A blog about current topics in computer science and media, maintained by students of the Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart (Stuttgart Media University).
Recent Posts
Stupid by nature? – How psychology influences our security decisions
An overview on how psychology influences our decision making process, cognitive biases and why good security trade-offs are so important.
Test Driven Development Part IV
[written by Roman Kollatschny and Matthias Schmidt] Welcome back to our fourth and final post in our series. This time we want to deal with code style and code quality to optimize coding on additional ways.
- Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System Engineering
SocialCloud – Lessons Learned – Part 8
Looking back at 4 months of intensive work on our project “SocialCloud” we gathered a lot of experiences and learned many things regarding teamwork, cloud infrastructure and about the difficulties of creating and designing a web application from scratch. Read this blogpost to be prepared for your next big project!
- Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System Engineering
SocialCloud – HumHub and the humming begins – Part 7
The background Locally organized voluntary groups, helping refugees manage their first steps in Germany, are often organized by mass-email with up to 50 recipients. So the huge amount of received emails which should be clarified ends up in a “answer all”-flood of every involved mailbox. Another realistic misbehaviour is that images are sent uncompressed as…
Test Driven Development Part III
[written by Roman Kollatschny and Matthias Schmidt] Uhwe, hello and welcome back to the third of our posts in this series. Today we want to show you additional features and tipps on developing a node.js web application test driven. As stated in the last article we use Mocha.js and Chai.js as tools.
Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System EngineeringSocialCloud – Configure all the things! – Part 6
One of the requirements of the system is that organizations should be able to set up and deploy the HumHub system on their own. For this purpose, we have designed the Configtool. To meet this requirement we have to use different tools, procedures and interfaces from Bluemix. In the following we would like to introduce…
Machine Learning in secure systems
Sadly today’s security systems often be hacked and sensitive informations get stolen. To protect a company against cyber-attacks security experts define a “rule set” to detect and prevent any attack. This “analyst-driven solutions” are build up from human experts with their domain knowledge. This knowledge is based on experiences and build for attacks of the…
- Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System Engineering
SocialCloud – Cloudy this morning … and we’re scaling – Part 5
Cloud computing has so much potential that the possibilities seem to be endless. Without knowing much about it the cloud looks like a magic place for many people. To give you a more detailed explanation we sum up the design process of our cloud application step by step in the following blog post. Without giving…
Bring your own Device – advisible, but often still harmful
(written by Mona Brunner, Maren Gräff and Verena Hofmann) Introduction Bring your own device (BYOD) is a concept which enables employees to use their personal devices for work. The most poplular devices are smartphones and tablets, however, notebooks can also be included as well. Using their own device employees can access their work Emails, calendar…
SocialCloud – Services are here to serve – Part 4
‘To Start Press Any Key.’ Where’s the ANY key? – Homer Simpson – There are so many possibilities to start the next big thing and the great thing in the IT- world is, that it is happening with every pressing of ‘any key’ on your Keyboard. So, press these keys and realize great and new…
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