May 13, 2012
The article I read about this week discussed the versatility of Visual Basics. It first started to explain what Visual Basics was, which is a powerful and complex application that allows users to build their own customized applications for the Windows OS. The best part is that user experience in computer programming is not needed [...]
May 6, 2012
The article I read this week discussed the Metro internal code created by Microsoft. According to the author, the Microsoft Open Technologies has been able to make Metro available to the JQuery mobile open source mobile interface, thus allowing mobile apps and websites the availability to have to look and feel of the Metro theme [...]
Apr 26, 2012
The article I read about this week was about the establishment of JavaScript. JavaScript was created in 1995, when Netscape hired a man by the name of Brendan Eich to create a programming language for a working prototype that would be able to run in Netscape’s browser. Eich knew how to build new programming languages [...]
Apr 22, 2012
Since 2004, the W3C’s CSS Working Group has been working on creating an official specification for CSS and a decade later, they did. CSS 2.1 was released June 2011 and it became the first official specification. The author states that by CSS being the language style for the web, you can easily manage your pages [...]
Apr 13, 2012
There are many features associated with HTML5 that makes this version great. However, nothing is always perfect and this week, my article discussed many limitations that are associated with HTML5. 11 limitations about HTML5 that the article discusses is that: security is a nightmare, there is a limit on the local data storage, the local [...]
Apr 8, 2012
The article I read about talked about web analytics and how it is the process people use to gather statistics about how their website is used. This kind of tool can help a person understand their users which can then help them decide what their users want/need. To find out more about what the users [...]
Mar 31, 2012
The article I read about was how cloud computing was being used by many CPA firms. Even though cloud computing has been out for a while, recently it has been gaining popularity all over the world. Cloud computing works by using the Internet and central servers to remotely store and access information. A company by [...]
Mar 4, 2012
The article I read about discussed the different attributes associated between a two-tier and three-tier architecture. Before the use of three-tier systems, two-tier systems were by businesses to access their database. Two-tier systems consists of two layers, the use layer and the server layer, where the server is where most of the work is [...]
Feb 26, 2012
The article I read about discussed the client/server system and how there is a choice between a two tier and three tier architecture system. Some of the ways to choose between the two tiers is to take into consideration the scope and difficulty of a particular project, the number of users the system will be [...]
Feb 17, 2012
My article was about how auditors can use SQL and also just some basic fundamentals statements that users should know. For auditors, SQL contains all the features that they will ever need to work with a database. Basic statements allow for auditors to easily gather and process data relevant to their needs and display it [...]
Feb 12, 2012
This article was about how a Microsoft web-based site was attacked with an SQL injection. An advertising site in the U.K., by the name of Autoweb, was attacked with a SQL injection that left the site extremely vulnerable. With a single line of code, about half a million pages were affected, the sites content was [...]
Feb 5, 2012
The article I read about is very informative. A quick synopsis of the article is that it discusses a lot of information regarding the techniques of denoralization and the pros and cons of normalization vs denoralization. Today, normalization is the way to designing a relational database. However, the biggest disadvantage of normalization is that system [...]
Jan 27, 2012
The article I read discussed primary keys. The article states that primary keys are derived from candidate keys. The focus of this key is to uniquely identify a row in a table. As a rule of thumb, a candidate key should “contain the fewest number of attributes possible to identify rows individually and uniquely” (Schraml). If a [...]
Jan 22, 2012
In summary, the article I read reiterates the importance of having a well designed data model. Without a good data model, then the information in the database based on that model is not going to correspond. The data model is going to contain the information about the “entities , their associations and attributes within the intended business” [...]
Jan 12, 2012
What designing a data model, what is the most essential skill that you need to know? Well, according to an article I read, the most basic skill needed is not the representation of entities and relationships. What a person needs to know is how to identify entities and the correct relationship among them. Data modeling [...]
Jan 6, 2012
The article I read discussed how database systems are more efficient at information extracting than information extraction systems. Information extraction systems are used to remove the information relevant in a particular situation. This is efficient because only the information pertaining to a particular job can be extracted. However, information extraction systems are also inefficient. If from [...]
