PHP function to draw nice looking XY plot charts with google chart API
Creating nice charts used to be a hard task. Lately, I dug a little bit into Google chart API to see what they had to offer and how they could help me draw nice looking charts easily. In theory, using...
View ArticleAllmyapps 4 slides pitch for OpenCoffe Paris before LeWeb
It's been sooo long since I blogged! The thing is that the activity at Allmyapps is just exploding (a good problem to deal with!) and unless days suddenly get bigger (say 48h a day), there's no way I...
View Article8th of December aka “The Longest Day”
I don't why but, today, 8th of December, everybody decided that it was *the* day to make events and conferences. We had no event or such since a few month and then, suddenly, you have this crowded 8th...
View ArticleGoogle real time search results
I've just noticed beautiful live search results integrated into google search results tonight. I had never seen them before so I thought I'd share this news-to-me with you Here's what I saw when I...
View ArticleConfiguring iptables to allow internet surfing while blocking all unsolicited...
I'm so used to connect to the Internet through network masquerading (NAT) that I was really surprised today when I realised that my laptop was actually receiving a lot of unsollicited connexions...
View ArticleMoblin and Maemo projects are merging
Wow, just received this email from the Moblin mailing list. It announces the merge between Moblin (Intel initiated project) and Maemo (Nokia initiated project) : Hi Everyone I'm sure you've heard the...
View ArticleHow to exclude multiple directories while creating an archive with tar
A very quick post again as I've just spent way too much time to find out how to use the --exclude option of tar. All I wanted is tar to omit a few subdirectories while creating an archive of a...
View ArticleHow to validate email addresses in PHP
I guess that every PHP developer out there already had to cope with email validation in PHP. I personally used to think it was not completely straight forward. Indeed, when you google the subject you...
View Articlepostgresql, date input format and black magic
I hate when I have the impression that black magic took the control of my PC. If you're a developer, you know it happens sometimes... when something is obviously wrong but you just can't figure out...
View ArticleGet a command prompt with administrator privileges from explorer
While I was looking to install Dig on my Windows 7 machine. I stumbled on a dead simple but very useful piece of code that I thought I would share with you. It just allows you to open a command prompt...
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