Author: John Walker

  • Windows Live Writer Is Now Open Live Writer

    Scott Hanselman blogs about the release of Open Live Writer which replaces Windows Live Writer (not updated since 2012) which despite its lack of maintenance is a very popular blogging platform, especially with the WordPress community.  Give it a try and see. ARE YOU AN EXISTING USER OF WINDOWS LIVE WRITER? We encourage you to…

  • Setting Up Moodle to Use Google Mail: Postfix on Fedora 22

    When I set up my Moodle Server, one of the things that I wanted to do was be able to send the emails to the students as well as logs and various system emails. Creating your Relay If you haven’t done so already, you need to install postfix first. # dnf install postfix Next you…

  • Get the Old Chrome Bookmark Manager Back

    From Techdows Chrome now features a fancy new bookmark manager and interface that’s all about thumbnails. If you’re not a fan, here is a flag you can switch to go back to the old interface. Getting the old interface back is easy: Head to chrome://flags/#enhanced-bookmarks-experiment Change the setting to “Disabled” and click “Relaunch Now” That’s…

  • Infographic: Which Programming Language Should I Learn First?

    The following was on Carl Cheo’s site and included here in the event it moves.  Please respect the author and look at the original site and all the material there. Before choosing your first programming language, you should also check out this infographic on What Is Programming And What Do Programmers Do. So you want…

  • The surprising story of the world’s oldest dot-com

    NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Internet is celebrating a big birthday next week: The world’s oldest dot-com domain, symbolics.com, is turning 30 on Sunday. The first dot-com was purchased by a Massachusetts-based computer company Symbolics on March 15, 1985 — four years before the World Wide Web even existed. (Email and the Internet pre-date the…