Blog Posts

Electronic monitoring in the workplace

September 3, 2017

• Biometrics

Electronic monitoring is not a new thing, nor one that only affects the workplace.

The Therac-25 Case Study – What Actually Happened?

August 27, 2017

• Software

The Therac-25 was a computerised medical technology radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982.

Your Responsibilities as an IT Professional

August 27, 2017

As an IT professional it is extremely important to make sure that you do not take advantage of your position on being able to introduce certain skewed characteristics into a computing system in order to gain unfair advantage to your company or client?

New capabilities with technology

August 23, 2017

Computing technology has undoubtedly had some very prominent impact on society at large.

The Printing Press – Technology’s impact on society

August 23, 2017

It’s important to first define what the term “technology” means.

Google Abuses Search Dominance in the European Union

August 23, 2017

The EU Commission found that Google has been favouring their very own shopping service while demoting those of their rivals as well as the placement of how they are seen in search results online.

Understanding the Risks of Commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS)

July 8, 2017

Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software can be an attractive buy in for many companies when it comes to:

Identifying Risks in Software Engineering

June 28, 2017

In Software Engineering it is absolutely paramount to identify all risks that may arise in a given project or grouping of tasks.

Software engineering challenges in the 21st century

June 4, 2017

Software Engineering covers not only the technical aspects of building software systems, but also management issues, such as directing programming teams, scheduling, and budgeting.

Godaddy Android App Published to Play Store in QA Mode

March 22, 2017

• Android

Computer Memory – The Breakdown

December 26, 2016

Storage devices have come a long way in an extremely short amount of time; given how much they have changed from just my personal knowledge alone.

Current Trends in Computing

December 18, 2016

The American multinational technology company Yahoo, which has been around since the mid nineties has once again been hacked.

Academic integrity in a cultural context

December 11, 2016

In academia it is vitally important to backup your own thoughts and ideas by using previously written authoritative papers and articles in reference.

How to get more traffic to your blog

September 3, 2015

If there’s only one thing that keeps website owners up at night, it’s thinking about the next wave of traffic that they aren’t yet getting.

How big is Amazon S3 really?

September 1, 2015

• Aws

Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, or simply S3 for short, is a product designed for storing objects (or files are most people know them) in their proprietary cloud hosting (AWS).

3 Things you should be tracking with your analytics software

August 28, 2015

What should we be tracking? This is a question we get asked quite a often – mainly by new customers as well as people who aren’t certain if what they’re looking at adds any value to their daily business time usage.

11 of the Best Google Analytics Alternatives

July 29, 2015

So most webmasters know about Google Analytics and have probably used it to some degree, but did you know that there are some pretty good alternatives out there, some even better than the all-famous Google Analytics.

503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity

July 28, 2015

The Web server (running the Web site) is currently unable to handle the HTTP request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server.

User Testing and Feedback?

May 7, 2015

So now you have a website, you use it and love it, but does everybody else?

Date ranges are the key to a better index

January 14, 2015

Since AO Analytics originally went live in February 2013, we have been doing focused around individual time based reporting, it worked well and we were able to sort through indexes without doing full table scans.