Author Archives: DeanLogic

About DeanLogic

Dean has been playing around with programming ever since his family got an IBM PC back in the early 80's. Things have changed since BASICA and Dean has dabbled in HTML, JavaScript, Action Script, Flex, Flash, PHP, C#, C++, J2ME and SQL. On this site Dean likes to share his adventures in coding. And since programming isn't enough of a time killer, Dean has also picked up the hobby of short film creation.

Cryptocurrency : Proof of Stake

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Claiming Your Stake For Rewards and Mining In the late 1800’s, citizens of the U.S.A. were given the opportunity to stake a land claim in the expanding territory of the west. One of these seven land run events was the Land Run of 1893, where an estimated 115,000 participants road horses, wagons, bikes or just ran to stake a claim on 6 million acres and 42,000 homesteads in what was previously grazing land for the Cherokee. The participants would have to run to a plotted out homestead, which was about 160 acres in size, and plant their flag. If you Continue reading Cryptocurrency : Proof of Stake→

Creating A ‘To The Moon’ Image

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Working with PHP GD Image to Dynamically Create an Image Now that I have the correct max date query pulling the “To The Moon” coins list, it is time to work on creating an output image to let people share it with the world. From previous experience working with my website, before WordPress was WordPress, I knew that PHP had tools for manipulating images. I figured, I could take several images and text and combine them together to create a shareable image for each coin. While there is a great PHP image manipulation tool called ImageMagick, I am limited to Continue reading Creating A ‘To The Moon’ Image→

SteemNova : Building My Galaxy

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Colonizing Planets to Increase Resources   It has been two weeks since I started playing SteemNova, an oGame based space strategy game using the 2Moon system. Welcome Back to Text Base Gaming Last week, in my Slow Times on SteemNova article, I mentioned that I had reached the point where each new level of building or research took a lot more Metal, Crystal and Deuterium. One of the ways to increase your resources is to colonize planets. You do this by researching Expedition Technology, building a Colony Ship and then sending it to a blank spot in your galaxy. While the price of the Continue reading SteemNova : Building My Galaxy→