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Recognizing Your Diverse Audiences

Do you think of everyone in your audiences as being the same, or do you think of them as members of diverse groups? I once had a confusing semester in business school (actually most of them were confusing to me, but this one more so than the others) when I took courses in accounting and finance at the same time. Before starting, I thought of them as being much the same: number- driven exercises.

Database Programming With Java + JDBC

Interacting with a database is a routine job in the application world. Quite often you need to store information in the database, fetch it to generate some form of report and update or delete it as required. Java provides the JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) API for executing SQL statements. JDBC, being Java-based, leverages the benefits of the language and provides a convenient way to communicate with different databases, such as Oracle, Informix, Sybase, etc.

Evolution Trumps Usability Guidelines

“Use a Search Box instead of a link to a Search page.”

This is one guideline from the plethora of recently created usability guidelines to help designers produce more usable web sites. It makes sense. After all, there are more than 42 million web sites on the Internet. It should be simple to study these sites and put together a list of “do’s” and “don’ts” that, when followed, will produce easy-to-use sites.

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