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Installation (or setup) of a computer program (including device drivers and plugins), is the act of making the program ready for execution ( Wikipedia )

Pear Install of Image_3D PHP Package Tutorial

Yesterday’s Image_3D PHP Package Primer Tutorial introduced for this blog the very useful looking PHP “Image_3D” (3D graphics) package. But how did we reach this discovery? Well, it comes from “cPanelling” around, a faux verb an Apache web administrator will … Continue reading →

Mac OS X Desktop Application Deployment Primer Tutorial

We were really fond, in the early days of Windows, how seamless it was to what we call “plonk” (and you could say “deploy” (if you like)) bits of software (other than *.bat (which is always okay to “plonk”) such … Continue reading →

Windows 10 Upgrade Primer Tutorial

This coming Friday, 29th July 2016 marks the cut off day for free upgrades to Windows 10 from Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1 or Windows 9 operating systems, as you can read about here. Why do this? Read … Continue reading →

Ansible and Vagrant Deploys Git and Jenkins Primer Tutorial

Our last Jenkins foray with Jenkins and Xcode C++ Project Primer Tutorial as shown below included the following idea … A scenario suiting today’s Jenkins is … You’re a Jenkins web application and Xcode IDE C++ analyst/programmer creating a Mac … Continue reading →

Ansible Playbook TLS Tutorial

Yesterday saw this blog’s first Ansible Playbook to create an nginx web server on a VirtualBox virtual machine referenced by http://localhost:8080 but, did you notice, that https://localhost:8443 came up with, in Firefox, at least … Secure Connection Failed The connection … Continue reading →

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1. Hello Team on Javascript Course Primer TutorialNovember 13, 2026
  The distinction between course-driven and immersion-driven learning is useful. A small extension to the australia.htm exercise would be a set of named map markers and a text filter: first update the visible markers on an input event, then add a collected/uncollected toggle, and finally persist only that toggle state in localStorage. That gives beginners a concrete reason to learn arrays, DOM updates and browser storage without needing PHP or MySQL first. It is also worth testing empty searches, a page reload and disabled storage separately; those are different failure cases. Disclosure: we maintain the GTA 6 interactive map. I am suggesting it as an example of a map-and-progress interface, not claiming that we used the tutorial code. Would you introduce persistence after the first working interaction, or keep the initial exercise entirely stateless?
2. tooloteca on Tabular Single Row Radio Play TutorialNovember 12, 2026
  What I find most interesting here is how honestly the post names the hard part: getting focus to work with [element].click() and [element].blur() is the kind of detail that looks trivial until you actually try to drive a page this way. The single-row table that deliberately overflows to the right also makes sense as a design choice, since a radio playlist needs to be scrolled through rather than squeezed into one screen. And the payoff — clicking one song link and having the songs play in sequence and loop back through the list — is a neat reward for all that plumbing with the audio-only YouTube player.
3. Aleister on Tabular Single Row Radio Play TutorialOctober 22, 2026
  I like the single-row radio-play approach for keeping the controls compact while still making each selection clear. When I’m checking a calculation alongside a tutorial, I use StepStat to see the intermediate steps; how do you handle the layout when the playlist gets much longer?
4. anagrampuzzle on Tabular Single Row Radio Play TutorialOctober 18, 2026
  The idea of mapping a video's key scenes, mood, pacing, and audio before production resonates with me — it's a lot like working out an anagrampuzzle, where the same pieces only make sense once you rearrange them into the right order. Do you usually sketch the mind map before or after the script is locked?
5. Alex Morgan on Mind Mapping via Free Mind Primer TutorialOctober 14, 2026
  This is a helpful introduction to mind mapping, especially the explanation of how an unfamiliar .mm file can lead to discovering a practical visual-thinking tool. Mind maps are also useful for planning creative projects: I often map out a video’s key scenes, mood, pacing, and audio needs before production. Once that structure is clear, tools such as Flow Music can create AI background music for videos from a prompt, making it easier to match the soundtrack to each part of the visual plan. Thanks for sharing this accessible primer.

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Category Archives: Installers

Pear Install of Image_3D PHP Package Tutorial

Mac OS X Desktop Application Deployment Primer Tutorial

WordPress Twenty Seventeen Theme on MAMP on Windows Install Tutorial

Windows 10 Upgrade Primer Tutorial

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Ansible Dynamic Inventory Tutorial

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