Baldy’s Paradox

Users find plenty of ways to run into trouble, from gunking up their system with shareware to leaving it exposed to attackers to forgetting about using surge protectors. Share this list with your own users so they can sidestep preventable problems like these.

Technology may be changing at a lightning-fast pace, but one thing remains constant: Users make mistakes with their computers. Sometimes, the mistakes are just slip-ups that could happen to anyone (ourselves included). But other times, an avalanche of issues is unleashed simply because a user didn’t know any better. It may look like they’ve done something dumb, but if we haven’t taught them better habits, we’ve done something even dumber.

Hey I didn’t say it but it is the truth folks, Baldy

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More and more, open source projects are either integrating with the web or are developed entirely for on-demand use. This requires strong web development skills–or at least good enough tools to rescue you if any of your web development skills are weak. The good news is that there are many free open source tools to help you with your web project, and given the costs of web development environments and the like, they can save you a lot of money. Here are more than five good examples.

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