves yearning to recapture those early days of game computing. You can only play so many rounds of Warcraft or Grand Theft Auto before hankering for simpler times when computers ran slower and the Internet was something only geeks and eggheads frequented.

Hotmail using C# – A HTTPMail client under .NET

The great thing about the POP mail protocol is that it is a well-documented open standard, making writing a mail client to collect mail from a POP box a relatively painless process. Armed with basic knowledge of POP, or SMTP it is possible to write proxies which do a variety of useful things, such filter out spam or junk mail, or provide an e-mail answering machine service. Unfortunately, in trying to write a standalone client for Hotmail, the world’s most popular web-based mailing system, the fact that no POP gateway exists rapidly becomes a problem.

Copy Cat or Born Leader

There has always been pressure on corporate leaders to perform well. Some have stretched and improved their competencies by learning more about themselves. Most have chosen to adopt best practices of those whom they respect to improve their own leadership style. So, which is the better method to develop leadership skills — improve your innate signature talents or copy what others have developed and used successfully?

Managing Up

If you are like most people, when you think about the everyday meaning of the word manage you are usually referring to a manager dealing with a subordinate. But a subordinate can certainly influence his or her image among the higher-ups by using some common sense suggestions and by following some strict rules. It’s called “Managing Up.”

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