May 15, 2013
In a world of cut throat competition finding a way to reach customers can mean life or death for start-up companies. Even well established companies must always try to find new ways to stay in the public’s consciousness. Becoming or staying relevant is a daunting task when one considers the deluge of adverts an average person experiences [...]
By EdwardJimenez Category: Uncategorized
May 15, 2013
(Image Obtained From 2.bp.blogspot.com) There are several ways to improve upon your Search Engine Optimization, using link building, usability techniques, and analyzing your site in order to see where you are in comparison with competitors, there is one technique however that can not only make your site easier to find, but is an important [...]
By JasonJones Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Uncategorized Tags: Crawler, disabilities, reasons importance web accessibility, search engine, search engine optimization, section 508, SEO
May 12, 2013
Creating an Effective Content Strategy for Your Website It’s pretty much a given in the business world today that content is king. More important, content is critical. It is the lifeblood, the identity, and the value of any company or organization. Online competition is not about dropping links anywhere in the web, of automated [...]
By SilvaHarounian Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Content Strategy, SEO, Website
May 11, 2013
(Image obtained from : http://etechdiary.com/basics-of-seo/ ) Have you ever wondered why websites are displayed in the order that they are after going through a search? It’s simply due to popularity! The more links a site has the more people are referring to it. This is the process of Link building. As more and more [...]
By DavidFong Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: backlink, Bing, Google, Link building, msn, SEO. search engine, Yahoo
May 1, 2013
These days, on average, one in every four websites you come across on your daily browse will be written in ASP.NET, but on the newer and presumably better ASP.NET MVC framework, you may find a meager 1 in 100. So what’s the difference? What distinguishes one over the other? Is one a newer version of [...]
By Brent Krone-Schmidt Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: ASP .NET, MVC, Web Forms
Apr 30, 2013
iOS Applications with HTML5 and CSS3 Today, mobile application (app) development has become one of the most popular trends in software development as we emerge ourselves into an on the go, handheld device era. “A few short years ago, most mobile devices were, for want of a better word, ‘dumb’” (Charland & LeRoux, 2011). Now, [...]
By JeniferWang Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Adobe, Apache Cordova, APIs, Applications, Cloud Computing, CSS, CSS3, HTML, HTML5, hybrid apps, iOS, iOS apps, iPhone Apps, JavaScript, JS APIs, Mobile, mobile application development, mobile applications, mobile apps, Mobile Development, native apps, open source framework, PhoneGap, Web Apps, web development
Apr 29, 2013
Today, Business and developers are always finding different ways to give them that competitive edge in the technology market. One of the first major game changers was the Java Spring Framework, released in 2002. It has evolved over the years and helped java be able to evolve and still work with many new and existing [...]
By EricSkapik Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: framework, Java, Rod Johnson, spring, VMware
Apr 28, 2013
The internet is filled with more websites every day.Every quarter more of the worlds commerce is conducted through e-commerce, more entertainment sites are charging people to view content, and more every day people are placing new information onto websites. But how can all these websites be built so fast? How can you make secure sites [...]
By RubenSerrano Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: CakePHP, CakePHP Framework, PHP, Zend, Zend Framework
Apr 24, 2013
Today’s highly social and interactive web has created a market for a database management system with the ability to offer fast real time access over the Internet while managing massive data sets that are growing by the minute in volume and complexity. MongoDB fills this need. As I will explain later in this blog, MongoDB [...]
By JohnJoyce Category: Databases and Data Warehouses, Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Uncategorized Tags: Database, NoSQL
Apr 23, 2013
In the beginning of the internet age, businesses had different uses for the internet and now as we fast forward to 2013 the internet age has changed once again! Today, the internet is a big part of our daily lives and even more so with online shopping. I can safely assume everyone reading this has [...]
By Ronald Category: E-Business, Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: ecommerce
Apr 22, 2013
Unless you live under a rock, I will guarantee that you have come across at least one web site that utilizes one of the many Google APIs. Today, it is being used almost everywhere! To fully understand Google APIs, let me first explain what an API actually is. API stands for “Application Programmable Interface” and [...]
By EmilyLe Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Uncategorized Tags: analytics, api, Design, Development, Google, JavaScript, Maps, web, YouTube
Apr 22, 2013
Businesses and developers have been trying to jump on the Facebook bandwagon for years. When Facebook started allowing businesses to have Facebook pages that users could “like”, business had to constantly update their page and relied on the news feed to gain traffic. However, Facebook kept changing the way content was displayed and taking away [...]
By Jason Landeros Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Facebook, Open Graph API, web development
Apr 17, 2013
Making software easy to use has been a major focal point for developers since the dawn of the microchip. Whether or not an application or website is successful often depends on how quickly users come to familiarize themselves with an interface. Applications that inundate users with too many buttons or options often struggle to find [...]
By EdwardJimenez Category: Uncategorized Tags: CSS3, Mobile devices, responsive, smartphones, Tablets, UX, web design
Apr 17, 2013
(Image obtained from http://nodejs.org/logos/) Node.js was developed in 2009 by Ryan Dahl it was created to address issues with efficiency of traditional platforms which took far too long to communicate over the network, spending magnitudes of more time processing web requests and responses than other parts of applications. “Node.js is a [...]
By JasonJones Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: asynchronous I/O, Client-Side, JavaScript, Node, Node.js, programming, server, server-side, Server-side scripting, web design, web development, web server
Apr 14, 2013
HTML 5 Geolocation Need help finding a restaurant? What if someone is lost and they need to get their bearings straight? Getting lost is never fun, but with Geolocation convenience is literally at the palm of their hands. With some simple swipes on a smartphone, a user may never get lost ever again, provided [...]
By DavidFong Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Amazon, Facebook, Geolocation, GPS, HTML5, Privacy, Smartphone, Web Browser
Apr 14, 2013
Twitter Bootstrap Bootstrap was developed by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton at Twitter in August 2011 as a framework to encourage consistency across internal tools. Before the creation of Twitter Bootstrap, engineers had lot of difficulties to create descent websites and web application. They used various libraries that they [...]
By SilvaHarounian Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Bootstrap, CSS, framework, HTML5, JavaScript, LESS, Twitter
Dec 4, 2012
In an article from PCWorld entitled “Symantec warns of malware targeting SQL databases,” there has been a spread of malware infecting SQL databases around the world. Although not a serious threat, it could pose to destroy data quality within the database. Originally targeted to Iran, the malware called W32.Narilam, looks for Microsoft SQL databases on [...]
By Eric Chau Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: data quality, Database, malware, quality, SQL
Dec 3, 2012
Depending on the task, writing SQL queries can get complicated, in the article “Interactive SQL Query Suggestion: Making Databases User-Friendly” Ju Fan proposes a neat tool for making SQL easier. By simply inserting keywords the tool will generate the corresponding SQL statements. This is similar to Microsoft excel, those who are unfamiliar with excel can [...]
By Shigom Haile Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Database, SQL, SQLSugg, tool
Dec 3, 2012
Last week I read and wrote about an article describing what a DBA’s job consists of, and the question arose of how a person might go about becoming a DBA. This week I read the article “How to become an Oracle DBA” by Burleson Consulting. The author starts off by listing the very generous salaries [...]
By Kevin Schneider Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses Tags: Career, Database Design and Development (CIS 305), DBA, Oracle
Dec 3, 2012
David Kirkpatrick, of Fortune.com and contributor to CNN Technology, writes in his article, “MySQL: A threat to bigwigs?” that MySQL is the rising Linux of backend systems. He begins by explaining the structure of MySQL (which is based on the SQL language) and the structure of general open source software. Because MySQL is open source, [...]
By Asim Khan Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), E-Business Tags: Database, MySQL, SQL