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Advice when switching from Windows to Apple
When switching from Windows to Apple (OS/X) there are some hints and tips that can make it easier...
Email Record Retention
According to UCLA Policy 455:“University Records management policies do not distinguish among med...
Installing Subversion on Windows
Download and install the Windows binary. Download and install svnservice. Because we will run Su...
Zamzar for file conversion
Message from Mike Franks (14 Apr 2007):This site claims to do conversion of document, image, mus...
Checking CPU load on multi-processor machines
If your machine has more than 1 CPU, the “CPU states” shown by the top(1) command shows the state...
PHP
PHP eXtremePHP and http://pear.php.net/ These code bases will be useful in rolling the PHP out...
How to make a Favicon.ico
You may have noticed in your web browser that some web sites have a little icon in the address ba...
Code Beautifiers And Formatters
“Well-documented and readable source code is essential for every collaborative project. Logically...
Moodle Switch Roles Tool
Moodle has a feature called “switch role” which allows users with enough access to choose other l...
What is Moodle Reset Function?
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Google Sitemap Generator
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OpenSSH "permission denied" error
If your private key file (e.g. ~/.ssh/id_rsa) has too much permission, OpenSSH will complain “per...
Modifying Roles in Moodle
Sometimes roles set at the site-level may not properly work because they are over-riden by a syst...
Questions about developing content for UCLA's CCLE Website
What skills do I need to write webpages for UCLA’s CCLE site?: TBDWill someone review my changes?...
How do I login as a user in Moodle (for troubleshooting purposes)?
If you’re an administrator to a Moodle class site, you can actually login in as a user to duplica...
How do I get started with designing new/existing layouts in Plone?
Taken from various posts on the Plone mailing list (http://www.nabble.com/Plone-f6741.html)Stan M...
How to merge data from Microsoft Excel into Microsoft Word
“In addition to the features and functions of Excel that make your database useful, you can also ...
Passing command-line argument into a DOS (including Windows) batch file
You can use these variables in a batch file:%0 – the batch file’s name%1 – the 1st argument%2 – t...
Passing command-line arguments into PHP
Say you have a PHP script and you want to pass command-line arguments into the script, e.g. calli...
What are the differences between addslashes(), mysql_escape_string() and mysql_real_escape_string()
addslashes() escapes single quote (’), double quote ("), backslash (\) and NUL (\x00).mysql_escap...