Mon 14 October 2024

I wrote my last post on fpdf2 18 months ago. We released 7 more versions of fpdf2 since then! This article will present some of the major features introduced since v2.7.3 to v2.8.1 of fpdf2: click on the buttons below to reveal the various changes brought …

Sun 02 January 2022

I very recently joined , and it seems great! Even if its new system makes difficult to talk to new people. One things that annoys me a little though, is that I often get matches for people too far away from where I live, even with the distance filter set in …

Fri 26 November 2021

Un court article pour partager une méthode bien pratique pour mettre à jour la page d'acceuil d'un forum ForumActif : Contexte Une association de jeux de rôle a mis en place un site ForumActif. Cet hébergeur inclus dans ses forums phpBB la possibilité de créer des pages HTML statiques, et de …

Wed 15 July 2020

Linkback protocols are an old breed. They were born in a time where MySpace, Wikipedia & WordPress had just been launched, and Friendster was more popular than this new website called Facebook. Diagram source: PPRuNe article on linkbacks The latest linkback protocol, Webmention, is relatively recent though, as it became a …

Sat 21 September 2019

Last week-end was the 30th anniversary of one of my best friends. For the occasion, I wanted to craft him a small puzzle with a custom secret drawing, as a reminder of some shared memories. I came upon Erik & Martin Demaine's creation for CSAIL 2006, a print & play puzzle based …

Wed 04 January 2017

Today I've been struggling to understand why this does not work in Firefox, but is OK in Chrome: Here …

Mon 06 April 2015

I recently worked on a short website project using Django & Heroku. It was my very time using this Python framework, and I really liked it ! This is a compendium of tips & tricks that I, as a Django beginner, found quite useful : Django enhanced shell To install it : pip install django-extensions …

Wed 25 March 2015

Die shell script, DIE ! In this post, I'll show how easy it ease to convert fragile shell scripts to Python scripts, using sh.py. I'll use as an example a simple script to check your HTML code from the command-line, using the W3C validator. Now you ask me, why the …

Wed 25 February 2015

Sometimes, it's useful to print some source code on paper. And PDF is a very common file format, that you can be sure your printer will accept, and that will let you preview the final page layout. But how to quickly perform syntax-coloring and export to PDF ? I've been experimenting …

Wed 26 November 2014

This post is only relevant to you if you use browserify. For a good introduction to this powerful Javascript bundling tool, check this doc. First of all, I'd like to take my hat off to James Hallyday and Peteris Krumins who have built such amazing tools as browserify, testling and …

Thu 09 October 2014

I truly think Etherpad is an amazing piece of software. Not so much for its code base quality than for its extraordinary range of usages. Now, while I'm still unsure if todo-lists are useful or a complete waste of energy, I'm convinced that keeping a developer logbook / diary / journal has …