May 19, 2012
The article I read this week had to do with how Microsoft has take its ASP.NET MVC( Model-View-Controller) into the open development realm. Microsoft’s Web Application framework has been open sourced since its release in 2009 but according to the article, its development was solely Microsoft’s concern. Under this new development model, users and developers [...]
May 13, 2012
Wired had a few interesting articles on Visual Basics. One article mentioned its history saying that it was created in the late 1980’s and released by Microsoft for the purposes of giving its users easy access to powerful tools. It mentioned that despite its slow start, it quickly became the favorite of many users and [...]
May 7, 2012
The articles I read had to do with how Ajax, through JQuery has been changing user experiences by offering responsiveness beyond what was only seen on most desktop machines. Before Ajax came along, it took numerous lines of JavaScript code to do what a few lines of JQuery can do. Ajax has been used by [...]
Apr 28, 2012
The article I read, which was published by Wired had to do with the power of JavaScript. It spoke about how Java was being taught to non technical employees of a company through a website called “Codecademy” in order to educate them about certain code languages, specifically JavaScript. Codecademy does not just focus on JavaScript [...]
Apr 22, 2012
The popularity of mobile devices has been a constant frustration to developers. The question on most of their minds is does a business model require mobile apps for all platforms in order to keep up with current trends? The article I read examined why the future may lie in HTML 5, CSS and JavaScript applications [...]
Apr 15, 2012
The articles I read had to do with this week’s topic of course which was, HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language, which is the universal tongue of our web browsers. In particular HTML5, which to a lot of people is considered the next big thing in HTML, but of course not everyone will agree with [...]
Apr 7, 2012
The article I read had to do with Web Intelligence or WI, which is an the ability of the internet to do various web analytic tasks for the purposes of gathering information for many web bases applications. Web Intelligence takes advantage of Artificial intelligence(AI) to do many analytic tasks from examining how websites are visited [...]
Mar 31, 2012
Cloud computing has seen a rise in popularity since its inception and is becoming a popular alternative to traditional computing. As cloud computing becomes more widely used the question of how these computing resources are maintained are starting to be on the minds of the people using them. The article I read discuss the issues [...]
Mar 4, 2012
One of the articles I read this week was about how companies and the government sometimes abuse the trust that people put on them. It started off by mentioning how Apple Iphones a year ago or so were saving detailed unencrypted information on their user’s locations and uploading it to any computer they were connected [...]
Feb 14, 2012
Online multiplayers games have grown in popularity ever since they first came out during the middle of the 1970s. Closely connected to these games and one can say a very critical part of being able to make games online and multiplayer are the servers or databases that host them. Databases are a big part of [...]
Jan 23, 2012
SQL, which stands for Structured Query Language, was first developed in the 1970s when the use of computers by private companies became a cost-effective option to store the vast amounts of information that they accumulate. Database systems proved to be a commercial success and many database system prototypes were created during this time. A decade [...]
Jan 15, 2012
When it comes to designing databases it’s always a good idea to follow some sort of rigid naming convention. A little thought in the early design phases should save a lot of time in the long run and with the maintenance of the finished system. In the article I read about Data Modeling the author [...]
Jan 8, 2012
When browsing the web about opportunities in the Database Management field it is obvious that it has a bright future ahead of it. One just needs to enter this topic into any of the various search engines and a plethora of credible articles about this topic appear, most of which mention how it’s one of [...]
