Ok, I see alot of questions around the game development forums of people wanting to make their first
game, but they don't know where to start. So, I decided to write this tutorial, having been in
the same situation before. NOTE: This Tutorial: -Is meant to help you get past that initial bout of
developer's block -Does not teach you how to make a game, just help you start -Cannot help you
if you cannot answer the questions asked So, let's get to it, shall we? How to start
your first game project: --So, the first thing you need to make sure yo...

First of all, I am NOT a programmer, this is something my friend taught me. It describes basic
interaction with the user, while showing basic functionality of this simple programm. So, without
further ado, we're off to the tutorial: First of all, start your visual basic, when prompted
for new project, select Standard Exe . Next, we need to open code window, so we can start typing
the program. This can be done in two ways, one is double clicking on the form, or selecting Code
from View menu. If you double clicked on the form, you will see following text: CODE ...

Hi in this tutorial you will learn how to create tables and insert items into them. First steps are
to create the database - go into your cpanel and mysql databases, from there make an account and a
database and then attach them together with all priviliges, call the database test and the account
admin, with the pw as pass - or any other password. We need to connect to the database so first in
your php file (probably named index.php) - this is how to do it. CODE
mysql_connect("localhost", "admin", "pass") or
die(mysql_error(&...

How To Delete Files and Directories follow up from creating them Hello all and
welcome to my second tutorial involving file management. In my previous tutorial , I explained how
to create, write and read files. In this tutorial I'll explain how to remove the files and
directories you took so long to create. I did not explain last time how to create directories as I
did not know, now I do, you can use the mkdir() function. Now with this tutorial.... Removing
Files Removing files can easily be done with the unlink() function: CODE <? un...

Hey! Maybe you've seen my other tutorials...or my signature.. Anyways I'm going to show
you how to make a system so users of your site could register accounts and you could have protected
- user only - pages on your site /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0"
alt="smile.gif" /> Ok, so we start by creating a config.php file. CODE <?php
    $dbhost   = 'database host';     $dbname   = 'database name';
    $dbusername   = 'database username';     $dbuserpass = 'database pas...

This tutorial will explain how to create a basic timer using Visual Basic Express 2005. If you
don't have it, it's free and you can dowload it from Microsoft's website. All you need
is a few minutes to sit down and read this and a version of Visual Basic. OK, so what will this
timer actually do? Well, you are able to enter a number of minutes and a message, and then click a
button. Once the timer is up, your message pops up and you are reminded! So, basically it's
a little reminder system. I use it to remind me when TV programmes start, when I have to...

Pre-requisite: HTML, inline frame tags 1 Attachment(.zip) included. Updates : 29-12-07: Doctype
added in example files (Advised by jlhaslip) Designing a whole website takes a lot of planning
and organization. Designing a proper navigation system is a basic step in building your website. If
you are developing webpages in html you would have observed that as you go on creating pages it
becomes difficult to maintain the links to the pages. This article will guide you in developing a
common navigation menu for your website. It describes three ways, so if you don'...

There have been several recent request for methods to restrict access to various pages on a web-site
based on User Permissions in sites that have a Login System in place. Here is some code showing one
method to restrict access by providing a sub-set of your site's links based on the User's
permissions. In this demonstration, I have defined a string for each 'level of user'
determining which set(s) of links they can view on your site. Normal MySql procedure would be to
read the User's permission level from a record in the database. For the purpose of ...

Well, if you found the first one useful, here you go. CSS Basics No. 2 Description Welcome to
CSS Basics No. 2! In Basics No. 1 you learned how to write a simple CSS document. In this
tutorial you will learn to apply what is in your CSS document to your webpages! Try It Out
With CSS you have two methods of incorporating CSS into your webpages: an internal stylesheet, or an
external stylesheet. First, we will cover the internal style-sheet. The Internal Stylesheet The
internal stylesheet allows you to edit the entities of a single page. This is still q...

NOTE: Don't use a rich text editor* for writing HTML code! Use Notepad in Windows,
SimpleText in Mac or TextEdit in OSX, but you must set the following preferences for the HTML code
to work! In the Format menu, select Plain Text. Open the preferences window from the Text
Edit menu, then select "Ignore rich text commands in HTML files." Start Creating Your Own HTML
File You can either use HTM or HTML file extensions. For more information, visit:
http://filext.com/file-extension/htm for HTM or http://filext.com/file-extension/html for HT...

A tutorial on some of the basics of css.... I wrote if for my site, may as well post it here too
/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" /> CSS Basics
Description For those of you that don't know, CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. The whole
point of it is to easily edit all of the pages on your website, so you don't have to edit each
on individually. In this tutorial, you will learn some of the basics. Try It Out Css Syntax has
three parts to it. The object (where you want to edit), the property (what part ...

CODE <?php $var= "This is a variable"; echo $var; ?> Outcome This is
a variable Using what we know about the echo function, we can see that we have created a
variable, and then used the echo command to display it. This is fairly simple, and can have many
uses, but there is much more too it! CODE <?php $var1 = "This is variable
one"; $var2 = "This is variable two"; $varall = "$var1. $var2.
You just combined three variables in one!"; echo $varall; ?> Outcome This is...

I've been working on my Resume for months now. Here is a summary of what I've learned: 1.
Avoid referring to yourself via 1st person or 3rd person terms. Rather than saying "I started this
job in" just say "Began job in"... Employers expect Resumes to be professional and avoid reference
to oneself; and instead speaking in an impersonal tone that presents
achievements/skills/experience/education without personalization. Avoid words like "I", "my", "he",
"she", etc. Leave out personal pronouns and only use the action words/verbs. This also includes
your Ob...

Lesson 4 of 6. I hope you are enjoying them /laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle"
emoid=":lol:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> . QUOTE Hello, in this tutorial we will be creating
a 3D pyramid. We are building this tutorial from Lesson 3, but I took out the 2D objects and placed
a 3D pyramid in there instead. The 3rd axis for drawing can be a litle confusing, but after you get
the hand of it you'll do fine. Now when you are setting a 3D vertex just remember that the
camera is on the positive end of the z axis. So things that have a more positive z axis va...

This is the first of six lessons I am transferring from Astahost for programming in GLUT, and after
the six I hope to make more, I hope you enjoy. QUOTE Hello, I'm starting a series on how to
program in OpenGL using the OpenGL Utility Toolkit, a.k.a. GLUT. I chose GLUT because it is quick
and easy to write, and very easy to learn. In this tutorial I am going to teach you how to create a
basic window which we will build off of in later tutorials. Throughout the tutorial I will leave
notes to let you know what each command does, and how you can modify it to fit...

It is easy to create your own icon, just pick a bitmap (.bmp) file and change its extension to .ico.
To do so, open the Windows Explorer, click on the View menu (or Tools in WinMe), click Folder
Options, click View tab, remove the check on the "Hide file extensions for known files types"
option, and then click OK. Select a bitmap file, press F2 key, and then change its extension to
.ico. Have fun learning:)...

So, you've had your guitar for years and it just sits around collecting dust. But you don't
have the money to get lessons and you don't think you can play anyway. Well, most likely you
can play, all you need is practice and little tolerance for pain in the first two weeks. Pain? Why
pain? Pain because you must condition your fair fingertips for the constant bombardment of pressure
from metal strings. (Nylon strings are a bit easier and I like them, but it is best to practice on
the worst strings possible...accoustic, high action and thick gauge so that ...

Table of Contents: I. Introduction II. Starting your stylesheet --A. Starting syntax with
font-family --B. Defining classes --C. Using classes III. The STYLE tag IV. Comments in CSS V. The
"a" tag VI. A quick list of common attributes VII. Notes --A. Universal classes --B. Grouping --C.
Multiple instances VIII. Finding other attributes IX. Closing I. Introduction Firstly, to begin
using a stylesheet, you must have one. Open up your text editor and save as (something).css. I know
NotePad doesn't need quotes for a stylesheet, but I'm not sure about other progr...

Ok for this tutorial I will use the PSP as an example of the device, this should work for every
device. (THIS WILL NOT HARM ANYTHING AT ALL!) First off, open notepad and type in:
ICON=ICONE.ICO Save that as AUTORUN.inf Now, find a picture you like.. make sure its dimensions
are 16X16 pixels. Put it in the main folder of the device, for example, my psp is located at
F:\, i would type in F:\ to the adress bar and put the picture in that folder, as it is
the folder your computer automatically reads, anyways, put your picture in there and name it: ICO...

I downloaded Microsoft's Visual Studio Express suite a few months ago, but only recently got
around to installing it. I have been practising with Visual Basic and making some rather basic
programs and utilities, but they contain most of the basic concepts. This tutorial will explain how
to create a basic image viewer, and I will try to explain each step from beginning to end as clear
as I can. To start you will need: Microsoft Visual Studio About 10-20 minutes free time OK,
first open up the Visual Basic part of the Studio. I am using the 2005 Express version, so...

NOTE: This guide assumes you know how to operate your compiler, meaning create objects and forms.
This guild will only teach you the scripting. Almost all program users and game players alike want
to create their own software, whether it being a massive game, an easy-to-use calendar, or maybe
even a hack. However, they must master, or at least know much about a programming language. If
you've ever seen a Source Code , a text code written by a programmer and execute tasks by a
computer, you'll know how much time and effort it takes to learn these nevertheless ...

I should point out that I originally put this tutorial together for another site, but decided
against it and to place it here instead (because I love you guys... ~sniffle, wipe a tear away~).
This tutorial should help get you started if you are just setting out into the big bad world of eb
development. I have been coding in PHP for a little over a year now, and have worked on several
large projects in the language - but whilst I certainly don't know everything about it, I would
like to share some of the basics that hopefully will give you a bit of a kick start. ---...

Here's a quick summary of how one can configure OS X for use in public labs running Panther
(10.3). It should also work with Tiger (10.4) but I dunno. There may be better ways, but this is
quick and cheap: 1. Install OS X fresh, or boot up your new Mac, and set the username to
MacAdmin or the like. This is now the administrator account which users should never touch.
Share this password only with trusted admins authorized to muck with critical systems. 2.
Install all the software you expect anyone to need in the default folders (usually Applicat...

Hopefully someone will find this useful. Ive done this on my machine as well. To a hide an account
to display on the welcome screen of xp here is a nifty way: 1. Open regedit 2. Browse to
Hkey_local_machine> software>microsoft>windows nt>winlogon>special Accounts>Userlist Here you will
see a list of all accounts on XP which are hidden and dont display on welcome screen. Yes XP does
create useless accounts as you see there. 3. Go on the right pane, right click, create a new dword
value with its name as the exact username you want to hide and its value as "0" without t...

How To: Change An Image When A User Clicks On It using both php and javascript - a powerful
combination I have seen quite a few how tos offering a method of doing this but none of which
resembled my method of making use of both php and javascript. This code is fairly repetitive and
most of the functions are easy to pick-up if you haven't heard of them before. Here it is...
Create your two images. Call them anything you like, you'd just need to change their filenames
in $imgano $imgayes. In fact with this script you can easily create more tha...

Javascript in action can render some very neat visual effects, which can make your website more
appealing, and sometimes even easier to navigate. Among the most common effects are the
'button' effect, and the mouseover effect. The buttons are very common, of course; if
nowhere else, most of us have seen them at the end of forms (Click the 'submit' button to
proceed...). The basic idea is to have a 'depressible' object, which can give you the
illusion that you're 'pressing' it when you click it. The rollover effect causes
something to h...

Creating Personal Alarm This personal alarm is very useful to remind you something or anything you
would like it to do. Use Task Scheduler application to create your personal alarm. First, click on
Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks. Now click on the Add Scheduled Task wizard
in the Task Scheduler folder. Click Next, click the Browse button, and then select your favorite
sound files (WAV/MP3/MIDI). Set the file to open as the task daily. Set it at the top of the hour
every day, open up its advanced properties. On the Schedule tab press the Advance...

Hello, heres a simple tutorial from a script that I made to power my news system. It is written
withthe PHP coding system and consists of 8 files using a flatfile based system, without MySQL
databases. This should be usefull for those who want a simple little news manager and like to have
simplcity without the fancy date strings and sutff. You can see a demo of it at my site @
http://www.xeek.trap17.com . Let's Start! First let's start with the easy stuff,
making the directory first, first create a main directory to hold everything, call this folder "ne...