HowTo WhiteList Proxy for School Using Squid on OpenSUSE Linux 11

Overview I am the technology coordinator for a small, private K12 school in rural Upstate New York.  One of our challenges is filtering Internet access so that the students may have access to the Internet as much as possible while not requiring constant, direct supervision. To meet these needs we decided that we were limited …

Robert Dewar on Java (and College)

Two recent interviews with Prof. Robert Dewar of NYU, Who Killed the Software Engineer and The ‘Anti-Java’ Professor, have recently been popular on the web and I wanted to add my own commentary to the situation.  These interviews arise from Dewar’s article in the Software Technology Support Center: Computer Science Education: Where are the Software …