Create a Space Invaders Game in Corona
3 PostsIn this three-part series, I will be showing you how to create a game inspired by Space Invaders. Along the way, you'll learn about Corona's scene management functionality, timers, moving a character, the built-in physics engine, and how to use modules to emulate classes in the Lua programming language.View Learning Guide...
iOS 8: What's New in SpriteKit
2 PostsThis two-part series gives an overview of the new features of the SpriteKit framework that were introduced in iOS 8. The new features are designed to make it easier to support advanced game effects and include support for custom OpenGL ES fragment shaders, lighting, shadows, advanced new physics effects and animations, and integration with SceneKit. In this series, you'll learn how to implement these new features.View Learning Guide...
Data Visualization App Using GAE Python, D3.js and Google BigQuery
4 PostsImagine that you have a large set of data with millions of rows and you're faced with the task of extracting information from the data. How do you make sense of a large set of data? The simple answer to this question is that we do so via data visualization, but what is that, exactly?View Learning Guide...
Introduction to Creating Your First WordPress Widget
5 PostsFor non-coders creating a WordPress site, widgets are great. They let you add menus, lists, feeds, text and much much more to widget areas which don't need to be limited to the sidebar. Many themes now feature widget areas in the footer, and the big theme frameworks often have widget areas in multiple locations such as the header and before and after the content.View Learning Guide...
How to Program With Yii2
28 PostsThis tutorial will walk you through installing Yii 2.0, setting up your local development environment, building some sample applications, setting up your remote production environment for hosting and deploying your code from a GitHub repository.View Learning Guide...
Integrate Bitcoin Payment Gateway Into OpenCart
2 PostsIn this series, we are going to look at building a Bitcoin payment system into our installation of OpenCart. We've already looked at basic module development, so in this series we'll look at developing more advanced modules.View Learning Guide...
