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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...

Java is an object-oriented programming language that is intended to be runnable from many different operating systems without recompiling. Essential Links Home Page: http://java.sun.com Downloads: http://java.sun.com/downloads/ Forums: http://forum.java.su...

Javascript, also known as ECMAscript, is used to make web browsers perform certain actions before returning to the web server. It depends on web browsers behaving the same. This was problematic for a long time, but is getting much better. Here are a few Javas...

Some amazing things are happening with Google Map API and now Yahoo Map API. The Best Map-Making Sites On The Web Mapping in Google Spreadsheets – June 5, 2014 Duke Library Blog Get the Most out of Google Maps Google Map API Documentation Google Mapki – forum ...

MySQL is a free, open-source relational database that has been used in thousands of websites, large and small. This is a contributed collection of resource links on MySQL. Feel free to add your favorites. Mike Franks – SSC Collection of Mysql links and arti...

Perl is an extremely powerful, free and popular programming language that runs on many different platforms. It’s most notable features are regular expresions (used for pattern matching) and hashes (arrays indexed by text instead of just numbers). Learning Perl...

PHP is a web programming language that can be compiled into the Apache web server and with its persistent connections to MySQL it makes for a very popular and fast web programming environment. PHP Cheat Sheet https://websitesetup.org/php-cheat-sheet/ Docume...

Plone is an Open-Source Content Management System built on Python and Zope.Departments at UCLA currently using Plone Office of Instructional Development Social Sciences Computing Psychology IT Department The School of Engineering UCLA Chancellor UCLA Executive...

Article on Validating Input from IBM’s Best Practices series Top Ten Web Security Flaws – OWASP Know your Enemy: Web Application Threats – Using Honeypots to learn about HTTP-based attacks

Python is an object-oriented programming language where indenting is important. It is used in web programming, among other things, and the very popular Plone Content Management System is built on Zope, which is built with Python. Research Buzz Article on Sear...

REBOL is a messaging language for distributed Internet applications that run across all devices. (I’m interested if it can be used as a quick, lightweight way to do web services. – Mike Franks – 8 July 2004)REBOL is not a traditional computer language like C,...

Ruby is a Japanese object-oriented scripting language that is meant to make programming fun. Ruby on Rails is a web programming framework built on Ruby, but strongly influenced by the rapid development of PHP and the organization and rigor (and testing) of J2E...

While Unix is an extremely flexible, powerful, and stable operating system, mastering it can require apprenticing yourself to an expert and monitoring every keystroke. This article will hopefully grow as others add their favorite Unix tricks.The best trick is...

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...

There will probably be many criteria for measuring the success of this UCLA Knowledgebase experiment. But the first one is how many people contribute to it and how often. Here are some numbers to start measuring that. For now they’ll be added manually. Date ...

Blogging can definitely be used in teaching, and here are some UCLA Faculty experiences: Chad Topaz, Dept. of Mathematics “I have done some work implementing student blogging as a tool to improve teaching and learning. If you are interested in this topic, f...