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Sending Email from a Contact Page in PHP

Follow the instructions below to create a contact page that allows a web user to send an email to a hardcoded, prespecified email address, whose email address the user cannot see. Note that, as of this writing, these steps have … Continue reading

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Creating an HTTPS Service in .NET with HttpListener

Follow the steps below to create a simple web service using .NET and its HttpListener class. This implementation can accept requests over HTTPS using a self-signed certificate. As this demonstration is meant to illustrate enabling HTTPS, the service itself implements … Continue reading

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Creating and Consuming Messages with Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is an open-source pub-sub (“publish-subscribe”) message broker. It can be used to facilitate communication between related processes with high performance, availability, and consistency, and with a minimum of coupling. Follow the instructions below to install, run, and demonstrate … Continue reading

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Creating, Building, and Running a Simple Program in Rust

Follow the instructions below to create a “Hello, World!” program in the Rust programming language. Some of these steps are adapted from a tutorial found at the URL “https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started”. 2b. For Linux-like systems, as of this writing, it may be … Continue reading

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Creating, Building, and Running a Simple Program in the Go Language

The instructions below tell how to create, build, and run a simple program in the Go language on a computer running Microsoft Windows. go build GoTest.goGoTestpause

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Creating a Hello World Program in .NET Core with Visual Studio Code

Follow the steps below to create a Hello, World program in .NET Core using Visual Studio Code.

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Creating a Template-Driven Component in Angular

Follow the steps given below to create a template-driven form in Angular. The code in these instructions is partially adapted from an official tutorial at the URL “https://angular.io/guide/forms “. 1. Create a new Angular app, perhaps using the procedure in … Continue reading

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Installing and Running Angular on Windows 10

Follow the steps below to install Angular, create a default application, and run it on Windows 10.

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Creating an ASP.NET MVC Application in Visual Studio

Follow the steps below to create a simple ASP.NET MVC project that presents a list of article titles to choose from, and, when an article in the list is clicked, shows the details and contents of that article.

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Running Linux in a Virtual Machine using QEMU on Windows

Follow the steps below to run Linux Mint in a VM (“virtual machine”) using QEMU on Windows. Download and install the QEMU binaries. As of this writing, the latest binaries for a 64-bit Windows system are linked at the URL … Continue reading

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