Ever been caught between a software vendor and your web host regarding a failed MySQL connection that occurs during the installation of an application? It can be a case of back and forth while the blame game is played by both parties. Here’s a simple MySQL connection test you can run that should clarify where the fault lies.

This may or may not seem to you like a simple question with a simple answer. Do you want a website just because everyone else seems to have one these days? Or do you want a website because you want to increase your company’s brands exposure or expand your target market or even increase sales?

You need a web site to have an established and felt online presence. Your web site is just like the offline shop or business center of an offline business. An offline business man does most if not all of his business in his offline shop. An offline business man goes about with his complimentary or business card. The business card of an online salesman, business man, or marketer is his web site.

An attempt is made to apply Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) heuristics to an E-learning problem: the pedagogic material of an online teaching website for high school students is modelled as a navigation graph where nodes are exercises or lessons and arcs are hypertext links. The arcs’ valuation, representing the pedagogic structure and conditioning the website’s presentation, is gradually modified through the release and evaporation of virtual pheromones that reflect the successes and failures of students roaming around the graph. A compromise is expected to emerge between the pedagogic structure as originally dictated by professors, the collective experience of the whole pool of students and the particularities of each individual. The purpose of this study conducted for Paraschool, the leading French e-learning company, is twofold: enhancing the website by making its presentation intelligently dynamic and providing the pedagogical team with a refined auditing tool that could help it identify the strengths and weaknesses of its pedagogic choices.

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