Click here to read Part 2 The following is a simple example of an HTML form: <form method="post" action="page.php">Name: <input type="text" name="Name"><br>City: <input type="text" name="City"><br><input type="submit" value="Submit"></form> This basic segment is placed inside an HTML page and when users browse to that page, they generally see something like this: Name: City: The user is expected — Continue reading »
Bypassing Dell for HP
📆 January 29, 2007
In a not too distant past Dell was king of the hill, at least when it came to computer hardware. I still remember their old one page ads on the backs of PC magazines taunting Compaq and bragging about their cheaper prices. Dell was unstoppable and its stock was a reflection of how rapidly this — Continue reading »
Penny Options
📆 January 14, 2007
It wasn't long ago when stock shares in the US markets were quoted in increments of 1/16 of a dollar or 6.25 cents. I always wondered why the system was designed that way. It seemed unfair that there was always a 6.25-cent margin between the ask and bid prices, while any other product bought and — Continue reading »
HTML Forms, Part 2
📆 January 10, 2007
Click here to read Part 1 There are really many steps that a browser goes through to display a web page or post some data to it. For the purposes of this discussion, a simplified process consists of a request and a response. The browser makes a request to a server for a particular page, — Continue reading »
The Dollar in 2007
📆 January 1, 2007
Happy new year! Somewhere among the new-year vows of weight loss, self-improvement, and advancing one's education, there are inevitable thoughts about money; how to make more, how to save more, and how to better invest the hard-earned dollars. Unfortunately the outlook for the dollar remains poor for 2007 and there is fear that it will — Continue reading »
HTML Forms, Part 1
📆 December 26, 2006
My first experience with the World Wide Web about 13 years ago was in school using NCSA Mosaic running on Sun SPARCstation hosts. Mosaic was the original graphical Web browser from which all modern Web browsers today can claim their common ancestry. It was a giant leap from text-based applications such as Usenet readers that — Continue reading »
The Middle Class Holiday Bonus Shaft
📆 December 19, 2006
If you read any financial papers or visit any sites with a financial slant around this time, you’re bound to run into an article or two about holiday bonuses. Generally the newsworthy ones are about bonuses granted to money managers and deal makers in big investment outfits. The usual suspects are fund managers, top brokers, — Continue reading »
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