Archive for January, 2006

evaluating software packages

Friday, January 13th, 2006

This document outlines the usability evaluation criteria that can be applied during the assessment of commercial software. The purpose of such an evaluation is to ascertain the extent that the software meets the following goals:

Support efficient task performance
Provide the ability to complete end to end business tasks accurately
Provide end user satisfaction:

Active provision […]

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comparison and logical operators for common web development languages

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Comparison and Logical operators are used for testing data values. Sadly the operators to use are not consistent across languages. This article summarises the most common operators for the key web development languages:

Javascript
ASP
PHP
SQL

For SQL we checked both mySQL and MS SQL. All operators listed here should work in both.
Comparison

Operator
Javascript
ASP
PHP
SQL

Less than
<
<
<
<

Less than or […]

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