May 13, 2012
The article I read this week was about whether visual basic programming has an impact on cognitive development of college students. The author starts off by giving some history on this subject, saying that there has been some past research that has show that cognitive skills like reasoning, problem-solving and logic thinking have been increased [...]
May 6, 2012
The article I read this week was about how a new trend analysis concluded that top websites are using jQuery more than Adobe flash. jQuery, which is Javascript’s most popular library, is used to create slide shows, drop down menus, pop ups, etc… Flash is also used in websites across multiple browsers to increase interactivity. [...]
Apr 29, 2012
The article I read this week was about Javascript and the benefits of using it. The author talks about how Javascript has become increasingly popular as the main programming language for web apps. With client side browser functionalities increasing, JavaScript has become a key factor for both browser vendors and web app developers. Browser creators [...]
Apr 19, 2012
The article I read this week was about an introduction to CSS and how to design a fly out menu using CSS in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. According to the author, one of the most difficult parts of developing a website is to make sure it is “usable” in the sense that it’s easy to [...]
Apr 15, 2012
The article I read this week was about the advancement of banking applications with the use of HTML 5. Since millions of banking transactions are done everyday through the web, it’s not hard to see why businesses in financial services are looking forward to what may improved with HTML5. The authors go on to talk [...]
Apr 1, 2012
The article I read this week was mainly about the impact of IT on the environment. According to the author, the demands for computing and data storage have increased so much that by the year 2020, the emissions produced by IT may be higher than those used by the airline industry. Right now, most of [...]
Mar 12, 2012
The article I read this week attempts to answer the questions following the success of data warehousing. For example, what constitutes data warehousing success? What factors contribute to data warehousing success? And lastly, which factors are related to which success measures? The author goes onto to say that since the 1990’s data warehousing “has become [...]
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 [...]
Feb 20, 2012
The article I read this week dealt with how financial services customers are benefiting from Windows Server OS and Microsoft Server SQL. A company called, Skandinavisk Data Center (SDC), which services more than 150 banks is hoping to save around 20 million dollars annually by switching from its mainframe platform to Windows Server OS and [...]
Feb 13, 2012
In this specific article, the author stresses the key rules for a high performance database using SQL. One of the first steps the author talks about is to move away from applying cursors for every table and reading from each of them like files, and instead use code join. Joins will return only the data [...]
Jan 30, 2012
The article I read this week was about relational databases in health care information systems. Of course, medical information is very complex and using it towards diagnosis and treatment decisions requires a lot of intensive data and knowledge. Before the relational database, health care information systems were really just transaction processing systems and had very [...]
Jan 23, 2012
The article I read this week was about the importance of data modeling. The author says that because there are a lot of DBMS tools available for easily creating tables, many developers skip the modeling process and go straight to building them, which could be done instantly. However, because some of these tables are created [...]
Jan 16, 2012
The article I read this week was about how data modeling can best be taught to students. The two main methods the authors focused on were Entity relationship (ER) modeling and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The article talks about the history of ER modeling, which essentially came before the object oriented “movement,” when UML [...]
Jan 8, 2012
The article I read dealt with database marketing, or lack there of, in the health care industry. According to the article, database marketing is essentially a combination of collecting data from consumers and storing it for further study in order to direct future company decisions. Also, the information retrieved should be, “data relevant for retaining [...]
