May 13, 2012
The article I read describes what’s new in visual basic 2010. However, we all know that The Visual Basic language has always been a phenomenal productivity tool for building applications. Almost 20 years later, it continues to provide easy access to the Microsoft .NET Framework, allowing developers to write applications that span desktops, phones, browsers [...]
May 6, 2012
The article I read talks about how easy it is now to create unique interactive websites than ever before with the help of CSS3 and JavaScript. There are five interactive techniques that were mentioned in this article: “Animated text effects”, “Animated images without GIFs”, “More engaging drop-down menus”, “Fancier slideshow navigation”, and” Animated icons”. To [...]
Apr 29, 2012
The article I read talks about the difference between Java and JavaScript. They are essentially similar but somewhat different depending on how you look at them. According to the article, Java is an Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Language created by James Gosling of Sun Microsystems. However, JavaScript is a scripting language known as LiveScript. JavaScript [...]
Apr 22, 2012
The article I read talks about how cyber criminals make profit and how they hack into computer systems. We hear pretty much every week that there is a big security breach where tons of personal information is stolen. We have been hearing that for years, but what we don’t know is that, behind these attacks [...]
Apr 15, 2012
The web is constantly evolving. New and advanced websites are being created every day, pushing the limits of HTML in every direction. The HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is the original language of the World Wide Web. HTML 4 has been around for nearly a decade. However, HTML 5 was introduced not too long ago [...]
Apr 8, 2012
A picture worth a thousand words, but it worth way more than that when creating a UML Diagram. UML is a graphical modeling language, and it represents a class as a rectangle with the class name inside. I usually think of it as a box full of stuff. The author in this article, talks about [...]
Apr 1, 2012
The article I read talks about how working in a cloud environment is becoming the modern fashion for IT professionals. There are some advantages of cloud browsing such as flexibility, efficiency, cost reduction and environment friendliness. According to the article, there are some differences between traditional servers and cloud servers. Traditional servers and cloud servers [...]
Mar 12, 2012
The article I read talks about different encryption algorithms supported in MySQL which offers a lot of options of protecting user passwords. The encryption is used depending on the data and priority you place on its safety. Furthermore, MySQL does not store passwords as plaintext; it stores it as hashed value that is calculated by [...]
Mar 5, 2012
The article I read talks about the fundamentals of the SELECT statement in SQL server. A select statement is also called a query. The “SELECT Statement” is the most common and frequently used command in SQL database system. In SQL, the select statement is used to extract data from the database in an organized, readable [...]
Feb 26, 2012
The article I read talks about the most important contemplations of selecting correct data types when designing a SQL Server database. It talks about how choosing a correct data type in the database design phase can have a significant impact on the efficiency and performance. According to the article, the SQL Server offers six sets [...]
Feb 19, 2012
The article I read talks about the basics of database design including normalization, relationships and cardinality. It is important to create an entity relationship diagram (ERD), but sometimes it is ignored or overlooked when developing an application. Developers can use an accurate data model as an important reference tool. Effective database design can help developers [...]
Feb 13, 2012
Over the past decade, the world has changed a lot, but so does the technology. We have seen technology leap beyond our wildest dreams. However, database is the main part of the technology. The article I read basically talks about the potential storage devices and technologies that can be used for database storage. Data is [...]
Feb 6, 2012
The article I read talks about the procedure that can successfully convert a logical data model into a physical data model, particularly in a warehouse setting. The article describes some of the necessary steps that can help convert the data successfully. The article talks about the rules that are necessary to follow when creating logical [...]
Jan 29, 2012
The article I read talks about how primary key individually identifies each record inside a table. According to the article the main purpose of a primary key is to uniquely identify a row in a table and relate records to additional data stored in other tables. The primary Key simply points between interrelated records in [...]
Jan 23, 2012
The article I read talks about how important it is to create an ER Diagram, and how it should be the starting point for software development projects. According to the article, “The very first step to create an ER Diagram is to identify the nouns (entities)”. For example: Company, Employee, and Project. The article explained [...]
Jan 14, 2012
The article I read talks about how good data modeling can be beneficial for the company because “a good data model can lead to good application and bad data model can lead to a bad application”. This article talks about different criteria’s of data modeling which can help us understand and measure what is good [...]
Jan 8, 2012
The article I read focuses on some of the most important aspects of database “such as content management, customer relations, accounts and invoicing, and events”, but mainly it focuses on blog and an e-commerce websites. It describes some Important but simple ways to speeds up a website by improving database. It also talks about [...]
