When building an application that requires a select action from the user, you have several options.  You can either add a checkbox, drop down, radio, list box, and (as of 2004( an input box with Autocomplete.  Thanks to Kevin Gibbs, the Autocomplete was developed for Google.  The function quickly became a heavily used Google function, offering the famous suggestion options.   How I implemented AutoComplete In one of my web applications, BodyVal, I previously used a dropdown list for users to select an activity.  This is what that dropdown looks like.  As my application scales by number of exercises and activities, this list will only get larger. This also forced me to require users to use a two part form.  One[…]

Hello World!

Hello World! If you have learned a programming language before, there is a high probability that the first function call you learned was to print out the string “Hello World!”.  The Term is so popular, it has it’s own Wikipedia article! I can tell you I’ve personally done it across several languages.  In honor of the famous term, I’ve highlighted a few ways of saying Hello to your compiler.   C printf (“Hello World!”) PHP <?php echo “Hello World!” ?> Python 2.7 & Perl print ‘Hello World!’ Python 3 print(‘Hello World!’) Python (I added an Input for good measure) write-host ‘Hello World!’