Quest - Write text adventure games and interactive stories Quest lets you make interactive story games. Text adventure games like Zork and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Gamebooks like the Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy books. You don't need to know how to program. All you need is a story to tell. Your game can be played anywhere. Watch a quick screencast ...and you're free No restrictions. This means you can download and modify the Quest source code, and do whatever you want with it. You can sell the games you make with Quest. You don't need to ask for permission - you already have it. Get started quickly You don't need to know how to program to use Quest. Everything about your game is displayed in plain English, but the source code to your game is also viewable and editable for the more technically minded. A full tutorial is included, and help is always available on the forums. Ever wanted to... Ever wanted to create your own game, but were put off by complicated programming languages? Surprisingly powerful Any language
FasterCGI with HHVM « HipHop Virtual Machine FasterCGI with HHVM Posted on December 17, 2013 by Juliusz Kopczewski Today, we are happy to announce FastCGI support for HHVM. FastCGI is a popular protocol for communication between an application server (e.g. running your PHP code) and a webserver. If you can’t wait to get your hands on the new feature, just jump to the Installation section. FastCGI was designed to solve one crucial problem that plagued its predecessor CGI, namely: performance. HHVM FastCGI server uses asynchronous I/O. A separate set of worker threads is used to execute PHP code. We conducted benchmarks using Nginx. WordPress The first test was performed using the WordPress example page. ab -c 50 -n 1000 Sadly the results were pretty bad for PHP. Requests per second: 23.17 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 2157.579 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 43.152 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 275.42 [Kbytes/sec] received HHVM FastCGI Fibonacci Ubuntu 12.04 Ubuntu 13.10
Gene Rummy – The Card Game for Learning About Genotypes and Phenotypes High Concept: Overview and vision statement We’ve all heard the idiom: “breeding like rabbits”. Well, here is a card game that brings it to life! Here’s a visual way to learn the jargon and the basic principles of Mendelian inheritance while playing a fast-paced card game. Gene Rummy is a variation of Gin Rummy, which is one of the most popular card games of the mid-20th century, and still popular today. Need for the game It is a Common Misconception that: Genotype <= is the same as => Phenotype Would you believe this rabbit is actually BLACK? Well, she is. The albinism gene actually prevents the pigment from forming, so the rabbit looks white. Misconceptions about the differences and relationships between phenotype and genotype also relate to challenges in understanding many of the other fundamental concepts (like alleles, traits, characteristics, etc.). How many times have you heard someone say: It runs in the family…MUST be genetic! Serious Goals Learn basic principles of genetics:
Announcing Elasticsearch.js For Node.js And The Browser A few months ago we released client libraries for PHP, Ruby, Python, and Perl and today we add another to the family, JavaScript! This new client runs in Node.js and modern browsers, and aims to solve the same problems that the others do: provide access to the entire Elasticsearch REST APIplay nice with clustersautomatically discover nodes when desiredintelligently handle node failurebe easily extendable, so that you can really have it behave just the way you want If you didn’t know that we are developing our own clients you should check out this post from the first round of releases. In that post Clint explains why we decided to go down this road, as well as some of the goals of the project. Just like our other clients, Elasticsearch.js is licensed under Apache 2.0 and hosted on Github. Getting the Node.js module To install the module into an existing Node.js project use npm: npm install elasticsearch Getting the browser client Setting up the client Now you are ready to get busy!
Inexpensive biology kits offer hands-on experience with DNA To help students gain a better grasp of biological concepts, MIT and Northwestern University researchers have designed educational kits that can be used to perform experiments with DNA, to produce glowing proteins, scents, or other easily observed phenomena. Biology teachers could use the BioBits kits to demonstrate key concepts such as how DNA is translated into proteins, or students could use them to design their own synthetic biology circuits, the researchers say. “Our vision is that these kits will serve as a creative outlet for young individuals, and show them that biology can be a design platform,” says James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) and Department of Biological Engineering. “Synthetic biology is a technology for the 21st century, and these ‘just add water’ kits are poised to transform synthetic biology education. Hands-on biology Mix and match
TooTallNate/node-weak kolb's learning styles, experiential learning theory, kolb's learning styles inventory and diagram We have some very exciting plans for Businessballs. Later this month, we will be launching a new visual identity, refreshing the design of the site and adding lots of new functionality to enhance your learning experience. Phase 2 will include badges, learning plans linked to accredited competency frameworks, wikis (for collaborative content development) and new content from international thought leaders and academics. David Kolb's learning styles model and experiential learning theory (ELT) Having developed the model over many years prior, David Kolb published his learning styles model in 1984. Despite this, (and this is my personal view, not the view of the 'anti-Learning Styles lobby'), many teachers and educators continue to find value and benefit by using Learning Styles theory in one way or another, and as often applies in such situations, there is likely to be usage which is appropriate, and other usage which is not. kolb's experiential learning theory (learning styles) model
Pub-sub with RabbitMQ and WebSocket - Blog - Vanbosse Aren't realtime updates great? Here's another way of implementing realtime into apps. Using RabbitMQ, PHP, Node.js and Socket.io. In this blog post I'll be using an example. Image you are at a train station, waiting for the next train heading towards Berserkistan. RabbitMQ First of all, we need RabbitMQ. Publish/subscribe The publish/subcribe pattern basically says that subscribers receive all updates a publisher sends out. The publisher needs to create a connection with the RabbitMQ server. The Node.js server is a subscriber. So, for our story this means, if a train sends out location updates to the RabbitMQ server on a regular basis, the Node.js server will receive these updates since it's a subscriber. WebSocket When the Node.js server notices a message has been added, it can send out that message to all of its connected websockets. Again, for our story this means that, when an update is received, an update can be sent out to all of the waiting passengers. Demo
WHMIS Game: The WHMIS Symbols Challenge – Provincial Safety Councils Class A: Compressed Gas This symbol indicates that the contents of the container are under pressure - anything done to weaken the structure of the container could result in an explosion or a dramatic release of pressure. A compressed gas is a material which is a gas at normal room temperature and pressure, and is packaged under compression. Helium and propane are common examples of materials that are supplied as a compressed gas. Class B: Flammable/Combustible "Flammable / Combustible" materials are solids, liquids or gases that will ignite and continue to burn if exposed to a flame or source of ignition. Diesel and gasoline are examples of commonly used flammable materials. Class C: Oxidizing Materials These materials produce oxygen or another oxidizing substances, which can cause or contribute to the combustion of another substance. Chlorine is an example of an oxidizing material. Class D: Poisonous and Infectious These materials are further separated into three categories D1, D2, and D3.
dbg Version: 0.1 Date: 2013-11-21 Status: Voting Introduction phpdbg is a gdb-like PHP debugger. Implemented as a SAPI module, it is intended to be installed alongside CLI and other SAPI modules. Like CLI, and gdb, phpdbg is an executable intended to be executed at the terminal in an interactive way. Much power is provided to the user in order to control and inspect execution as it occurs, breaking execution is supported in the following ways: phpdbg> break [file] test.php:1 phpdbg> b [F] test.php:1 Will break execution on line 1 of test.php phpdbg> break [func] my_function phpdbg> b [f] my_function Will break execution on entry to my_function phpdbg> break [method] \my\class::method phpdbg> b [m] \my\class::method Will break execution on entry to \my\class::method phpdbg> break [address] 0x7ff68f570e08 phpdbg> b [a] 0x7ff68f570e08 Will break at the opline with the address provided phpdbg> break [lineno] 200 phpdbg> b [l] 200 Will break at line 200 of the currently executing file Remote Debugging:
Seed treatment In agriculture and horticulture, seed treatment or seed dressing is a chemical, typically antimicrobial or fungicidal, with which seeds are treated (or "dressed") prior to planting. Less frequently, insecticides are added. Seed treatments can be an environmentally more friendly way of using pesticides as the amounts used can be very small. It is usual to add colour to make treated seed less attractive to birds if spilt and easier to see and clean up in the case of an accidental spillage. One seed treatment, imidacloprid, from the neonicotinoid family of insecticides, is controversial and was banned in France for use on maize, due to that government's belief that the chemical was implicated in recent dramatic drops in bee counts, and possibly in Colony Collapse Disorder.[1] Dust from treated seed is known to have caused at least some problems particularly from crops such as maize drilled during the main honey flows.
Faster Workflow: Mastering Emmet, Part 1 Emmet is a free plugin for text editors to write HTML and CSS code faster. In this multi-part series, I will show you how to write HTML and CSS code faster then ever with Emmet, profiling all the features of Emmet and how to use syntax, abbreviation and keyboard shortcuts to save your time. Emmet is a must use web developer toolkit. With Emmet you can rapidly create your markup. If you make a lot of HTML templates with nav bars, tables and/or multi column layouts, you will find Emmet immensely helpful. You can install Emmet as a plugin available for many popular text editors. You can view the complete list of supported text editors at Many popular online services support Emmet. Why use Emmet? The answer to that is simple: to make your coding workflow faster. How Emmet Works? Let’s see another example. div#header>h1.logo>a{site Name} You will have following code: <div id="header"><h1 class="logo"><a href="">site Name</a></h1></div> Expand Abbreviation Function
Fertilizer A large, modern fertilizer spreader Mechanism[edit] Six tomato plants grown with and without nitrate fertilizer on nutrient-poor sand/clay soil. One of the plants in the nutrient-poor soil has died. three main macronutrients: Nitrogen (N): leaf growth;Phosphorus (P): Development of roots, flowers, seeds, fruit;Potassium (K): Strong stem growth, movement of water in plants, promotion of flowering and fruiting;three secondary macronutrients: calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), and sulfur (S);micronutrients: copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), zinc (Zn), boron (B), and of occasional significance there are silicon (Si), cobalt (Co), and vanadium (V) plus rare mineral catalysts. The nutrients required for healthy plant life are classified according to the elements, but the elements are not used as fertilizers. Classification[edit] Fertilizers are classified in several ways. Single nutrient ("straight") fertilizers[edit] Multinutrient fertilizers[edit] NPK fertilizers[edit] Soil[edit]