Friday, April 24, 2015

Dis What You Do

I want you to make a thing that does stuff

PROMPT

Give the image a central gradient that follows the mouse cursor. Also, changes to random color on click. Size should be controlled by scroll wheel.

If this proves to be

IMPOSSIBLE

we want to be able to set size, color, and location range for each picture.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Accenture Speaker

Notes from Accenture speaker, Dave Eisenmenger, on technology industry:
  • Do you personally have a specific team you work with, or does it vary project to project? Amass skills needed for each project, new group ==> new skills to learn
  • How do you feel about internet privacy? Completely private
  • Did you create/help write the algorithms/programs to consolidate the data? no
  • How much of the work you do is directly related to creating software? manage a team who creates the algorithm, he works with clients on developing infrastructure and marketing
CODING IS IMPORTANT
  • How much of the software you work with it brand new versus improving old software? 80% is improving old software, old infrastructure
  • Where are you based? Very virtual set-up, globalized workforce
  • What are new employees expected to do? Bottom part of V
V-MODEL:
           Top part: How do we solve this problem? Does our solution work?
           Bottom part: Details, coding, testing code piece by piece

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Digital Property and Forensics

Metadata can be used for any of the following:


  • allowing resources to be found by relevant criteria
  • identifying resources
  • bringing similar resources together
  • distinguishing dissimilar resources
  • giving location information
  Metadata can be used in the investigation of crimes by giving exact location, time, date, IP and access ports of the crime.