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vi is a Unix text editor that is almost always available, on any Unix or Linux system. Knowing how to edit in it means you’ll always have an editor available, for editing config files or whatever.To convert a unix text file to a windows/dos text file:%s/$/\^M/...

Usability testing is something that few programmers or web designers do but it can drastically improve the user experience if done early and often. In an effort to inspire us to take this on, here are some articles and links. Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug...

Links UCLA Campus Web Publishers Group 4096 Color Wheel – Pretty useful tool to find web-safe/web-smart colors Standalone versions of IE – This website provides downloads and tutorials on how to install different versions of IE on your computer. Very useful fo...

Books For Learning XML: CodeNotes for XML by Gregory Brill (Editor) ISBN: 0812991915 XML In a Nutshell by Scott Means, Elliotte Harold – O’Reilly and Associates Online Tutorials W3 Schools Good idea to disable popups because there’s a lot of adve...

Interested in doing web service development? Here are some useful links: Top Ten FAQs for Web Services) – This is a pretty good primer article from the O’Reilly Network (http://www.oreillynet.com) on Web Services. Lots of useful links. Understanding SOAP ...

Staff and student programmers can list themselves and their areas of expertise and interest in the UCLA Programmers Directory Note that it is restricted to UCLA IP addresses, so you’ll need a VPN from off-campus.If you haven’t added yourself, please do. Right ...

The UCLA Course Management Consortium has worked with the UCLA Library staff to document how to obtains Electronic Reserves data. It is available daily, with SRS numbers. The link below provides the details. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/consortium/index.pl?Elec...

Several times I’ve been asked by faculty to copy student web projects over to our server, or in one case to burn a CD. The utility I use is wget and among its advantages, it will rewrite the links in each page to local links so they’ll work on your server. ht...

What is Subversion?Subversion is a version control system or SCM (software configuration management) tool. It is open-source and provides a feature set superior to that of CVS and Visual Source Safe. More information can be found at subversion.tigris.org.Too...

What is Revision Control?Revision control (also called version control or source control) is a method of tracking changes between various versions of a digital document. This is typically used for software code, but can be used for any type of digital documen...

Comparison chartsThere is an in-depth Version Control Systems Comparison available that covers many important features you might be looking for.Popular Systems and their Pros/ConsThis list is by no means complete. For more in-depth information, refer to the l...

What is Django?According to the Django website “Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.” Django is sometimes compared to Ruby on Rails. The two frameworks have somewhat similar philosophies. ...

For better or for worse, everyone developing web sites at UCLA abides by different rules. For those of us who build for public consumption, what are the best practices — considerate of time and maintenance limitations — to get a little closer to building bette...

Assuming that you don’t have a built-in function that does this in one shot…Here is a trick for quickly (i.e. using minimal typing effort) counting the number of times a string occurs in a larger string:Below is some pseudocode for searching for a string calle...

To obtain SPSS software at UCLA, go to https://softwarecentral.ucla.edu/ibm-spssAnnual licenses restricted to UCLA Faculty or Staff, must be used for UCLA teaching and/or research only and must be paid for with university funds. Students paying with their own...

We needed the ability to display an image for only a quarter of a second. This can be done using javascript. After the tag, add these functionsfunction displayImage(){document.images[0].src = 'flashedImage.jpg'var t = setTimeout("hideImage()",250)}function ...

Useful survey of NoSQL (and SQL) technologies and a summary of the philosophy…http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/7/20/nosqlTaken from email by Jose Hales-Garcia to Campus Web Publishers List

Learn the basic building blocks of jQuery in a two hour combination of videos, and interactive console challenges. – http://try.jquery.com/Please list any other useful jQuery Tutorials you know of.