Nov 26, 2011
This article describes the very large amounts of data available on the Internet and focuses on products or tools related to the extraction of data. Data mining is the extraction of data from the Internet for commercial purposes and is type of business intelligence (“BI”). BI is a powerful marketing tool for any organization, large [...]
Nov 20, 2011
“Occupy what?” Is reported that a small group, calling themselves “Occupy Flash”, whom in reality is a group called “HTML is the 99%” are web developers plotting to shut down the use of Adobe Flash. They inten to do so, by developing similar applications using HTML5 as it were the “universal standard” for web development. [...]
Nov 13, 2011
“Adobe flash on the way out” A statement released by Adobe announced that they will no longer continue to develop their Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers; Adobe added that “end of the Flash era on the web is coming soon.” Adobe is now focusing on the development of a different application packaging program based [...]
Nov 6, 2011
“JavaScript” The rise of Web 2.0 has brought with it ever more sophisticated user interfaces and client-side browser functionality. As a result, JavaScript has become a crucial tool for both browser vendors and Web app developers. Although, JavaScript is usually done by programmers, there is an increase of very sophisticated tools that are generating client-site [...]
Oct 30, 2011
“Some developers must be masochists” Microsoft is becoming the latest software development company to fully embrace HTML5 and JavaScript. Microsoft has set its focus on implementing both in their new version of Windows, and Office Suite and Office 365. By making this announcement, Microsoft has acknowledged that VBA is a lousy scripting language and it [...]
Oct 23, 2011
“Smart phones and Apps” This article focuses on the development of smart phones, web apps and network computing (cloud computing) and how they drive the usage of the internet. About this article, what I found most interesting was its discussion about Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 concerns integrating data, knowledge and apps to make the [...]
Oct 15, 2011
“Beware of Botnet” Gumblar is a botnet that infected thousands of websites, particularly sites using PHP software with complex file design. This botnet is powerful enough that it was able to bring down “WorldPress”; at the time, users received a “fatal error” message. In fact, it is estimated that “hundreds of thousands of PHP-based sites” [...]
Oct 14, 2011
“The Internet and Finances at Home” This study presents several factors which correlate household finances with access to the internet. The major factors the survey cites are education, age, race and income. First, people with college degrees are more likely to have a computer (i.e. access to the internet) and conduct research before making any [...]
Oct 9, 2011
“UML” There are many software process modeling languages; however, UML has become the standard for software modeling. Its graphical representations are powerful tools for a large variety of process patterns. UML has a rich set of notations, diagrams, extension mechanisms and a detailed review of approaches, which gives UML a substantial advantage over all others. [...]
Oct 1, 2011
“Internet Capacity, Network Traffic And Net Neutrality” Some of the challenges facing the Internet, users and providers, are the ability to improve and expand the current infrastructure. Studies have shown that the Internet is reaching a critical point where demand is out pacing supply; consequently, the service providers need to work harder and quicker to [...]
