How I built a simple and addictive mobile game in less than two days
In this video, I will talk a little bit about how I built a simple and addictive mobile game in under two days using a game engine called Solar2D.
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In this video, I will talk a little bit about how I built a simple and addictive mobile game in under two days using a game engine called Solar2D.
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Adding links/bookmarks to the categories is a crucial thing for the app. In this video, you will learn how to make it possible.
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In this video, you will learn how to make it possible to add categories to the dashboard.
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In this video, we will start to build a very simple dashboard with some static demo content.
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It's time to start letting users register and logging in to the application. In this video, you will be learning Django authentication.
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In this video, you will start to build the front page for the project.
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In this video, we cover installation and configuration for the project. This include Django and SASS.
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In this introduction video, you will see what will be built throughout this series.
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SASS is a CSS tool that makes it possible to set variables and much more. Grunt is used to compile the SASS to CSS.
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In this article I will show you how to use the mouse to move an object using Pixi.JS. Dragging and dropping an object is an essential part of many games and applications.
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Every now and then, we want to check if an e-mail address is valid. Maybe you're building a user sign up or a newsletter registration form?
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Programming can be really stressful because it can be so intense. Strained eyes and soar neck are very common.
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What do you like best, written or video tutorials? I like to write articles, but some like to create vidoes.
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In this part of "Learning HTML and CSS from scratch" we're going to start learning CSS, not just HTML.
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From the two previous parts, you should have learned some very basic HTMl. Let's dive a little bit deeper and build a couple of more cool examples.
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In the first part of this series, I talked about what HTML is and what it's used for. We also went over some very basic HTML.
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It's been two months since I started to publish daily articles on my blog. Here's how it's been going so far.
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HTML is the most fundamental thing you need to learn to build websites. All websites in the Internet started with HTML in the bottom of the stack.
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Sending files using the command line can be tricky. But by using a command called scp, it might be easier than you think.
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It's time to do a bit of optimizations to our blog. So in this part, we're going to fix a couple of small things here and there in the code.
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It's normal to have ForeignKeys field in ModelForm. And if this is a hidden field, the save function will crash.
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In this guide, I will show you how to create a simple modelform using Django.
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Generating random number using JavaScript isn't hard, but you need to know how to do it.
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A random string can be used for a lot of different purposes like password, filename, etc. But how do you generate one?
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Sometimes you need to optimize your website by either using throttle or debounce, but what's the difference?
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In this part of the series we're going to create a simple search for our blog. The search isn't that fancy, but it'll work.
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What is a blog without comments? In this part we'll create everything we need for adding and showing comments in our posts.
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In this part of the tutorial series we'll learn about lists. Lists are collections of data like strings, numbers, etc.
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I've been posting almost 50 tutorials since I've started March 1st. Here are the most popular posts of them.
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In the previous post we learned the basics about string. In this part, we'll learn how to create a python file and execute it in the command line.
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The blog needs some styling. In this part of the series, I'll show you how to include CSS files into our project.
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In the previous post we installed Python and checked that we had the correct version installed. In this post we'll start diving into some basic python coding.
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Python can be used for a wide variety of things. Everything from small scripts, to websites, games and applications. In this step by step guide, I'll teach you everything you need to know to get started with Python.
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In this part of the Django blog series we'll create the category pages and insert the categories in the sidebar.
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Commenting your code is important for readability and maintainability. Here's a couple of ways to add comments to your JavaScript code.
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Replacing strings in JavaScript can be done in many different ways. In this guide, I'll show you a couple of them.
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In this little guide I'll show you how you can use JavaScript to check if a string starts with a certain word.
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Splitting a string using JavaScript is something you do from time to time. But it's easy to forget the syntax, here's how you can split a string.
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Django's ORM is fast, powerful and easy to use. The problem is that it's easy to make mistakes. In this post I'll talk a little bit about optimizations.
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A short guide on commenting your HTML.
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In this part of the series we'll create the views for the frontpage of our blog and the detail view of a blog post.
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We have data in our database and we know how to add and edit it. Let's continue building our blog by creating the necessary templates.
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It's time to see one more of the reasons why Django is so great. Let's check out the Django admin interface.
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In the third part of this series I'm going to show you how to setup the database models and how to fill them with some dummy data.
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In this part of the tutorial series I'm going to talk about what the different files of the application we created yesterday is and what they do. We're also going to create the app which is going to contain most of the code for the blog.
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In this tutorial series I'm going to show you how to create a simple blog using Django 3. It's going to look similar to this exact blog.
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It's been a whole month since I started posting tutorial every day on my blog. This is how it's been so far.
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Using the mouse to interact with objects in a Pixi.js application is something you need to know how to do. In this guide, I'll show you show to react to mouse down, move and up.
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Let me show you how to use JavaScript to programmatically disable or enable a button.
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JavaScript Reduce is a Higher-Order function and in this post I'll show you how to use it.
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JavaScript Filter is a Higher-Order function and in this post I'll show you how to use it.
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JavaScript Map is a Higher-Order function and in this post I'll show you how to use it.
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By scheduling your WordPress posts you can save a lot of time and it will make your life easier. Read this post to learn how you can schedule your posts and pages.
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When setting up a dynamic website, you're going to need a database. MySQL is one of the most popular, and in this guide I'll show you how to create one using the command line.
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Creating and granting a user permissions is something you might not do too often using MySQL, so it's easy to forget the syntax. Here is a short guide on how you first create the user and how you grant it the permissions it need.
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Sometimes when you run a script on your computer, you want to make it more dynamic by accepting parameters from the command line.
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Creating a simple password generator using Python can be a fun exercise and it will teach you some basic Python.
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Python has something called lists which is a collection of objects.
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A string can be anything from a letter, to a word or a whole sentence.
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This guide will show you how to install and manage multiple versions of Python.
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Django and Vue.js are my two favorite frameworks for building the best websites. In this post I will tell you everything you need to know to use them together.
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One of the reasons for starting this blog was to learn more about seo. A couple of times a month I'm going to share my goals, results and talk a bit about what I'm doing.
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In this Django and Vue.js example we'll be building a todo app. This is a trivial thing to do when you know a language, but it's also a great way to learn many of the key concepts of programming.
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Django has some shortcuts to help you speed up your development process even more. In this post we'll cover a few of them.
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Designing good Django models is very important when it comes to readability and to maintainability. In this post I'll share some good tips on how to implement some good techniques.
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With Slots you can make it possible to structure the content of a component in a semantic way, and the parent component can control the contents of them.
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Filters are justed to apply formatting and transformations to values used in a template interpolation. You include filters in you components and you can use them on all dynamic data. The underlying data will not be change, just the way they are presented on the screen.
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Vue.js computed properties helps you to make computations and changes to your data variables.
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When you're working with Vue.js you often need to run a function when a certain value changes. Vue.js watchers helps you with that.
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Props are used to pass data from a component to another. In this post we will go through how you can pass strings, objects and other data types.
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When you're building a Vue.js app you often need to send information from a component to another, here is how you do that.
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The default background color of a PixiJS application is black and boring. Here is how you can set it to whatever you want.
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A PixiJS application has a default size. But what if you want to size to match the window or you just want a completely different size?
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Making an object move is something everyone needs to know how to do. This is one of the basic buildings blocks of game building.
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In this part I'm going to show you how to add text to the PixiJS application and style it.
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In this part I'm going to show you how to show a sprite in the PixiJS application we created in the previous part. If you haven't already read the previous part, I suggest that you do it now.
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In the first part of this PixiJS tutorial I talked about what PixiJS is, a couple of example and what we are going to learn. In this part I'm going to show you how to set up PixiJS and we are also going to show a scene in your browser.
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PixiJS is a 2D HTML5 rendering engine, and it's really powerful. The rendering engine has full WebGL support, but it can also fall back to normal canvas when needed.
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It's late February and it's only a few more days until I start posting my programming tutorials here on this blog.
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In this post I'll tell you all about what I used to build my blog and how it's hosted.
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Most of the content on my blog will be programming tutorials. But I'm also going to be posting some different type of content too.
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Hi everyone and welcome to Tim Niets! This is my blog and here I'm going to write articles about programming.
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