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Designing the business intelligence application
A well designed application provides a foundation of infrastructural services that can be leveraged by developers. This article takes a look at building the skeleton of a business intelligence application with ASP.NET MVC 3. ASP.NET MVC is Microsoft’s acknowledgement that enterprise technologies can embrace the stateless and open web. The MVC architecture is best suited…
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Windows Phone 7 Dollar Key
I was writing an email today on the Windows Phone 7 and goodness me, where is the dollar ($) key? The keyboard setting for Australia is English (UK) and the only visible currency symbol is the Pound (£). But pressing and holding the Pound key reveals several more options, including the dollar!
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Open standards are good for business
Several large vendor contracts have been renewed recently in the Australian banking sector. They have followed a similar theme with some very public dialogue about the banks wanting to reduce their IT spend e.g. joint buying initiatives, open standards and cloud computing aimed at reducing server hardware costs. The outcomes of the contract rounds have…
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Business Intelligence Portal Design
The current approach to building business intelligence portals utilises Web 2.0 best practices in software development, with a key strategy focused on open standards. This is achieved in a web based interface by appropriate use of HTML (content), CSS (presentation), JavaScript (behaviour) and WSDL. Existing enterprise service oriented architectures enable a mash of information to…
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Microsoft Security Essentials
Microsoft have added Security Essentials to the free Windows Live suite and I’ve recently installed this. Security Essentials provides virus and spyware protection in an unobtrusive way. I previously had been using Norton anti-virus but had many unexplained issues e.g. during system idle time my machine (64 bit Windows 7 i7) would crash and often…