[TUTORIAL] Cropping and Resizing Images in PHP
PHP is a great script language that has many applications when it comes to web development. It is a particularly useful tool when working with images. You can create and manipulate images files in variety of different formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF). If you are interested in manipulating animated GIFs, my coworker made a great tutorial about that. Today we’ll look at cropping and resizing images in PHP.
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[TUTORIAL] Building a Database
An important step in the process of building a website or web application is the conception of the data structure. Most of the problems that come up during the development of project come from a poorly conceived database. Bad modeling will create superfluous terms, incapacity and lost data. Good modeling makes the project more flexible for possible improvements. The more robust your model is, the less issues you will run intro when you retrieve data through PHP or ASP. It also makes access to the data faster and simpler.
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[TUTORIAL] Making Use of APIs
When I think of APIs, I see them as magical and amazing tools. There are more and more APIs made available by services on the web such as the Google Maps API, the Facebook API, the Twitter API, the Tumblr API, to name a few.
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[TUTORIAL] Server Configuration – cURL
During the deployment of one of our last projects on a client’s server, we had difficulties because we didn’t consider the difference between local and remote servers earlier enough. We had to go into a long debug process before realizing that the problem was not a programming issue but instead came from the server’s PHP configuration
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[TUTORIAL] Retrieving Data from a Server into a JavaScript Variable
During the developpement of a website, I had to manipulate data (which came from a database) through a JavaScript variable. I already knew how to retrieve data from a database into a PHP variable but I didn’t know how to make the connection with a JavaScript variable.
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[TUTORIAL] Create a Subversion with Xcode 4
Hi everybody,
I just started to work with Xcode and trying to add a Subversion folder was a pain. So I decided to write about it and describe all the steps in order to help other people who have to set up a Subversion in Xcode.
Note that if you don’t have any Subversion software or package installed on your Mac you can download the free Subversion Mac OS X package.
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[TUTORIAL] CSS3 Typography
Stylizing your webpage’s text is getting simpler and more customizable on all browsers. Now, with only HTML and CSS3, you can embed your own font and animate and transform your text in 2D or 3D. We will only talk about 2D in this post since 3D is not supported on as many browsers compared to 2D. And, as you will see, 2D transformations can get very creative results.
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Technology: Augmented Reality or How to Cross the Border Between Reality and Fantasy
We’re hearing more and more people talking about Augmented Reality (AR).
This technology juxtaposes in real time a virtual object onto our perception of the reality. It’s basically the dream of all gamers.
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Technology: iPad, Art, and New Technologies
As iPad’s market share increased by 0.8% in April (source here) people are getting more and more inspired by it.
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