iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

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 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

The BlackBerry Playbook coming out on April 19th has some familiar plays in it – if you grew-up in Ontario: RIM is a Waterloo-based company RIM is/was known for their trackball The device is running the QNX operating system, developed by Waterloo/Ottawa-based QNX Software Systems (which RIM just bought) The screen and input device is… Continue Reading BlackBerry Playbook

I’m a big fan of famfamfam.com ‘s free icon set Silk. The Silk icon set contains over thousand simple icons that are free to use for any purpose. All those at famfamfam.com ask is that you include a link back to there web page in your credits famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/. The icons are so simple as small… Continue Reading Silk Icon set from famfamfam.com as CSS Data URIs