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The web has evolved… Get used to it

September 13, 12 //
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A year back, I created a nice and simple website for my triathlon club: http://d3triathlon.com. I’m used to WordPress, and I know it has an easy interface to create content. So it’s what I chose to create the site: simple stuff, simple theme with a couple of simple pages.

At the time, I requested feedback and inputs from club members about features they wanted to see. I implemented most of them (safely ignoring the “I want to see a little guy, swim bike and run across the screen” request…) to produce what I feel is a decent job for what it’s supposed to do. A year later, after only one member dared trying to create a new article (successfully though!), I got an email asking me what I thought about using another platform, on which editing “looks just like word”… Here’s some thoughts.

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Evaluating function return values with Jasmine

August 26, 12 //
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I’ve been using jasmine at work as a javascript test framework to cover front-end code with all sorts of tests. Recently, on one particular spec, I needed to capture the values returned by a spied upon fonction, without completely interrupting the code execution. As capturing returned values from a spy before continuing code execution is something I couldn’t find in the jasmine framework, I wrote a small integration test that required to use spyOn().andCallFake(), instead of spyOn().andCallThrough(). Here’s my attempt at an implementation. (more…)

Why Linked-in does it wrong

December 5, 11 //
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Linkedin is crumpling

Linkedin is crumpling

A while back, I wrote about an experience with a scam/recruiter who managed to call me over at work, trying to get names and emails of people I worked with. I’ve been recently very annoyed at linked-in for a similar issue. Here’s the story. (more…)

Automated deployment on remote server with git

October 22, 11 //
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Some time back, I wanted to setup my server so I could push code to my repositories, and have it automatically deployed to a website root directory after doing a git push from my local machine.
I can’t remember where I found the instructions so I can’t give credit to whom I got it from, but here’s how I did it.

This is followed by a tutorial on how to extend this setup to multiple branches and work-trees for “live” and “development” versions of a website. (more…)

Kodes

May 3, 11 //
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After creating rewriter I received a request at work asking if there was a simple way to test errors views on the front-end code we do at Betfair. As I did not have any real idea at the time, I wrote a dead simple ruby application hosted on my machine to return an HTTP error code, so the front-end would display the correct error messages. It seemed it was a good idea and I improved it by creating kodes.

kodes

kodes

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Rewriter

April 27, 11 //
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I’ve been thinking in the past to create my own little applications for my own organisation and as a tool suite. The first one to come out is (surprisingly) not a todo app, but a URL shortener/bookmark manager. Check it out: Rewriter.

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Rewriter

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