A geek of the highest order, Terence speaks a great number of (programming) languages and dabbles in a couple of tech fields. He writes about common problems programmers come across in this blog.
If you’ve been using Unity’s Canvas-based UI system to create a main menu, pause screen or even a death screen for a game in Unity, you may sometimes encounter an issue where some buttons on your UI don’t seem to be responding when you hover over or click on them.
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One of the most common questions I get from students looking to build a platformer is this: how do I build a moving platform in Unity? Well, if you are looking for code that you can just copy-paste into your project, look no further.
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If you are dynamically generating strings in your Java program, one of the best things you can do for your program is to build your string using a StringBuilder or StringBuffer, as opposed to using a regular old String.
The reason for this? In Java, strings are immutable, and every time you concatenate a string that the program hasn’t seen before, a new string object is created and stored in the heap. This means the whole process involves a lot of reading from and writing to the memory. The StringBuilder and StringBuffer in Java are objects that are designed to do string concatenation in a more efficient manner, but how much more?
We’ve got a simple Java program here that you can run from your browser so you can see it for yourself.
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Over the weekend, I was tackling a client request requesting for us to help modify their WordPress backend so that when writing posts, the Gutenberg Editor will automatically convert consecutive double dashes -- to an em dash — character.
It was a particularly difficult task for me, despite having coding in WordPress for many years, simply because the Gutenberg editor was relatively new, and there is very little documentation regarding it.
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At the recommendation of a fellow web developer, I’ve been using the Astra theme in WordPress to develop Terresquall’s client websites for years now, and it’s been by and large a positive experience. Astra is a very versatile theme that can be used to build many different kinds of website, and their paid Astra Pro plugin adds even more customisation options, allowing for even more rapid customisation options.
If you are building your site upon the addition features that Astra Pro provides using a child theme, however, customising Astra Pro templates can be a bit difficult to do, because there isn’t much documentation about this.
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