Brownie-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
I love chocolate chip cookies and I love brownies. So when I stumbled across a recipe for a brownie-stuffed chocolate chip cookie, I knew I had to try and bake some.
Spoiler Alert: These cookies turned out monstrously huge.
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How to Create an Animated GIF
Lately, we have been seeing animated GIFs of our favorite movie scenes making a comeback on Tumblr and on various blogs. It’s a cool way to share films you like and the best part is that they aren’t that complicated to make. Here is a tutorial on how to make your own GIF from your favorite movie.
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Tech Tutorial: How to Build an Echo SMS Server Using Twilio API
Twilio is a SMS/Voice gateway that allows us to turn our app easily into a voice and SMS app without dealing with the service provider.
For instance, when a user text messages or calls the Twilio number, Twilio will make a request to your application and interact with the user based on the output of your application.
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Tech 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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Tech Tutorials: 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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Tech 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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Tech Tutorial: Simulation of Particle Systems in Flash
Particle systems allow us to simulate different real world phenomena like clouds, fog, and water. However, it can be very time consuming and difficult to build particle systems from scratch. Fortunately, there are two common open source particle engines we can use: the Flint and Stardust particle engines. They are similar to Papervision3D because they can help us to minimize the mathematics and scripts required to build particle effects. In this blog, we will use Stardust as an example to build a word in ActionScript 3 using particles.
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Tech 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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Tech 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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Pinterest: A Tutorial
22 Feb 2012, 9:05am
Social Media Tutorials: Boards brands Comments Facebook images interest-based social networks Likes lists pictures Pins Pinterest Repins social media social sharing tutorials TwitterPinterest is a new platform for sharing pictures among your friends. It is a fun, new, and innovative way to share pictures, videos, recipes, and other interests with your friends or strangers. The social network has been a hot topic in the news lately, so I put together a tutorial for new users.
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