tutorial Archives - Sorin Adam Matei

By Sorin Adam MateiPublished January 31, 2018Updated November 15, 2018

Why electricity, magnetism (and radio waves) are the same thing and how should this help us understand the fundamental tradeoffs of modern telecommunication technologies

This article is a companion material to the Course COM 25100 Information, Technology, Society which I teach at Purdue University as a University core class. The course teaches trade-off thinking as a fundamental method for understanding technological choice and innovation. Where does electricity come…

By Sorin Adam MateiPublished September 20, 2017Updated October 13, 2025

What is the Internet? What does the Internet do? Why is it an “inter-net” and not just a simple “net? An introduction and tutorial

This is a tutorial on a set of core concepts related to Internet communication for my courses at Purdue University. For technical details, take a look at the PowerPoint presentation The Internet is not one net. It is more versatile than that. The…

By Sorin Adam MateiPublished January 5, 2013Updated January 18, 2013

The best “Autoselect all Facebook friends” tool / extension / code snippet you will ever need to send bulk invitations to your friends

For many moons Facebook has been denying its digital sharecroppers to access all at once the capital that they have brought to the site: their friend list. If you want to send an invitation about a page or event to your entire…

By Sorin Adam MateiPublished April 13, 2011

Installing WordPress plugins and Buddy Press for beginners

The power of WordPress consists in its ability to be extended to perform any number of tricks. In this post I will introduce the notion of WordPress plugins for my WebProduction class and I will illustrate it with several examples, including Register…