North American businesses are increasingly outsourcing work to cheaper labour markets overseas. Many businesses don’t really like to do this, and consumers are now shouting about lost jobs and increased unemployment. But we only have ourselves to blame. My parents own a small local company. They do their work in-house. They, and myself have had […]
Some people may not realize this, but my first personal web development project was horizonarchives.com. Years ago I thought it was the best thing ever. Despite the long domain name, the horrid orange and black design, and the overwhelming job of keeping it up to date, I loved it. It also allowed me to practice […]
Sometimes you just want to dump the contents of a database table as a series of insert statements. Many DBMSes can do this, in fact I do it with MySQL all the time. But it seems Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Manager can’t do it. Oh you can export the create table statement. But that’s it. Why? It seems like a glaring omission. Almost like good old Microsoft is trying to make it as difficult as possible to migrate your data to another DBMS. So stupid. But we will always find a way… so I wrote an ASP script that’ll do what I needed. Here it is for you to use.
Every first time computer buyer or any individual who wants to start learning how to take care of their computer and prevent or fix problems should read this simple computer care article. A great first step for beginners.
It only took me a few minutes of using Internet Explorer 7 yesterday to discover that the biggest problem with it, from my perspective, is actually a “feature”. For websites using a self signed or shared SSL certificate, IE7 is going to remove users from the webpage in order to present them with a big intimidating warning about the certificate having problems.
Most people don’t want to work forever, but many of you are on track to do just that. It’s never too soon to start saving and investing for retirement- and good news… it’s never too late either! Saving for retirement is one of those things that sounds like a huge stressful, complicated thing that requires […]
For those of us who are new to all this investing stuff, knowing what types of investments are out there, what they are, and what the pros and cons are of each can be extremely helpful. But so many sites were over my head when I first started learning. So, based on my own information, […]
For those of us who know nothing about investing, it can seem like a big scary, intimidating, and complex subject. It can scare us off from even starting to learn. As the title of this article implies, this is meant to be a first step for those who have no investing knowledge, and who are […]
Credit cards are one of the slippery slopes that get people into the most trouble with their finances. It comes from forgetting that the limit on your credit card is not actually money you have- it’s negative money if you use it. A second common way of thinking that gets people into trouble is the […]
Dave Ramsey is a financial radio talk show host, who some people call a guru. He coaches his listeners on how to get debt free and take charge of their money. His website: www.daveramsey.com has lots of information and tools to help you, and you can listen to his 3 hour radio program daily, live […]