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. [...]
May 6, 2012
The author of this article talks about expanding to many different other libraries apart from jQuery that may not be better but are different. Like the Yahoo User Interface Library, which was the first big, cross-browser open source toolsets; MooTools, which offers nice, browser-independent shorthand for manipulating arrays, divs and what not (Wayner, 2011). The author talks [...]
Apr 29, 2012
This article is a bit interesting. First it gives an introduction to JavaScript and how most JavaScript related security problems relate to a breach of one of the two following restrictions: “First, all scripts run in a sandbox environment where they only have access to the web browser and not the system itself. Second, scripts are [...]
Apr 22, 2012
This article explains how Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) works. “CSSs are a way to separate content from style” (Gibbs, 2004) and Styles can be broken down into the following types: text style, text layout, background, border, margin, element type, user interface, padding, and page layout. With a program so complex you would ask how CSS-compatible [...]
Apr 15, 2012
This article discuses the pros and cons of using html5 for business that are building and deploying web content. Some of the reasons to use html5 includes: deployment across multiple platforms, which leads to maintaining one batch of code with less maintenance and a lower lifetime cost; offers more storage options; development of html5 apps may lead [...]
Apr 8, 2012
In this article, they discuss about how a web analytics dash board would be built to help improve web performance. They do a good job of introducing the concept of web analytics if you have never heard of it before and its importance, along with a skeleton of an explanation of what it is. The article is a [...]
Apr 1, 2012
As I read this article for class I noticed something surprising when I read the article it mentioned Software as a Service (SAAS), which our teacher mentioned in class, briefly first thing in the article. With different people using some of the same cloud systems, data auditing is used to identify the integrity of the information. The most common method [...]
Mar 12, 2012
This article starts starts off with the interest of designing an automatic system to retrieve information available in backend database. Along with the paper’s relevant definitions and the way the paper is organized. Then it goes into the latest state-of-the-art development platforms and acceleration strategies (and considering that it is currently 2012 it still is) in three different fields: Commercial, Academic, [...]
Mar 5, 2012
This article discusses on how difficult it is to define quality, especially data quality in this case. It compares the difference between the data quality between the source data and the dependent data. It seems that in a majority of the cases is that “in the world of business intelligence, the dependent data often is [...]
Feb 26, 2012
According to the article a new survey of 421 data managers and professionals affiliated with Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) members find “that while most companies have well-established data warehouse systems, adoption is still limited within their organization”. Data warehouses serve as the foundation for business intelligence and analytics applications across 66% of the companies in the survey. However [...]
Feb 20, 2012
This article shows an example of an application of Database Technology based on XML used for nuclear fuel calculation. Originally the nuclear fuel calculation software was based on the “ancient” FORTRAN language. It compares the old file system with the database system which gives it a few advantages. Such as Data sharing and low redundancy. Then introduces [...]
Feb 13, 2012
In this article, Policht gives us an overview of SQL Server 2012 Integration. The presentation is based on the SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0. The installation is straight forward. Instead of the Business Intelligence Development Studio, “Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 takes over as the primary Business Intelligence development tool”. Other than the obvious changes and a fair number of [...]
Feb 6, 2012
CA Technologies, in an effort to make data integration easier for businesses resting in “on- premise and cloud systems”, has added support for Mricosoft’s SQL Azure cloud database to its CA ERwin data modeling tools. Sadly the author lowers the quality of the article by advertising the new ERwin 8.2 slightly in the article. This [...]
Jan 23, 2012
The authors proposes a type of Conventional Early Functional Size Estimation called e-Cosmeic. E-Cosmic uses “a mapping between functional size measurement components of COSMIC FSM Method and common business process model constructs” (Kaya, Demirors). As of the article printed the case studies consistently showed a less than ten percent deviation with respect to COSMIC FSM results. It says that the method [...]
Jan 8, 2012
An interesting article I just read was about how people usually read news on the internet. The authors talk about how the news that a person reads usually centers around and supports their belief. Because that is happening, the article is talking about how they are coming up with ways to challenge the information without being so overwhelming, [...]
