Meaningful achievements are, perversely, *more* likely to annoy the world around you.

Source: If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important

That little three-lined button is the devil. Whether you call it a side menu, navigation drawer, or a hamburger, hiding your features off-screen behind a..

Source: Kill The Hamburger Button

Fraud continues to be problem for the insurance industry and medical fraud, in particular, is growing according to Andy Tolsma, solutions manager for the P&C Medical Fraud payments accuracy division for Verisk Health.

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This is an excellent demonstration of entity relationship diagrams. I strongly encourage all of you to pay close attention to this video as there will be several questions about ERD on the midterm exam.

A couple things to note: in class we started working with entity relationship modeling (using rectangles for entities, diamonds for relationships, and ellipses for attributes). This is the technique used to conceptually model entity relationships, which then leads to the formal diagrams you see in this video. There are various diagramming methods. This video shows Crow’s Foot notation. For more information about entity relationship modeling and entity relationship diagrams, read the Wikipedia article on the subject.