7th
September
2006
“…the goal for me, a data person focused more on the long term, is to store information in the most valuable format possible. The problem is particularly frustrating to explain because it’s not necessarily obvious; if you store everything on your Web site as a news article, the Web site is not necessarily hard to use. Rather, it’s a problem of lost opportunity. If all of your information is stored in the same ‘news article’ bucket, you can’t easily pull out just the crimes and plot them on a map of the city. You can’t easily grab the events to create an event calendar. You end up settling on the least common denominator: a Web site that knows how to display one type of content, a big blob of text. That Web site cannot do the cool things that readers are beginning to expect.”
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7th
September
2006
“With the FREEWARE version of Toad Data Modeler - database design tool, you can create complex entity-relationship diagrams (ERD) for more than twenty databases. You can visually draw new diagrams and generate SQL scripts based on the ER diagrams automatically. “
posted in Web development | Permalink |
7th
September
2006
“When the Internet came on the scene some thought it was a fad, some thought it was fire. Many graphic designers simply ignored the Web: its tools too crude, its form too limited. Designers couldn’t make the Web pretty, they couldn’t control it, so they dismissed it. But now the Internet has become an integral part of life, and this has changed everything: the possibilities are proving endless and good design has become an acknowledged asset. In many ways virtual media is eclipsing print media, and the Web (and technology in general) is indeed home to the new generation of designers. But what of the traditionalists, those who still fail to embrace the Web?”
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