Virtual Conferencing: A Solution With Benefits

The concept of the conference is not entirely new. It has been around for quite some time with conferencing solutions like conference calls and web seminars being used by many organizations. Now other conferencing services such as web video conferencing have gradually been introduced. Taken together, audio-video web conferencing solutions will have a powerful impact … Read more

Virtually Speaking – Putting Your Best Self Forward for Virtual Meetings

Now, depending on when your community, business, or country enacted a stay-at-home policy, it could be weeks or months since you started working from home. Not surprisingly, the way you “appear” to the world has changed too. As work from home began and communications shifted to virtual calls, most people maintained a level of professionalism … Read more

Get to know IDEC relays

There are many squadrons out there and within those squadrons are the IDEC squadrons. The majority of relays are widely used in electrical applications where one circuit is energized by the presence of a voltage actually provided by another circuit. The switch on a relay is actually controlled entirely by an electromagnet. This magnet is … Read more

How do I create a standalone connection pool in Java?

Below is the method I generally prefer to create the connection pool for each database. I am using the BasicDataSource class developed by the Apache Software Foundation and available for free. To work with it you may need to add these JAR files to your classpath: 1. commons-dbcp.jar 2. commons-pooljar 3. commons-collections.jar 4. mysql-connector-java-5.1.5-bin.jar (for … Read more

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Topics for Research

Pandemics throughout human history have consistently created myriad and sometimes unprecedented problems that would require great thinkers to solve. Researchers are positive opportunists who never relent in their efforts to examine the “what,” “when,” “who,” and “how” of any situation just for the sake of bringing relief to humanity. In view of the current outbreak, … Read more

Impacts of Information Technology on Society in the New Century

Impacts of Information Technology on Society in the New Century

In the past few decades there has been a revolution in computing and communications, and all indications are that technological progress and use of information technology will continue at a rapid pace. Accompanying and supporting the dramatic increases in the power and use of new information technologies has been the declining cost of communications as … Read more

Why JAVA is a top career option for beginners

There are multiple platforms and streams for developing a product or application. When we talk about technologies and programming languages, Java is the most preferred platform. It is used to develop many applications for the systems and embedded devices like mobile phones, tablets, laptops, etc. Importance of Java and its role in the IT industry … Read more