[ Part 1 (Introduction) – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 ]

What’s going on guys?

We’re continuing with our Ionic 4 series today.

As explained in part one, we’re making a simple card matching game in order to learn the different components of the Ionic framework.

If you’re clueless about the Ionic framework, you should go check out the first part where I explain it in more detail.

I won’t ramble for too long in this post (as usual), since I explained that I’m not planning on covering code in these blog posts for Ionic – that’s what the videos are for anyway alright.

Instead, I’ll leave a summary of what goes down in this part.

Coding Summary

In this second part, we’ll get our card matching game to a playable state.

Basically, by the end of it, you’ll be able to select both cards and we’ll put conditions in place to check if the selected cards match or not.

What’s going on guys?

I got a nice and short tutorial this time for coding a time-lapse wallpaper using Python 3 – kind of like a customizable live wallpaper.

If you’ve followed my recent posts, you might remember of a Python background changer for dual monitors I made a while back.

Well, this tutorial is kind of building up on that post. Remember, if you just want to download the files, head down to the end of the post.

Time-lapse Wallpaper

Now that pretty much any smartphone already comes with built-in time-lapse features in their cameras and software, I thought:

“Wouldn’t it be cool to have a little script to instantly turn any time-lapses into a wallpaper? That can’t be too difficult!” 😀

That is basically the story for this video tutorial.

It turns out, it wasn’t too difficult after all, just about ~40 lines of code in Python 3 – with some comments here and there, so maybe even 30ish.

[ Part 1 (Introduction) – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 ]

Howdy! How you doing today?

Welcome to another series of videos!

This time we’re diving into hybrid applications with Ionic 4.

We’ll be developing a simple card matching game that you can run in many different platforms like: Android, Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.) and basically anything that runs HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

I’m always excited to learn new technologies and of course, share the knowledge with you guys in my path moving forward. But why Ionic?

Ionic Framework

With the explosion of smartphones and mobile applications of this decade, there had to be new developments for programmers as well. Why?

Well, imagine that programmers would have to learn how to make applications for Android, then for Apple devices, then Microsoft products and the list goes on… something had to be done.

It turns out that hybrid applications would make our lives incredibly easier by allowing programmers to use a single codebase for applications.

All thanks to frameworks like Ionic, among others, usually JavaScript-based.

Now that you know more about the framework and its capabilities, let’s take a look at the required software for this project.

[ Part 1 (Overview) – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 ]

Welcome to my blog’s first tutorial series!

Hey guys! Ready to write some code?

We’ve put a lot of work in these past five parts and today is no exception, however, we’ll try to take it easy after that insanity in the last article.

Looking back I probably should’ve broken that last article in more parts. At the same time, I guess it serves to separate the kittens from the lions. 😀

Enough jokes for now, let’s keep moving…

Today we’ll be implementing the second part to the text-based user interface which is what I call the active client chat screen.

Of course this also requires us to first implement the logging system for all of our clients, along with notifications as well.

Besides that we’ll add a few more features to wrap it up.

Dive Into The Code

I’m gonna focus on the main blocks of code added this time, so right off the bat, let’s jump into the new ‘active client chat screen’ interface…

[ Part 1 (Overview) – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 ]

Welcome to my blog’s first tutorial series!

Ayyyyoooo guys! What’s good?

Continuing from my last post, its time to implement the server thread.

A lot of pieces are already in place to handle the server threads, so we should be able to get it done without too much hassle.

There are some minor code changes in the server script which I will only be covering in the video above, so if you’re only following the blog make sure to download the code at the end of the post and compare the changes.

Let’s write some codes!

Server Handler Code

# Server handler
# --------------------------------------------
# This function will listen for connections as daemons
# and keep connected in background.
def ServerHandler(serverIP, serverPort, clientIP):
	sh = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
	sh.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
	sh.bind((serverIP, serverPort))
	sh.listen(1)	# Listen for 1 client, each server = 1 client
	
z,b = sh.accept()
	if (z):
		print "\n[" + GetTime() + "] Connection from " + str(b)
		while True:
			msg = Receive(z)
			if len(str(msg)): print "\n[" + GetTime() + "] " + msg

There isn’t much to the server handler. Basically we fire up a socket using the supplied arguments serverIP and serverPort – this port is the one supplied by the AllocAddress() function we created in the previous part (will basically add +1 to the same port of the main server).