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What is Turnitin.com and how can I get help with using it at UCLA?
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...
Bruincard photos for class rosters
The School of Public Affairs gets student photos from BruinCard. All students, faculty, and staff photos are on file at BruinCard. This is a fee for service function, and there is a form that must be completed that addresses FERPA and other issues. Faculty ...
What is Identity 2.0 and as a web developer, why do I care?
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...
Where can I find interviews with faculty about teaching with technology?
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...
How do I update root certificates in Apache/PHP/cURL environment
Following is the instruction for dealing with the new ISIS’ SSL certificate authority (effective 4/21/2006), Geo Trust, in a UNIX or Windows environment using Apache/PHP/cURL. The instruction can generally apply to any new SSL certificate authority.UNIXIf you...
If I am an instructor, but I have yet to have my name added to the payroll, how can I obtain a BOL account if I need access to course materials?
Instructor can apply for a “special temporary account” with an expiration date by following the instructions for a visiting scholar account here:http://www.bol.ucla.edu/services/accounts/info/special.html#tempOnce the professor has a payroll entry, they can th...
I check mail in my office with Outlook Express, but at home, I check mail via webmail and my messages are gone. How can I see the same messages?
When you download mail to email clients such as Outlook, Outlook Express, etc, your mail is being wiped from the server as well; email clients are defaulted to remove messages from your server after download. Their logic is that if you’re saving it onto your c...
Does UCLA have free access to O'Reilly and Associates programming books online?
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...
Where can I find free web programming tutorials and sample code?
The first place to start for free web programming tutorials and sample code is http://www.w3schools.com/.
What is Ajax web programming?
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. ...
Programming articles to read
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...
What is AOL Server and ACS?
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...
What is code generation?
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
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
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...
.NET Programming
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
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...
What is Haskell?
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...