TT282 Weeks One to Three |
subjectsWeb AppsTT280 TT281 TT282
Computing TT282 Desktop Current students only. |
Week OneThe Role of the Server in Web Applications.I will only be dipping into this course and its conferences from time to time this week, as I am busy revising M358. CMA 41 has already been made available - good news! The discussion in the Teach conference this week centres around the following:
References for Week One:Webopaedia For definitions of terminology.Storage Area Networks. www.cisco.com Load Balancing, Fault Tolerance. Biometrics RSA Security Load Sharing with DNS. Round Robin DNS Week TwoWeb Server Security and Vulnerabilities.This week the following topics were open for discussion:
References for Week Two:SSL/TLS Strong Encryption.SANS Top 20 (2004). Trojans, viruses and worms. IIS 5.0 Technical Overview. PKI Tutorial. More on PKI. Week ThreePlanning an Application.You will be installing and testing out the wireframes application provided in this course, and developing a wireframe model for an estate agent application. You may or may not "take" to wireframes, depending on your previous experience with web designing. I didn't much care for them, but others liked them a lot. Each to their own! You do need to get to grips with them, however, as a wireframe model is required for the ECA. This week the following topics were open for discussion:
The first CMAIt covers the first three weeks of the course and to my surprise I found it the easiest one out of all the Web Apps CMAs I've done to date, and there have been some real stinkers, especially in TT281! It only took me a few hours of research. There were a couple of questions with options that I didn't think were completely sound, but on balance, it was OK.Acknowledgements to Chris Bird (on the course team for TT282) for the discussion topics above. Onwards to Weeks 4 to 6. TOP |