Last week we had no classes so I decided to make this weeks blog about exactly what my vision of the company will be. At the beginning of the semester I posted an overview of what I thought the company would become. After working on the website over the past weeks I have a more solid plan for what I want "basketball central" to be.

Through the process of developing my website I have learned not to isolate myself so much. I feel that "basketball central" is a great idea, but it may be to isolated to only basketball which can limit my audience. I think I will try to expand my idea into a website that will accommodate all sports fans rather than just basketball. This way I can benefit from other sports as well. Also, I am not sure if this is clear, but the way the website is run only employees have access to changing their specific information on the site with a core number of employers overseeing the operation.

Another very important thing that I will have to change with the transition in the way the website is heading will be the name. Because I am not focusing on only basketball now the organization will need a more appropriate name. One that I have been considering is "Playground Sports".

Operating Systems

    This weeks topic of discussion in class were operating systems. Operating systems are extremely important for any computer because it manages the hardware and software inside the computer. The operating system  can be described as the brain of the computer. It takes all the different parts inside the system and makes them run smoothly. It will be key for my company to have an operating system that can integrate all the devices in my laptop. Since my company will be run through my laptop it is crucial to make sure all the devices run smoothly and there are slim to no problems when users and and employees try to do anything on the website.

   When deciding what system to choose there is an important factor to keep in mind which is multitasking. The types of multitasking that I would consider for "basketball central" are cooperative multi-tasking and pre-emputive multi-tasking. Cooperative tasking allows the processor to give some specific times where it gives the computer some time to control it, while pre-emputive tasking guarantees that each process will have some computer operating time. At the start of the company I think cooperative multi-tasking will be more of a benefit to the company just to ensure that nothing goes the way it shouldn't. I would rather know that I am the one giving the instructions to the computer so that it executes the directions correctly. Once the computer learns what processes it should give time to then that is when I will make the transition into more computer control.

In class we also discussed open source software. I wanted to discuss open source software in this blog because though I feel it is a great program for certain things something like this would not be used for this website. The main issue I have against it is the amount of availability it gives to the public. I will obviously allow the public to view the website in full, but I do not think it is a good idea to allow them to  modify or post to the site in anyway.