Your Web Applications on Your Space
Thursday, October 21, Session 3, 1:30pm, Room 1111
Home ownership is more ideal than renting because you may develop your property as you like. Owning your own web space is similar: You can install blogs, forms, and applications. This will cover how to choose hosting for these needs, demonstrations of applications, SQL databases, design basics, and more.
Be Your Own Geek Squad
Friday, October 22, Session 6, 8:30 am, Room 1111
Our institutions don't teach us how to manage our PCs, and do not service our home computers even if we do use them for work. It is such a valuable thing to know about, and yet it seems as if most people don't-- regardless of age. Remember: Computers are dumb and can't do anything without your instructions. It's not the other way around!
Recommended links
- DriveImage XML There is better disk cloning software out there, but this is free, after all.
- FileZilla A free FTP program.
- Notepad++ An amazingly useful plain text editor (read: HTML markup, CSS, PHP, etc). Highly recommended.
- Drupal "Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual, a community of users, or an enterprise to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website."
- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware A helpful Malware search and removal tool (free version).
- "Web Developer" Firefox Add-On This toolbar can disable images, show window size, validate markup, and much more. Requires Firefox of course.
- "Adblock Plus" Firefox Add-On This toolbar can remove annoying ads, and even some harmful ones. Requires Firefox of course.
- "NoScript" Firefox Add-On This toolbar prevents harmful scripts from running on your computer by pretty much stopping all of them and making you decide which are OK. Effective, but very annoying. Requires Firefox of course.