Data Base Lottery Ticket

This year, as 11th grade class in the ASB, the New York trip coresponds to us. You might not know this, but a trip to New York is pretty expensive, so we our permited to organize fund rasing activities, and like christmas is comming, we have decided to prepare a christmas basket, with it's corresponding raffel.

But the tikets didn't appear suddenly, they were made by our trip leader, John Asensi. He used a database program to creat them, Filemaker Pro to be precise. What is a database program? Well, database programs are used to store greart amounts of information. The data is stored the following way, the firt "folder" to call it in some way, is the record, a persons medical record for example, then would come the fields, name surname telephone for example, and finally the data, that would be your information that goes in the fields.

This is one of the many things you can do with these programs called database programs.

RSS

Ever wondered what RSS stands for? Me neither, but it is a very interesting. RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, witch is the sharing of content among different web sites, usually TV shows, newspaper columns. It was originally created by Netscape, it is most comonly used forheadline distribuating on the internet. Let me give you an example, a random web site wants to to let other websites allow them to publish some of its contents. Well the website must creat a RSS document and register it with an RSS publisher. Once this is done, the person that is reading can now publish it or re-use it in any diferent website. Another thing you can do with RSS is "RSS Feed" witch is basically sending your content to anybody who wants it.

The first version to ever appear was created on March 15, 1999, only it was called RSS 0.90 by Netscape(as mention before). Since that day many versions have come out, the last one came out on March ·0th 2009, but this time it was called "RSS 2.0 Version 2.0.11, so you can imagine how many versions have come out since March 15 1999, quite a few.

Links Of Interest
More information on RSS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS