This is one of the big buzz words in the database world at the moment. It can mean many different things, at the high end we could be referring to the results of processes such as data mining, whereas I tend to think of it as the value gained from very specific targeted queries that you may well have turned into a report.
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
26 November 2007
Silverlight is a new Microsoft technology which is all set to rival Adobe Flash for creating rich interactive web sites. It's built on top of and is a sub-set of, existing technologies namely, .Net and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation a new presentation sub-system which is part of .Net 3). The first version is mostly geared towards streaming media (such as video or sound although I've spotted some interesting animations, check out our own on our home page), while the next version (1.1) will allow for scripting using C# which will, I think, really open things up and allow Silverlight to rival Flash in what it is capable of.
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
22 October 2007
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These days it's pretty much taken as read that if you want a presence on the web you need your own domain. It's all very well for we IT experts to say that a customer needs a domain, but no use if the customer has no idea why. So the first question that needs to be answered is 'what is a domain'?
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
08 October 2007
After much study I'm pleased to announce that I passed the MCTS SQL Server 2005 exam on the first attempt. This means that Convallis now boasts a Microsoft Certified Professional in its ranks!
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
19 September 2007
First a warning, this posting is a bit more technical than the usual variety.
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
06 September 2007
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