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For me, it was Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. OMG, how I *lived* in that in middle school! And, of course, I probably would have lost patience for coding a very long time ago if I wasn't as quick a touch typist as I am. The very first piece of software …

Hi everyone, I’m exploring how to build a short-video feature similar to TikTok for learning and experimentation. I’m not looking to promote any product — just trying to understand the technical challenges and the best way to approach them. I would like guidance on: Recommended tech stack for uploading, processing, …

Hi i am hacking a pong game into a racing game. At the moment i am trying to blit to a half screen with player A on th right and B on the left. any one know why it isn't working? I am using Visual C++. [code]/* Pony Pong #include …

I have JSON chat data from WhatsApp and Telegram. Any suggestions for a reliable converter? I came across SysTools JSON Converter, wondering if it supports this.Has anyone used this tool?

Our RSS feeds tend to get a decent amount of traffic. I would love to cache them, but that would break [PubSubHubbub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub). In other words, PubSub would provide real-time notifications to subscribers of the RSS feed, but the RSS feed would not be updated in real-time when new content was …

To be fair, it had already started happening much before AI came when programmer roles started getting commoditized into "Python coder", "PHP scripter", "dotnet developer", etc. Though these exact phrases weren't used in job descriptions, this is how recruiters and clients started referring programmers as such. But LLMs took it …

I have a software which demands this extensions on server , i tried by using xampp but failed. In the beginning it demands zend Guard Loader . I have tried to install on xampp but it can't be installed. I have already read this topic and follow and many topics …

How to use Button array? i want to use separate code for each button, Please Help

I'm posting this in the computer science forum because I'm expecting answers to be along the lines of better thought processes, consideration for speed and memory management, etc. Or, maybe you guys will surprise me and you'll come up with some things that never crossed my mind. So, as the …

Hi all, I’m deciding between developing a native app (iOS/Android) or using a cross-platform framework like Flutter or React Native. What are the pros and cons in terms of cost, performance, and scalability? What do you recommend based on your experience?

Hi , I'm Kamal Hinduja based in Geneva, Switzerland. Can anyone explain How to set up file uploads in PHP securely? Thanks, Regards Kamal Hinduja Geneva, Switzerland

What are cool stuff that you can create with NodeJs? And is there tutorial for that? I heard that NodeJs can create something like JivoChat , is that true?

I've been racking my brain on this one for a good 30 minutes already, and I don't know why I'm just not seeing it. Instead of posting a bunch of code here, I'm going to walk you through how to reproduce it on Daniweb. Please go to the [Contribute](https://www.daniweb.com/community/contribute) page …

In my previous article, I presented a [comparison of GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet for multi-label text classification](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/computer-science/tutorials/542629/openai-gpt-4o-vs-claude-3-5-sonnet-for-multi-label-text-classification). The accuracies achieved by both models were relatively low. Fine-tuning is one solution to overcome the low performance of large-language models. With fine-tuning, you can incorporate custom domain knowledge into an LLM's …

As the question states, how are your prompt engineering skills? Do you think prompt engineering will become the next must-have skill for developers? I'm asking this question after a conversation among developer friends the other day who said that they spend most of their days now just refining their prompts. …

Do either Safari or Firefox have near-term plans to implement container scroll-state queries? Google AI says that Safari supports it, but caniuse.com clearly says it does not. I'm waiting on this one with bated breath. For those of you who are not sure what I'm referring to, [it's this](https://caniuse.com/wf-container-scroll-state-queries).

Which under-the-radar area of software development do you think deserves more attention? What about embedded systems? Do people still program in assembly these days?

It seems as if full stack web development is more popular these days than someone who just focuses on backend, just on frontend, etc. Perhaps it's just the people that I'm exposed to? I would assume that in larger corporations, people would be more pigeonholed. I was just curious how …

I asked somewhat recently if anyone who is active on Stack Overflow could give me a bit of a status update as to what's going on over there in terms of whether they are able to stay competitive in the world of AI. Someone responded that there's an influx of …

Does anyone here have any really interesting or unusual or amusing programming jobs or gigs? Anything unconventional to share with the community? :)

Last night, embedded YouTube videos started resulting in a "Error 153 Video player configuration error" which sucks as I long ago wrote a desktop app to view webcams in Edge WebView2. After quite a bit of time trying "fixes" suggested by MS Copilot, I gave up and said "No matter …

I know that `SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS` has been deprecated, but I was just wondering if anyone knows why? It was so handy, even if slightly less performant than running the query twice (once with and once without the `LIMIT` clause).

Hi all, For the past few years I've been working on this visual web dev tool called Webfoundry: https://webfoundry.app/ It allows you to visually manipulate the DOM to create components and page templates, add JavaScript bindings, and build anything the browser can accomodate. It's different from existing competitor products in …

I have a webpage for showing placemarkers on a map. I have used chatGPT to get lots of bits of code that I have copied into my project including parts that I do not use. The code has most of the features I want so far. I would like to …

i have currently learning html only but its so boring do all of you guys had same problem and tell me which language do i start with html, me and my friend have made a site on html with little css and and js (thegeekinsights) and its going fine. can …

One of the first things I ask during interviews is **Are you going to micro manage how I work?** It’s me who will decide which programming language to use, what technology and framework to use, which IDE to use or just code in plain notepad.exe. You just state your requirements …

I was just working on my AI prompts earlier today and was wondering if I'm the only one who spends half of the prompt text instructing the LLM to not invent or fabricate facts.

## Introduction ## The release of Android 12 also came together with Material 3. Whether you love it or hate it, it is likely to be here to stay for a couple of years, therefore, it would be useful to know how to use it. In this tutorial, we will …

Hi, I have a question about web hosting. I want to purchase a hosting package from web.com, and they have mysql database. But the web hosting package says i can only have 300mb, but the issue is theres a 25 in front of the 300mb, it looks like this 25 …

On April 14, 2025, OpenAI released [GPT-4.1](https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/) — a model touted as the new state-of-the-art, outperforming GPT-4o on all major benchmarks. As always, I like to evaluate new LLMs on simple tasks like text classification and summarization to see how they compare with current leading models. In this article, I …

Hi DW, I have a back-end php file which is an engine for my site and a HTML file which is where the input is shown. the actual html code for the inputs is returned from the backend php file because it get customized there and returned with it data. …

Have you ever seen a small technological decision spiral into a massive consequence? I'm reminded of two incidents in the past, both occurring very shortly after my move to California in 2015. The first is a very unfortunate misunderstanding between myself and our sysadmin which caused DaniWeb's database to be …

When the page loads, the div design makes the animation starts below. If I page down, the div animation already starts. I would like an code that the animation just appear when shows by the page. <html> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, inicial-scale=1"> <meta name="keywords" content="carlos web,soluções web,soluções,serviços,web design,hospedagem grátis,hospedagem,panfletos,placas,banner,banners,fachada,fachadas,papéis de …

The company I work for uses SVN, with full control over backups on other servers and strict access restrictions. Consequently, my interaction with Git, and GitHub specifically, has been primarily as a user or consumer. Over the years, I have created many things that could be packaged as plugins in …

Hello DaniWeb community. I haven't been on the site in quite some time - it's so intense now that I almost feel a bit silly for asking a simple question but here goes. I have a personal account set up with Microsoft 365 and all is well for the most …

Hello All! I want to create my own proxy site. I googled alot and I find not a single solution in .net to do this. Everyone is using php for it. I am very new to php so i dont know how to use it. here is the code i …

Hi, i have windows application , in that i have reference to the web service. Now when i put username and password , application calls to authentication service ( which is hosted on same machine IIS 7.5 ) i get pop up which is asking for Proxy Authentication. can anyone …

I’m researching crypto exchange platforms and trying to understand the budgeting side. What factors usually influence crypto exchange development cost, and what would be considered a typical price range in today’s market? I’d appreciate insights from anyone with experience or examples to help set realistic expectations.

Hello guys so i'm quite new to C++ but i already learned OOP and other things so i want to use this little knowledge yet to create some basic program. I wanted to make a program that uses some API's but the problem is i'm not famillar how API's work …

Does anyone have any experience with Google Analytics consent mode? In the HTML head, I have: gtag('consent', 'default', { 'ad_storage': 'denied', 'ad_user_data': 'denied', 'ad_personalization': 'denied', 'analytics_storage': 'denied', 'wait_for_update': 500 }); Then, a javascript function is called from within the bottom of the HTML page that, based on the flow of …

What are the most important principles that all software developers should know?

Hello everyone! My name is Zachary Detlefs, and I am the Director of Development at Game Warriors! We are a coding and art academy as well as a team that offers development work to anyone in need. At the moment, finding contract work has been a struggle. With the the …

Finding some text and replacing it with new text within a C string can be a little trickier than expected. Here is what I had come up with one day.