The right way to design: Think outside-in
Thinking outside-in when designing a UI means making sure it makes sense to people who do not know everything you know about it. This doesn’t mean you should assume users are stupid. They probably know more than you do about the software’s supported tasks. What users don’t know is [...]
In any task domain, users will have goals ranging from common to rare. Design your application to recognize this range.
Make common results easy to achieve
If a user’s goal is predictable and common, the user shouldn’t have to do much to achieve it. Unusual goals may require more effort to achieve. Stated more formally: The amount [...]
As a businessperson, there’s probably nothing in the world that gets your knickers in a twist like the thought of paying more taxes. As you prepare to put your Web marketing plan into action, you might wonder, are there any tax surprises waiting for you online? Do you have any special tax obligations from on-line [...]
Avalon
Longhorn will use a new markup language known as Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML). XAML is similar to HTML in that you can control the layout of text and controls on a page. But it also allows you to add procedural code using languages like C#, Visual Basic.NET, and JScript.Net. The procedural code mixed with [...]
The .NET platform was a huge initiative for Microsoft, and the company plans to continue in that direction with a whole line of products focused around the .NET framework. Microsoft hopes to make development easier for us developers. At the same time, it plans to expand on what can be done with the same applications.
The [...]
Speech is a major initiative for Microsoft. It is part of a larger concept referred to as the Natural User Interface, or Natural UI, which involves creating natural and expressive interactions with the user. This is primarily accomplished using speech-processing capabilities but can also involve natural language and machine learning. The Natural UI is intended [...]
Recovery Strategies
The recovery strategy will be built around the backup strategy. Any recovery situation naturally implies that some failure has occurred. The recovery action will depend on what that failure was. As such, a recovery strategy will consist of a set of failure scenarios and their resolution. The aim of this section is to categorize [...]
A good data warehousing consultant has certain abilities in dealing with people and a knowledge of various aspects of data warehousing. This lets you in on a few tips.
Broad Vision
Even a data warehousing consultant who is an expert in a particular area (star schema design in a relational database in support of OLAP functionality, for [...]
Somebody Leaves the Company leave the Unsolved Problem
You’ve done a fantastic job of selling the business value of your data warehousing project to executive management, and everything is rolling along nicely. Suddenly, two days after a stunning announcement of disappointing quarterly sales and earnings, the executive sponsor from the business side of the organization resigns. [...]
File Servers Hardware
A file server system typically has the following components:
One or more computers with relatively large disk capacity, usually called servers.
Smaller computers, usually called work stations, at users’ desks.
Communications equipment.
The servers may use any type of operating system—for example, MS-DOS, Windows, Windows/NT, UNIX, or OS/2. If a server uses MS-DOS,the network software creates another [...]
There is an increasing list of new ideas and protocols for routing in mobile ad hoc networks. The MANET working group in the IETF publishes all significant developments and discussions by the group online in its mailing list, which is the most comprehensive source of up-to-date information on research on ad hoc routing protocols. In [...]
Hosting Sever System Lack of Scalability
Scalability is the ability to increase the amount of computing resources available to run an application with minimum impact on the application software and minimum administrative effort. The measure of scalability is somewhat subjective, but to be scalable, the system must have at least the following characteristics:
Adding new servers with [...]
Overloading the Hosting Sever System Network
Any network must be considered a limited resource. The bandwidth, or capacity to carry data, is finite. Network bandwidth can be expanded only by spending more money, which is also a limited resource. Therefore, care must be taken not to treat the network as a magic transfer mechanism and simply [...]
Key Smart Sensor Features
Through my involvement with sensor networking standards development, I have noted key features that enable sensors to be used in smart sensor networks: unique identification, efficient and standardized communication protocols, automatic networking, self-test and self- calibration, self-describing (e.g., TEDS), self-locating, and time coordination.
A universal unique identification (UUID) code that takes the place [...]
Wireless network, data
The aim of this post is to describe an example Web server. The one which I shall describe is Apache. This is certainly the most popular Web server being used on the Internet at the time of writing.
There are a number of reasons why Apache is popular. The main one is that it is free. [...]
In 2000, Microsoft announced what is probably its largest software development programme. It was known as .Net and involved configuring many of its products such as Excel, Word, MS Access together with its supported programming languages such as Visual Basic and C++ so that they are seamlessly integrated with the Internet and with each other.
We’ve become quite casual about the mainstreaming of the Web—we can’t get through a nightly TV news show or morning classical radio program without being told there’s more on a story or a playlist available on the station’s Web site. Pointers in printed marketing, collateral, newsletters, magazines, journals, and books—including this one!—to visit Web sites [...]
Website Design Issues
There is a mass of information on factors involved in survey methodology in the context of traditional approaches. At this stage in the development of Web-based surveys, there is very little published research on the factors that will influence design decisions, such as factors affecting response rate, response bias, non-response bias, sincerity of [...]
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