Alan Turing said any problem can be solved given the quantity of space, processing speed, and time. We see the proof to this theory as the computer memories and central process units have advanced in the computer hardware technology. The vast amount of new programs and old problems has been solved. Even in the eCommerce web application technology we see advances in streaming video in application to further display information and make information more interactive and accessible to the end user. We see computational mathematics and computer science and the need to calculate complex equations become feasible today with the help of the computer medium and its rapid advancement of processing speed and expansion of memory. Moores law is somehow integral to Alan Turing statements where the advancement of computing hardware augmented its powers and capacity to process of the more complex tasks. Although Moores law is really a business model delineating how the expansion and advancement of transistors in computer hardware is proportional with time. In programming, problems are solved through the implementation of algorithms and based on the complexity of the problem. The amount of time and resources needed to allocate in order to process and execute the codes is based on the available memory and the capacity and speed the computer possess.

The next phase for the computer will be when it is able to process interactive voice commands through speech recognition applications. Many of the speech recognition applications that out there are still in their primary stage.

The browser war has its advantages and disadvantages in advancing the Internet interactive browser platform technology. Weve observed a considerable advancement in the browser technology arena since the first battle between Netscapes Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. A bundle of features have been added in the first war such as marquee, blink and extending the browser to support JavaScript, and proprietary tags. One of the prominent advantages since the first, was the augmentation of the XMLHttpRequest features, which was added and supported by the new and improved browser. This gave birth to the new Ajax technology, giving programmers the ability to make background requests to the server for dynamic data, instead of the user having to refresh the browser each time a request was made.

The second war is the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser competing with other new browsers in the market, like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari to name a few. The disadvantages of the wars is there’s no  standard in the browser compatibility, which can turn into a huge undertaking for any web application developer, forcing them to have special code that works for all the browsers currently in the market. Also, having proprietary code specifically for one browser is one of the headaches that come with the browser war.

I am currently working on a functionality that will allow a client to upload an excel file with data of their inventory and the functionality will be able to populate the MySQL database with the data. This is not an easy task because it requires precise knowledge of the inventory, and since the database is designed to use relational methodology to solve complex problems, the complexity of such an application is fourfold. The field from the excel file must be known in advance in order to determine how, where, and which table to use for adding and relating the data. So a standard schema of the excel file must be established which will be the model used by the client to enter their inventory data. The programming involved is time consuming because it involves interpreting data from excel and matching data from the MySQL database and if there is new data you have to add the new data and then take the primary key from the table and relate that data to another piece of information that needs to go to another that has a relationship from the previous table, so a lot of tracking and establishing which data is which and which table to relate to each other.

A lot of intelligent logical algorithms have to be programmed in to achieve the goal.