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HTML Canvas Pros and Cons Game Primer Tutorial

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The HTML Canvas element is great for many types of games especially where you draw your own graphics based on interaction from the user. Today you may consider our Pros and Cons “game” to be more of a “decision making … Continue reading →

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NetBeans Java Swing Anagrams Tutorial

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The last time we talked about the NetBeans IDE in relationship to Java and Swing we dealt with NetBeans JavaFX Swing Primer Tutorial as shown below. Today we use a sample NetBeans project and add a little functionality to create … Continue reading →

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HTML Canvas Perfect T Game Primer Tutorial

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The HTML Canvas element is great for mathematical games especially where you draw your own graphics based on interaction from the user. Today’s game‘s geometrical theme tests whether the user can mimic the drawing of a diameter line across a … Continue reading →

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Linux crontab Considerations Tutorial

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The crontab functionality in Linux or Unix is just great. It is batch processing, doing things while you are not there. This same crontab strength is also, at times, a source of its weakness … what if something goes wrong … Continue reading →

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Yahoo YQL Nextbus JSON Primer Tutorial

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If we add some of the ideas of HTML/Javascript Geolocation Primer Tutorial to yesterday’s Yahoo YQL Geodata JSON Primer Tutorial we may well arrive at the logic and a large part of the content ideas for today’s tutorial, where we … Continue reading →

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Yahoo YQL Geodata JSON Primer Tutorial

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Here is a tutorial that introduces (or reintroduces) you to the Yahoo Web Services called YQL. The name is the way it is because it simplified the API aspects of its functionality for the developer to concentrate on SQL, and … Continue reading →

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WordPress Blog PHP mod_deflate Speed Improvement Tutorial

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Our “quest” for speed continues, man person. This WordPress Blog (from WordPress.org (not WordPress.com)) is now using the PHP mod_deflate module to zip up the traffic going out on the web, in exchange for a higher CPU load for our … Continue reading →

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NetBeans Backbone.js HTML5 Web Application Primer Tutorial

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Today we create a NetBeans (IDE) HTML5 project based on the Backbone.js methodology for web application creation, which we include a bit about as quoted from Wikipedia (thanks) below: Backbone.js is a JavaScript library with a RESTful JSON interface and … Continue reading →

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