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Unfortunately many programs give unhelpful error messages. Here are some strategies to help find out what they mean, with the best one last. browse the index of the manual (definitely best if there is a manual) search in the program’s online help browse in the...

Many people send Microsoft Word documents as email attachments without realizing that there are several security risks. some viruses specifically target Microsoft Word files Microsoft Word vulnerability gives hackers a backdoor May 24, 2006 earlier versions...

If you want to find out what UCLA phone number a particular line has, call 114 from that line, and the support operator will tell you what number it is, 7-5:30 Monday through Friday.For more information see http://www.cts.ucla.edu/about/contact.htm

Turnitin.com is a “plagiarism prevention system” purchased by the College for use by participating schools.As of Fall 2016, Turnitin can be used exclusively through CCLE. For assistance using the service through CCLE, please contact your local CCLE support gr...

I’m not really sure what Identity 2.0 is but here are some very interesting slide show talks about it, and it looks to be solving some very interesting web security problems. OSCON 2005 Keynote – Identity 2.0 – Dick Hardt – Founder & CEO, Sxip Identity Who...

An underutilized resource on campus is this collection of interviews with faculty about teaching with technology. http://www.oid.ucla.edu/edtech/interviews/Please add other sources both here at UCLA and elsewhere.The UW-Madison Educational Innovation Initiativ...

Yes, luckily enough for UCLA programmers, the Library maintains a subscription to O’Reilly and Associates Safari Tech Books Online service. This service allows searching the full text of many of their technical books. There is also an option to limit your sear...

The first place to start for free web programming tutorials and sample code is http://www.w3schools.com/.

AJAX – (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) is Javascript that sends XML to a web server which then sends back updates for specific sections of the web page, instead of the old way of updating the whole page. You can get more sophisticated applications this way. ...

This collection of programming articles to read is highly subjective, so feel free to add your own additions and comments. General How Microsoft Lost the API War by Joel Spolsky Sunday, June 13, 2004 Pattern Book for Open Source in the Enterprise by Flashli...

AOLserver is America Online’s Open-Source web server. Originally built by NaviSoft, before it was acquired by AOL, it is the backbone of one of the largest and busiest production environments in the world. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled web server u...

Code generation tools seem more relevant as software demands increase. A nice vision might be to combine a standard architecture or framework with code generation tools to speed the development. There doesn’t have to be anything proprietary about this if the ...

ColdFusion is the original and most common implementation of a tag and ECMAScript-based programming language — ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) and CFSCRIPT, respectively — which is typically used in web application development for the generation of dynamic w...

Content Management Systems (CMS) are web programs that make it easier to add and update content on web sites. Instead of learning HTML, FTP and web server commands, once a CMS is set up and a template “look” is defined, others can usually add material very eas...

Interested in doing .NET development? The resources below are good places to start: http://msdn.microsoft.com — This is THE reference site if you are doing .NET development. http://www.gotdotnet.com — Very useful .NET resource. I believe many members of the Mi...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are systems for connecting data to maps. This might involve mapping drive-by-shootings or murals across Los Angeles, or U.S. Congress voting patterns by state. There are many GIS systems available, although I believe ESRI’s...

I just heard about this functional programming language named Haskell on this Ruby on Rails Podcast interview with Jim Vanderburgh http://www.haskell.org/ http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Why_Haskell_Matters Haskell Weekly News – a weekly newsletter covering...

HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is the basis for all web pages. Written in a text editor on one system it can be interpreted by web browsers on other systems. Some people learn it by saving a sample web page to their machine, using FILE / SAVE AS, then the...