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March 2014 - Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog
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Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog. Random thoughts on web development, life, and more. Monthly Archives: March 2014. Dolar Blue: getting the best rate for Argentine Pesos (ARS). March 27, 2014. I just came back from Argentina and figured I would share some up-to-date information on getting Argentine Pesos for the best possible price thanks to the Dolar Blue. In short, the current official exchange rate. This is done on a “black market” that is actually tolerated by the government, as illustrated by the...3 Walk a ...
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March 2013 - Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog
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Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog. Random thoughts on web development, life, and more. Monthly Archives: March 2013. Converting USD/CAD with Interactive Brokers: How-To. March 18, 2013. Converting currencies with Interactive Brokers can be confusing at first, so, as a follow-up to my post on paying as little commission as possible when converting US and Canadian dollars. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to do that. You can add Fund Transfer Instructions in the Account Management area of the IB website:. 25) Click &#...
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Personal Finance Archives - Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog
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Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog. Random thoughts on web development, life, and more. Category Archives: Personal Finance. Converting USD/CAD with Interactive Brokers: How-To. March 18, 2013. Converting currencies with Interactive Brokers can be confusing at first, so, as a follow-up to my post on paying as little commission as possible when converting US and Canadian dollars. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to do that. You can add Fund Transfer Instructions in the Account Management area of the IB website:. 25) C...
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April 2012 - Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog
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Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog. Random thoughts on web development, life, and more. Monthly Archives: April 2012. ISO 3166 country list: nicely formatted in CSV and SQL format. April 19, 2012. I recently had to add a country selection list on a form on the website of a customer who does business internationally, and couldn’t find an up-to-date, easy-to-use list of countries already available. The closest was the ISO 3166 country list. But there are a few issues with it in my opinion:. ISO 3166 country code.
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January 2013 - Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog
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Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog. Random thoughts on web development, life, and more. Monthly Archives: January 2013. How to: subscribe to DRIPs for ETFs at Scotia iTrade. January 5, 2013. Here’s what they told me when I inquired about the procedure:. For further assistance, please contact us at 1-888-872-3388 or (416) 214-6457 from 8am to 9pm ET weekdays or 8am to 6pm ET weekends. I therefore emailed them at service@scotiaitrade.com. How do the DRIPs work? Here’s an example with 566 shares of XBB. Note...Convert...
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General Archives - Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog
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Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog. Random thoughts on web development, life, and more. Welcome to my personal blog. July 8, 2011. I’m starting this blog because I need a place to post random thoughts that would not fit on my corporate blog. I took inspiration from Jeremy Zawodny’s blog. And will post on different subjects, sometimes technical, sometimes not. I hope you find at least some of them interesting. If you want to know more about me: I’m a software engineer with 10 years of e-commerce experience.
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À propos | L'Afrique à vélo
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L'Afrique à vélo. Récit de ma traversée de l'Afrique à vélo, par Pierre-Luc Soucy. Ce blogue vise à relater ma traversée de l’Afrique à vélo du 15 janvier au 15 mai 2011, réalisée avec le groupe organisé par Tour d’Afrique Ltd. Et qui me fera visiter une dizaine de pays. À propos de moi. Pour en savoir plus sur moi: www.plsoucy.com. 22 janvier 2011 à 23 h 01 min. 4 juillet 2013 à 6 h 25 min. Via un article sur notre blog, la publication d’un lien sur le blog. 4 juillet 2013 à 7 h 58 min. De Felix Unite a...
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Email Marketing Archives - Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog
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Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog. Random thoughts on web development, life, and more. Category Archives: Email Marketing. MailChimp vs Campaign Monitor: Email Marketing Software Comparison. August 16, 2012. What’s the best email marketing solution for my needs? I used these 10 years ago for small lists, but running your own lists is not recommended and can cause delivery issues, so I skipped that option. I also compared them with a slightly lower-priced alternative, GetResponse. I read on Quora. That both service...
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Content Delivery Networks: Cloud Files and CloudFront comparison
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Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog. Random thoughts on web development, life, and more. Content Delivery Networks: Cloud Files vs CloudFront. July 9, 2011. In order to allow faster content delivery and reduce server load for Dinstinct. I started looking at content delivery network (CDN) options a few days ago. Dinstinct is fast-growing, but still relatively small, so using expensive big names was out of the question. I therefore turned my attention to cloud CDNs, namely Rackspace’s Cloud Files. On Cloud Files, howe...
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November 2012 - Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog
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Pierre-Luc Soucy's blog. Random thoughts on web development, life, and more. Monthly Archives: November 2012. Converting USD to CAD: how to pay almost no currency conversion fees. November 6, 2012. Do you convert more than $10k from USD to CAD or vice-versa annually? If so, read below for tips to save hundreds or thousands of dollars on currency conversion fees.]. It turns out that if you want minimum hassle and don’t convert money that often, ING Direct. Second option: forex brokers. Is a trading platfo...