Yesterday an interesting question popped up on Slashdot, asking for an alternative to a computer science degree for an aspiring web developer. He complained that what he’s learning in class doesn’t relate to what he wants to do in the field. Assuming that by “web developer” he means someone who can code stuff in ASP [...]
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How to maximize a Computer Science degree
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 12, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/02/how-to-maximize-a-computer-science-degree/
Do as we say, not as we did: Microsoft and standards
Microsoft is sniveling that mobile web sites are written with Webkit browsers in mind, because Webkit has 90% market share on tablets and phones. For those who are over 30, the irony is nauseating.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 18, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/11/do-as-we-say-not-as-we-did-microsoft-and-standards/
There’s plenty of credit for the Internet to go around
There’s a crazy rumor going around saying that the government didn’t do much of anything to create the Internet, and that private industry did it all. I remember the Internet before the private sector got involved in it. I was there.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on July 25, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/07/theres-plenty-of-credit-for-the-internet-to-go-around/
What will you do with your Freedom Box?
Columbia Law Professor Eben Moglen has a great idea. He wants every household to have a server on the Internet. It’s not as outrageous as you might think. The hardware exists today. and I’ve talked about it before. The Pogoplug is based on it. Right now it costs about $100. The trouble is making the [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 17, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/02/what-will-you-do-with-your-freedom-box/
Cheap upgrades
Yesterday, during my weekly garage sale adventures, I bought some computer equipment. Among the haul: a Biostar Socket A motherboard with an AMD Sempron 2200+ CPU and 512MB of RAM. It’s not state of the art, but can hold its own against some of the stuff still on the market, and it’s a big upgrade over the 450 MHz Pentium II that’s been powering this web site since July 2002.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on September 28, 2008
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2008/09/cheap-upgrades/
How to get your RSS/RDF feed working with Mozilla Firefox\’s Live Bookmarks
As soon as I upgraded to Mozilla Firefox 1.0, I started noticing that when I visited certain sites that had RSS/RDF feeds, a big orange “RSS” icon showed up in the lower right hand portion of the window.
That’s cool. Click on that, and you can instantly see that site’s current headlines, and know if the site has changed, just by looking in your bookmarks.
Except my site has an RSS feed and that icon didn’t show up. Here’s how I fixed it.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on September 15, 2004
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2004/09/how-to-get-your-rssrdf-feed-working-with-mozilla-firefoxs-live-bookmarks/
I hope someday I’ll understand this model railroad electronics page
Rob Paisley has a page of model railroad circuitry, including, most interestingly to me, a driver for stepper motors. You’d use stuff like this if you wanted to have people moving around inside your buildings, or if you wanted other moving parts on your layout.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 10, 2004
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2004/01/i-hope-someday-ill-understand-this-model-railroad-electronics-page-2/
What needs to happen for Linux to make it on the desktop
I saw an editorial at Freshmeat that argued that there’s actually too much software for Linux. And you know what? It has a point.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 7, 2003
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2003/04/what-needs-to-happen-for-linux-to-make-it-on-the-desktop/
Rethinking Movable Type and b2
A very interesting discussion today made me re-think the importance of a content management system such as Movable Type or b2.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 11, 2003
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2003/01/rethinking-movable-type-and-b2/
Optimizing dynamic Linux webservers
Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP (LAMP) provides an outstanding foundation for building a web server, for, essentially, the value of your time. And the advantages over static pages are fairly obvious: Just look at this web site. Users can log in and post comments without me doing anything, and content on any page can change programmatically. In my site’s case, links to my most popular pages appear on the front page, and as their popularity changes, the links change.
The downside? Remember the days when people bragged about how their 66 MHz 486 was a perfectly good web server? Kiss those goodbye. For that matter, your old Pentium-120 or even your Pentium II-450 may not be good enough either. Unless you know these secrets…
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2004/01/optimizing-dynamic-linux-webservers/