Self-tutoring about the SQL Server query editor: the tutor mentions a hint. I defined a function, but then couldn’t find it. I wondered – was it even defined, or had I accidentally deleted it somehow? The command exec sp_helptext function_name …
Self-tutoring about virtual machines, or VMs: the tutor explains some advantages of them. Virtual means it doesn’t exist in a physical sense, yet it can be thought of, or used, as if it does. In computer science, a virtual machine …
Self-tutoring about web experimentation: the tutor shares an observation. In Developer Tools, I get the ‘cache-control header is missing or empty’ when I load a local file, but not one from a server. I’m under the impression that, when that …
Web programming: ‘cache-control header is missing or empty’ Read more »
Self-tutoring about mobile phones: the tutor mentions executing a factory reset. I mention in my post from Aug 19 how my mobile phone was nearly disabled from constant pop-ups of the message “Unfortunately Google play services has stopped.” Clearing the …
Self-tutoring about people, places, and events from the past: the tutor reflects about a place his sister and he used to frequent. When we lived in the Annapolis Valley, my grandparents lived about 7 miles away, in a slightly bigger …
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor mentions someone he never knew. Ages 11-13, I started going to a video arcade. They were the rage then; in a way we were lucky to have one in such …
Self-tutoring about JavaScript: the tutor continues about objects and the prototype connection. It’s my understanding that in “old” JavaScript, you could have objects but they were defined using a constructor function, such as function theObj(the_name){ this.name=the_name; } var myObj=new theObj(‘Smedley’); …
Considering tutoring for the 2025-26 school year? The tutor mentions some details…. Fall 2025, Oracle Tutoring offers a choice: in-person or online. Subjects: math, sciences, English, and more. Students of all ages welcome. Certified teacher. email: oracletutoring@shaw.ca text: 250 203-6544
Self-tutoring about JavaScript: the tutor begins about its prototype concept. Whether JavaScript has always been truly object-oriented I will discuss over a few posts. Suffice it to say it’s changed a lot over the years to become more similar, syntactically, …
Self-tutoring about JavaScript: the tutor mentions the object window.location JavaScript has the window.location object, which contains information about the current page open in the browser. For instance, window.location.origin will give the url of the current page. Source: w3schools.com