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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...

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...

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...