March 15, 2010
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Unlike the early days of the computer industry in which computer manufacturers developed vertically integrated proprietary hardware/software systems, many technological systems today are collections of commodity components (West 1). Common data formats, protocols, and interfaces allow these various components to communicate and share data. The world wide web, for example, operates on the HTTP message [...]
February 25, 2010
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Django is a Python web framework – a collection of tools for developing web applications. Django was originally developed at World Online, the web department of a newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas, as “The CMS ”. The development team comprised of Adrian Holovaty, Simon Willison, and later Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Wilson Miner. Now an open source [...]
November 5, 2009
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The goals of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), according to its website w3c.org, include “[developing] interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.” With any set of guidelines or “good practices” there is often a gap between idealistic theory and reality. In exploring some recommendations of the [...]
October 2, 2006
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As a college student I do a lot of work in computer labs between classes. It’s handy to have preferences from applications saved so I don’t have to adjust settings everytime I want to use a particular program. With a 2GB flash drive (you can get one for around $30 after rebates from Buy.com these [...]
September 10, 2006
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I recently setup Google Analytics on this blog. This was my first experience with Analytics and I was impressed. The Executive Overview (seen below) is the first page you see when logging in to your Analytics account. You can see your visits, page views, visitor stats, referrers and more. One of my favorite features of [...]
August 12, 2006
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I admit – I’ve lost important files multiples times. Worse yet, failure to backup this data rendered it irrecoverable. Life goes on, but at this point there really isn’t any excuse not to backup your data. Recently I discovered Mozy, a free online backup service with 2GB of storage. It’s perfect for me: I can [...]
