By Brenda V.  I have been recently attracted to all social behavior studies, call it in person or online, I did not study a psychology related major but when you have to interact with people pretty often you tend to get interested in these subjects. As a recruiter knowing how to see what people are “not saying” can help you in making a much more efficient decision, this doesn’t mean - that you will know when people are lying - but that you will know when to find yellow flags and make more inquiries about it. Just like when they say about people talking to you, and rolling their eyes to the right means they are making things up and when they roll them to the left they are remembering som...

By Fernando G. Overview First off, we need to have a quick overview of what REST means to the development community, and we can start by what does REST stands for?  It stands for Representational State Transfer.  Right, it did not help a lot, right? In the SOA era, we have Service Oriented Systems interacting between them exposing Services, some applications act as consumers and some as producers.  At the end, a Service Oriented Architecture allows an organization to create a well thought and organized set of libraries being used uniformly among all of the participants with no redundancy of business rules and specially having a single set of Services.  Well, not always the case.  It re...

If you are thinking about obtaining a competitive advantage for your business while trying to maximize your resources, don’t forget to consider Monterrey, Mexico as your next IT solutions alternative. Here you will find the top 10 reasons in why considering Monterrey is the best option for you and your company. Monterrey is considered one of the most important commercial and technological centers of Latin America.   Industrial Leadership: Out of all the cities in Mexico, Monterrey is known as the industrial capital of the country; it’s one of the most accessible cities in the country with more than 200 flights making daily connections. The city with the largest industrial leadershi...

By Oliver N. As we approach the new major release of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 it is important to review the newset of features and how your organization can benefit from them: First, SharePoint is more than just another application, it is a Software Platform, and it is platform in the sense where not only developers can build with the Rapid Application Development Tools, but also end users through Composites and Mashup Tools, enabling them to really customize and adapt the product to their needs. SharePoint provides a unified technology infrastructure and costs for your organization. No more separate purchases for a Collaboration System, another for a Business Intelligence Sys...

By Carina C. Terms used in Reporting Services: ·         Data Source ·         Data Set: query related to a data source ·         Data Region: object that displays data Types of Data Regions: ·         Table: Tabular report ·         Matrix ·         List: free form enlisted data ·         Graphics Creating Reports in Reporting Services Reporting Services offers the following ways to create a Report: ·         Add New Report Wizard (Templates) ·         Add/Add New Item. Creates a blank report ·         Import Reports. It allows the importation of reports from an Access database Report using Tables Data View 1.       Select <New Dataset…> 2.       Assign a na...

By Otoniel D. Hi everyone, last week I had to make a quick research about Dynamic Management Views (DMV) so I could create a quick technical session to give to my colleagues; a quick overview about this particular subject. I really have to admit that I enjoyed it a lot. Mainly because I believe that DMVs are one of the greatest features that Microsoft SQL Server have. But now that I’m writing this post, I found out that DMV’s are actually categorized. This means basically two things. First, that the sys schema is so intuitive that it allows you to use it easily and second that I need to look at the MSDN SQL Server 2008 Books Online more closely. J Let’s take a look about how do I fin...

By Cesar O. This is a topic that, as a web designer, I don’t like a whole lot, because compatibility for IE6 in websites costs time, effort and money; but this is not the main problem, the main problem is that you can spend more time (and I have seen this several times) making your site work for IE6 than actually creating the whole website; so, How can you minimize this? How can you reduce the cost of compatibility with IE6? There are some simple steps you can take to try and ensure compatibility and/or reduce the time you spend making it work for IE6. 1-      From conception, from the first line of html you start typing, remember that this is supposed to work for IE6. What I mean by ...

By Edith Colegio If you haven’t already, you should think about adding social capabilities to your website. This will help you attract new users, and keep them on your website for longer and get them to come back more often.  The use of existing toolkits like the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit can be very useful to achieve this. Using the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit You can use this toolkit to integrate presence, instant messaging, and contact information using the following interfaces Windows Live Messenger UI Controls       These controls are a set of UI building blocks. The UI Controls are easy to add to an existing XHTML page. They provide a professional UI ...

By Otoniel Diaz We are always looking our databases as a bunch of tables and columns designed to store the data according to an application requirements. But when you are in charge of talking care of these tables and rows you actually need to review you start to wonder how to do it, and how SQL Server does manage the so called Metadata. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 metadata is represented in system views which are divided in 16 main categories.   System views objects can belong to a different type of objects which can be: 1.       Dynamic Management View 2.       Dynamic Management Function () 3.       Catalog View 4.       System Administration The most famous view may be is the ...

By Cesar Olivas There can be as many answers for this question as people who blog, but the growth of the internet has revolutionized communications, the way we get information across, especially in places where the media is property of the government. In these kinds of places, where people cannot freely speak their mind, blogging can be extremely attractive, this is their way to express their thoughts. For the rest of us, the answer will differ. Some people would say (and have told me) that blogging is a waste of time, that I cannot possibly get anything from it, but I know that they are wrong. In this age, blogs are used to inform, to teach, to spread the word about news, technology, a...