Have You Got Time For Planning?
You know that planning is essential both for success and effective use of your time. But what if you don’t think you have the time to plan in the first place? It’s a catch 22. You need to have the time to plan because such preparation would free up more of your time.
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.
In Search of Dave
The old Cheech and Chong skit about “Where’s Dave?” no longer holds true for us. We know where Dave is: He’s right on our computer desktop.
Extending ColdFusion Studio
We all know and dearly love ColdFusion Studio (and its little brother HomeSite). We all have favorite features, we all have our own little tips, tricks, and settings, and we all find ways to make it work as suits as best.
How to Take Advantage of Public Relations
Decide once and for all to do something about those outside audiences whose behaviors affect your organization the most.
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?
Help for Dishpan Registry Hands
Are your hands red and rough from manually scrubbing your Windows Registry? Are your nails dry and brittle from scraping errant and obsolete information left behind from programs you’ve deleted? Do you suffer from Registry bloat?
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.”
Wake Up! Having Biz Dreams OR Nightmares?
Psychology and Science are formidable and innovative forces taking the business world by storm. And you can benefit enormously from these forgotten secrets, once the preserve of a powerful elite.