Mar 12, 2012
With advances in websites and the services they provide internet abuse in the workplace has increased. There are three categories in which internet abuse can fall under. These include interactive cyberloafing, browsing work related content, and browsing non work related e-mail (Griffiths). Although there are three different categories internet abuse can fall under, there are [...]
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 [...]
Feb 24, 2012
The first websites started emerging in the 1990’s. These sites were all text based, non-interactive, with small amount images. Web design has evolved throughout the years going from plain text to table based- designs, flash, and CSS based designs. In 1991 a man named Tim Berners Lee released the first web page discussing what the [...]
Feb 18, 2012
Microsoft unleashed a web application framework known as ASP.NET version 1 in 2002. Active Server Pages.Net is a useful tool which enables programmers and developers to create intense web pages(Advantages). Being server side technology ASP.NET can run in any Windows server by using Visual Studio. When ASP was released it tackled web page issues like [...]
Feb 11, 2012
There are several ways to make a website more interactive with the users and more flexible for web designers. One way is to use JavaScript. JavaScript is a programming language that is used along with HTML to enhance user experience. It is a browser based language that is coded within the web pages and delivered [...]
Feb 1, 2012
Originally named LiveScript, JavaScript was created by Netscape. JavaScript, similarly to java, is also object-oriented. Combined with HTML tags JavaScript enables the user to control what is presented in the interface. This type of language helps improve the visual representation of the web page and allows users to navigate between web pages. Using JavaScript to [...]
Jan 29, 2012
Having a website can have many advantages for a business. This includes having lower cost, no brick-and-mortar investment, higher margins, faster response to customer service, and information sharing among different merchants. For example, a simple face to face transaction for a commercial bank cost .50 euros, now that same transaction can cost them .01 euros [...]
Jan 11, 2012
There are many different approaches to develop a system or software. Each approach has its own number and type of stages that define how the system will be developed. Every stage has a set of required deliverables that will be used to start the next one until the final product is completed. A more general [...]
Jan 8, 2012
What is a three tier architecture? A three tier architecture helps by dividing a website production into 3 distinct layers. Each layer has its own responsibilities and each one is needed for the others to work. The three tier architecture, also known as n-tier architecture, is separated by the layers known as the presentation layer, [...]
Nov 27, 2011
After the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 the United States declared war against terror. This declaration created new costs to set new security measures that included the cost of human resources, deployment of defensive weaponry and technology purchases, and time. An effective method to reduce the cost of such security methods is to have [...]
Nov 13, 2011
The Combined DNA Index System, also known as CODIS, is the first national DNA database started by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The initial project was started in 1990 to hold the DNA of sex offenders by gathering data from local, state and federal databases. It took eight years for the database to be launched [...]
Nov 6, 2011
The insertion of a SQL query through the input data from the client to the application is called a SQL injection. A SQL injection has three classes that include in-band, out-of-band, and inferential. The purpose for an injection is to retrieve sensitive data from databases, to modify data such as inserting, updating, or deleting, recovering [...]
Oct 30, 2011
Erwin Data Modeler is software developed by CA Technologies. According to IDC CA Technologies “is the global market leader in data modeling tools based on 2010 revenues.” It helps users practice database design and modeling. The needs of professionals are taken care of by having drawing, navigation and layout tools with data management functionality. Using [...]
Oct 24, 2011
Normalizing a database requires removing redundancies of the data. A raw database is considered to be a database that has the same data in one or more tables. Some problems that occur with this is security risks, disk space usage, queries speed, update efficiencies, and data integrity. The logical design aspect of a database [...]
Oct 16, 2011
In the United Kingdom personal data is unsafe due to current privacy laws. Personal data is being breached due to the rapid growth in personal data collection. People’s information is stored without their knowledge and are unable to check the information to see if it is accurate. Current regulations cannot keep with the demand for [...]
Oct 9, 2011
Business Process Management(BPM) is the collection of tools and methods to improve corporate processes. To design and implement this process the organization’s rules and regulations must be established. Business Rules Management or BRM is responsible for identifying, defining, and managing the constraints in a business. Rule modeling languages used by BRM widely rely on [...]
Oct 2, 2011
A relational database is a collection of files that are related in any form. Databases differ depending on how they are constucted or modeled. In the past models such as the hierarchical and network models were widely used. In the Hierarchical model the files were related as a parant-child relation, while the files in the [...]
Oct 2, 2011
Data mining is a tool many businesses use to make important business decisions. When a data mining tool is implemented trends and behavoirs from consumers are predicted that can potenially help a company choose a new product, and advertise to the right set of people while keeping it at low cost.Technological advances in massive [...]
