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Socket.IO Node.js Whiteboard Application Primer Tutorial

We’re building on another great Socket.IO Node.js basis web application project (with package.json) by Damien Arrachequesne (of MIT) on GitHub, thanks, called “Whiteboard”, which is a socket based collaborative web application … downloaded and assembled into place on the MacBook … Continue reading →

Socket.IO Node.js Chat Application Primer Tutorial

Network sockets are a powerful communication tool for software developers … A network socket is an internal endpoint for sending or receiving data at a single node in a computer network. Concretely, it is a representation of this endpoint in … Continue reading →

XML Subtraction and Addition Accountability Tutorial

We like to make our web applications “accountable” to those users using them. Often “sharing” functionality features when improving the “accountability” of a web application, at least for us. We’re trying to improve on the “accountability” of yesterday’s XML Subtraction … Continue reading →

XML Subtraction and Addition Modes of Use Tutorial

Today’s job is to extend the modes of functionality for the “XML Subtraction and Addition” PHP web application we’ve been developing off yesterday’s XML Subtraction and Addition Genericization Tutorial. You may recall from a few tutorials at this blog that … Continue reading →

XML Subtraction and Addition Genericization Tutorial

If you are a programmer not interested in “genericization”, and that’s because you can think on your feet without the “label” … “I tips my hats to ya” … well done. Think, though, that most of us, myself included, don’t … Continue reading →

XML Subtraction and Addition Primer Tutorial

XML being the intelligent data protocol it is, our last XML “command line or local web server (ours being the MAMP Apache/PHP/MySql web server we run our code through) web browsing” mode application we wrote when we presented Spreadsheet and … Continue reading →

Apache/PHP/MySql Linux Language Considerations Primer Tutorial

The recent CSS Style Javascript DOM Override Onload Primer Tutorial “proof of concept” web application ended up with the name … are_you_happy_with_my_or_do_you_think_my_derriere_needs_work.html … but along the way we wanted to call it … are_you_happy_with_my_or_do_you_think_my_derrière_needs_work.html … but this didn’t work as … Continue reading →

PHP Find in Context Primer Tutorial

We’ve discussed PHP as a great server-side language that we use at our rjmprogramming.com.au domain and the three modes of use that PHP works, when we presented PHP Desktop Command Line Follow Up Tutorial as shown below. You may recall … 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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