There are several interesting research projects going on in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) at UH Manoa, ranging from social network analysis to continuous data processing for mobile applications. Being a recent Master's in computer science graduate, I've heard about many of these projects directly from the professors. While I encourage you to read more about them on the…

Aloha everyone. Great to be back on TechHui and very interested to get back to my tech roots with my new found knowledge, network and passion in the renewable energy industry. Would like to meet some of you in the next meet and greet here locally in Hawaii. Hope to learn from you and share my knowledge back. Mahalo TechHui Ohana. 

Web Site Security Tips

When developing web sites it’s a good practice to address security from the start.  Here are some basic security tips that I find many sites overlook.

1. Use different passwords for your server, database, FTP and other logins.  I am often surprised to find many sites that use the same admin password for all their systems or use the same default password without forcing a password…

Turn any WordPress blog into a full-blown membership site.  Perfect solution for those advance Internet Marketers that are now needed a cloud space to allow their subscribers to get your specialized training! 

It is simple and you can use it for any WordPress site, simply download unzip, upload to your blog site!  You will be able to completely manage your usership and features on the site.  Upload your videos, e-books, audio files!  This…

We use Heroku, a PaaS (Platform as a Service) vendor, quite often for hosting small and medium-sized web applications. It makes it drop-dead simple to install, deploy, maintain, and scale your projects on Amazon AWS's infrastructure. Being a fully managed service, they also take care of ongoing hardware and OS-level maintenance, and have engineers around-the-clock monitoring and responding to infrastructure emergencies. Furthermore, they…