How to choose the right college to get the right background?

There are thousands of places on the planet where you are likely to get your future profession. Nevertheless, how to make the right choice and select the right educational establishment, which will provide you with the decent skills so necessary for the future?

Here are some tips about selecting the college you need.
-    Before you actually prefer a certain type of college, decide what kind of education you would like to have in general, at least the sphere of your future work. You are to choose one of the colleges e.g. Western Technological College. Depending on the specialization, there are various colleges and universities with four or five years of studying, which can be state and private ones, cheap and very expensive ones.
-    If you are no eager to spend five or fours years grinding away at your books, you can go to community, junior, vocational or technical training schools. The choice of such schools is huge, and they are popular, because they let enter labour force practically immediately. For instance, many people prefer to join West Tech Programs at Western Technical College.
-    If you are still too lazy, you can always find distance-learning courses at every university or college. Such kinds of diploma have the same status as the usual ones, but you study when you wish. Some of the young people give certificates of auto technician training, taking distance education or online courses.
-    Having made up your mind about the sphere of the profession, do not forget to consider the costs of the studies, as they vary a lot from one educational establishment to another one.
-    Analyze if possible, the curriculum of the college before you apply. The more you know about the future subjects, the clearer it can be for yourself to understand if it is going to be useful in your future life.
-    One more point, which is worth paying attention to, is the facilities of the university or the college. You are to know if they offer accommodation to their students, how good their canteen is, what extra class activities are offered to the students.

Choosing a place to get your education is not easy. You need at least one year to consider finally your future occupation, before you finish school and have to apply somewhere.

Sharing a flat in London when you are a student

People come to the capital of the UK – London for various purposes. But, with every new  year more and more youngsters strive for new knowledge there. This is only because London is quite famous for its educational institutions.

As soon as you come to London, you have to settle usual household troubles e.g. finding where to live in the capital.

Accommodation for students London is the main problem that any new chicken student faces. If the parents of the young person can afford to rent a separate flat with all the conveniences, it is going to be great.

But in most cases students choose cheaper variants e.g. flatshare London students. To share a flat with a person of the same or practically the same age is a way out to save some money and to get those skills which are so necessary for adult life.And don't forget about english classes!

There are a lot of specialized sites where you can find numerous adverts about flat share. After you have made up your mind to share a flat with somebody, you need to consider several things before moving to an apartment.
-    Be ready to adjust yourself to living with unknown people who have their own habits. You will have to adapt yourself peacefully to them.
-    As soon as you move there, discuss the terms of sharing, the dates of payments, the common and separate bills and so on.

Surely sharing a flat is not easy, and sometimes it can be rather painful, but this is an excellent variant to save some money. In case you feel that you cannot bear living together with some people any more you can always get students flats London.

How to control distributed infrastructure?

In order to cut costs companies are ready to implement any software and hardware. Big IT companies need some measures to reduce costs more than any other firms, as they have to operate with big amounts of information which should be stored and protected any way.

That is why such companies have to refer to distributed storages for the data they have. Firms can place their information in different parts of the world, where it is safe and reliable, and the price for the service is acceptable.

Having settled the data in the overprotected place, companies do face another problem – how to monitor what happens to the data stored and how well it is taken care of. It is a well-known fact that sometimes you can have problems with the server access which is located far from the office. You information can also be violated in a certain way.

The way out is to  select and to install reliable monitoring software which is going to be in charge of server monitoring in case when you have distributed server locations.

Fortunately enough developers can offer plenty of tools to deal with different server location monitoring. You have only to choose the tool which you think is more beneficial for your company.

To compare, most software has the same number of features. They usually provide not only server monitoring, but they are able to examine the whole IT infrastructure of the firm, in such a manner simplifying the work of the IT department. A modern solution will be able to examine websites, web applications and databases linked to the distributed network. Thus, with a single click the business has a chance to have the overall control of the infrastructure.

Besides being a comprehensive tool, monitoring software is also able to help companies to solve the found trouble by presenting troubleshooting solutions. Even you do not have a single idea how to crack a problem; you will find a possible way out with the help of the software that you have set up to monitor the IT infrastructure of the company.

So, distributed network is a chance to reduce costs to the minimum possible for big corporations with a big amount of data, but alongside with being cheap and affordable, distributed network is rather hard to examine and watch. Supervising every single process of such network can become a difficult thing if not setting up a special network monitoring software which has been designed specially to control such scattered systems.

Joomla is the best CMS: is it true?

As soon as you have made up your mind to develop a new site and you have already chosen one of top website development companies, you are still puzzled by the fact what platform to choose. This decision is rather important, as the selection of the platform will impact the future work of the whole site.

You are likely to spend some time considering the cost, the time, the flexibility and the level of control of every existing platform.

The number of popular and respected systems is not so big. They are Magento, Joomla, Wordpress and some others.

The continuous debates have been going on about what system is better for a site. The answer is still open, as every customer chooses what is closer to their demands.

Here you can find some advantages of Joomla over the other platforms.
1.    Joomla has a big number of extensions, which are able to satisfy any client.
2.    This is one of the popular platforms in the world. Many companies all over the world prefer Joomla to other systems, because there are so many really experienced firms that develop sites on it e.g.  Florida Joomla web development.
3.    The platform is simply to use, and even if you are a fresher, it won’t take you to long to learn to use Joomla.
4.    If you agree on Joomla, you will be surprised that the price of it is not high, which makes it more attractive to customers.
5.    You can easily control the system. This is one of the many reasons why companies choose Joomla,as they don’t have to hire very qualified staff to deal with the platform.

You are still in doubts about the possible CMS for your site, do not hesitate and select Joomla, because of its high flexibility towards the clients and the developer. It won’t be a problem to hire a firm that is going to create a site, as there are many software development companies in any part of the world e.g. in Florida you are able to detect Florida web development companies which will quickly fulfill your order.

Mobile application developers get tips on privacy policy

The data privacy policy changes concerning many aspects so mobile application developers often face a challenge in keeping up with it. They have been given some tips at a conference dedicated to the topic in San Francisco. Mobile applications often provide services that draw on location, contact lists and other personal data. Such services are raising more and more questions if the data is collected and used appropriately. The software developers always have to ask themselves if they should notify people when the data is collected, in what way they should notify users about it etc.

These and other questions were discussed during a conference on mobile application privacy at the University of California’s Hastings College of Law in San Francisco.

“Customers want the applications to be convenient, social and relevant”, said Kevin Trilli – vice president of product at San Francisco-based TRUST, working to help companies collect and use customer data safely. “And privacy is a very discussed point now because of the data and behavior interaction that enables the applications”, he added.

These questions are faced not only by smaller new entrants but by the huge companies as well.

One piece of advice for mobile application developers to keep users happy is not to be afraid to over-communicate. According to Tim Wyatt, director of security engineering at Lookout – a mobile security company based in San Francisco- it is not a bad idea to show clear, friendly, plain-English language within the application whenever it asks for certain types of private information.

For example if the application has a feature of automatic upload of photos from a smartphone’s camera then a special pop-up window could appear once the user gats to this point in the application saying “If you let us do it automatically it will provide a faster, better use experience for you. Would you like us to do that?”, Wyatt said.

Author's bio: Annet Jonson, sales manager working for a Florida software development company. Professional interests - iPad application development, eCommerce websile and IT start-ups. Personal interests - Dolce and Gabbana designer clothes, cats photos and social networking.

The demand for mobile applications hits all the records

Mobile application market shows the incredible increase developing even faster than it was predicted by analysts. According to the statistics for the first quarter of the current year it increased by 11% as compared with the whole 2012 year. During the period from January to March about 13,4 billion of utilities for mobile devices were downloaded over the world. In cash 11% increase equals $2,2, informs CNET.com

The statistics were collected by the analytical company Canalys. Its experts have identified four most popular internet-markets of mobile applications. These are evidently Apple App Store, Google Play, Windows Phone Store and BlackBerry Store. It is remarkable that Apple product holds the first position of popularity – it possesses 74% of the world market of mobile utilities.

Each catalogue of mobile applications contains free and paid applications. The increase of the market leads to the increase of the revenue of developers and the main part is received by the creators of mobile videogames. As it is mentioned, a lot of money was earned by Rovio and Electronic Arts companies: the first one created a very popular game Angry Birds, the second carries out publishing and controls the development and distribution not only of mobile but of the average games as well.

If speaking about internet markets they can be ranked according to the popularity among users. The first position belongs to Apple applications and its App Store, the second position is held by Google Play apps. There is a long standing rivalry between these two catalogues as well as between their owners. The honorable third position belongs to Windows Phone Store that hasn’t entered the fight yet. The fourth position is occupied by Canadian company BlackBerry with the internet market of the same name. It develops actively and in case if it is going to keep such speed of development it will be able to move Microsoft from the third position.

Project teams strictures changed

Today I met an interesting statistical information about the project teams stricture. The results of a survey of one European IT company stated that only 31% of all the teams are co-located (all the team members sit in one room or at least in one office building). The other 33% of the teams are co-located teams with off-site project management and product owners. This is a common practice for the projects first appearing in the USA or Western Europe countries (like the UK, France or Germany) and being outsourced to so-called development centers in such countries as India, Mexico, Ukraine, Belarus and so on. It means that project management and business analysis will be done in the outsourcer company and the software development and testing will be performed by the outsourcing team. For example, Florida web development company creates a development center in the Eastern Europe to do custom website development and mobile apps development for them.

And the rest 36% will go to distributed teams. According to Wikipedia - "a virtual team (also known as a geographically dispersed team or distributed team) is a group of individuals who work across time, space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology". It means that more than one third of all the teams are geographically dispersed and they need to have some means of special communication. This may be a huge market share for different tools and solutions helping such teams to organize their every day routine.

But what really do they need to operate effectively?

1. If the project is performed by a distributed team the role of the communication plan increases. The PMO or project manager should create clear and easy rules of delegating tasks, sending e-mails, responsibilities and the system of reporting.

2. The next important step is creating the set of workflows. It's closely connected with the previous factor. Processes help people to stay focused on their tasks. In distributed teams there is often a problem of time-zone difference and it's not always possible to ask questions and get answers on a real time basis. So, good processes may help to organize the work the most productive way.

3. Find a tool or a combination of solutions that will help to organize the work of distributed team. The choice will depend on the team size, type of project and methodology used. For example, for traditional software development projects Basecamp may be a very good choice. It allows to set tasks, add documents, use white boards for tough tasks and to track time. But for Agile projects one may want to have something more flexible. Google Drive Spreadsheets maybe a perfect solution for the small projects and small teams. But for the projects that last more than 1 month and involve more than 5 geographically dispersed people it's good to try Jira GreenHopper, Pivotal Tracker and Comindware Tracker.

4. Create a list of possible risks and the ways how to avoid them or mitigate. The list may include cultural differences, language problems, time-zone differences and so on.

So, the statistics says that distributes teams are increased by number during the last 10 years. So, if you plan a career in IT you need to increase your skills in distributed teams management.

Fashionista Must-Haves (Part I)

It’s far from being a secret that year after year fashionistas are mercilessly exploited by fashion designers laying down ever new laws in the world of high fashion. Men and women squander vast sums of money to obey these laws and keep in step with the fashion.

However, there are some eternal things that can hardly been discarded by changing fashion. The things that attract envious glances of people around and are true must-haves for all fashionistas no matter how expensive they are. Let’s have go over the dearest dream of each and every woman.

Trench Coat
The first trench coat was designed in 1890 by Burberry brand and for more than 100 years it has not lost its chic and attractiveness. This double-breasted, belted garment with metal buttons has incorporated a rare combination of style and comfort.

Black Little Dress
Another item that has always been an essential part of any wardrobe and is more than likely to continue its triumphal march in the fashion world is a black little dress. Its origin goes as far back as 1920’s when the little black dress was created by Coco Chanel. Nowadays many designers offer little black dresses in their collections, however Dolce&Gabbana corset black dress is an attire you will not do without.

Fashionista Must-Haves (Part II)

Let’s go further and see what other items of clothes are not within control of changing fashion for women and has not lost its chic over years.

Chanel 2.55 Quilted Bag
One more cult article that has never left indifferent women hooked on fashion is Chanel 2.55 Quilted Bag created by Coco Chanel in 1955 and taking its name from the date of creation – the February of 1955. Tired of carrying purses in her hands, Coco added a thin chain strap. The bag instantly became a true icon of fashion and style and one of the most thought after accessories among fashionistas all over the world.

Christian Louboutin Shoes
Louboutin designer shoes are a masterpiece craved for by every woman. Any fashionista is ready without a twinge of conscience to pay a fortune and own a pair from Louboutin collections. Even despite extremely high heels, shoes women do not loose their lust for this luxury bit.