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Looking for the best Wiki software? http://www.wikimatrix.org/ – compare wiki features and requirements side by side. Try the Wizard, it lets you pick wikis by language, database/flatfile, commercial/open source.Here are some notes and recommendations I saw o...

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...

Edward Tufte is an expert on presentation of data and visual information and may be most famous for his book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. In January, 2005, 28 people from UCLA attended the Edward Tufte One-Day Course on Presenting Data and I...

One place to start in designing better charts and graphs is with the work of Edward Tufte. Who is Edward Tufte and why should I care? Review: 5 Tools for Creating Amazing Online Charts – Oct. 8, 2014If you have any other suggestions, please add them. Thanks

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...

This link below leads to a few simple systems described in a paper titled “Simple Formula for Strong Passwords: Dramatically Increase Information Security with Minimal Training, and Without Costly Infrastructure Changes.” (It’s a 42 page PDF.) http://www.sans....

Mac OS XCourtesy of Indiana University’s Knowledgebase, here are instructions for typing foreign language characters in Mac OS X. This includes various kinds of accents, the tilde and upside down question mark. http://kb.iu.edu/data/anhf.html http://french.abo...

Although phpMyAdmin is an excellent tool for administering MySQL databases, you don’t want to expose your MySQL usernames and passwords to sniffing over the wire by sending them “in the clear.”The solution, if you are running https, is to simple edit the confi...

This article is posted for historical purposes.Here’s our first contest:“We Want Your Questions” raffleDate: May 10, 2006 11:23:36 AM PDTDear Help Desk Consortium members: Please take advantage of this funand valuable opportunity. Also please share this ema...

The N.Y. Times Circuits is their Technology section which comes out on Thursdays, both on their website and via email. (registration required, but it’s free) I particularly like the articles by David Pogue, the author of many of the Missing Manuals series. htt...

This will hopefully grow into a collection of mailing lists, websites, blogs and RSS feeds that campus technologists use to keep up to date. To contribute, post an article about the resource first, then add the link in here. Feel free to add categories below. ...

First Monday is a peer-reviewed journal on the Internet that comes out on the first Monday of each month. Being peer-reviewed, the articles are more academically oriented, but they range across a wide variety of interesting Internet issues. The journal and we...

“ResearchBuzz is designed to cover the world of Internet research. To that end this site provides almost daily updates on search engines, new data managing software, browser technology, large compendiums of information, Web directories — whatever. If in doubt,...

The Computer History Museum, located in Silicon Valley, is a bit far away from UCLA for convenient visits, but it has video archives of many of the events in its Speaker Series. Here are just a few of contemporary interest: An Evening with Wiki Inventor Ward C...

Videos from the GoogleplexIn addition to helping distribute content from across the world, Google would like to share videos featuring our company. The videos on this page give you an overview of our culture, products and business. Whether it’s a scientist dis...