Web and Mobile Development articles
Creating curves in HTML5 Canvas is usually achieved with quadraticCurveTo() that has 1 control point or bezierCurveTo() that has 2 control points. In some cases, it might be highly desirable to control the point that the curve hits when drawing with quadraticCurveTo. It is pretty simple, but can be a bit tricky. All it requires, is a little formula that we’ll see in a bit.
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If you use the width and height properties of the image node (vanilla Javascript) or use jQuery’s width() or height() function, you’ll get the size that you see in the browser. Getting the actual dimension (native or natural width/height) of the image is actually quite easy. Let’s see how.
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It is quite easy to get the playback length (in seconds) of an audio or video file. The file may be in whatever format that the browser supports – mp3, mp4, ogg, wav, etc.
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TL;DR You need to free-up some space on your server (or computer) or get a bigger HDD (or partition).
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Ever wanted to make your own CSS2Sass convertor ? When working on projects, a tool that can quickly convert our CSS code to Sass can be ridiculously useful. Let’s see how to do it.
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Just another quick tip. I’ll show you how to change the volume of an audio file of whatever format you are using – mp3, ogg, wav, aac, etc.
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Communication with a backend database management system gets easier due to the specific support for the task by different computer programming languages. One of the many languages which supports connection with a database and interaction with it is PHP, a computer programming language which is used to write applications for the web.
Having experimented lately with the PHP computer programming language, I decided to share my experience with it so far. Through this blog post you will learn how to execute multiple sql queries in a Mysql database by making use of a custom PHP script.
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