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Web browser privacy and the Google Chrome Incognito window

Google Chrome Incognito Window FAQ: What is the Google Chrome browser Incognito window, and how does it work?

By Alvin Alexander on March 9, 2011

Microsoft SharePoint thrives in recession

The NY Times reports that Microsoft SharePoint is thriving during the recession. While Microsoft doesn't reveal actual revenue numbers, they were willing to share that it broke the $1 billion revenue mark last year.

I don't know anything about SharePoint, but that's certainly great news for Microsoft. When it first came out I heard it compared to many open source wiki tools, but this article describes it as having more features than a wiki.

By Alvin Alexander on August 10, 2009

Twitter service spotty as DDoS attacks continue

The NY Times reports that the massive denial-of-service attack continues against Twitter today. Twitter continues to fight against the attack(s), but some users are still having problems accessing Twitter services.

By Alvin Alexander on August 10, 2009

Setting the Drupal front page node

Drupal front page FAQ: How do I make a Drupal page (node) the front page of my Drupal website?

Drupal front page approaches

There are several ways to control the content of your Drupal front page, but if you just want to use a Drupal node as the front page of your site, you can set this on the Site Information admin page.

By Alvin Alexander on April 14, 2011

Want a usability expert? Try a kid.

I had to laugh a little bit about "usability experts" the last time I visited with my sister and her daughters. As I was creating a movie and a website with my nine-year old niece using iMovie and iWeb, we very quickly ran into several problems, including:

By Alvin Alexander on August 8, 2011

How to encode a Java String to send to a web server URL

Java URL FAQ: Using Java, how can I encode a String that I want to safely pass in a URL to a servlet or CGI program running on a web server?

By Alvin Alexander on October 17, 2012

Chrome "early access" release for Mac OS X

Just poking around the internet, I see that Google is providing an "early release" of the Chrome browser for Mac OS X. They have several warnings about privacy concerns, but if you'd like to see what's coming, it might be worth a look. I just took it for a spin, and while it seems pretty basic, it didn't crash, and it seems pretty quick.

By Alvin Alexander on October 20, 2012

A free JSP-based calendar

I've posted a free calendar based on Java and JSP technology online here. As you'll see, it's a very simple calendar, displaying the current month initially, then letting you scroll through the months with previous and next links.

By Alvin Alexander on October 17, 2012

WAP/WML is still the way to browse the internet on a phone

Interesting discovery of the day: Even on an iPhone -- which was supposed to transform the "browsing the internet on a phone" experience -- almost all of the websites I have bookmarked and visit on a daily basis are WAP/WML websites, including WAP/WML versions of the NY Times, SJ Mercury News, Facebook, Google News, and ESPN.

By Alvin Alexander on August 8, 2011

Defining the Web 2.0 Look and Feel

I've been working on revamping my website about Alaska, OneMansAlaska.com, and in the process I was debating whether or not I wanted this site to have what I considered to be the "Web 2.0 Look & Feel". Just at that time I started wondering, "What is the Web 2.0 Look and Feel?", and I was wondering how I would define it.

By Alvin Alexander on August 6, 2011
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