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A URL, short for Uniform Resource Locator, is like a telephone number in that it gives a unique way of locating any web page in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL URL official specification http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/url-spec.htmlFor Web Develop...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Disabilities and Computing Program (DCP) is one of UCLA’s resources for students, faculty and staff with disabilities. The responsibility for adaptive computing and information access is shared by the Office for Students with Disabilities, the DCP, campus...

University Communications oversees UCLA’s Graphic Identity System. You can get complete information by going to:http://www.identity.ucla.edu

Our department has been approached by a for-profit company who’d like use the UCLA name and our department’s name for advertising its product. They would pay us a fee for using the name. Can we do it?UCLA policy 110 governs the use of the UCLA name, seals an...