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With every passing day, the state of advertising worsens — specifically in mobile games. Today, one app took it too far. This is my story:

I just bought a Nexus 5 today and wanted to root it. I tried running the following script without success. I kept getting the following error:

Last night I worked on a simple JavaScript plugin that rotates snippets of text periodically. Here is a sample of it in action:

I've been working on a new project recently that requires previewing external web pages in an iframe. This feature is not always possible though because websites can prevent themselves from showing in iframes by setting the x-frame-options header. Since there is no way to get around this rule, the only option is to detect whether the w...

I've been working on a 2D platformer called Platform Pixels for a while now and realized I had not yet written about it.

Here is a simple script to backup a MongoDB remote database and restore it locally.

The Wikipedia Definition of JSONP is as follows:

Even though web APIs are becoming more common, it is still common to find a service you want to get data from but can't because the data is not easily accessible. Web scraping is a last-resort technique that requires programatically extracting the required data from a webpage's raw HTML. This tutorial will cover how to download and tra...

If you've ever built a website using Node.js and Express then you've probably had to do something similar to the following snippet:

Some of my most productive and creative periods are the few days leading up to a big deadline at school. Those who know me well are aware that I am not a fan of the education system. I currently attend the University of Victoria for Software Engineering and am seven courses short of graduation. This post will detail one trick that I've...