Planning for Product Release

Why Write a Sales Letter for Each Product?

Authors/publishers are great at getting their books written, but after the initial one-year honeymoon, sales slow down. To counter this make sure your book or any product or service you offer will keep on selling from the first day, the first year, even for life. Write a short sales letter for each one. Whether you have a Web site or not, you can write a…

Hacker Prevention Techniques

I remember when the term "hacker" referred to a computer geek who could transform a mundane electronic device, with a few modifications, into something completely different from what the manufacturer and designer had envisioned for it. In some cases, these were cool improvements and more than one of these hackers made a fortune selling the rights to them. In other cases, the transformation just made…

Holiday Party Business Building Strategies

As the holiday season swings into full gear, many small business owners start to sweat about how to make business contacts in the next few weeks. You don't need to worry. The holiday season is a profitable time to build your business - if you know how to do it. Here are ten tips to help you build your business at holiday parties.

Ray Tracing in C# and .NET

Source code: Raytracing.zip 104 KB I just saw the Japanese Animation movie Spirited Away and couldn’t help admiring the combination of cool moving graphics, computer generated backgrounds, and integration of sound. This inspired me to revisit the world of 3-D computer graphics. One of the coolest techniques in generating 3-D objects is known as ray tracing. This technique utilizes how the behavior of a particle…