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Tech Tuesday: Postponed (Sorry)

Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger – Feb 14, 2012

Sorry, no Tech Tuesday today. Can’t type a long post until my right hand gets better or I get dictation set up. In the meantime: a huge thank you to everyone who contributed suggestions and help. I have received tons [...]  Read more

Need Some Help

Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger – Feb 13, 2012

Years ago I had a run-in with carpal tunnel syndrome. I stopped typing for a while altogether and then switched to a split keyboard and eased back into typing as slowly as I could. Thankfully the pain went away. After [...]  Read more

Consider ACTA a Treaty (and Why This Matters)

Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger – Feb 10, 2012

In 2010, I wrote about ACTA several times. Essentially, ACTA was a behind the scenes effort to create a global copyright framework that would significantly strengthen rightsholders’ enforcement options. The initial ACTA process was held in secret for several years [...]  Read more

Tech Tuesday: Routing and TCP/IP

Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger – Feb 7, 2012

We are continuing along with the web request cycle. Last week we took a look at the HTTP protocol. There I already mentioned that HTTP requests and responses travel over a TCP/IP connection. Today we will dive a bit deeper [...]  Read more

Dwolla

Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger – Feb 6, 2012

Money is one of the fundamental underpinnings of the economy, yet we largely take it for granted. When we pay for our morning cup of coffee (or tea) with cash or a credit card, we tend not to stop and [...]  Read more

Tech Tuesday: HTTP

Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger – Jan 31, 2012

Today we are continuing on with the web request cycle. After the browser has parsed the URL and obtained the IP address of the server via DNS, the browser now has to communicate with the server. That is done using [...]  Read more

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