‘Web Technology’ Archive

Now that I caught your attention with the strange title of this post, I will explain to you what flannel programming means.  Any good developer and/or consultant should have some way of separating their applications into different layers.  This is usually called a “Pattern”. I usually apply the term “Flannel” to the pattern we use in our applications at Teraeon Consulting. (more…)

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.” Galls Law

The first step in creating a lean enterprise is to first assess all your systems. Find out where these systems overlap and then see if these can be integrated. You would be surprised how much functionality and data is duplicated across your enterprise environment. In some cases the duplication is needed, but in the vast majority of cases the processes can be streamlined through either automated processes or removing the duplicate areas altogether.

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I was listening to NPR the other day after the 15 billion valuation of facebook. The commentator and guest on the show were questioning . First the valuation came from a Microsoft investment of 240 million dollars for 1.6% of the company.

In any case why is the 15 billion dollar valuation important? Well it’s mainly because some people say that facebook is just a fad, which may be true. However I contend that it is a wise investment for Microsoft considering their need to be a bigger player in the online advertising arena.

The power of social networking is just starting to be realized I believe, the idea that we’re all connected by 6 degrees of separation is what drives the model. Recently I was with a good friend of mine who runs a non profit here in Dearborn and we were discussing their annual fundraising Gala which they hold to basically keep them going for the next year. I suggested to him he post an event on Facebook since he already has an account, so he did and within 5 minutes there were 200 people invited to the event. With those kinds of results, and statistics that show the average Facebook user stays online for almost 6 hours a month (that’s 12 1/2 hour Television shows) I think that a $15 billion is actually fair.

The Web 2.0 Summit focuses on emerging business and technology developments that utilize the Web as a platform and defines how the Web will drive business in the future. Now that the Web has become a robust platform with countless innovations driving its ongoing development, widespread disruptions in traditional business models are well underway. But within the chaos of disruption lies the seeds of opportunity. We’ll focus on the startups and financiers tending those seeds, of course – including the second annual Launch Pad. But we’ll also highlight how the incumbents are also taking advantage of disruption, or, at the very least, how they are responding to it so as to protect their market positions.

http://www.web2con.com/

Through out the years I’ve seen the web go from purely text sites, to graphics intensive sites, and finally to content driven sites. About 11 years ago I remember developing my first web page. It began as a purely informational site, as it progressed it went more and more graphic’s intensive. Looking back at it now I realize that sites like that focused on the wrong aspect of what the digital age has brought to us. (more…)

The first public Beta release of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 (code-named “Atlas”) is now available for download. ASP.NET AJAX is a free framework for creating client-centric, interactive Web applications that work across many popular browsers and on any server platform. This Beta release is a preview of the fully-supported version of ASP.NET AJAX scheduled for release by the end of this year. Beginning with this Beta release, the Microsoft AJAX Library is also available in an easy-to-install, standalone package for development on non-Windows systems. For more information, visit the http://ajax.asp.net/default.aspx?tabid=47 site.

(Reference: http://www.asp.net)

Many who know me know that as a person who uses MySQL so extensivly, I have not always been a big fan of the database system. Until version 4.1 and really version 5.0, MySQL Lacked a lot of the features needed to create a truly robust data management solution. Lately however, MySQL has made a believer out of me. They have been moving in the right direction with the many new features they’ve come up with, and with partnerships such as the VSIP program. Hopefully this will mean more integration between MySQL and Visual Studio .Net!

MySQL AB :: MySQL Joins Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner Program

he Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, A division of the American Psychological Association, has selected Teraeon Consulting to develop their organizations website and deploy the Ordinal content management system as a back end to manage content across the site.

“The Ordinal CMS will make updating content on their website much more streamlined.”  Says Teraeon Consulting CEO Moe Yassine.

Teraeon Consulting was selected out of 22 Web Development companies for it’s solutions to integrating existing ASP applications, as well as the development and deployment of a content management system.

About SIOP
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology is a Division within APA that is also an organizational affiliate of APS. The Societys mission is to enhance human well-being and performance in organizational and work settings by promoting the science, practice, and teaching of industrial-organizational psychology.

About Teraeon
As a Michigan based company Teraeon Consulting, Inc is a premier IT Consulting firm dedicated to providing secure, scalable and reliable solutions for business needs.  It specializes in Enterprise Solutions through the use of web application development to help businesses cut costs and run more efficiently.

Related Links
http://www.siop.org
http://www.teraeon.com