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I have been VERY BUSY with other courses, projects, exams and work. High stress levels.

I just complete Lab3b which was going ok till the end with the Reciever Agreement didn't work. It seems like it would be simple to fix but I couldn't figure it out. I will ask about it when we are doing Lab4.

I also just complete my term paper on Business Integration with Mobile Device. I had a hard time narrowing it down to 1000 or less. I think I pick to broad of a topic. I also thought it was due today so I hope I don't get docked too much. 

I liked the on-line exam. I have a pretty busy schedule and I could easily work around it and do this exam. I didn't know what to except on the exam, I studied for about 4 hours even though it was open book/notes but I didn't know what to focus on. I am glad I studied for so long I knew exactly where to confirm my answers. The only thing I had a problem with was the DTD part. There was only one slide on that and I don't think we went over that to much in class. I tried looking it up on the web but that just confused me more. Other than that the exam went well.

 

Integration of mobile devices

The first article I looked at was iPhone working with Microsoft Exchange. Many company’s use Exchange servers for their e-mail. Microsoft Exchange intergration has been solely for Blackberries, Treos, and other Microsoft interfaces. With adding Exchange support to iPhone it just adds that extra element for Apple to take advantage of and gain market share.

The second article is about computer vendor entering the smart phone market. Now Acer a major player in the PC vendor is to acquire smart-phone maker E-Ten. This will postion Acer into new market and can instantly become a major player with its advanced technology and resources.

Not sure if this is too broad of a topic or not?

I just completed the XML exercise, which went pretty smoothly with the instructor’s instructions. XML technologies can be very useful to facilitate data structure, messages, operations, and binding information and services. I glad we got some experience with XML technology, other than this I just heard of the term and didn’t know much about it.

Middleware is going to be an interesting topic to expand on in class.  I also learned a little bit about middleware in 533 – IT Infrastructure but it was just a broad overview. Exploring middleware in more will strengthen my knowledge of the subject and will help in multiple classes.

Last week in class we talked a little bit about virtualization and I found that very interesting. I heard a lot of people were doing virtualization with Vista. Right now, you could download Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and install a second operating system so that they both run at the same time on the same computer. One of the techs at my work was running to two OS at the same time and I was wondering how he was doing that, now I know. I then asked him about it this week. He in running Linux Fedora as the core OS and then he is using some Linux program (maybe RunningPC) to have Windows XP as his virtual PC. He would say the best of both worlds. This is something I might look into further and find more information about it.

Does anyone have any other suggestion, comments or problems with virtualization?

Chapter 6 and 7 were confusing to me. I had a vague idea of what middleware was but all the different types and services each application can perform blew me away. The book does well with describing the features and the concepts but in the chapter they don’t give enough examples of middleware in action. I am sure class tonight will clear things up.

I went through the lab once but like most people I will need to go over it again to get a better grasp on the concepts, I'm a little rusty just getting back into the swing of things.

The intergration exercise last week was very informative and challenging. There are many challenges to overcome when working with global database integrations.  I enjoy working in groups and learning with more hands on exercises and lab work more than just straight lectures. I hope this continues throughout this semester.

The concept of screen scaping was very interesting. On a large scale this probably isn’t the best solution but on a small scale this can be a very effective tool for specific data or purpose.

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