Starving Artists Marketplace Codename: A-bay Andy Milsark Jake Glascock Jameson Allen Jon Bihr Matt Hill Mentor: Markita Price

And Here’s Jake

Overview A online marketplace for local artists to display their artwork (ie. photographs, paintings, sketches, sculptures, drawings, and music), and post information about their abilities Web App. running on a custom Microsoft Web Server

Goals Setup and deploy a Windows Web Server Setup MS SQL Server Learn and Develop website in ASP.NET Create online marketplace for Artists of all kinds Make site Gallery oriented for each Artist Host pictures of photographs, paintings, sculptures, sketches and drawings Host music samples of local musicians

Previous Developments

Server Dell Manufactured Pentium D- 2.8 GHz 2Gb memory 2 x 250Gb SATA hard drives under RAID 1 configuration Provided by the MU CS department

Server Software Microsoft Server 2003 Enterprise Edition MS SQL Server 2005 Developers Edition IIS with ASP.NET 2.0 Cygwin with Open-sshd

Development Software Visual Studio.NET 2005 Photoshop Text Editors Remote Desktop Secure FX

Types of Users and Abilities Guest –Create username and password to become a User or Artist –Browse through galleries –Search for types of artwork, or certain styles, or by artist name

Types of Users and Abilities (cont.) Users –Browse through artist’s galleries –Search for types of artwork, or certain styles, or by artist name –Comment on Artist’s Work –Contact Artist through website –Post on Forum

Types of Users and Abilities (cont.) Artists –Add/Update artwork to Gallery –Artwork will be approved by Admin. –Create an About Me! Page –Create a Hire Me! Page –Post on a Forum for all Users

Types of Users and Abilities (cont.) Administrator –General Maintenance for Site –Approve Artwork for Galleries –Remove users depending on situation –Delete unapproved Artwork

Data Acquisition Artwork is going to be collected from group members, and friends Potential Beta testing will be with MU Art Department

Literature Review Protecting Web Servers from Distributed Denial of Service Attacks –Old security is ineffective anymore –DoS vs. DDoS –Tools: Trinoo, Tribe Flood Network, Stacheldraht

DDoS (cont.)

Literature Review (cont.) Integrating Websites and Databases –Dynamic WebPages –Server-side and Client-Side processing –“If being on the leading edge is of no concern to the e-commerce organization its developers should consider using ASP.NET”

Literature Review (cont.) Managing E-Commerce Reliability E- bay Style –How E-bay Started –What they do for reliability on their servers –How do they maintain their servers, and perform routine maintenance

Literature Review (cont.) J2EE vs..NET –Both leading platforms for creating web services –.NET supports multiple languages, J2EE only supports JAVA –.NET is Microsoft Centric, Java will run on any platform

Questions?Questions? El Fin