Technology
FizzBuzz, a Perfect Initial Interview Question
What is FizzBuzz? The FizzBuzz problem asks the person to create a small program in a language of their choice. This program must enumerates from 0 to 100. If the number is evenly divisible by 3 print the word “Fizz” if divisible by 5 print the word “Buzz”… if divisible by both 3 and 5, print ‘Snap Pop’ [...]
Paper: Taylor Ambulance Company Web Site
Sharing the final paper for my Web 240: Web Design course at University of Phoenix. The intent of the project was to take an ugly web site and make it presentable. In addition to this a web design plan needed to be created. For extra fun I also devised a marketing strategy to help grow [...]
Web240: Security Risks of a Mashup Service
What is a Mashup Service? Mash up services are what the UoP uses to describe a web service or re hosted content. A simple example would be I subscribe to ebay.com for auction items under a category. eBay provides a feed of items which my site consumes, stylizes and then rehosts the content to sell [...]
Web240: Layers of HTML Views
Once common point of confusion is how to approach web design. Should I use JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and if so when is one appropriate over another? How I see it there web design has three parts: Layout Look Effect How the page’s content is logically blocked into chunks is controlled by HTML. These chunks possess [...]
Easy of Building a Site and Hosting it into Azure
Last night I started creating my web page and ended up working on it until 730 in the morning. Here’s the high lights from the fun along the way. What I found along the way is that HTML5 can be a pain to position things. Then I stumbled across this article on codeproject[1] which did [...]
Creating Symbolic and Hard Links on Windows
What’s a Symlink/Hardlink? Ever notice how websites will often use shortened and friendly addresses for really long page Uris? It solves the usability problem while allowing administrators to keep very well structured folder heirarchies. ex: http://example/tvpromo => http://example/promos/?123458743512 Wouldn’t it be nice to do that same thing but with our file servers as well? You [...]
Obtaining Stock Historical Data
For my stock project I needed to a lot of price information on open and close data of stocks. The problem was everyone that had it wanted to charge me for that. Being set on not having to pay for this I continued my search until I found Yahoo Finance, which not only provides the [...]
Finding and Fixing Sql Table Fragmentation
In my quest to prove my stock market theory, I created a Sql database to track 9800 stock symbols. After getting this information and a bit of scripting I was able to find historical information from 1962 to present day. This included the open, close, high, low, and volume of each tracked symbol. Once downloaded [...]
Installing and Using System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) 2012 SP1
Is Your Data Protected A new year is upon us, which means reviewing all the uninteresting aspects of our products infrastructure and finding areas that are lacking and under developed. This is a perfect opportunity for many of us to review what protections are presently in place for our data. If you are like us, [...]
What is the Cloud?
According to the average consumer, the cloud is a magical place of rainbows and chocolate filled rivers with gum-gum drops and candy corn layering the streets; the likes of which would make ‘Willy Wonka’ puke. Or that it is the ultimate silver bullet, capable of solving any technological feet or riding the world of werewolves. [...]