Category Archives: Dev Tools
Easily create stunning animated charts with Chart.js
Charts.js is a library for JavaScript which uses HTML5’s canvas to render various different beautiful charts for the web. You can download it from: http://www.chartjs.org and start using it immediately. All you have to do is add the Chart.js script to your document and you can take advantage of its functionality, documented at http://www.chartjs.org/docs/.
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Creating a Text-to-Speech API part 2
After we have set up all parameters, we create a variable that will hold the name of the audio file which will be a randomly generated name. Afterwards, we launch eSpeak in the command line with all possible user parameters. If the user has not specified a parameter, it will just be blank.
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Creating a Text-to-Speech API part 1
To create a Text-to-Speech or Speech Synthesis API we will be using eSpeak. eSpeak is a speech synthesizer which supports many languages and is available for Linux, Android, OSX, Windows and Solaris. It can also be used as a command line program which can be very useful to developers. Moreover, some Linux distributions come with eSpeak pre installed and available for use in Terminal (such as Ubuntu).
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Creating a productive programming environment in Brackets
There are many available text editors and IDEs out there. Some are commercial and require a payment for their license such as Sublime Text or JetBrains products such as PhpStorm and WebStorm. Instead, I want to show you how to set up a productive environment for your coding habits in Brackets. Brackets is a free, open-source text editor designed for the Web. To do this, we will install various different useful extensions developed by programmers worldwide.
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