In this article I will show you how to use native C# to open a thermal printer as a file and send it bytes or data including ESC POS commands.
Remember that I already have a plugin that allows you to print on thermal printers and exposes a consumable HTTP API from any programming language so that you can use it and not implement your own library, but if you want to see how it’s done, keep reading.
In this post I will show you how to fix an error that appears in my thermal printer plugin that says: Error en el servidor: sql: no rows in result set.
This error says that there are no rows in the database, and you may be wondering what printing has to do with a database, so that is exactly what I will discuss in this post.
Today I am going to present you a plugin that I have just created. It is a plugin to print a PDF file silently, that is, without asking the user for confirmation.
This plugin exposes a REST API so that a PDF can be printed without confirmation using JavaScript. Just make an HTTP GET request to the plugin path sending the name of the PDF and the name of the printer.
The best thing about this is that you can use the virtual printers that Windows offers, in this way you can do your tests in an ecological way.
Throughout this post I will show you the documentation of the plugin and all the details of it, including how you can get it.
In this post I will show you how to print a PDF document from the Windows command line, terminal or CMD using the executable PDFtoPrinter.exe.
As you know, printing a PDF from the Windows terminal is not possible using the print command (since it only prints text files), since a translator is required to read the content of the PDF and send it to the printer.
It is precisely what this utility called PDFtoPrinter.exe does, and in this post I’ll show you how to use it.
In this post I will show you how to make an executable open when Windows starts, adding its shortcut to a special directory called Startup folder.
Thanks to this, as soon as the computer starts, the executable will be opened, regardless of its origin.
A few days ago I did an exercise on a sales system in PHP. It is written in pure PHP, no Javascript. Mind you, for the styles I used a Bootstrap variant.
The files don’t have a structure, but like I said, it’s an example. I also write this because it either serves someone else or it serves myself for some references.
For data persistence it uses MySQL. This POS Save products and sales. It does not handle user permissions. We store the shopping cart in the session, and well, I better explain it in parts in this post.
Obviously this POS software is free and open source.
Today I am going to show you a software that I just made with Laravel. It is a sales system, point of sale, POS or whatever you call it, which is used to keep track of the products that are sold, the sales, and so on.
It is a totally free and open source system; which means that you can use it at no cost, and modify it to your needs or customize it. Among its features we find:
Now let’s see how I have developed it, where you can download it, and so on.
In this Python programming tutorial you will learn how to create a REST API using Flask, SQLite 3 (for data), and JSON for data communication.
In the end you will have an API that you can consume from any client that could be an Android application, a browser with JavaScript or even another server language.
I will show you how to create an API that communicates using JSON and saves the data in SQLite 3. The API will be created with Flask, and we will use the Python programming language to handle all the data.
In this post I will show you the Tetris game programmed in pure JavaScript, totally free and open source.
This block game is programmed with JavaScript and uses canvas to paint the game. I also use Bootstrap for the layout of the buttons and the page in general, with a bit of SweetAlert for the alerts.
Although it seems simple to do, it is one of the jobs that has cost me the most and of which I am most proud. It was complex (for me) to understand all the logic for collisions, rotations, row deletion, part movement, limits, etc.
Among the features of the game we find:
Let’s see then the details of this game programmed in JS. Throughout the post I will show you how this game is programmed, I will also leave you a demo and the complete code which is FOSS.
Note: figure, piece and tetromino will be used synonymously in this post.
In this article about programming in the Go language (also known as Golang) we will see how to create a REST API that communicates through JSON, saving and displaying data from a MySQL / MariaDB database.
In the end we will have a REST API with Go using the 4 methods: POST, PUT, DELETE and GET using the Mux router. We are also going to implement the 4 operations of a database: insert, update, delete and select.
I will leave the full open source code at the end of the post.
In this post I will show you how to enable CORS (Cross Origin Resource sharing) so that you can make HTTP requests from a different domain than the one you use for your Flask application written in Python.
We will just add a kind of middleware to modify all the responses and add the headers that allow CORS in Flask.
In this post I will show you how to program the Connect 4 game by using JavaScript with HTML and Vue, with Bootstrap styles.
Connect 4 in JavaScript, HTML – Web version
It is the Connect 4 game but web version with a player versus player option, as well as player versus CPU that uses a small artificial intelligence.
Throughout the post I will show you how the game works, what technologies I have used, styles, etc. I will also show you how to download the source code, as the game is totally free and open source. Finally I will leave you a demo to play connect 4 online.
In this post about Java I am going to teach you how to convert text to binary, and binary to text. That is, make a type of text – binary translator in Java to be able to convert between both formats.
Another way to call this is to say “Binary to English translator” for example.
Text to binary translator in Java
For example, convert 1110000 1100001 1110010 1111010 1101001 1100010 1111001 1110100 1100101 101110 1101101 1100101 to “parzibyte.me” and vice versa.
All this programmed in Java with manual methods and custom logic.
Summary: In this post I will show you how to print readable QR codes on a thermal printer (also called ticket printer, pos printer, etc.) using JavaScript and a plugin.
If you have followed my posts, you will know that a long time ago I developed a plugin and I have added new features, until today we print QR codes on a thermal printer.
Some time ago I showed you how to print a ticket /receipt directly from browser, today we will use it to print a QR code.
Although there are millions of tutorials about MySQL and PHP, I decided to make mine but in a very very simple way. Before you start, you must have a basic knowledge in MySQL.
Source code of PHP file connection
It is worth mentioning that we will not see good practices of databases, relationships, etc. We will use the tables as they are, without looking at normalization, or things like that.
Note: this tutorial uses PDO, but remember that we can also use mysqli functions. Personally I recommend PDO, because it is object oriented. However, I hope to write a tutorial about mysqli in the future.