Clarity is pleased to announce it now supports the REDCap platform. This is a flexible architecture used in the academic research community and Clarity can support custom project and module development. We can develop modules to support a variety of project specific features. In most cases, we can create a custom module in days to give your studies unprecedented power. We can also help you with mobile and eResearch strategies, best practices and pitfalls, backend...
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Does the prospect of having to learn multiple programming languages haunt you? Are you confused which language(s) you should learn? Should you just learn one language? What about frameworks? This article tries to address the philosophical and practical aspects of these questions. One of the first larger projects I worked on had Visual C++, SQL, Python, PHP and JavaScript in it. I was not working on all of those components at once but it’s not uncommon to...
Read More »An automatic vehicle locator (AVL) is a device that makes use of the Global Positioning System ( GPS ) to enable a business or agency to remotely track the location of its vehicle fleet by using the Internet. These devices combine GPS technology, cellular communications, street-level mapping, and an intuitive user interface, with the ostensible goal of improving fleet management and customer service. For example, a company using an AVL system is able to pinpoint...
Read More »A development framework, a content management system (CMS) or a packaged solution? They do not meet the same needs or require the same investment and/or expertise so how do you select what is best for you? Packaged software is a good choice if your businesses processes are, or can be aligned to the available features offered by a package. Depending on your situation you may have more or less features than you really need, this can be bad. You may also need to integrate the...
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Introduction The purpose of this tutorial is to give a reasonably experienced PHP developer a quick tour of the PHP Framework Symphony2. There is plenty of information available to delve deeper into areas and/or solve particular problems you may encounter. It focuses on typical steps you would need to take in creating an application. What do I need? You probably already have a PHP development environment? At a minimum, you need a web server (Apache, for instance), a database...
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