Jean-François Lefebvre web blog

OSX display mac addresses for all network devices

jeff — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:40:20 +0000

networksetup -listallhardwareports

Chrome DNS page

jeff — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 06:20:54 +0000

Chrome has his own dns cache, to manage it, go to the following page

chrome://net-internals/#dns

automate the use of apktool and dex2jar

jeff — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:14:21 +0000

I wrote a small php script to run in shell helping to use apktool and dex2jar to reverse engineer an android application apk file. You will get access to the androidmanifest.xml decoded, the images and java clases that you will be able to decompile with jd-gui. I'm using it to get some ideas how to organize projects and most of all because I'm curious and love to understand how things work.

The script is shared on Gist.

V2 CMS Bootstrap

jeff — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:41:29 +0000

In the open source world you have several cms that are loaded with features but most of the time there is a learning curve due to complexity and I've decided to build my own cms with a small set of features providing the basic structure/tools/good practices to create and deploy easily a web site for small/midsized projects.

I have to admit that I'm obsessed with the idea of "lean programming". So, I've written down a list with the essentials features for a modern cms.

You can take a look at the V2 CMS Bootstrap preview

V2 is built around composer, Silex micro framework, Twig, RedBean ORM, Bootstrap (responsive web deisgn), TagIt!, jQuery, eden PHP library

Twitter API - Converting the created_at field to timestamp

jeff — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:33:59 +0000

echo date(strtotime($tweet['created_at']));

The format used by twitter in the created_at field is

echo date("l M j \- g:ia", $timestamp);

Displaying information about the memory usage

jeff — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:03:41 +0000

echo  "\n$(top -l 1 | awk '/PhysMem/';)\n"

Searching for the last files modified since 1 day

jeff — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:59:29 +0000

find / -type f -mtime -1 -print0 | xargs -0 du -sk | sort -nr

How to install and use composer on mediatemple

jeff — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:01:11 +0000

Here is a quick tip wich will help you to install and use composer on your mediatemple hosting.

original source : Jamie on software

Installing composer

curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -d allow_url_fopen=1 -d suhosin.executor.include.whitelist=phar

and then run composer ...

php -d memory_limit=512M -d allow_url_fopen=1 -d suhosin.executor.include.whitelist=phar composer.phar

This is ugly, so let's clean it up. We'll add an alias to the bash profile:

$ vim ~/.profile

We'll alias get_composer to our install command and composer to our composer.phar file. This way we can set up new subdomains and such easily:

alias get_composer="curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -d allow_url_fopen=1 -d suhosin.executor.include.whitelist=phar"
alias composer="php -d memory_limit=512M -d allow_url_fopen=1 -d suhosin.executor.include.whitelist=phar composer.phar"

Save, and reload the profile (this will be done automatically next login):

$ source ~/.profile

Now, we can use Composer to our hearts' content:

$ get_composer
All settings correct for using Composer
Downloading...
Composer successfully installed to: /....
Use it: php composer.phar

$ composer -V
Composer version cb2a0f4

Eden : A PHP library for rapid prototyping

jeff — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:37:43 +0000

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Eden is a library allowing to access various APIs, in just several lines of code, access web services of web sites such as twitter, facebook, paypal, google contacts, google drive, youtube, google maps, foursquare and many others. But not only APIs ! It provides reusable components to manage Mail, Cache, Database, Payment gateways. Core functionnalities can help to build web application prototypes and it really integrates easily with existing frameworks or CMS.
I've experimented myself : in less than 30 minutes, I've integrated the library in symfony and accessed my twitter and youtube data.

PHP Framework Interoperability Group

jeff — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:16:15 +0000

This is the kind of github repo that any PHP web developer should watch.

The PHP Framework Interop Group website is a place to find coding standard, coding style. Many of the big open source projects are members of the group. The idea is to have common guidelines for the members and the PHP community.

Le Canada vu par les Canadiens

jeff — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:35:31 +0000

Le site Keep exploring a invité les Canadiens à photographier ou filmer leurs meilleures expériences de voyage au Canada et à les montrer au monde entier : Ils ont été très nombreux à répondre à l’appel : plus de 65 heures de vidéos et 7 000 photos de partout au Canada.

Pinterest web scraping

jeff — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:20:31 +0000

I'm using Pinterest a lot as an inspirational tool, I'm adding pins related to decoration, architecture, food, airstream vans and container based construction.

Pinterest does not provides an API and the RSS feeds contains a limited number of items. So, I' wrote a piece of code wich extract the data from the website and the next pages of the endless scrolling system.

I've created a new page for my blog extracting my pins and displaying them using WookMark jQuery plugin. The code is available on github.

In the next release, I will cache the web scrapping data and will create a sync script.
This will reduce the amount of requests. I also plan to add a feature allowing to save the pins, I'm thinking about a backup to the cloud (dropbox, google drive, ...). This will help me to get more experience with these APIs.

Lights - Toes

jeff — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:49:11 +0000

Activitystream Pinterest addon

jeff — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:35:10 +0000

I'm happy to announce that I have created and pushed on github a pinterest addon for the activitystream drupal module. You can see it working on my stream.

pinterest RSS feed

jeff — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:36:46 +0000

I have to admit, Pinterest is currently my favorite web site : I love beautiful things.
At this point, they don't provide an API but I've discovered on Quora that a RSS feed by user is available : http://pinterest.com/[username]/feed.rss .
So, I'm going to implement an activitystream addon for pinterest and a blog displaying the last pins added.

How to remove all empty lines in netbeans source code edtor

jeff — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:01:14 +0000

Open the replace dialog
1) Check the Regular Expressions check box
1) Find What:

?\n\s*(\n)

2) Replace With:

$1

3) click Replace All.

AndevCon III presentations

jeff — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:53:38 +0000

Presentations from the Android developer conference.

Rover - Aqualast - music video

jeff — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:06:36 +0000

J'appelle ça une tuerie, selon mes propres goûts musicaux.
Derrière le projet Rover se cache Thimothée Régnier un francais qui a eu la chance de bourlinguer à travers le monde grace à ses parents. Il a également tourné dans quelques films. Une personnalité attachante et surtout un artiste multifacette avec un univers bien à lui que je vous invite à découvrir dans l'interview faites sur le site Electro Choc.

PressPausePlay

jeff — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:49:55 +0000

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world's most influential creators of the digital era.

Programming, Motherfucker

jeff — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:44:45 +0000

Programming, Motherfucker
Do you speak it?

We are a community of motherfucking programmers who have been humiliated by software development methodologies for years.

We are tired of XP, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Software Craftsmanship (aka XP-Lite) and anything else getting in the way of...Programming, Motherfucker.

Absynthe minded - Envoi

jeff — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:07:01 +0000

I love the song "Envoi" in an acoustic version from the belgian group Absynthe minded.

Detect mobile device with PHP and redirect to your mobile web site

jeff — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:12:25 +0000

Visit Detect mobile device with PHP and redirect to your mobile web site Detect mobile device with PHP and redirect to your mobile web site

Very useful code showing how to detect mobile devices based on user agent.
I've implemented this in the index.php file of my drupal site.
Just one remark : most of the tablet users prefer to use the desktop version of web sites, so feel free to modify the code if needed.

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Android Patterns - An Interaction Patterns Library For The Platform

jeff — Sun, 15 May 2011 22:59:25 +0000

Visit Android Patterns - An Interaction Patterns Library For The Platform Android Patterns - An Interaction Patterns Library For The Platform

Android Patterns is a website which aims to bring a solution to the design-related questions by sharing widely-accepted answers (patterns) for them.

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Le Canada, une fois

jeff — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:52:20 +0000

Visit Le Canada, une fois Le Canada, une fois

Un compatriote belge relatant son voyage au Canada (mai 2011)
http://www.lecanada-unefois.com/

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I love my flip

jeff — Sat, 07 May 2011 11:21:30 +0000

Je viens de m'offrir un mini caméscope Flip Ultra HD 3, et après quelques heures d'utilisation, je suis ravi de mon choix et suis certains qu'il me sera très utile lors de mon prochain voyage au Canada ou lors de réunions de famille pour filmer mon neveu.

J'ai décidé d'écrire cette note car apparement, j'avais raté un épisode :
Il apparait que CISCO a décidé de mettre un point final à la production, la vente ainsi qu'aux 550 emplois cachés derrière la gamme FLIP.

Logique compréhensible vu l'évolution des modèles de smartphones nouvelle génération, cela dit le FLIP aurait pu continuer à se vendre encore un moment.

Ce que j'aime dans le FLIP

la facilité d'utilisation, pas de menus compliqués, juste quelques boutons
interface dans la langue de l'utilisateur, détail important pour le grand public ne parlant pas l'anglais
une fois chargé, la possibilité de capturer 2h de vidéos en 720p
connectique complète : avec du microHDMI et un connecteur spécifique "FlipPort" permettant à des sociétés externes de développer des produits étendants les possibilités du FLIP. Ajout par exemple d'un micro supplémentaire afin d'améliorer la qualité audio. Mais l'arrêt de la production du flip a entrainé l'arrêt du projet de micro pour flip dont le prototype paraissait des plus prometeurs
reproduction des couleurs assez vives lorsque la lumière est bien présente

On peut passer sa vie à la recherche de cet idéal, mais pour ma part, le FLIP me comble sur de nombreux points au regard de mon utilisation.

Ma note globale : 9/10

Je vous invite à lire ce test très complet Flip UltraHD 3G.

Memolane

jeff — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:26:33 +0000

Visit Memolane Memolane

I just have created my Memolane account, very nice tool to mix all your activity streams on the web.

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Underground by Suelette Dreyfus

jeff — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:45:44 +0000

Visit Underground by Suelette Dreyfus Underground by Suelette Dreyfus

"Underground" by Suelette Dreyfus is a great historical fiction narrative detailing the rise and fall of some crackers and phreakers and their opponents: phone company employees, system administrators, and Feds. It takes place between 1988 and 1994, when multi-user BBSes were starting to pop up and a telephone call was the ONLY way to access other computers.

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Kodingen

jeff — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:50:50 +0000

Visit Kodingen Kodingen

Kodingen propose un environnement de développement en cloud computing.
Tout ce dont vous avez besoin, c'est une connection internet.
A l'heure actuelle, c'est en beta mais déjà très prometteur et permet de se faire une première idée de ce que l'avenir nous réserve.

Le service gratuit est limité à

1 domaine
6 sous domaines
5 bases de données
500 Mo de stockage
1 Gb de bande passante par mois

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Cocoon - oh my god

jeff — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:42:37 +0000

Lorsque j'ai découvert ce morceau à la radio, j'étais en voiture, bloqué sur le ring de bruxelles en plein embouteillage et ca m'a vraiment aidé à me relaxer et garder mon calme. Vrai coup de coeur, fermez les yeux en écoutant et laissez-vous emporter par la magie.

Cocoon - "Oh My God" from Seduce Management on Vimeo.

drupal 7 weather module released

jeff — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:19:30 +0000

Visit drupal 7 weather module released drupal 7 weather module released

Finally, I took the time to migrate to drupal 7 my weather module, enjoy !

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