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Learn PHP and make a strategy game
Let’s build a complete Network Tycoon game, with PHP. I loved Civilization, Railroad Tycoon and many other strategy games on PC, in 1990s. So why not do one self, and learn backend programming at the same time. I figured the context could be a modern face of civilization. What else is such a global thing,…
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Tiedon luonne
Miten täydellisessä informaatiomaailmassa saisimme tiedon? Ensimmäinen kysymys on: minkä tiedon? Tieto on käsityksemme mukaan hyvin perusteltu tosi uskomus. Arkikokemuksena tieto voi olla hyvinkin erilaista luonteeltaan. Tieto voi olla vaikka: uutinen talven ensilumesta omakohtainen tieto siitä, missä on lähin bussipysäkki päivän keskiarvovaluuttakurssi, USD <-> EUR (kahden valuutan välillä) hintatieto lentomatkalle joka lähtee Helsingistä ja saapuu Tukholmaan…
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Web creator’s pack of history, tools and pointers
There was initially some kind of dream. Along with the primordial soup of Internet. Physicists have information in all sorts of document formats. Especially CERN physicists, who are trying to puzzle together the answers to perhaps some of the most elusive problems in the universe. One particular theoretical physicists was extremely irritated by the overhead…
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CSS and the position: attribute
CSS “position” attribute is central to the mechanism of layout of HTML elements. You’ll learn: what position is all about ways to use position: position: absolute, fixed, relative I am writing this in 2022, learning CSS myself. I’ve had a working knowledge of some of the CSS mechanics for a long time, but really want…
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Spring on
It was a rough winter in Finland, 2021-2022. The bike is somehow telling.
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Azure developer’s cove
Azure list of tools and places az – installing Azure CLI Azure Portal at Microsoft – https://portal.azure.com
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Baking startups — two aspects.
Beyond brainstorming and having a electrifying buzz, it is good to consider two important aspects. Let’s talk about Opportunity time window and Timing. First of all, how do they differ? An opportunity is something you grab. But before grabbing, it’s gotta be grasped. Opportunity Time Window is what I call the period of time, during…
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An overlay mechanism for dealing with annoying nuggets such as passwords
“Luminescent device, that reveals user’s clear-text password, one at a time, in appropriate manner.” This kind of idea struck me as I was thinking about what I see as two cornerstone problems we still seem to have with tech: one is passwords, the other thing: lack of onsite 24/7 IT guy who would help us…
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What can we do to improve a Javascript algorithm: match label to array index
That code above really got me thinking. I’m doing pretty much of excess there – it’s both slow, and takes space. What is it? I am trying to get basically a number for a (String) key. It’s a map data structure. Matching function type is string matching. I will be matching an input string towards…