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I am looking to develop an application and would like to have access to data such as class roster information, student info, etc. How can I obtain this data and who do I need to contact to get access to this data?Campus Authentication using ISIS and Shibboleth...

Updated as of June 25th, 2010UCLA Shibboleth 2.1+ Guides:Installation guideConfiguration guideFollow up with installation of WebServerAuth: http://plone.org/products/webserverauthDoes “(null)” show up instead of the login name in Plone when all is said and don...

Download and install the Windows binary. Download and install svnservice. Because we will run Subversion as a service, C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin must be part of the PATH environment variable. The installation should have done this but double-check this....

According to UCLA Policy 455:“University Records management policies do not distinguish among media with regard to the definition of University Records. As such, Electronic Mail Records are subject to these policies.”http://www.adminvc.ucla.edu/appm/public/455...

How can I create a multi-page TIFF file?On OS/X it looks like tiffutil can do that. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/tiffutil.1.htmlOn Windows, TiffCombine costs $50 but has Trial version. http://www.topshareware.com/Tiff...

Using this website, you can easily calculate the number of days between two dates:http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.htmlYou can also use a UNIX script to do this. It can be found here:http://www.unix.com/showthread.php?t=4870

If you have Adobe Professional, you can create non-printable pdfs by: Open your PDF document. Click on Document menu at the top of the page and select Security, then select “Show Security Settings for this Document.” A dialog box should open up, click on the S...

This page Difference Between VIM and vi goes over some of the advantages of vim over vi. (Note: the page disappeared, so now we’re pointing at the Internet Archive’s March 2011 cached version.)To list some useful features:Multi-level History Undo – n u (n is ...

In conventional password authentication, you prove you are who you claim to be by proving that you know the correct password. The only way to prove you know the password is to tell the server what you think the password is. This means that if the server has be...

Do gradebook grades propagate from meta course sites back to their respective child course sites?When a student takes a quiz in the metasite, it appears that grades are reported to the gradebook of the meta-site but not reported to the children sites.Backgroun...

Martin Dougiamas, founder of Moodle, explains how blogs work in Moodle:“Firstly, I want blogs to be well-integrated in the Moodle experience. I do not want to just bolt on Simpblog or WordPress. Most standalone blogs have comments because there is no other way...

Make sure you are logged in to the Knowledge Base. Before creating a new page, please search the Knowledge Base and confirm there is not already a similar page. Decide where to categorize your new page. Choose a book and, optionally, a chapter to create the...

To configure cURL to be able to run in PHP uncomment this line (remove the semi-colon) in the php.ini file: ;extension=php_curl.dllApparently in UNIX systems Apache will read cURL’s curl-ca-bundle.crt file at startup and cURL will be able to use that informat...

If you’ve used the product ATPhoto or ATPhoto Album in Plone 2.1, but now it is breaking in Plone 2.5, before you rip your hair out, here’s what you need to do: copy the code from this site: http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/ATPhoto/trunk/configure.zcml ...

PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository. Applications written in PHP often include references to external libraries and PEAR is a way to manage these. On Windows if PEAR hasn’t already been configured log in to the server and run go-pear.bat in th...

By default MediaWiki uses MySQL and the default FULLTEXT indexing uses built-in stop words and a minimum word length of four. A list of the stop words is available but are the usual thing (the, and, one_, etc.). You can set your own stop words by setting the f...

Short URLs dispense with the index.php/ part of MediaWiki page URLs. If the MediaWiki instance is located in a subfolder (http://foo.ucla.edu/wiki) then Aliases can be used. If the MediaWiki instance is at the web root (http://wiki.foo.ucla.edu) then Rewriting...

In csh, using quotes in a quoted string can be tricky, especially if the string contains both single and double quotes. If you use single quotes to quote the string, use ‘\’’ (a single quote, a backslash followed by two single quotes) where you want to insert ...