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Playing around with the HTML5 Canvas Element using … last year

EaselJS is a new JavaScript library created by Grant Skinner for working with the HTML5 canvas element. I was reading this post the other day and was wondering what it would take to add JQuery into the mix. My example is simple enough, I render some text on the canvas and rotate it around –
keywords canvas, element, html5, javascript, javascript library, jquery, skinner

Install Nginx with PHP 5.3.3 (PHP-FPM) on Ubuntu 10.10 last year

Today I’ll go over the steps of how to get PHP-FPM and Nginx working together on Ubuntu 10.10. I used this article as my starting point and made some minor modifications of my own. To start with I used a clean version of Ubuntu 10.10 (Desktop). Adjust if needed for Ubuntu Server but the steps
keywords nginx, php, php 5

A quick and simple tutorial on how to use cURL with PHP last year

The Client URL Library is a very powerful and commonly used library. With it your can upload files, get your Twitter status, scrape websites, etc. Today I’m going to use PHP’s cURL library to call a simple local service. To do this demo you will need to have PHP installed along with …
keywords demo, php, url

Install Lighttpd, PHP and MySQL on Ubuntu 10.10 last year

Sometimes you don’t want Apache for your web server whatever your reasons might be. There are other options like Nginx and Lighttpd, today I’ll setup Lighttpd along with PHP (via FastCGI) and MySQL. Assuming you have a clean Ubuntu 10.10 system running go into the terminal and issue …
keywords apache, aptitude, lighttpd, nginx, open source, php, php mysql, ubuntu, web server

Getting started with App Engine development on Ubuntu … last year

Newer versions of Ubuntu don’t come with Python 2.5 anymore however Google App Engine still requires (as of the date of this article) that you continue to use Python 2.5 for App Engine development. Some people have been using Python 2.6 but you need to be very careful. In the end for now it is
keywords app engine, google, google engine, people, python, ubuntu

A few notes regarding the new App Engine 1.4 SDK Channel API last year

With the recent announcement of the new App Engine 1.4 SDK and Channel API it now supports I wanted to dive in right away. I updated Eclipse with the latest App Engine SDK and then attempted to grab the sample source code (Tic-Tac-Toe) that is listed in their Java documentation. However, their …
keywords api, app engine, comet, eclipse, java, source code

Tutorial: Using Twitter OAuth and the Twitter API with … last year

There is a dead simple way in .NET to use the Twitter API including authenticating your application against OAuth. The library I’ll be using today is called TwitterVB. Don’t let the name fool you though because you can use this in any .NET language and today I’ll be using C# …
keywords api, asp net, asp.net, c#, twitter

Using Twitter's OAuth with PHP for your own Twitter based … last year

I’ve been reading some tutorials, articles, comments, etc. and one common theme seems to be that people are having trouble (see the comments in the linked article) getting OAuth working with Twitter and PHP. Recently I began work on a Twitter based application and needed to implement a PHP …
keywords php, php library, twitter, ubuntu

Manually installing LAMP (Apache 2, MySQL, PHP 5) and … last year

In a previous article I showed you how to create a LAMP server using Tasksel. I’m more of a hands on developer so today I will show you how to create a LAMP server on Ubuntu manually. There are a lot of guides out there that discuss this topic however many are outdated so my
keywords apache 2, mysql php, open source, php, php 5, phpmyadmin, ubuntu

Manually installing LAMP (Apache 2, MySQL, PHP 5) and … last year

In a previous article I showed you how to create a LAMP server using Tasksel. I’m more of a hands on developer so today I will show you how to create a LAMP server on Ubuntu manually. There are a lot of guides out there that discuss this topic however many are outdated so my
keywords apache 2, mysql php, open source, php, php 5, phpmyadmin, ubuntu

Chad Lung

Software Developer, C#, Java, JavaScript, HTML, Ruby, Python, PHP, VB, Flash/Flex, ActionScript, Mobile, etc. http://giantflyingsaucer.com/blog

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