From most good programmers, if you're being taught how to program in any compiled or interpreted language, you'll often hear the mantra Comment your code or something similar. Why? Because good comments are worth their weight in gold. It lets others (and you when you've put the code away for a while) know what you are trying to accomplish with ( Read more... )

I'll be focusing on web design in this article as that is what I'm familiar with, but the basic concepts should apply to any field.

Client-to-Developer-to-Client Communication
It is extremely important that you have good communication skills for any sort of relationship, but especially if you're looking to make money as an independent consultant. ( Read more... )

I'm on more than a few mailing lists that are user support oriented (everyone on the list helps everyone else if they can) and one of the biggest issues I see with people using software aren't special use cases, which for most of the mailing lists I'm on make up a very small minority of the posts, but are installation issues. They download the ( Read more... )

In the beginning of this series on security, "The Privacy Mandate", I talked about why one should worry about their privacy and security online as well as some tools to use to make your experience that much more secure and private. In "Getting Serious About Security", I discussed how to make your browsing and IM experience as anonymous as possible ( Read more... )

In "The Privacy Mandate" I only lightly touched on one reason for being security and privacy conscious with your online dealings (for a refresher, see here and here as well as here and here). I also mentioned some tools to use to reduce your visible online footprint so as to have more privacy and security. Today I would like to take the time to ( Read more... )

Are you sick of Internet ads but don't want to be bothered using FireFox and the Adblocker extension (which works wonderfully, by the way)? Or how about your kids going to sites which you don't approve of? Are you using Windows (specifically XP ( Read more... )

I am on my parents computer. I'm looking at having to do an install over of Windows, then a backup of all my files (music included) and an attempt to go Linux once again. I'm also looking into a new computer, as well. This one has been frankenstien'd so much that it's a wonder it runs at all ( Read more... )

My memory has arrived and is performing well so far. Still can't play Guild Wars, but my bro-in-law says it might be a RAM I/O problem, meaning new motherboard. Ah well. Just have to start saving up to a new computer now. I'll keep this one running for various other stuff. I just won't be able to play my favorite MMO ( Read more... )

I just recently bought myself a memory upgrade from TigerDirect. Once the stick gets here, I'll be running a gig and a half of PC333DDR. If anyone needs a 128MB stick of the stuff, let me know. I'll part with it for a fair offer.

[tags]computers, hardware[/tags]

Originally published at Ameliorations 1.0.

Silicon Graphics Prism Deskside Host System. Includes DVD-ROM ( Read more... )