Feb 29, 2012
Visual Studio has improved throughout the years it has been in use. The interest of people using Visual Studio has made them demand more and ask for improvements. The new 2010 version of Visual Studio uses Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) which adds many improvements (Cogswell). A couple features in the newer version include the [...]
By Ivan Cisneros Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311)
Feb 27, 2012
This article is about how Singapore is planning to set up a national microchip database for dogs to prevent owners from abandoning them. Before the purchase of a pet dog, they are given a microchip that could track down their location. After the purchase of a license, an owner must register their name and address [...]
By Steven Cruz Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Database, tracking
Feb 27, 2012
Companies are not prepare for the influx of data coming into their systems. These ‘big data’ is hammering these companies systems and yet most employee still don’t know how to deal with it. Those that understand the important of ‘big data’ do not have the require tool to efficiency manage these data. A survey conduct [...]
By Quoc Luu Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: big data
Feb 27, 2012
The article that I read was about how astronomers have been using the Sloan telescope at New Mexico’s Apache Point Observatory since 1998 to continuously take pictures of different parts of the universe and store them in a database called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey database. More than 100 terabytes were used to store the [...]
By Steven Cruz Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: astronomy, Database, sdss
Feb 27, 2012
Microsoft is upgrading its ASP.Net software. It will as well be adding mobile web function capabilities in order to build web applications that load faster. Earlier this month Asp.Net MVC 4 beta was released. This new beta enables development of web applications by means of the Model View controller architectural pattern. This release is built [...]
By Irving Aguayo Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: ASP .NET, Microsoft
Feb 27, 2012
Although the article is nearly a year old, it provides info on the development of software to handle code and allow for its use on multiple platforms. By now the Android mobile phone was been out for some time and has had plenty of opportunity for developers to improve on software for it, however at [...]
By Chris Sanches Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: .NET, android, Monodevelop, Monotouch
Feb 27, 2012
The article I read recently, written by Loraine Lawson where she talks about the recent hype surrounding Big Data and the starting trend. Many companies and organizations are considering using Big Data services for their systems but many don’t know where to start or the true capabilities and limitations of such a system. This is [...]
By Hassib Kadir Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305)
Feb 27, 2012
So my article is talking about Microsoft Visual Studio and how it was waiting for .NET. In general, the article is describing how Visual InterDev- Microsoft’s current tool for building Active Service Pages- will disappear as a separate product. Instead, Microsoft incorporated Visual InterDev’s functionality into other Studio tools, such as Visual Basic and [...]
By Abubaker Dalati Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: .NET, Visual Basic
Feb 27, 2012
Microsoft is going to release Visual Studio 2011 soon, and they aim for a better working environment for DevOps. For anyone who does not know what DevOps is, “DevOps” is an emerging set of principles, methods and practices for communication, collaboration and integration between software development (application/software engineering) and IT operations (systems administration/infrastructure) professionals. It has developed in response to the [...]
By Bach Bui Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: DevOps, Microsoft, Visual Studio 2011
Feb 27, 2012
The article I read this week dealt with how to investigate performance issues on the SQL server. The author goes on to say that at least half of the DBAs he meets are not familiar with the ways of the most basic and fundamental methods of inspecting the server performance. The SQL Server keeps two [...]
By Giselle Nuila Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305)
Feb 27, 2012
When Mark Hurd became Hewlett-Packard’s President in 2005, he noticed that as a technology company, they were failing in one area internally. They had no central system that collected all their companies data together into what Mr. Hurd liked to call “a single version of the truth.”(Vance 2008) Mark Hurd used to head the [...]
By Kevin Quihuiz Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Hewlett-Packard, HP
Feb 27, 2012
As providing information has become second nature to us as most if not all modern services are becoming electronic, we sometimes forget how there are people in the world who are capable and willing to exploit such information. This past week, YouPorn.com suffered one of the largest data breaches in internet pornography history. An investigation [...]
By Vincent Sanchez Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Database, Internet, security
Feb 27, 2012
This week’s article has come from eWeek and details improved management capabilities that come from SQL Server 2008 R2. With Microsoft’s continued support into this software and an endless amount of possibilities for the program, I hope to see many more updates in the future. The new management capabilities the software has expanded upon included [...]
By Evin Coukos Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: SQL, SQL Server
Feb 27, 2012
This article is about how Microsoft is now creating a new version of Microsoft SQL Server. This version has to deal with a lot of the same features, but with some new features attached to it. The new product is set to be presented to the public on March 7th and there will be will [...]
By ebcachola Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: 2012, chris, Database, karanacus, microsft, new generation, pc world, server, SQL
Feb 27, 2012
While adobe says it will contribute to HTML 5 it will still continue it will continue to support flash. Adobe has pledged it support to continue to support the up and coming HTML5 and Adobe Flash, this announcement was made at their Max 2011 conference. Adobe has been contributing to HTML5 with bodies like the [...]
By Stephen Ore Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Adobe, CIS311, flash, HTML5
Feb 27, 2012
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York sued Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase in New York Supreme Court in Brooklyn. Mr. Schneiderman is the co-chairman of the new mortgage crisis unit formed under the Obama administration. The database is called the Mortgage Electronic Registration System or MERS. It was created in [...]
By Andrew Jaung Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305)
Feb 27, 2012
For this week, I decided to talk about an article which talk about Google’s new Privacy Policy Change. Recently, there has been lots of buzz and circulation about Google’s new Privacy Policy. Their new Privacy Policy consolidates most of their products’ privacy policies into one single policy. After so much criticism from public and many [...]
By shahravi88 Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Google, Privacy Policy
Feb 27, 2012
Writing SQL queries is a simple task that everyone can do but how to write efficient query that does not affect performance is another issue. As a matter of fact, many developers from every platforms are struggling and seemingly stuck in using simple DO WHILE loops and many of them often have their own methods [...]
By toantran Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: case, join, Queries, SQL, update
Feb 27, 2012
The article talks about how fault SQL code can cause database performance. Poorly structured queries can often go unnoticed until we start noticing the performance going down and impact the business. With CA’s Unicenter SQL-Station, SQL queries problems can be avoided by ensuring that all SQL code is properly tuned. According to the articles Faulty [...]
By Stefan Simsih Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: CIS 305 Poor Stracture SQL
Feb 27, 2012
So my article is talking about Malware that are installed on people’s computers through Web Paging. Lately, there have been a large number of internet sites that have been compromised by SQL injection attacks. What happens is simple; the attack modifies the databases used by the sites so that they redirect the user to other [...]
By Abubaker Dalati Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: SQL