MPM 33 - Communication with Hybrid Enviroments

Sites to Look at:
http://www.sketchpatch.net/
“sketchPatch allows people to play with programming in a easy and fun way. You can write your own programs and run them in the browser, share them, or collaborate with other people making new versions of their programs.”

http://www.rhizome.org/tinysketch/
Tiny Sketch is an open challenge to artists and programmers to create the most compelling creative work possible with the programming language Processing using 200 characters or less.

In Class Activities:
-Creating With the Ardiuno (see in class documentation blog)
-Programing iPhone Apps.


-Understanding the Database
Databases cannot exist in a physical form (not card index); they are a digital object defined by a set of relationship
neutral life-insurance was first one of the first database
currently they are used everywhere
from large mainframe applications (bank) to
e-mail app. on your computer
reference-
sabre made the airport
cnn’s main frame data base system - exactly where every train car is and what was on it
A database…
-needs at least a login
-contains info about the user, the sites info
-is the underpinning of the ‘sematic web’
~Semantic Web is an evolving development of the World Wide Web in which the meaning (semantics) of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to “understand” and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content. It derives from World Wide Web Consortium director Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange. [Wiki]

-is collective management systems
-began as large “flat” files
-as user’s need for info grew more complex, the flat file model became unusable
-are technically known as Relational Database Management Systems or RDMS
-are not a spread sheet
-thought of as a table
~rows being called a method and columns  field

step 1 create remote folder
public_html
step 2
in browser-phpmyadmin

step3….