A research project at the Hecht Museum in Israel highlights new techniques to increase visitor interaction and engagement. Presented in the paper, “Mobile Drama in an Instrumented Museum,” University of Haifa researchers developed a mobile app that augments museum exhibits, taking the concept of the audio tour to a completely new level.
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The key to successful rapid application development is a fast deployment and testing environment. Quick builds and deployments enable better testing of new functionality, since the developer retains the changes fresh in his mind and can make fixes iteratively instead of in large batches. Altogether, this results in more polished, full-featured apps, and faster app time-to-market.
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ASP.NET, PHP, and most web platforms offer a variety of techniques for data encryption, ranging from simple hashing to fully reversible encryption algorithms. Developers will need to choose the algorithm that offers the most security possible, while sacrificing the least amount of capability.
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ASP.NET is Microsoft’s flagship web development framework. Released together with the .Net framework in the early part of the twenty first century, it’s goal was to revolutionize web development and create a more structured and effective way of web development. Far from reaching its goals, the framework has turned into a bloated caricature of itself, unable to adapt to the times and requirements of modern software.
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Over the past 20 years, Microsoft has been releasing a multitude of frameworks and application development platforms. Each framework has a unique set of constructs, and often requires developers to learn a new language in order to take advantage of its benefits. Unfortunately, due to the major structural differences between the languages, most old applications need to be completely rewritten to gain access to the new features. This leaves many to wonder – is it worth the effort?
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In the previous database design post, we discussed isolating independent multiple relationships. The goal was to find relationships in the database that were independent, yet incorrectly bound to the same row. This last and final database design principle helps us find data that is too flexible, and can instead be combined to help reduce database size and optimize speed.
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In part 4 of this 5-part series on database design principles, we review Independent Multiple Relationships. By isolating relationships so that the database structure is fully hierarchical, the software will be more adaptable to future user needs, and require less reprogramming when the requirements will inevitably change in the future.
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