Those who have been using the Internet for a while can appreciate the time they graduated from a 56 Kbps modem (Kbps = thousand bits per second) to a cable or DSL connection. From there, the typical speeds started around 1.5 Mbps (MBps = million bits per second). This made downloading large files feasible. How [...]

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Finding a place is to live is one of the most stressful activities we experience at one time or another. Its not just a nice home we look for, but also one to close proximity to schools, parks, restaurants, and stores. These should ideally be within walking distance which is better for your health and [...]

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One of the biggest challenges facing software developers today is trying to convince users of an existing application to switch to their new, improved, feature filled product. They wind up dealing with people whose line of thinking is that if the software your using now meets your basic requirements, there is no need for an [...]

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I’ve been using computers since 1984 and I’ve seen many file types come and go. I couldn’t use the word processor documents and spreadsheets that I made 20 years ago with today’s software. There simply aren’t any import filters which recognizes them. What’s going to happen 20 years from now with the software I’ll be [...]

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// Compile with Visual C# 2005. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Globalization; using System.Text; namespace HappyProgrammersDay { class Program { static void Main (string [] args) { DateTime dtNow = DateTime.Now; Calendar calDay = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.Calendar; if (calDay.GetDayOfYear (dtNow) == 256) Console.WriteLine (“Happy Programmer’s Day!”); } } } Today is Programmer’s Day. This is the 256th [...]

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