Practice coding in Java by writing a game
Dec14

Practice coding in Java by writing a game

My article about learning different programming languages lists five things you need to understand when starting a new language. An important part of learning a language, of course, is knowing what you intend to do with it. I’ve found that simple games are both fun to write and useful in exploring a language’s abilities. In this article, I demonstrate how to create a simple guessing game in Java. read more Powered by...

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Set up an Ansible lab in 20 minutes
Dec14

Set up an Ansible lab in 20 minutes

Being able to build and tear down a public cloud environment is very useful, but most of us don’t have easy access to a public cloud. The next best thing would be to have a lab on your local machine, but even running on a local machine brings performance, flexibility, and other challenges. Most of the time, the additional workloads on our local machines interfere with doing our daily job, and they certainly prevent having a readily...

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