To educate, inform, inspire

For those who are curious, I obtained a Lynda.com account one year ago tomorrow. I just finished viewing some training this morning and have therefore finished one year of training. I have found this to be an invaluable resource. The fact that it is available to meet my schedule is […]

As we begin the spring, 2010 semester, I wanted to share a few thoughts with students taking my classes in the web curriculum. First – welcome to class. I am here to help you better understand the material and apply it to real life situations. If you ever have a […]

The Fall, 2009 semester is now officially concluded. I hope students had as much fun in the courses as I did. We covered some great topics and had  lots of interesting discussions during the semester. I wanted to take a moment and acknowledge a select group of students. In the […]

Today (December 15), 1994 marked the release of the first commercial web browser (which became Netscape Navigator). Although a beta version had been released in October (Oct. 13, I believe), this was the official launch date. Although AOL dropped support for this in 2007, this marked a milestone. Prior to […]

During the Fall, 2009 semester, I used Adobe ConnectPro for my online office hours in addition to the open lab we hold on Wednesday and Thursday nights for students in the ICC Web program. I did some tracking to determine how frequently students took advantage of these opportunities to learn […]

I recently obtained a new laptop and have been spending a fair amount of time  this week configuring it for various activities. Understand that I teach both web systems classes and security classes so I have to meet multiple needs. I thought readers might find this interesting/ humorous. It does […]

After deleting yet another 9 meaningless comments in this weblog, I must rant yet again on this topic. I realize these are simply bot programs that place meaningless drivel with comments to various sites. For those who care to read this post, there is a simple truth – even if […]

I recently reviewed the November OUCH newsletter for SANS. Bill Wyman put together an extensive list of commonly installed software products (and the patch sites for each). I thought it would be helpful to share this with readers. This is used with permission. If you do not subscribe to the […]

Here is another idea (again generated from Lynda.com training). In this example, one draws a simple shape in Actionscript (and colors it). Examine the linked working example. The copy button allows one to place another copy of the shape on the stage (and rotate it a bit for an interesting […]

Geocities is being closed by Yahoo! today. Back in the day, this was one of the most visited portals on the Internet (I think it was in the top 5 in 1998 or 1999). I believe Yahoo! spent over $3 billion on it in 1999 (back then, that was real […]