A Microsoft Research project, visual programming language for creating games. Targeted at kids this is a great visual tool for beginners to learn how to program games. There is no code to write, just pick and arrange actions. You may also want to read the kodu blog “I Didn’t Know You Could Do This in [...]

Once more I will pick a question from a chat discussion as starting point for a little article. The question was how to use SHA256 in JavaScript. Of course you may wonder what SHA256 is, well to make a long story short, it’s a replacement (more secure) version of the well known MD5 [...]

Google announced Chrome OS just couple days ago. It is time to try it out for yourself. By the looks, it is a linux kernel with a Chrome browser on top of it (I didn’t really read all that much about it). The idea behind the OS is that nothing gets stored on the computer locally [...]

123Ticket.com is an online alternative payment provider, headquartered out of Barcelona, Spain. The company provides a popular micropayment system that allows customers to make purchases online without a credit card. The billing solution is for merchants who wish to sell digital content (video, music, applications, etc…) through (short message service) and micropayment mobile billing. 123Ticket [...]

My last article was digging is what SQL could do as advanced queries likes for example creating reports with basically a single query, using grouping and functions. However it seems that a little more basic talk about some more fundamentals operations are required. So I will talk here about JOINS, as before I [...]

While chatting with some of the well known moders in MakeWebGames forums and chat, I discovered that even if all have some knowledge of SQL (as it is required to be able to store and retrieve all the information in a standard web site setup), most fails when we go to something yet a bit [...]