May 20, 2012
In a peer reviewed article on the Faulkner Information services, the author Brady Hicks talks about Microsofts Cloud Platform Windows Azure. This is Microsoft;s entry into cloud computing and also a platform on a service technology. It became available in 2010 and is stored and run from Microsoft’s datacenters. Technologies in the Azure platform is [...]
By NelsonTena Category: Uncategorized
May 20, 2012
In Eric Greir’s article, “5 Great Android Apps for Cloud Admins,” featured on PCWorld.com, Greir lists some of the best to-go software for those that run cloud databases. If you happen to have administrative privileges for a cloud or a cloud service, these apps are definitely something you would want to look into. The first [...]
By Robert Tolossa Category: Uncategorized
May 20, 2012
Summary: Database security is a topic which is a big concern for any business. In this article Application Security, Inc. introduces 10 “Best Practices” for database security based on 1,000 installation experience. 1. Establish a baseline: In this they run an evaluation of the current security level which is used for future comparison. Also, it [...]
By RizwanAzam Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Uncategorized
May 20, 2012
The topic of my article this week explains, Ajax technology and how it is implemented with ASP.NET. The main goal for web applications is to development a system with rapid response time with an array of functionality. In 2005 Ajax a new development tool for web application emerged, this new tool allowed web developers the [...]
By Jorge Rocha Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Uncategorized Tags: AJAX, ASP .NET
May 19, 2012
This week I decided to read and write about an article that would be informative and helpful to a person that does not know much about web development. This week I read an article about Wix.com. Wix.com is an online flash development platform that uses a drag and drop method that allows users to quickly [...]
By danielshin Category: Uncategorized
May 16, 2012
The article I read was about the 25 most dangerous software errors. The article itself was very short but linked to an outside website called the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). This website created the top 25 most dangerous software errors list and showed how to mitigate these errors and the attacks that could insue. The [...]
By nicholasthibodeau Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Uncategorized
May 13, 2012
For this weeks post, I read an article by Sara Yin titled “Report: FBI Wants to Wiretap Facebook, Twitter, Google”. The article states that the FBI wants some legality to help them expand their surveillance capabilities to cover a good portion of the Internet. The FBI wants “…social networks, e-mail providers, and other peer-to-peer services [...]
By DavidLi Category: Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence, Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Ethics and Information Security, Globalization, Innovation, and future trends, Uncategorized
May 13, 2012
This article talks about how it is so obvious that the world we live in is not perfect, with everyone using Internet to log on and purchase almost everything on line thinking that companies are protecting their personal information from outsiders. In reality this is not the case, because every day there is news about [...]
By RizwanAzam Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Uncategorized
May 13, 2012
The article that I picked is about advancement in LTE technology. LTE which is something already incredibly fast in speed compare to other networks. The author, talks about how LTE technology has made advancement from its previous releases 8 and 9 into its recent release 10 in near future. He also tells us that release [...]
By kaushalshroff Category: Uncategorized
May 13, 2012
The article I read this week was about whether visual basic programming has an impact on cognitive development of college students. The author starts off by giving some history on this subject, saying that there has been some past research that has show that cognitive skills like reasoning, problem-solving and logic thinking have been increased [...]
By Giselle Nuila Category: Uncategorized
May 13, 2012
The conference paper i read, entitled “Enhancing Students learning in Database Courses With Large Data Sets” is about different approaches to teaching how to use and read a database. The conference article uses Amazon.com as an example on how to manage a database, because Amazon.com has the largest database ever created. The article then goes [...]
By Tomas Rico Category: Uncategorized
May 13, 2012
Visual Basic has presented itself as an excellent tool for the future of our course, and possibly even our career. Taking the time to truly understand this program can benefit us in more ways than one, hopefully allowing us to improve our overall abilities and even understanding of these technical resources. The article I have [...]
By Evin Coukos Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Uncategorized Tags: .NET, VB, VB .Net
May 7, 2012
The articles I read had to do with how Ajax, through JQuery has been changing user experiences by offering responsiveness beyond what was only seen on most desktop machines. Before Ajax came along, it took numerous lines of JavaScript code to do what a few lines of JQuery can do. Ajax has been used by [...]
By BernardTaruc Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Uncategorized Tags: AJAX, JQuery
May 7, 2012
In this week’s article named “BART Cops’ Data Posted By Hackers” by Jaikumar Vijayan, I read about how BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) was attacked and their employee’s personal information was posted onto the internet. When the attack was finished, “…names, home addresses, email addresses, and passwords of 102 police officers belonging to San Francisco Bay [...]
By DavidLi Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, Ethics and Information Security, Uncategorized
May 6, 2012
As world has evolved doing things differently from last decade so has digital era and with that we have all amend our ways to stay at the same pace with changing technology. This article talks about amazon releasing desktop app for cloud storage service. Amazon recently released a very similar cloud service like Google derive, [...]
By kaushalshroff Category: Uncategorized Tags: 305, Storage Service
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 [...]
By Jamal Akbar Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Uncategorized Tags: CSS3, JQuery
May 6, 2012
Summary: The article talks about high companies such as RSA, Epsilon, and Sony which were recently scrutinized when they didn’t get back quick enough to all the data breaches earlier in the year. However, people didn’t realize was that if they had been storing their data with public cloud providers and it would have taken [...]
By RizwanAzam Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Uncategorized
May 5, 2012
In this article, it says that this will be the first major update sine the update on SQL Server 2008 R2 in 2010. According to Doug Leland, the Microsoft general manager of the business platform marketing group, SQL Server 2012 is “a modern data platform that embraces the world of traditional structured data and brings [...]
By hoyoungchung Category: Uncategorized
May 4, 2012
This article focuses on the idea of fuzzy logic integrated into a database. What is fuzzy logic? It is a generalized logical condition (GLC) extension with its own set of rules in determining the data selection and data classification into one entity. In other words, fuzzy logic has a more “reasonable” approach and instead of [...]
By Chris Sabatino Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, Uncategorized
Apr 30, 2012
This week I read an interesting article that concerns the safety of uploading pictures taken from a smartphone. The article “How a Cell Phone Busted a Hacker”, by Taylor Armerding, Armerding explains how the FBI tracked down an “Anonymous-linked CabinCr3w” hacktivist member from a pictures posted on various websites bragging about his achievements (Armerding, 2012). The hacker, [...]
By DavidLi Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Ethics and Information Security, Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology, Uncategorized