Monthly Archives: May 2013

Mac OS X Activity Monitor and System Preferences Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that introduces you to some aspects of the Activity Monitor and System Preferences in Mac OS X, which are tools to respectively monitor and tailor Mac OS X settings and arrangements for personal use. Activity Monitor … Continue reading

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JSON and jQuery Javascript Flickr Feed Tutorial

Web browser users really like to make use of data feeds and one of the protocol formats they are often using when accessing RSS feeds is JSON (and XML), as outlined below in a Wikipedia entry. In this tutorial we … Continue reading

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Javascript Cookies Primer Tutorial

In tutorial here we use Javascript code to illustrate some methods to utilize browser Cookies, as described by Wikipedia below: A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is a small piece of data sent … Continue reading

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PHP Form Validation Primer Tutorial

In tutorial here we use PHP (writing its own Javascript … don’t know about you, but love it when the server-side meets the client-side, and vice-versa (if this is possible? … has anybody done work going document.write([some-php-code]); ?!)) code to … Continue reading

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Javascript Form Validation Primer Tutorial

In tutorial here we use Javascript code to validate an HTML form element’s input tag data using regular expressions, as described by Wikipedia below: In computing, a regular expression (abbreviated regex or regexp) is a sequence of text characters, some … Continue reading

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VBScript Primer Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that introduces you to some aspects of VBScript. VBScript (Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic. It is designed as a “lightweight” language with a … Continue reading

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Java Swing Primer Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that uses Swing functionality in Java to create a GUI (Graphical User Interface) program on a Mac laptop. Below is some information from Wikipedia regarding the Java Swing functionality: Swing is the primary Java GUI widget … Continue reading

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Automator in Mac OS X Primer Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that introduces you to some aspects of the Automator in Mac OS X, which is a tool to organize the running of your Mac OS X applications interactively, and can involve the processing of multiple actions … Continue reading

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