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Python Essentials: What Programmers Coming From Other Languages Need to Know
Welcome to the world of Python! If you’re transitioning from another programming language or if you’ve been dabbling in various languages and decided to give Python a deeper look, there are some essential quirks and features you should be aware of. Python, often lauded for its readability and elegance, does have its unique characteristics. In…
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WordPress: Movable Type and TypePad Import Plugin + Image Downloader
A coworker of mine has been keeping a blog with Typepad for several years now. As of recently he decided he wanted to switch to using WordPress on one of our servers. This is usually easy; you export your blog from the original site and import it using the appropriate plugin. WordPress provides great plugins…
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HTML5 Canvas 2D Game Experimentation: Basic sprite movement and map management
Here’s an HTML5 experiment in progress… HTML5’s canvas element is pretty powerful and easy to use. Rendering images, shapes, and text typically does not require a lot of code. So I decided it would be fun to build a simple javascript gaming engine to see what I could do with the canvas element in a…
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BK Countdown: A robust, fully customizable javascript Countdown class for jQuery
I was looking for one of those javascript date counters we’ve all seen a million times and came across a bunch. Each had its own unique twist but not too many were flexible. I realized it would be way more fun to just write my own. In doing so, I wound up with a wonderful…
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ArcGIS JavaScript API: Understanding the Query Task
The Query Task is probably the single most important class in the ArcGIS Server Javascript API. Understanding how to access data from the server and how to manipulate it is the cornerstone to developing any GIS application. There are a few examples within ESRI’s sample page, however I wanted to provide two examples outlining how…