May 12, 2012
This article talks about Rackspace Hosting, which is a cloud and hosting company. At the time when this article was released Rackspace had announced a “Cloud Plug-In” for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. This particular plugin would allow .NET developers to make applications and deploy them to Rackspace’s Cloud Servers. This plug in will also allow [...]
May 4, 2012
The author of this article talks about JQuery and how to use it on websites. jQuery was first developed by John Resig and made its debut early 2006 having since gained popularity among websites including WordPress,Mozilla, Google and Netflix. jQuery is an open source library full of JavaScript that can be used to select elements [...]
Apr 28, 2012
The authors of this article wrote about how to protect JavaScript code against cross site scripting(XSS). XSS is considered to be one of the biggest weaknesses in web-based programs. XSS usually done by entering JavaScript Code into HTML contents,like for example an input text box or comment box on a web page. Once this JavaScript [...]
Apr 22, 2012
In this article the author writes about the creator of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and how the development of CSS3 is coming along. Such features in CSS3 not include mulit-column text arrangements. There are also modules known as grid layout templates. Within these modules it can allow you to manage the visual content of your [...]
Apr 13, 2012
This article was very interesting and fascinating to follow. It talked about a proposed algorithm that would be used to detect malicious and hazardous web pages. This particular algorithm uses the strings that appear in HTML elements rather then using an older algorithm that actual checks the text parts within a web page to see [...]
Apr 6, 2012
The author talks about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and its influence on Page Interest. SEO can be observed from 4 aspects, structure optimization, keyword optimization, content optimization and link optimization. According to author SEO is the process of increasing the volume and quality of traffic to a website through the use of search engines. There [...]
Mar 30, 2012
This article talks about the characteristics of Cloud Computing and how it is one of the hottest topics in the field of information technology. The main characteristics that the author talk about are how Cloud Computing is service oriented, loose coupling, strong fault,tolerant, business model, TCP/IP Based and Virtualization. In more detail, the service oriented [...]
Mar 8, 2012
In this article the author writes about Peer-to-Peer(P2P) data integration and proposes a way to manage the schema information in P2P systems. He first introduces a multiple layer structure forP2P systems which will manage metadata information and register data sources. In this P2P system architecture the nodes are separated into 2 levels. The first level [...]
Mar 3, 2012
This author talks about Data marts and how they are required for optimizing data accessibility. He describes a method to create data marts for the use of local decision support software without the data in the data mart having to be stored locally. By doing this it can save storage space and data transmission resources. [...]
Feb 25, 2012
I found this article to be very informative on the history of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and its purpose and function to the World Wide Web. XML has served as an essential part of the World Wide Web because of its capability to effectively transform and exchange data. XML can allow people to create, manage, [...]
Feb 19, 2012
This author talks about the introduction of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. He says that SQL Server 2008 relies heavily on integration with Office 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. One of the new features that comes with SQL Server 2008 is a PowerPivot Tool. This will allow employees to get large amount of data on [...]
Feb 13, 2012
I found this article to be very interesting. The author talked about what a SQL Injection was and some steps to detect if a query has been subject to a SQL Injection attack and showed how to defend against such attacks. A SQL Injection can be used to steal, view or alter data in a [...]
Feb 4, 2012
This article talks about the differences between Normalization and Denormalization. The author also lists the the pros and cons of using each technique. Some of the advantages of Normalized data is that when data needs to be updated in a table they can be updated much faster because there will not be any duplicated data. [...]
Jan 28, 2012
This article questions whether a data model can truly specify all the design for a database. The author of this article suggests that there a limits to what a data model can do and for a database designer not to recognize these limits can lead to problems down the road of database development. Some of [...]
Jan 22, 2012
This article talks about how databases are a backbone to any information system. Since that is the case it is very important that the conceptual modeling of a database is done correctly. The author also says how much effort when dealing with the the conceptual design will be spent in communicating to the stakeholders. However [...]
Jan 14, 2012
This author talks about the importance of data modeling. He first goes on to say how each table in a data model expresses meaning. He also says how “the best models reduce the data items within the covered subject area into obvious arrangements. The author talks about how most of the time DBMS can have [...]
Jan 4, 2012
The article is about the basics of writing code in SQL and gives tips on how to write code efficiently to enhance the performance of Database Management Systems. About 75% of performance can be the result of poor SQL statements within an applications code. To specifically avoid such errors the first thing a programmer should [...]
