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Print me up Scotty!

Claude — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:26:16 +0000

3D printing just got to a new level with the worlds smallest 3D printed objects (go read this and watch the video, I’ll be waiting here). 3D printing is a subject I have been discussing often with friends and I even mentioned it in a previous post, here (in French), about IP and piracy. This is a [...]

The network of trust

Claude — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:33:46 +0000

One of the questions I am often asked when I meet fellow freelance developers is how do I find work? The answer is really simple: I don't, work finds me!

And you think 160 is not enough?

Claude — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:54:40 +0000

SMS are not 160 characters long, they are 140 bytes long! This is what I discovered today after my SO complained that her mobile operator was charging her for SMS she never sent… And when you know how computers are working, it totally makes sense! “So what?” are you going to ask? So, this is again [...]

What’s your problem, exactly?

Claude — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:05:05 +0000

When you have a problem with your car and you go to the garage you usually say something along the line of “I’ve got a strange noise when I do this or that”. The guy (or, in my dreams, the gal) never say “I don’t understand, come back later with a better description of your [...]

Facebook Pages Notifications

Claude — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:57:32 +0000

You might have noticed already, if you administer community or professional pages or have developed Facebook applications, that contrary to your own personal wall you never get notified when someone post a status or write a comment on your pages? This is a problem for most page administrators and there is a 32 pages long [...]

How to manage Google AppEngine maintenance periods

Claude — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:38:45 +0000

Here is a small snippet of code that I use on applications deployed on Google AppEngine to inform users that the application is in maintenance mode. It usually happen when the AppEngine team put the datastore in read-only mode for maintenance purpose but other capabilities can be tested as well. def requires_datastore_write(view): def newview(request, *args, [...]

Properly uploading files to Amazon S3

Claude — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:27:37 +0000

Here is a little script I wrote and I though ought to be shared. I use it to upload static files like images, css and javascript so that they can be served by Amazon S3 instead of the main application server (like Google App Engine). It’s written in Python and does interesting things like compressing [...]

Spare me the talk about privacy, they’re all clueless anyway…

Claude — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:10:19 +0000

With all the talks and posts and whatnot about privacy on the Internet it’s easy for anyone to turn into a privacy control freak. And I really was starting to freak out myself. After all, a good bunch of my own life is on the Net: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, this blog, all the Google [...]

Sévices Après Vente

Claude — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:51:22 +0000

Dans un monde chaque jour un peu plus numérisé n’oublions pas que ce sont toujours les même vieux trucs qui fonctionnent: si vis pacem, para bellum! !!Attention!! Ce billet est long et ennuyeux… Ceux qui me suivent sur Twitter ou Facebook se souviendront qu’en novembre dernier (le vendredi 13 exactement) mon appartement avait été cambriolé [...]

Experiencing viral growth

Claude — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:15:20 +0000

This is something to hear and talk about it but this is something totally different to experience it, it’s thrilling, even on modest scales. Since my LibraryThing application for Facebook is out it has clearly had a viral growth curve. So far there are only 435 users and every week I am looking for an [...]