There are six primary stages in the development of a database system: • Requirements Analysis Pull together information to understand the problem domain and document the requirement. • Conceptual Design Identify Entities and high-level Relationships between them. • Logical Design Identify Attributes, Constraints, Keys and perform Normalisation. • Physical Design Translate the logical design to [read more...]

Now and then, in printed publications, an advert appears that has most probably been supplied as a compressed JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group, also known as JPG) when a TIF (also known as TIF, Tagged Image File Format) should have been used – leading to an image that looks blurry and blocky. The advertiser may [read more...]

A conversation at the weekend threw up an interesting question: Which takes priority: the Art or Design of a piece of work? The example given to me, suggesting that Art should always take priority, was a movie and that the viewer is unlikely to be interested in how the thing was put together as long [read more...]

The company I work for has changed (rebranded) its logo recently. There has been an impact for our website which has lead to something of a re-design which is being done by my good self I thought it would be cool to have a 3D animated logo to adorn our site and give a more [read more...]