GIMP Cartoon Clouds
Cartoon Clouds are so easy in GIMP that I almost shouldn’t be writing this article, but maybe it will be useful for somebody. The basic idea here is we are going to be trying to create a cool looking puffy cloud (For those technical among us Nimbus Clouds). The concept here is going to be [...]
GIMP – Stitching Photos
In this tutorial we are going to be stitching two photos together. The average person may be thinking that it is as easy as copying and pasting text, but for anyone who has tried understands that there is a lot more to it. If you are not concerned with whether or not your final product [...]
GIMP – Smoke Tutorial
Today I am going to show you one way to make smoke for your graphics. I know there are a hundred and one ways to do this but this method is the one I like the most because I have more control over what is happening to my photos or images. This is actually very [...]
PHP – Manipulating Files
Now I know there are a hundred and one tutorials on how to manipulate files with PHP, but I have to write this tutorial for no other reason than to practice writing. You see I aspire to perhaps write a book or two about programming on the web and well, I am going to need [...]
PHP – Stack and Queue
I have been ask on more than one occasion by beginners in PHP, especially those fresh out of college or those still in college, how would I do a stack and queue structure in PHP. Well the truth is that PHP has built in functions to manipulate arrays as though the were either a Stack [...]
PHP – Simulating Two Handed Card Shuffle
I decided that I would write a tutorial on how to simulate a two handed card shuffle on a deck of cards. Yesterday I wrote this in JavaScript here, today I am porting this to PHP. Most of us know what a two handed card shuffle is, and most of use this method to shuffle [...]
JavaScript – Simulating Two Handed Card Shuffle
I decided that I would write a tutorial on how to simulate a two handed card shuffle on a deck of cards. Most of us know what a two handed card shuffle is, and most of use this method to shuffle cards. To explain for those of you still not sure what a to handed [...]
JavaScript – In The Beginning, Hello World!
In the beginning, well as far as Web development is concerned, there was HTML and Web development was a simple static collection of HTML pages which was referred to as a Web Page. Web development was simple , and there was not a whole lot to learn. As the Web, or WWW, or Internet, you [...]
Java – The Hello World Example
Like any good book on programming my first article about programming in Java starts with the Hello World Example. It has become common place that if you are going to write a set of programming tutorials in a given language that you start with “Hello World!”, so I will not deviate here. “Hello World” examples [...]
Adding a Comment to a PHP Code Page
Comments are actually the most important thing any coder can learn to properly use. There are actually a few different styles to use when commenting code for PHP. In this tutorial I am mostly going to let the code do the speaking … so to speak …?! Any way. Let me get a few important [...]
