Author Archives: Ivan Dimov


April 10, 2016 9:11 pm

Learning Python: Creating a Dictionary app in Python


Learning Python: Creating a Dictionary app in Python
In this article, we will be building a dictionary app with Python and the Tkinter GUI library. The app is going to receive words from the user and it will display their definition. The definition is going to come from a third-party API.

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April 6, 2016 10:26 pm

Creating the logic (Angular controller) of a Hangman game


Creating the logic (Angular controller) of a Hangman game
Hangman is a popular game in which users have to guess the characters in a word with missing letters. Each time they guess a character that does not exist – a man who is being hanged is slowly drawn on the screen. When they get hanged or they complete the word, a new word is given for them and they start anew.

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April 4, 2016 8:58 pm

Creating a Hangman game with Node.js/Angular.js


Creating a Hangman game with Node.js/Angular.js
Hangman is a popular game in which users have to guess the characters in a word with missing letters. Each time they guess a character that does not exist – a man who is being hanged is slowly drawn on the screen. When they get hanged or they complete the word, a new word is given for them and they start anew.

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April 3, 2016 9:24 pm

Executing code if user made a purchase in PayPal


Executing code if user made a purchase in PayPal
Using PDT, you can verify that a user actually made a purchase. If you have some auto redirect after a user made a purchase and check only the GET parameters of the return URL then any user could trigger the “thank you” page without actually having purchased anything. This might be a problem if you want to send the user a file, allow him access to a portion of the website only if he actually makes the payment or set some database value for the user to indicate that he has paid for the thing.

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March 29, 2016 10:10 am

Creating your first Bracket extension


Creating your first Bracket extension
Brackets is a text editor/IDE specifically made for web development and built using JavaScript. It offers extensions that can be created by anyone, including ourselves. We can make extensions that help our own programming needs and publish them so that others can also take advantage of our effort.

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March 27, 2016 6:48 pm

How to Use Git and GitHub


How to Use Git and GitHub
Git is a very famous version control system popular amongst software developers. Have you ever worked on scripts only to wish you could go back to the code you had yesterday or the day before? With Git, you can return to any point of the project’s history you want.

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March 20, 2016 8:23 pm

An overview of Laravel 5 Facades through the Session and Auth facades


An overview of Laravel 5 Facades through the Session and Auth facades
Facades in Laravel 5 are static interfaces to classes that provide access to objects from Laravel’s service container (features).

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