May 13, 2012
Just as we have been diving deeper into into the world of web development and exploring both the client and server side of the process, I found an article presenting a recent study on measuring consumers’ emotional responses while visiting web pages. A study was performed at the University of Missouri on which two doctors [...]
May 6, 2012
Last week I blogged about how hackers have come up with a new simple technique for injecting javascript malware into sites in a manner that will avoid virus detection from anti-virus programs. This week I am writing a follow-up article about a recent statement made by Google about the frequency of these kinds of attacks. [...]
Apr 29, 2012
AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous Javascript and XML. It is a technology meant to combine various other web development technologies such as HTML and CSS in order to give greater options to developers. This week in class, we introduced the concepts of Javascript and AJAX and are implementing them in project 2. For that [...]
Apr 20, 2012
Because our current lesson plan includes CSS, I decided to write about W3C and what purpose they serve. W3C stands for the World Wide Web Consortium. The W3C is an international community made up of individual smaller organizations. Their job is to bring awareness of new internet technologies to the individual organizations who are members [...]
Apr 14, 2012
For this week, I read an article in PC World on implementation of HTML 5. It’s no secret that mobile phones have revolutionized the world of telecommunications. Besides the obvious applications of fun and electronic entertainment, mobile phones have brought on countless business level applications such as the use of a smart phone to remotely [...]
Apr 6, 2012
Just when many of us thought that the Google search engine could not ever improve itself, Google announced that is exactly what it is going to attempt. As all of us have used Google, I am sure that we have all noticed that using a typical Google search returns links based on key words that [...]
Apr 1, 2012
In recent weeks, the three major players in cloud computing services have all announced price cuts to their more basic service packages. Google, Amazon, and now Microsoft have all announced a coming price drop in their online data storage services. Most analysts in the industry speculate that the reason for dropping prices is to attract [...]
Mar 5, 2012
Now that we are reaching the end of this course, we have all come a long way in our database skills. But Computer Information Systems is just one discipline of the Business Administration major. We must not forget that when in the business world, not everyone we encounter will have database experience. Sometimes when working [...]
Feb 27, 2012
As providing information has become second nature to us as most if not all modern services are becoming electronic, we sometimes forget how there are people in the world who are capable and willing to exploit such information. This past week, YouPorn.com suffered one of the largest data breaches in internet pornography history. An investigation [...]
Feb 20, 2012
For this week’s blog I found an article from the Journal of Management Information Systems. The article presented an interesting question in research and development. When working in a dynamic environment like in the Information Technology industry, new technologies are vital to the survival of your company. The problem is new technology involves expensive research [...]
Feb 13, 2012
All students in the class have at least taken beginning java programming and are therefore familiar with sql injections. Many of us have even had professors who demonstrated in class how simple java programs can be combined with a sql injection in order to return certain private values saved on the local host. Because we [...]
Jan 29, 2012
The article I read teaches the basics of normalizing data. In this class we recently learned the benefits of normalizing data. If data exists in one more then location in a database, then one should have the ability to change data in one location on the database, and then have that change applied to rest [...]
Jan 22, 2012
As we have been learning in this class, it is important to create database models in order to ensure that only well-planned and structured databases are created. Advantages of imploring this kind of logic include data consistencies and homogenualities that make other features such as relationship building possible. One additional feature that arises from data [...]
Jan 15, 2012
As businesses continue to become more reliant on the integration of new communications technologies and services, it has become more difficult to ensure that all the technologies use similar platforms. Databases are no longer only stored on in-house servers. Many company databases are stored on a combination of in-house servers and public cloud computing servers [...]
Jan 8, 2012
Global network security has become a hot issue in the last decade or so as hackers continue to exploit network vulnerabilities. For this reason, many more sponsored hacking conventions and competitions have appeared in order to attract pro-hackers to participate and help discover weaknesses in large companies. In particular, Defcon, the world’s largest hacking convention [...]
