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Column Intelligence Editing Tutorial

Lately we’ve been excited about various ways to use the contenteditable=”true” global HTML attribute to turn HTML “display” elements into “that and more”, in other words “display and edit” elements. Fast forward to a couple of days back with Column … Continue reading →

NetBeans Java RESTful Message Board Update Tutorial

Yesterday’s NetBeans Java RESTful Message Board Primer Tutorial had us set up a Message Board web service application in Java and built via the NetBeans IDE. Did the look of its functionality remind you of the basics of SQL DML … Continue reading →

NetBeans Java RESTful Message Board Primer Tutorial

The NetBeans IDE is great for Java projects, and today we take a NetBeans sample project that features a RESTful Web Service component to build a rudimentary Message Board. What functionality is at the heart of this Message Board using … Continue reading →

Rainbow Games Genericization Tutorial

What would help genericize the recent Rainbow Games Double Transformation Tutorial “Rainbow Games” web application? How about introducing another sport? Again, in honour of “onions of the 4th dimension” approaches, we mainly, turn to the power of Javascript’s eval methodology … Continue reading →

Column Intelligence Float Tutorial

If yesterday’s Column Intelligence Primer Tutorial started us out on a project for online newspaper looking web page, it got the concept of “columns” look started, but lacked that “real world” newspaper “column look” where columns don’t just have uninterrupted … Continue reading →

Column Intelligence Primer Tutorial

Newspapers work as a media source largely because of their column format. It is no coincidence newspapers got this format, if you research typesetting. In the online world, presentation formats have more possibilities and varieties than newspapers presented, but that … Continue reading →

Geology Terminology Primer Tutorial

It’s got to be true for everyone who’s stepped on Earth that “there’s more we don’t know than we know”. That’s why the Internet has been such a revolution for so many people. Given a connection to the Internet … … Continue reading →

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1. Sean Zhang on Cocos2d Mac Game Hello World Cocos Creator TutorialNovember 14, 2026
  The Hello World starting point makes it easier to separate project setup from asset problems. A useful follow-up would be importing a small sprite sheet and checking frame dimensions, ordering and padding before adding animation logic. Previewing the individual frames first can help identify whether a problem comes from the artwork or from the engine configuration.
2. 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?
3. 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.
4. 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?
5. 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?

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