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I am a developer who recently started working on my own, and I've come across some projects that I can't handle by myself (mostly in React). What resources would you guys recommend for finding / putting together a team of remote developers to join me on these projects?

Let's say you want to send a short private message to your friend, but don't want grandma to snoop around and find it. One way is to use the Python Image Library (PIL) and hide the message in a picture file's pixels. Just looking at the picture you will barely …

Another application of Python module base64, this time to embed midi music data in your program. You also need the module pygame to execute this Python code. Enjoy the music!

Just a relatively simple calculator using the Tkinter GUI. It has a few nice features such as correcting division by an integer (for older Python versions), error trapping, to and from memory buttons, and an editable display. The editable display allows you to backspace mistakes, and also to enter things …

This snippet defines a function restart_program() which restarts your python program from within your python program.

The bubble sort is slow and I thought it would be interesting to visualize the progress as it sorts an array of integers.

File I/O With C++ Fstream **Intro** File handling is as simple as writing in a book, much easier to modify and find. It's so simple people get confused with it :-). Welcome to the world of file handling. We will use the c++ fstream classes to do our file handling. …

Run two calls to a function simultaneously with this threading @background decorator.

This snippet defines a function `printat()` which adds line and file information to the normal `print()` function output. The intended use is a quick and dirty debugging information for everyday's use. A more complete solution is to use a logging/debugging/tracing framework.

Here's a simple tutorial on dictionaries in Python: Dictionaries: Dictionaries are similar to other compound types except that they can use any immutable type as an index. One way to create a dictionary is to start with the empty dictionary and add items. The empty dictionary is denoted {}: [CODE]end2sp …

# Tutorial On Operators# *Operators are the signs to the tell the compiler to perform specific task*. The Operators fall into following categories :- Arithmatic Operator Relational Operator Logical Operator Bitwise Operator Miscellaneous Operator(i added Assignment Operators in this categeory) **Arithmatic operators:-** There are following arithmetic operators:- + Add [6+2=8] …

Thought it would be very complicated to include speech in your programs. As it seems, in it most simplest form it can be done in two lines. Don't forget to include the System.Speech reference in your References. Enjoy!

There is free tools to do the same, but I was curious to see what it takes to make one myself. For info see: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC-3[/url]

I was asked this in an interview today: Q: `malloc(0); /* What does it do? */` It's a great question because it covers a subtlety in the standard and a condition that not many people will consider. Unfortunately, I wasn't 100% confident that I remembered what the standard said about …

This code example shows how to create a dictionary with row,column indexed (r,c) key tuples from a typical list of lists 2D matrix. Also an example is shown of the ease of processing the resulting dictionary.

The annoying use case is this: for (vector<int>::size_type i = 0; i < v.size(); i++) { cout << v[i] << ' '; if (i == v.size() - 1) { cout << endl; } } C++11 offers the `auto` keyword for initializer type deduction so that we can avoid verbose and …

A small test program exploring the PySide/PyQT Label widget. With HTML code you can do some nice formatting of the label's text.

Comparing a number of different approaches to finding the closest pair of numeric elements in a list. The timing is done with the mpmath module, but you can also use Python module timeit.

If you have a smaller image, you can include it in your program as a base64 encoded string. This way you don't have to worry about an image file to go with your code. In your program you can then decode it back to the familiar bytes of an image …

Python experiment to get an image from a web page and save it to an image file. Updated code to work with both Python versions ...

[ATTACH=RIGHT]16645[/ATTACH]Oracle announced Thursday evening (August 12) that they would be filing a lawsuit against Google, claiming that their Android phone software infringes upon patents and copyrights of their Java software, which they acquired when they purchased Sun Microsystems in January for $7.4 billion. "In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and …

From a thread on another forum, I wondered how difficult it would be to create a Tic-Tac-Toe game that could not be beaten. Since it is easiest if the computer goes first and chooses the center square, this code implements that portion. The logic is fairly simple; occupy the center …

Ever wanted to know how to implement running lights? well here is your chance to find out. Open a new Forms application enlarge the Form a bit and drop a Panel and a Timer on it. Add the class ChasingLights to the solution, see code. Implement a form Load, panel …

This snippet shows how to use Mutex to prevent multiple copies of your software from running. For a WinForms application, this code goes into the Program.cs file. The magic starts in line 14 where we attempt to create a Mutex. A Mutex is a form of a lock, but it …

[ATTACH=left]17191[/ATTACH]Today at Intel's IDF 2010 was the official launch of the 2011 version of Intel Parallel Studio. Parallel Studio is a set of tools that enhance Visual Studio to support full parallel programming. This is more than just a simple plug-in for Visual Studio. It's an entire set of tools …

With the recent release of Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft has updated.NET and the C# language, both now at version 4. One of the new features of C# is the ability to handle dynamic types. But what exactly does that mean? Essentially, if you're very careful, you can use C# in …

This shows how to get the size of all the files in a folder, and all its sub-folders on MS-Windows operating system. It uses recursion to transverse all the directories, and return a 64-bit integer. It was compiled with VC++ 2008 Express and Code::Blocks Version 8.02 with MinGW compiler.

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There seems to be a serious number of posts regarding the use of VB with an Access Database... Due To The High Volume of questions about access, I'm posting this link. Please, Go through the tutorial, and if you have questions regarding access with VB still (after reading through the …

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 …

The Arduino micro controller is a great interface that allows your computer to do things with the world around it. It can measure and record things like temperature, humidity, light (also infrared signals), sound, motion, distance, magnetism and color. It can blink and buzz, run motors, water your plants and …

I am in the process of rediscovering python after a dire cardiac episode. Used to be very active under my favored nickname vegaseat, not 'seat' but 'eat'! Got tired of the arbitrary jolts from MS and Windows 11 and switched totally to LinuxMint. Actually, my commercial grade 'HP 17 laptop' …

I wrote a Python script that included the python-swiftclient module to connect to the OpenStack Object Storage and upload some files to the OpenStack Object Storage container It works great if I upload a file that ends with the extension .gz however, I’m getting an error regarding the ‘TarFile’ object …

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To be honest with you, all the codes that i made were self taught, i had to advance myself to learn more stuff in C++ which my first challenge is to make a simple but clean made text based adventure game, but im at the wall atm. (don't judge me, …

**Requires:** 1. Python version 3.8 or newer 2. wxPython version 4.0 or newer 3. exif module 4. Windows with NTFS file system To ensure you have the required packages please run the following 1. python -m pip install --upgrade pip 2. pip install exif 3. pip install wxPython I have …

A long standing complaint with the standard progress bar control is that there is no easy way to display text. In spite of numerous requests, Microsoft has not included this capability. The following code includes a class, `CustomProgress` which inherits the standard `ProgressBar` and adds such a feature. It is …

This code shows how to obtain and display a GIF image from an internet website using the Tkinter GUI toolkit that comes with the Python installation.

I was so amazed at how easy it was to embed google maps into a vb app I decided to post a quick example to help anyone get started. This is a simple example. Google's api has all kinds of things to help customize your map. You can find out …

Shows how to create a basic slide show with the Python Tkinter GUI toolkit.

This is a snippet I use to clear a form. Right now it clears: TextBox, RichTextBox, ComboBox, CheckBox and RadioButton. More can be added if needed... :)

The module pyglet leans on OpenGL for graphics and is used in the scientific community together with Python. This short code snippet shows you how to use it to display an animated GIF file. The download is free, so give it a try. You don't have to download OpenGL to …

This is the updated version of the Tiny Tkinter Calculator. It has more power, since you can type in functions contained in the Python math module then press the equals key. You can then move the result into memory for other calculations. The code is written in OOP class style …

I will be showing how to pass data between two forms in VB .NET. I will be using two forms, two classes which we will define, a delegate, an event, and an event handler. It is my first tutorial and is a bit long because I wanted to make it …

This shows the application of a Memoize decorator to speed up recursive functions in Python.

The Tkinter GUI toolkit's canvas object is very nice for all sorts of drawings and plotting. However, when it comes to saving the image Tkinter limits you to postscript printer files. One solution is to draw the same image in parallel on PIL's image-draw object in memory. This is made …

Two third party Python modules imageio and visvis make it easy to load and view images. The modules come with the pyzo scientific package or can be downloaded separately. Module imageio can read many image file formats as shown in http://imageio.readthedocs.org/en/latest/formats.html You could also replace your image file name directly …

I uploaded a module named [symboldict](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/symboldict) to the python package index (pypi). This snippet shows how to use it to create a dictionary of symbols from various modules. This dictionary can be used as a common language shared by several modules. It can be used to load python libraries in …