Exercise One

1. What is the term ‘blog’ short for?
Web log

2. What is a wiki?
A wiki is a website that anyone can edit.

3. What is the format of an IPv4 address?
Four numbers separated by a dot and with a value ranging between 0-255.
E.g. 151.131.225.215

4. Which of the following is not a top level domain? (org, int, ant, mil)
Ant.

5. Which type of HTTP request is normally used to send data to a server?
POST

6. What is the usual port number of not-secure HTTP connections?
80

7. What is the name given to web based resources that are not public but only available behind an organizations firewall?
Intranet.

8. What are the windows-based application links in a portal sometimes called?
Portlets.

9. What is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is an open encyclopedia that anyone can make changes to.

10. What is meant by n-tier architecture?
N-tier architecture is when the server load is spread across multiple computers and possibly separated for specific purposes (data management, calculations or displaying the frontend)

1.1 - Other top level domains:
AERO (Airport Industry)
CAT (Catalan linguistic)
COOP (Cooperative association)
MIL (United States Military)
MOBI (Mobile Providers)

1.2 - Web Document Processor
Presentation Layer – Editing View, Preview

Business Logic Layer – Spell checking, Formatting, paginating, editing, documents, paragraphs, words, letters, diagrams.

Data Management Layer – Save to web database, load from web database.

They have almost the same logic due to Google docs being extensive in how it operates; it has most the same functions as a normal word processor.

1.4 - Describe the author and content of a popular blog.

The popular blog I’ll be describing is the development blog of The Witness, a game in the works by Jonathan Blow, an indie game developer who is renowned for his 2D platformer puzzle game, Braid.

Personally, I think the blog is popular because of notoriety he gained from creating Braid but also because it’s interesting to read techniques used to optimize the game or his design process and what stages he goes through to get from an idea to a finished and built game.

http://the-witness.net/news/