Monday, April 23, 2012

Background Texture Tutorial for Adobe Fireworks: Noise and Gradient

Although this effect is fairly common, it still nonetheless cool. It's fairly easy to achieve on Photoshop, and likewise on Fireworks. But sadly, there's not a lot of Fireworks tutorials out there. So, here's one that is based on a Photoshop tutorial on Design Bash.

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Parsing and Looping Through JSON Data

For my first ever tutorial on Youtube, I have decided to take on something light. Something not everyone uses but something that can make life easier for programmers. The tutorial shows how to parse and loop through a JSON data received from the server.

JSON or Javascript Object Notation is a data format that is language-independent which makes it easy to pass data without having to worry about syntax conversion.

In this tutorial, we fetch data from a MySQL server using a SELECT query and pass that data in JSON format from the server (using PHP) to the front-end. Then we parse it (turn it into a Javascript object) and loop or iterate through it with the help of jQuery.

Hope you learn something.  Click on the play button to proceed.


Can't Break Blocks on Minecraft Multiplayer

Players experience that they can't break blocks when they are within a certain radius of their spawn point. This is not a bug. This is deliberate. But one way to by pass it when playing multiplayer is to give people OP status. Watch the video below for the instruction.