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Welcome to the TechScreen site. This side shall support the exchange of knowledge in the domain of Web Engineering and related aspects. As a side effect, this side is used for research on knowledge management technologies. User can pose challenges in the problem domain and can participate in quizzes. Further a bibliography about arcticles in different related domains is continously extended. Finally, questionnaires on different issues are provided. To be able to participate you need an account and a password from TU Wien's TISS system.

how to manage unstructured data?

Require a very agile delivery system that is easily able to processes unstructured data. The system of engagement would need to be extremely dynamic.

Manage your GIT accounts with a userfirendly app

If you're working with Git in development, then you've probably seen a lot of command line. While using the command line is a simple and effective way of working, there are some much better tools out there to make working with Git easy.

Load an image using Html/Javascript

Is it possible (using JavaScript) to load an image stored on the client machine into the browser / browser memory for editing, without uploading the image to a remote server?

Loosing data on Google docs..

There is one backup service that can back up these and other kinds of information. Backupify can back up Google Docs and calendars, the address book (contacts) in your Gmail account, your Twitter tweets, Facebook postings, Blogger blogs, and other information. Backing up a few accounts is free, and reasonably priced for more.

MAC vs PC for coding

Regarding security and compatibily, Macs are praised for their security and lack of spyware and viruses while Windows has tons of software, much more than what is available for Macs. In terms of development, using a PC to work in Visual Studio and SQL server is more convenient, while Macs are more convenient for OS X or iPhone.

Sharing code efficiently with Teletype by Github

Github has promoted the new Teletype for Atom, as a new way to dive the right code with remote collaborators. Work in team in real time with different configurations in different programming environment on any file in Atom, is now possible

Download photo previews available on FinisherPix website for a particular event

FinisherPix (reachable at https://www.finisherpix.com/) offers a commercial service of providing photos (of and for the participants) of different (sport) events all around the world. After selecting the event of interest, there is a possibility to see all photos of that chosen event as previews (in a low resolution and with watermark on each of them) in the bunches of at most 16 photos per page (4 rows with 4 photos in each row).

Manage server restarts by (administrator) user through web interface

The (privileged/administrator) user without particular system administration knowledge and specific direct access rights to the server should be able to manage server restarts through web interface. The operating system of the server is Debian, the HTTP web server is Apache Tomcat, and the user access Java application. It should be possible that the respective user knows the next scheduled restart time, postpones or re-schedules the restart times.

Ensure secure data transmission over HTTPS in the absence of officially issued digital certificate

The transmission of (sensitive) data between server and client should be secured, in particular against eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attack. The client accesses data (which is stored on the server) over HTTP through specific web interface. Hence, the client-server communication should be adapted to HTTP over TLS/SSL (i.e. HTTPS). There is no possibility to receive an officially issued digital certificate from one of the well-known certification authorities (CA). The solution should be simple, and the implementation may not take longer than ca. 2 hours.

How to disable the mobile version of a website when using a smartphone

In these days it is normal that many web pages have a computer version but also a mobile version.If a website has a mobile version, it is usually shown by default once it detects that the user is visiting from a mobile device, and it is very helpful because it will allow the web to be seen better, easier to navigate and much less resources to be downloaded . However, this is not always the case; Some mobile versions are worse, difficult to understand and take too many clicks to see some information. So, in some cases it will be better to go back to the desktop version.

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