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If you write VB.NET code, then you spend most of your day working with Visual Studio. Sara Ford, the author of Microsoft Visual Studio Tips , points out that with this kind of leverage, even saving one or two keystrokes will be multiplied thousands of times as you work with VS all day long. I don't normally review Microsoft Press books, but this one is an exception

Flash back to the early 1990's. The "analysis" part of software development is being consumed by a controversy that everybody now calls, "The Method Wars". Over fifty different analysis "methodologies" are being promoted by different experts. Sometimes the main differences were just whether diagrams used circles or boxes to describe things. And the word "wars" is really pretty accurate. These guys were at each other's throats, in a non-violent, academic sort of way. A peace treaty of sorts was finally found when the same company, Rational Software, hired three of the most influential experts and, in the words of one of them, a "critical mass" was created. They all agreed to support the same methodology and UML was born. More recently, IBM bought Rational Software and when that happened, Microsoft's enthusiasm for UML cooled a lot . Well ... in fact, it froze solid. There's nothing like having your biggest competitor buy...

Submitted By: PHPBuilder Staff Date: 03/04/10 17:43 The PHP development team just announced the immediate release of PHP 5.3.2, a maintenance release in the 5.3 series. PHP 5.3.2 includes security enhancements and many bug fixes, such as: * Improved LCG entropy * Fix for safe_mode validation inside tempnam() when the directory path does not end with a /) * Fix for a possible open_basedir/safe_mode bypass in the session extension Read the entire release announcement here: http://www.php.net/archive/2010.php#id2010-03-04-1

The FTP functions give client access to file servers through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The FTP functions are used to open, login and close connections, as well as upload, download, rename, delete, and get information on files from file servers. Not all of the FTP functions will work with every server or return the same results. The FTP functions became available with PHP 3. These functions are meant for detailed access to an FTP server. If you only wish to read from or write to a file on an FTP server, consider using the ftp:// wrapper with the Filesystem functions. Installation The windows version of PHP has built-in support for the FTP extension. So, the FTP functions will work automatically. However, if you are running the Linux version of PHP, you will have to compile PHP with --enable-ftp (PHP 4+) or --with-ftp (PHP 3) to get the FTP functions to work. PHP FTP Functions PHP : indicates the earliest version of PHP that supports the function. Func...

Forex trading is one of the best home based online business opportunity you can find today. The Big Sharks know that and use the demand for information about Forex market to get every possible dollar in their hands. Who are they? The answer is always easy – Follow the Money. There is one player on currency market (and in every other market) who never loses his share in every single trade. Brokerage service on Forex trading is claimed to be commission free, right? But you always pay your minimum 3 to 10 pips fee on each trade. Where those 3 to 10 pips go? Make your best guess! There is almost no chance for a person who has no idea for the forces driving the Info market to save himself from being robbed and abused by those well advertised money machines. You can see their banners on your e-mail provider. You can watch their infomercials on every TV channel. Be aware about the presence of those Big Sharks and be sure that the information they will try to sell to you is always availa...

The foreign exchange market is also known as FX or it is also found to be referred to as the FOREX. All three of these have the same meaning, which is the trade of trading between different companies, banks, businesses, and governments that are located in different countries. The financial market is one that is always changing leaving transactions required to be completed through brokers, and banks. Many scams have been emerging in the FOREX business, as foreign companies and people are setting up online to take advantage of people who don’t realize that foreign trade must take place through a broker or a company with direct participation involved in foreign exchanges. Cash, stocks, and currency is traded through the foreign exchange markets. The FOREX market will be present and exist when one currency is traded for another. Think about a trip you may take to a foreign country. Where are you going to be able to ‘trade your money’ for the value of the money that is in that other count...

Alexa.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com and is a website which provides information on traffic levels for websites. The Alexa rank is measured according to the amount of users who’ve visited a website with the Alexa toolbar installed. In this article, I’ll examine the importance of the Alexa Rank as it relates to site monetization while briefly discussing some of the weaknesses involved in using Alexa ranking as a reliable traffic measure for any website. Lastly, I’ve also included an extensive list of twenty methods and strategies you can use to increase your Alexa Rank dramatically in the short and long run. What is the Alexa Rank? Put simply, the Alexa Rank is a ranking system which bases its ranking schema on the level of traffic each website receives from the number of people who visit a website with the Alexa toolbar installed. See Alexa’s definition of the Alexa Traffic Rank: The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from mill...