Tutorials

Layers and Components are an important part of SketchUp. It allows you to create larger drawings and sketches much faster. Also this is great for small drawings also that use repeated objects, objects that block views, and more.

Layers

In the below tutorials, I explain how to use Layers to hide, show and delete shapes and objects you drew. This helps you to easily manage your drawing viewing area and to work inside of walls and objects.

In PHP and other programming languages you don’t want all the code to execute unless a specific value has been reached or is set. To get this functionality we use “If” statements. If statements are a way to check and compare variables to see if they are set to values you want to process code. For instance, if a user is logged into a site, that is when you grab their account information. If the user is not logged into the site, there is no need to grab account information. This is applied to all aspects of the code.

In this series of tutorials I am going to teach you not only how to code in PHP, but how to think in PHP. You will learn how to come up with the best methods to solve problems along with the code to go with it. Each tutorial will assume you have read the previous tutorials and fully understand them. Moving along means you have typed sample code out, successfully got it to run and understand why it works.

If you no longer can boot into your Operating System and need to recover your files an easy way to go about this is using a Linux Live CD. There are GUI and Text Live CD’s but in this tutorial we will be using a Text Live CD by Debian. Right below is the video demonstrating how to do this. Or if you want you can just read how to do right under the video.

If you ever wanted to make changes to a program and didn’t have the source code you are usually out of luck. But with decompilers you can turn the compiled exe, or other executable file into ASM (Assembly) or just edit the HEX code. If you are looking to make a lot of changes decompiling to ASM is suggested since you can more clearly understand what is happening. But if you just need to modify a few variables and strings, why not just open it up in a hex editor quickly? Keep in mind that when you do decompile a program, it’s going to be a lot harder to understand since the compiler optimizing the original code. If you have the option to, always edit the source code that is available.