In an earlier post, I said that key to government opening its data to citizens, being more transparent, and improving the relationship between citizens and government in light of our web 2.0 world was ensuring content on government sites could be easily found in search engines. Architecting sites to be search engine friendly, particularly sites with as much content and legacy code as those the government manages, can be a resource-intensive process that takes careful long-term planning. But two keys are assessing who the audience is and what they're searching for and also ensuring the site architecture is easily crawlable...
Security in-a-box is a collaborative effort of the Tactical Technology Collective and Front Line. It was created to meet the digital security and privacy needs of advocates and human rights defenders. Security in-a-box includes a How-to Booklet, which addresses a number of important digital security issues. It also provides a collection of Hands-on Guides, each of which includes a particular freeware or open source software tool, as well as instructions on how you can use that tool to secure your computer, protect your information or maintain the privacy of your Internet communication.
The Velocity Template Engine lets you render data from within
applications and servlets. Primarily used to develop dynamic,
servlet-based Websites, Velocity's clean separation of template and
Java code makes it ideal for Model 2-style Model-View-Controller
(MVC) Web development. As a general template engine, Velocity suits
many other purposes, such as code generation, XML generation and
transformation, and textual stream processing. This article
introduces the Velocity Template Language (VTL) and provides
examples of how to use the Velocity engine, including how to
generate Web content in a Java servlet environment.