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AlmaLinux TimeZone Places Associative Array Tutorial

Have you been waiting for more “heads up” regarding issues we’ll have moving from a PHP (of a version starting with a 5) to a PHP (of a version starting with an 8)? Join the crowd?! But so far, it … Continue reading →

PHP GNU Multiple Precision Mathematics Tutorial

Maths fun “PHP style” can be had with the GNU Multiple Precision (GMP) extension with echoes of PHP mathematics work talked about with PHP Bcmath Factorial Tutorial. Again, on this AlmaLinux PHP (starting with 8) environment, we started off with … Continue reading →

AlmaLinux PHP Gettext Backup Translation Tutorial

As we intimated earlier, using PHP gettext is a good framework to use regarding writing your own serverside language translation functionality, but the “gruntwork” is there ahead of you maintaining those [domain].po (Poedit) files. And so, improving on yesterday’s AlmaLinux … Continue reading →

AlmaLinux PHP Gettext Your Own Translation Tutorial

To open up yesterday’s AlmaLinux PHP Gettext Translation Tutorial‘s PHP Gettext Using web application to the possibility of … user supplying a new locale into the mix … and … user supplying their own English to “Their Newly Introduced Locale” … Continue reading →

AlmaLinux PHP Gettext Translation Tutorial

With our changeover to … AlmaLinux Apache/PHP/MySql web hosting … using … PHP version with an 8 starting it … it is time to revisit the PHP gettext (Human Language Translation) module, that had us reach an install situation which … Continue reading →

Ffmpeg User Defined Video Editing Sharing Tutorial

Sharing options for video based data are often more restrictive regarding email and SMS conduits, but we’ll still go ahead with a … “a” link “mailto:” (for emails) or “sms:” (for SMS) methodology … email subject containing ffmpeg command used … Continue reading →

Ffmpeg User Defined Browsed Video Editing Tutorial

Today’s work, onto yesterday’s Ffmpeg User Defined Video Editing Tutorial, is to loosen the restrictions regarding “input video file source” we had happening in that “first draft” incarnation of our Ffmpeg User Defined Video Editing web application. In order to … 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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