Then, booking again a mix of web, and trip planner (europeandestinations.com) and human travel agents.

FORBES: Looking at the Web from a World Away

"We took on the marketing process itself, " says McLaughlin, who had spent five years as a programmer for Eli Lilly and moonlighted selling his homemade wedding-planner software over the web.

FORBES: Junk Mail Bytes It

You can run a planner's name through the CFPs' Web site and find out if he or she has been "publicly disciplined" by the accrediting organization.

FORBES: Got To Have A Plan

During the demonstration of RAD for the Server, Dave Mendlen, Visual Studio product planner, built what he called a "middle-tier business object" for a wine-selling Web site using six lines of code, an operation that he said would take "hundreds of lines of code" with the current version of Visual Basic 6.

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