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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...

Here is a voluntary list of those using Ruby on Rails at UCLA. Hopefully people will add summary comments in their sections describing what problems they had, and a link if the site is public.Please add yourself and your project. The earlier entries have all m...

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 ...

I have been told this is a classic by an interviewee: What is the difference between TCP and UDP?Please add to this list. How do you perform a string reversal in C without using a temporary array?