May 19, 2012
Facebook is one of the biggest social networking site. Users are increasingly accessing Facebook via thier mobile devices. Study have shown that Facebook mobile user use more than 7 hours on average. The way for Facebook to make money is by advertisement. Mark Zuckerberg (cheif of Facebook) has set “his top priorities this year are [...]
By RonnyWang Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Facebook, Mobile
May 18, 2012
The article I chose to talk about this week is called ” With Rackspace Cloud, OpenStack Goes PrimeTime.” In this article the author Charles Babcock talks about Rackspace’s annoucing that OpenStack will be used as the basis for its RackSpace Cloud Service after they have rolled out new networking, monitoring and database services. The announcement [...]
By MAvenegas Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Cloud, NASA, OpenStack, RackSpace, RackSpace Cloud
May 18, 2012
The number of mobile devices have increased in the last decade, and at this rate it is inevitable that this is the future of computing. However there are constraints that hinder the deployment, especially the limited communication bandwidth and storage space available. Since mobile devices do not have the computing power to run complex business [...]
By Ricardo Chaidez Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Compression, data exchange, Database, EXEM, Mobile, XML
May 17, 2012
The article I chose touches on how tax authorities are challenged with collecting and identifying businesses that do not pay their correct taxes. Believe it or not, businesses and everyday people cheat on their taxes, whether it be for a higher refund or to elude from paying more money back to the government. Of all [...]
By Chris Sabatino Category: Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence, Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, Strategic Decision Making
May 16, 2012
The article I read was about the 25 most dangerous software errors. The article itself was very short but linked to an outside website called the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). This website created the top 25 most dangerous software errors list and showed how to mitigate these errors and the attacks that could insue. The [...]
By nicholasthibodeau Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Uncategorized
May 16, 2012
In this paper published by Samuel A. Ajila and Ahmed Al-Asaad from Carleton University in Canada, address concerns with synchronizing a SQL server database for mobile users while off-line. SQL Server has three features to help. They are Remote Data access, Merge replication, and MS Sync Services. Some of the problems that the business experienced [...]
By CyberChic Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology Tags: MS SQL Server, synchronization
May 15, 2012
For this week’s blog i found a really interesting article that show how to use many different types of programming languages without having to install the required software for each programming language that you are trying to us. The solution to this is Compilr.com; an online integrated development environment supporting many programming languages like PHP, [...]
By Eric Hong Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311)
May 14, 2012
The Google vs Oracle trial has been a huge case with potentially extremely harmful repercussions. Oracle is accusing Google of both Copyright infringement and patent infringement. According to Oracle, Google’s Android platform is said to contain code from Java. Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems, the creator of java, in 2010. Though Java is an open sourced platform, [...]
By Andrew Jaung Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311)
May 14, 2012
Amazon’s web hosting services now can support dynamic content. Dynamic web pages are a critical component of Web 2.0 and are the future of how websites are to be designed. Dynamic web pages are able to update their content on the fly based off of user input and algorithms and thus are able to provide [...]
By JimJulagay Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Cloud Computing, Database, Dynamic, web pages
May 14, 2012
This week I read an article about Visual Studio Lightswitch. This application is designed to simplify creation of different kinds of applications. It allows users to create applications with a modern multi-user design that support both the web and desktop clients, but with little or no coding, though a user can add Visual Basic. Some [...]
By danielshin Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Java, Lightswitch, Visual Basic
May 14, 2012
Visual Basic was designed to be relatively easy to learn and use. Programmers know the annoyances and limits of programming and Visual Basic stepped in to create a better and simpler way to code. The article talks about 10 different ways Visual Basic is better than C#. It talks about the case sensitive code that C# uses [...]
By gerardgonzales Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: c#, Visual Basic, web design, web development
May 13, 2012
My article is pretty much an analysis on AJAX technology and how it is enhancing the facilitation of e-government architecture as well the potentials it has by enablement of modern Web features as democratic collaboration. As the name implies, e-government is the method of utilizing information and communication technology as the primary support of the [...]
By toantran Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: AJAX, e-government
May 13, 2012
The journal writes about how the current applications of the Windows Phone 7 is expanding in terms of applications being developed for it, to the point where cloud usage enables great advantages when used as a database for the application. Through the use of cloud services, users can store and access data off their phones, [...]
By Michael Vuong Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Azure, Cloud, Phone, SQL, windows
May 13, 2012
For this weeks post, I read an article by Sara Yin titled “Report: FBI Wants to Wiretap Facebook, Twitter, Google”. The article states that the FBI wants some legality to help them expand their surveillance capabilities to cover a good portion of the Internet. The FBI wants “…social networks, e-mail providers, and other peer-to-peer services [...]
By DavidLi Category: Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence, Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Ethics and Information Security, Globalization, Innovation, and future trends, Uncategorized
May 13, 2012
The article I read today was actually really interesting it basically went over visual basics and how it actually got started. Visual basics was created by Microsoft by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. It was a program that was a great design and one that really tied Microsoft up into the computers. It was a [...]
By MichaelMachado Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: about, Adobe, AJAX, Amazon, c#, code, Database, Google, HTML 5, Java, JavaScript, Visual Studios, windows
May 13, 2012
After reading Bernard’s “Visual Basic is not dead, its undead!”, I wanted to compare the results of Microsoft’s hard work to its original product. Unfortunately for me, I have never used Visual Basic (VB) or Visual Basic.Net (VB.NET) so I had no comparison so I had to go and try to get an expert opinion. [...]
By Davina Vilaylak Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Microsoft, Visual Basic
May 13, 2012
In Todd Neilsen’s article featured on Wired named, “6 Signs of a Maturing Cloud-Computing Industry,” Neilsen describes what he sees as tell tale signs of how the cloud-computing industry is not only doing well but flourishing. Just like with most industries, the cloud-computing industry, from what Neilsen explains, is starting to produce specified niches in [...]
By Robert Tolossa Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Cloud Computing
May 13, 2012
This article talks about how it is so obvious that the world we live in is not perfect, with everyone using Internet to log on and purchase almost everything on line thinking that companies are protecting their personal information from outsiders. In reality this is not the case, because every day there is news about [...]
By RizwanAzam Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Uncategorized
May 13, 2012
The article I chose, Amazon Web Services Announces New Managed Services for Windows Developers Worldwide, talks about Amazon annoucing a new managed services for windows developers with the launch Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and ASP.NET called AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Business can use “Amazon RDS to offload the operational responsibilities of their MySQL and [...]
By MAvenegas Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Amazon, Amazon RDS, Amazon Web Services, ASP .NET, AWS, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, MySQL, Oracle
May 13, 2012
The article that i read was about how visual basic and C#, which are both Microsoft languages, had been competing i the past. One of them would release something new and the other would have to play catch up to make themselves look good. Now both of the teams have to report through the same [...]
By Daniel McCoy Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: c#, Visual Basic