Category Archives: Software

Computer software, or just software, is any set of machine-readable instructions (most often in the form of a computer program) that directs a computer’s processor to perform specific operations. ( Wikipedia )

Integrating Global Weather into Geographicals Tutorial

Today’s tutorial is all about software integration and builds on yesterday’s Ajax Global Weather HTTP Get Primer Tutorial as shown below. Sometimes (well, in my experience) you get the best “kick” out of integrating software components, rather than the writing … Continue reading

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R Tcl/Tk Primer Tutorial

Have you heard of R? R is a free software programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software[2][3] and data analysis.[3] Polls and … Continue reading

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C, C++ NetBeans, Xcode gcc Primer Tutorial

Today’s tutorial has come about as a consequence of Xcode and its Command Line Tools Primer Tutorial in the sense that the installation of Xcode Command Line Tools (in earlier Xcode versions … think maybe less than 4 … “out … Continue reading

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PHP/Javascript/HTML Geographicals By Placename Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that presents various functionality via placename lookups of Latitude and Longitude. The inhouse functionality called on include Sun Angles, Moon Angles and Great Circle Distances. Am hoping it can give some pointers to ideas to do … Continue reading

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PHP MVC Primer Tutorial

Today’s tutorial creates an MVC website in PHP. MVC stands for Model/View/Controller web design architecture methodology. Even if you lack skills in the M[odel] bit of this software technique (and the experts recommend a “fat” M[odel] element to your design … Continue reading

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Mac Virtual Internet Explorer Primer Tutorial

Mac laptops are great “out of the box” but one thing they do not usually do “out of the box” is to help you with an easy way to test your web work on Internet Explorer. In this tutorial we … Continue reading

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PHP Host Your Own Public Feed Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that introduces you to the idea that you can not only USE public data sources of JSON data, for instance, to construct informational web applications, but, if you host a website you could also HOST a … Continue reading

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PHP/Javascript/HTML Public JSON Data Usage More Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that builds on the previous PHP/Javascript/HTML Public JSON Data Usage Primer Tutorial in introducing you to the idea that you can use public data sources of JSON data, for instance, to construct informational web applications. Today … Continue reading

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