Random stuff about PaaS and programming
It’s been a while since I’ve written in that blog. Since 2013, I’ve worked on some interesting and serious stuff and I’m now working with networking hardware and on more diversified challenges . At Zap Québec , we’re big fans of Ubiquiti ’s hardware. Their Wifi access points are very stable and easy to configure with the Unifi platform. It’s an online…
I think projects like this one are cool hacks, but nothing more. It’s making two trending devices to talk to each other. Google’s Glass may become a revolutionary piece of technology, but I think that using them to control every smart device of the internet of things is useless. We should use them to interact with our environment. There is something broken in current trends of home…
I’ve started this new blog in november 2012, posted 7 texts in the first month and nothing until february. The fact is that it’s easier to have ideas than to execute them. I’m up to 6 unpublished posts. Some just got forgotten and the others are already outdated. I’ll need to focus my thinking on executable goals and be proactive about them. Why’s that? Because…
I had to update my method of including gists on my blog. First, Github mades great changes to their gists, so I made a simple adjustment to my code . The url of the CSS now contains a hash and your username is in the url of the gist itself (but, old urls redirect to the new one even in jsonp calls). Second, Tumblr mades some changes in their editor and broke some things like: the cursor may become…
Lately, the PaaS developer that I am has been building more web sites than usual. I’m becoming passionate about CDN and static or generated web sites. In the last year, I’ve been deploying all my static assets on static storage. Including fonts. I mean, on my own CDN. It’s just last month that I realized how wise it is to use Google Fonts : As the Google Web Fonts API becomes…
Ideas are cheap and renewable resources. You can find countless blog posts about interesting ideas that people had without having time to invest in these. If you want to start a business and you have no project idea, this may be a good place to start looking. But a better way to start could be to learn having ideas if it’s even possible… in this case, this blog post doesn’t…
This week-end, I wanted to write a blog post with some code in it. So I thought to use Github’s gists . The problem: the code that Github gives to embed gists is a script tag with ugly document.write s and Tumblr simply doesn’t allow script tags in posts. There are existing solutions but they all try to catch document.write or they at least need jQuery . If you don’t already use…
This weekend I’m doing the Startup Weekend in Quebec City , the city where I do most of my Foursquare checkins … Saturday has been ruff on me because I’m an good backend developer who has no clue on how to use jQuery mobile (OH, I hate to make sliders inside a hell of javascript-resized and absolute-positioned DIVs). And the truth is that the backend is no so important for…
“If you’re not buiding a PaaS, you should deploy on a PaaS” - This recently became a motto in my day-to-day practice. As the root project of my own company is a PaaS, I’m also working for Aranatha where I have to deploy web apps. I’ve started my quest as a developer by pushing (well, f*ck# FTP-ing) code on shared hosts and later discovered the power of working with VPS servers. These days are long…
The Humble Bundle for Android 4 : I never give less than 15$ : 1$ for Humble Bundle, Inc. 20% for Child’s Play 20% for EFF The rest for the developers
oh no, you’re right. The title is a damn reference . 1991 : birth, but the merit is not for me 2005 : started coding some useless PHP 2008 : going to college to get a diploma 2009 : Nodejs exists and I don’t know it yet Somewhere in 2011 : I finally know what is nodejs Summer of 2011 : got the diploma August 2011 : started working for Aranatha Autumn of 2011 : going to university to go…
That’s it. A personal blog on Tumblr. No I won’t configure ugly runtimes , old webservers or not-schema-less databases anymore. Well, I’ll still play with server stuf but not for personal-scale thoughts. The content of my old blog had become irrelevant and it wasn’t worth the trouble of migrating it. So I welcome myself to this free and corporate-backed internet. And yes…