FavIconX : Make progress bars out of favicons.
Last week on my NAS I found some old code that I had created about 2 years ago. It was a small (7kb) vanilla library that enabled you to make progress bars out of your browser tab icons. I never...
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The Code Zombies of StackOverflow
I believe that this is the greatest time to become a programmer. Whereas I remember paying 149$ for an undocumented Microsoft Visual C++ 1.0 twenty years ago, almost all languages and tools have now...
View ArticleThe Great and Dusty Intentions of TODOs
Another empty can of coke. Just a few hours left before the week-end!! This is looking great, I just have to refactor this small part of the code. Two minutes and I should be done. Ok. it’s actually...
View ArticleBecoming a GMail Ninja
A lot of you know about the many keyboard shortcuts in GMail. Most of you probably use the most common ones. Today I want to issue out a challenge to you: completely stop using your mouse in GMail....
View ArticleCoding Alone In The Dark
“Code Smell” is an expression given when glancing at some code and seeing right away potential issues with the way it is designed. Martin Fowler describes it as “a surface indication that usually...
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7 Tips to Speed Up Eclipse
About a month ago, I blogged about my love/hate relationship with Eclipse. I was asked by a few people to share my tips on how I was able to speed it up so here we go… As a side note, this article is...
View ArticleHarmful Security
I’m in line at the guard post. The lady at the front desk is in her 50s. She speaks German on the phone, then English to the person in front of me. She then asks for my ID in French. I glance around...
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Ludum Dare – Mr Box
Last week-end, I participated with my brother Max at Ludum Dare. We both worked on individual games. It was a lot of fun, but it prevented me from writing an article. So this week I invite you to try...
View ArticleThe Positive Coder Experiment
(10 minutes read) About a year ago, we were trying to teach my 2-year old son to go up the stairs one foot at a time. It was interesting to watch him learn. He quickly got the first half right: He...
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30 years later, QBasic is still the best
(5 minutes read) My oldest son Noah turned 7 three months ago. If he could trade his family for a 2 hour session of playing minecraft, he would do it in a heartbeat. The other love of his life is Super...
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