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Creating, Building, and Running a Simple Program in the Go Language
Creating a Hello World Program in .NET Core with Visual Studio Code
Creating a Template-Driven Component in Angular
Installing and Running Angular on Windows 10
Creating an ASP.NET MVC Application in Visual Studio
Running Linux in a Virtual Machine using QEMU on Windows
Creating an Ext4 Filesystem Image File
Compiling Java Packages and Subpackages from the Command Line
An Image Combiner in JavaScript
Hello World in TypeScript with Classes in a Web Browser
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Uncompressing Data with the Deflate Algorithm in Java
The code shown below is an implementation of the Deflate algorithm written by Nayuki Minase, and slightly simplified by myself. As of this writing, the original version can be obtained at the URL http://nayuki.eigenstate.org/page/simple-deflate-implementation. Specifically, I simplified it by squeezing … Continue reading
Rendering a WAV File Using HTML5 and JavaScript
The code included below uses the FileReader.readAsBinaryString() function of JavaScript to allow the user to load a .WAV file from the local machine and display its waveform as an image. For an online version, visit http://thiscouldbebetter.neocities.org/wavvisualizer.html. UPDATE 2013/04/30 – I … Continue reading
Uploading and Displaying an Image from a File Using HTML5 and JavaScript
The JavaScript code included below uses the FileReader feature of the File API to allow the user to choose an image file from the local computer’s filesystem and display that image in the browser. <html> <body> <script type=’text/javascript’> function main() … Continue reading
Programming a Simple Music Synthesizer in Java
The code given below uses the WavFile class from a previous post to build a text-to-music synthesizer. import java.io.*; import java.util.*; public class MusicSynthesisTest { public static void main(String[] args) { parseAndSynthesizeSong(); } private static void parseAndSynthesizeSong() { Music.Song songToSynthesize … Continue reading
Loading, Editing, and Saving a Text File in HTML5 Using Javascript
The HTML and JavaScript code below makes use of some features of HTML5 (specifically the “Blob” object, the File API, and the “download” attribute of the “a” tag) to allow the user to load, edit, and save a text file … Continue reading
Building NetHack with MinGW and GCC
NetHack! It’s simply the most fun you can have with letters! Well, I mean, unless you count reading. Below is a list of steps to compile the open-source game NetHack from the C source code. 1. Download and install MinGW. … Continue reading
Programming A Primitive Orrery in JavaScript
My intent with this was to build a simple physical model of the solar system that, while it might not be exactly right in terms of particulars, still got the physics more-or-less correct. Without using any differential equations, just brute … Continue reading
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