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Balancing your checking account against statements from your financial institution is a monthly task that I highly recommend…
I think a generally acceptable definition of reusable code could be “code or functionality that will probably be useful in one or more future projects.” It’s a category of code that few managers or developers, in my experience, seem to pay much attention to until they need it.
This is unfortunate since, in my opinion, reusable code, when upgraded to repeatable code, has the potential to save big on development costs.
What Is Reusable Code?
From what I can gather, there are five primary sources of reusable code.
* Components (objects) that expose their functionality through an interface…
Each article that I write for distribution via Internet article sites has these basic sections.
* Title
* Brief description
* Article text
* Author resource
* Keywords
I have set up a skeleton for new articles using a repeat text writer…
My Dad and father-in-law were at both ends of the spectrum when it came to managing their checking accounts. Dad would spend hours, sometimes days, tracking down a two cent error in his checkbook register…
Double Text is a repeat text writer that works with virtually any scripting and programming language. I use the program extensively to store, document and repeat code snippets for all of the programming languages in which I work…
There are three traditional methods of managing personal income.
1. Budgeting,
2. Keeping a spending history, and
3…
Anyone with access to your credit card information can process charges against your account. However, you are not defenseless against this type of theft. There are Federal statutes that lay out specific guidelines for both the company that prepares your credit card statement, and for how you go about contesting invalid or incorrect charges…
The next time you’re in an office where personal computers are used, look on the desks. Chances are pretty good that you will see a mechanical tape adding machine sitting next to many of the computers. That makes no sense to me whatsoever…
The mechanical paper tape adding machines setting on corporate desks next to high priced personal computers are not normally thought of as an inordinate expense. In fact, it is my experience that those mechanical machines are considered by companies to be a necessity. Nothing, in my opinion, could be further from the truth on either count…