22 Articles in the category: Coding
Using Amazon AWS EC2 and Lucee to Host Legacy ColdFusion CFML Pages
Sat, 15th of January 2022 1:17 PMThis page describes setting up a CFML server using Lucee (compatible with Adobe ColdFusion CFML pages) on Amazon's AWS EC2 cloud computing service. I was looking for a way to host example/demo versions of some of...
How to Make a 'Load More' Button in jQuery and AJAX
Wed, 12th of January 2022 12:44 PMThis page shows the code for a "Load More" button, using jQuery and AJAX. It can be used to add any content to a <DIV> inside web page while the rest of the page is...
Learning JavaScript and HTML Forms – Make a Simple Quiz
Mon, 10th of January 2022 7:53 PMThis page demonstrates a simple quiz written in JavaScript and HTML forms, made for a TAFE course in web and database development/design in 2001. This kind of quiz makes a good project to practice on when...
Bugster Rush – My 10 Year-Old Son's First Coding Project
Tue, 4th of January 2022 9:52 PMMy 10 year-old son made this game in the language Scratch in a few hours (with some help). Neither of us had coded in Scratch before, and I hadn't really seen it before at all. At...
Coding for Kids – So Many Ways to Learn Coding: Take Your Pick
Wed, 29th of December 2021 11:02 PMThere are more ways now to learn coding than ever before. There's so many different ways to start learning now, it's almost like the hardest thing about the whole process is just knowing where to...
Pretty Lines – A Win32 C++ Screen Saver with Source Code
Wed, 22nd of December 2021 11:45 AMThis page gives an example of C++ Win32 source code for a Windows screen saver I wrote as a learning exercise, when I was first learning Win32 programming. You can view and download the source...
Log4Shell – The Single Biggest Security Vulnerability Ever?
Tue, 21st of December 2021 1:14 PMLog4Shell is a recently disclosed security vulnerability in a popular piece of software used for generating log files (including logging error messages), written in Java, known as Log4j. It's affected countless computers around the world...
PHP Script to Sync Between Two Different Database Servers
Mon, 20th of December 2021 7:13 PMThis page gives an example of source code in PHP and MySQL which can sync individual data fields between two different MySQL database servers. I use it to update from my LOCALHOST MySQL development server to...
My First Ever Computer Program – You Can Try It Too
Thu, 16th of December 2021 12:10 AMThis page gives an example of the first computer program that I saw in its entirety for myself. And typed in to a computer. And ran. And fooled around with. I was (I think) 8...
How to Compile C Programs for DOS in 2021
Wed, 15th of December 2021 10:39 AMThis page explains the steps I used to re-compile a C program I wrote on a DOS PC in 1997, but using a modern PC in 2021. I wanted to do this so I could...
Eel – Play This DOS Game in C in Your Browser
Tue, 14th of December 2021 12:51 PMOn this page you can see the source code and other details of the game Eel, which I wrote in C on a Windows PC while I was studying Physics in 1997. I'll add more...
Conqueror – Pascal Source Code and Details
Mon, 13th of December 2021 10:41 PMPlay and see the source code and other details of the game Conqueror, which I wrote in Pascal on the Commodore 64 in early-mid high school. I'll add more info as I get around to...
Running Python In Your Browser with Pyodide (Widescreen)
Mon, 13th of December 2021 1:20 PMThis page is an experiment to see how much Python I can get to work in a web page, using "Pyodide", a Python-to-JavaScript compiler that uses Web Assembly (WASM). It may not work well in Firefox...
Trying to Run Python in a Browser – Game of NIM
Mon, 13th of December 2021 3:31 AMThis page is basically an experiment to see how well I can get Python code to run inside a web browser. It uses a Python environment called "wc-code", which allows for an "IDE" (Integrated Development...