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Over four months ago I ordered a WoPad from PandaWill.com, so far I’m glad to have the exposure to the Android platform, and for some tasks the larger screen works well. But, the bottom line is it does not replace what any of the Apple iOS devices do. The Device The best part about the… Continue Reading WoPad Android Tablet: 1/4 of the price of an iPad, 1/2 as good

Over the last month I’ve moved from my previous Virtual Private Server (VPS) with A2WebHosting to Linode. A2WebHosting was a good host back when I only needed a shared host, before I wanted the apache web server highly configure with a lot of extra settings and things like PHP’s APC. My transition to A2WebHosting’s VPS… Continue Reading Moved VPS’es

I had a great time at the Sakai Conference 2011 in Los Angeles. My presentation this year was titled LMS-Based Teaching Hacks: A Collection of Simple Ideas to Tweak Your Teaching Within an LMS. It was well received and the room was standing room only. Much as the development community would use the term, these… Continue Reading Sakai Conference 2011

The bottom line: I didn’t get your E-Mail last week, please re-send it. Sorry about that. Here’s the story: I’m in the process of consolidating my DNS names/services at http://Hover.com. Hover.com is retail side of the Canadian internet stalwart TuCows.com. Hover offers a service for $25 for their concierge to handle DNS address transfers to… Continue Reading Where did mattclare.ca go?

If your web site is running on Apache, and almost all are, there’s a simple way to protect directories on your web server. This method can be very secure, when combined with HTTPS and some good practices on your part, but it can also be a simple way to limit access to just a few… Continue Reading Howto: Securing a folder with apache’s built in htaccess options