HTA – HTML Application with Basic!
Today I found out that there is a possibility to build nice applications with Visual Basic, using HTML and CSS in them. The technology is called HTA – HTML Application and it looks pretty much as an exe file with …
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VB – XML Generator with Visual Basic
So, while I am really working with VBA for the latest months, I have decided to upgrade a little and to take a look what can be done with VB .Net, hoping that some better ideas would come and I would be …
VB .NET – How to use WithEvents Example
As far as I am interesting in probabilities and similar theories in general, today I have decided to illustrate the WithEvents option in Visual Basic with the possibility to bet whether a rolled dice would be big (4,5,6) or small …
MySQL for MS Excel
Yes, it exists! Today, I somehow managed to install it from here. This is how it looks like: Just a small icon in the Excel data tab. Once you click, you are asked to make the connection with the DB. Due …
VB.NET – Build a small teasing game with VB
The game is indeed small, and really teasing… Actually, it has no interface, no gameplay, nothing. It can be used by professional CS players to train their mouses and brains. Or just to break their keyboard, if they are really …
VBA – Interfaces in VBA How And Why?
Interfaces in VBA are something extremely rare. So far, as a VBA developer with about 3 years of developing experience (e.g. being paid to code, and not coding for fun) I have seen only one other developer to use classes …
Angular JS – Just Another To-Do App
In the last year, I have made quite enough To-Do apps – just in VitoshAcademy.com I have published one with PHP with login functionality, and I had quite a big project (about 3 days of coding from 3 coders ) here …
AngularJS – Make a scope function with Angular
In the current article, I would simply make a scope function with Angular JS. This is always useful to have in your toolbox: Yup! The code is simple and the idea came from this app here, but mine is …
VBA – Find the Best Way Through a Matrix, going Right and Down
Have you ever tought what is the best way to go in a matrix, in order to collect as many points as possible, if you are allowed to go only to the right and down? Imagine some matrix like the yellow …
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VBA – Nested loops with recursion (Permutations)
There is a new article on the same subject here – https://www.vitoshacademy.com/vba-avoid-nested-loops-with-recursion-part-2/ Everyone knows how ugly it looks from a programming point of view to have 5 or 6 nested loops. But what can you do to avoid this? The answer …
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ASP.NET Hello World with VB.NET
ASP.Net is one of the technologies, which I have not mentioned in my site. Thus, I will start mentioning it, because it is probably amongst the very few, which use still use VB. And due to some weird reason, I …
Book Review – Python Algorithms
Some month ago, I have kindly received two books from Apress.com for a review. The first one was for Python Data Analytics, which I have already reviewed and the second once was Python Algorithms. Before starting the review, let me …
JavaScript – A simple calculator with lots Bootstrap
Have you ever dreamt of making the simplest application for calculating two numbers? Nope? Me also. But anyhow, I have started to make it only with JavaScript, without jQuery and it turned out to be fun after some time. That is …
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XML with PHP – make links easily
I really did not think to make a post about it, but as far as I have lost about 15 minutes in research how to do it, it is obviously that spending some 10 minutes more would be valuable. The …
AJAX – JQuery – PHP – JSON – Get data from DB with AJAX
Some time ago I have made a simple ToDo list with PHP here. Today, using its database and one function from the list, I have decided to make the todo list with Ajax. This means, that you should not refresh …
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VBA – Picture in ActiveX Control from Excel
Today I have tried for some time to do the following – make a picture ActiveX controller change, following the results of a dropdown button. The problem is that the picture ActiveX controller expects a path to the picture file, …
jQuery – Build a background with changing pictures with jQuery
So, animation in jQuery is a powerful thing! 🙂 Indeed. In the current article, I will show you the code, which I have used to produce the following beautiful video. It is just a few seconds, but you may still …
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jQuery – A simple game with JQuery events
Working with JQuery becomes interesting, after you get some ideas what to do and you see how easy it is to build it. Although the code below can be made about 8 times less, I have really enjoyed copying and …
jQuery – DOM – InsertBefore, PrependTo and other examples
So I have tried to learn a little about jQuery and its DOM functions and this is what I have managed to do today – an example with “insertBefore”, “prependTo”, “insertAfter” and “appendTo”. Pretty much that is what the example …
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PHP – JQuery – MySQL – Make a simple drop down menu
After the simple ToDo list here, I have decided to add more features to it. So, a possible feature, looks like this – you have a drop down menu with all the users in the database: Then, after a selection, …
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PHP – Build a HTML Table From any Query
As far as I am putting some efforts towards PHP and understanding why it is so hated by programmers all around, I have decided that the results from the queries should be always easily displayed in an HTML table. A …
PHP – Make a simple To Do list with PHP
Some two days ago I have decided that it would be more fun if I try to make a simple PHP todo list, while trying to learn the language. 🙂 After all, I have made this exercise with JS (no …
PHP – Simple guessing game
Indeed simple. These are the rules (from a homework of the SoftUni): Implement a “Guess Number Game” in PHP. Keep the secret number in the user’s session and indicate “Up” or “Down” after each guess. At the start page of …
VBA – A Search Algorithm with VBA – Teil Zwei
After the article here I have started to think more over the search algorithm and I have decided to make it look better and work better. E.g., by using the fact, that the distance between the diagonals neighbours is 1.4 times …
VBA – A* search algorithm with Excel – Really?
Today, some hours ago I saw the implementation of the A* search algorithm with Java, made by a classmate (or colleague) of mine. It looks like this: Thus, I have thought that for the reading of the Python Algorithm book, …
Book Review – Python Data Analytics
After some days spent with the book Python Data Analytics, which was kindly provided to me by Apress for a review, now its time to make it. So, the book is named “Python Data Analytics” and it provides exactly what …
VBA Library Creation
The idea of the VBA library is to systematize the most used self-written functions everyone is using in his daily coding life into a few modules, which may be used by anyone, who is coding for his daily bread and …
PHP – Static landing page with .htaccess
Have you ever thought how the web server acts in case that you enter an address, which does not exist? In many sites (including this one), you go to a fancy 404 page. This linking to that special page is …
Book Review – Python Algorithms – Coming soon
In the next two – three weeks I will become back a master in Python. This is the second book received from Apress for the last week and I would really do my best to write a good review of it. Expect a review …
JQuery – fadeIn(), slideToggle(), slideUp(), animate()
While I am on the JQuery subject, with the previous article for the table game, I have decided to enrich it a little. 🙂 Thus, adding some nice animation functions for JQuery – fadeIn(); slideToggle(); slideUp, animate() and their back …
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