Chez Xavier

lastfm: listened to Johnny Hallyday, Aldebert

2012-04-09T00:00:00Z

listened to Johnny Hallyday, Aldebert

lastfm: listened to Johnny Hallyday

2012-04-08T00:00:00Z

listened to Johnny Hallyday

CSScience - CSS3 Responsive Slider / Carousel Using Radio Buttons

2012-04-04T09:30:32Z

An almost-CSS3-only image slider, with the great advantage of being responsive.

link: bookmarked a link "CSScience - CSS3 Responsive Slider / Carousel Using Radio Buttons"

2012-04-04T07:30:32Z

bookmarked a link "CSScience - CSS3 Responsive Slider / Carousel Using Radio Buttons"

lastfm: listened to Serge Gainsbourg, Muse, Radiohead, Camille Saint-Saëns, Renaud, Emily Loizeau, Charles Aznavour, Yann Tiersen, Evgeny Kissin, Barbara, Georges Brassens

2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

listened to Serge Gainsbourg, Muse, Radiohead, Camille Saint-Saëns, Renaud, Emily Loizeau, Charles Aznavour, Yann Tiersen, Evgeny Kissin, Barbara, Georges Brassens

lastfm: listened to Muse, Diana Krall, Crystal Castles, The Dresden Dolls, Robots in Disguise

2012-03-31T00:00:00Z

listened to Muse, Diana Krall, Crystal Castles, The Dresden Dolls, Robots in Disguise

lastfm: listened to Claude François, Louis Garrel, Claude François/David Whitaker et Son Orchestre, Jacques Brel, Daphné, Julie Delpy, Charles Aznavour, Aldebert, Crystal Castles

2012-03-30T00:00:00Z

listened to Claude François, Louis Garrel, Claude François/David Whitaker et Son Orchestre, Jacques Brel, Daphné, Julie Delpy, Charles Aznavour, Aldebert, Crystal Castles

lastfm: listened to Johnny Hallyday, Saint Seiya, Gladiator, Radiohead, Joe Dassin, Serge Gainsbourg

2012-03-29T00:00:00Z

listened to Johnny Hallyday, Saint Seiya, Gladiator, Radiohead, Joe Dassin, Serge Gainsbourg

lastfm: listened to Johnny Hallyday, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Johnny Cash, Kinky

2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

listened to Johnny Hallyday, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Johnny Cash, Kinky

lastfm: listened to Vincent Delerm, Renaud, Serge Gainsbourg, Erik Satie, Charles Aznavour, Pretty Balanced, Radiohead, Claude Nougaro, Heather Nova, Paris Dernière, Muse, Walter Gieseking, Sinéad O'Connor, José González, Pauline Croze, 久石譲, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Joe Dassin, Diana Krall, The Dresden Dolls, Franz Liszt, Marianne Faithfull, Keziah Jones, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Brigitte, Aldebert, Frédéric Chopin, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet & Louis Garrel, Fischerspooner, Leonard Bernstein - OF de New York - I. Stern, Queen

2012-03-25T00:00:00Z

listened to Vincent Delerm, Renaud, Serge Gainsbourg, Erik Satie, Charles Aznavour, Pretty Balanced, Radiohead, Claude Nougaro, Heather Nova, Paris Dernière, Muse, Walter Gieseking, Sinéad O'Connor, José González, Pauline Croze, 久石譲, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Joe Dassin, Diana Krall, The Dresden Dolls, Franz Liszt, Marianne Faithfull, Keziah Jones, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Brigitte, Aldebert, Frédéric Chopin, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet & Louis Garrel, Fischerspooner, Leonard Bernstein - OF de New York - I. Stern, Queen

lastfm: listened to Chiara Mastroianni, Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni & Paul Schneider, Louis Garrel,Chiara Mastroianni, Jacques Brel, Chiara Mastroianni & Catherine Deneuve, Regina Spektor, Ludivine Sagnier & Rasha Bukvic, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet & Louis Garrel, Julie Delpy, David Bowie, Louis Garrel & Clothilde Hesme, Louis Garrel et Ludivine Sagnier, Vanessa Paradis, Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve & Clara Couste, Ludivine Sagnier, Jean-Marie Winling, Alice Butaud, Chiara Mastroianni, Brigitte Rouan, Barbara, Catherine Deneuve, Alex Beaupain

2012-03-23T00:00:00Z

listened to Chiara Mastroianni, Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni & Paul Schneider, Louis Garrel,Chiara Mastroianni, Jacques Brel, Chiara Mastroianni & Catherine Deneuve, Regina Spektor, Ludivine Sagnier & Rasha Bukvic, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet & Louis Garrel, Julie Delpy, David Bowie, Louis Garrel & Clothilde Hesme, Louis Garrel et Ludivine Sagnier, Vanessa Paradis, Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve & Clara Couste, Ludivine Sagnier, Jean-Marie Winling, Alice Butaud, Chiara Mastroianni, Brigitte Rouan, Barbara, Catherine Deneuve, Alex Beaupain

JoliCode - Réalisation de projets Web et mobiles de qualité

2012-03-09T11:58:57Z

Le site Web de JoliCode, une nouvelle tranche de vie !

Running JavaScript inside PHP code | Web Builder Zone

2012-02-29T13:22:23Z

A first feedback about the usage of V8js from inside PHP

Crazy Idea #1: Converting My Blog Posts In Audio Files

2012-02-29T13:21:14Z

William Durand exposes how to create audio files from blog posts, using the OSX "say" command line tool. A simple idea and a nifty shell script!

easybook, book publishing as easy as it should be

2012-02-28T05:09:30Z

A PHP tool for easily publishing content in several formats at once : pdf, Epub, and html

Geocoder - The almost missing Geocoder PHP 5.3 library.

2012-02-15T15:47:38Z

A lightweight multi-providers geocoding library

jQuery.fracs · larsjung.de

2012-02-13T21:27:43Z

jQuery.fracs determines some fractions for an HTML element (visible fraction, fraction of the viewport, ...) and also provides the coordinates of these areas. As a bonus there is a page outline feature as seen on the right.

mattapperson's gist: 1621570 — Gist

2012-02-10T17:57:51Z

An android layout for having the tabs at the bottom of the screen. The ciontent of this file has to be put in platform/android/res/layout/titanium_tabgroup.xml

mattapperson/MakeTi at load_on_device - GitHub

2012-02-10T17:34:42Z

A Titanium make, which helps deploying directly on the phone - without running an iTunes synchronzation

Pokki

2012-02-08T15:51:23Z

A simple html5/css3 and javascript execution container, which allows to build desktop applications.

PHP Tour Lille 2011

2011-11-25T18:04:40Z

Speaking at Codestrong

2011-09-30T23:58:00Z

Almost two weeks ago, I have had the incredible pleasure to speak at Codestrong, the Official Appcelerator Titanium conference organized at San Francisco. I was talking about the need for a way to abstract the access to SQLite databases in JavaScript mobile applications built using Titanium, and presented joli.js, the lightweight still powerful ORM that I have published last year and that keeps growing and improving.

The conference

The overall conference was very well organized, in a luxurious place and with all the things a speaker or an attendee can expect from a great conference. There were about 15-20 talks in two days, and I have to say that most of them were of a very high level. I particularly enjoyed the talks of Rick Blalock, about "Controlling memory leaks", Jacob Waller about "Webifying Titanium Development" and the "Titanium Studio Deep Dive" driven by Ingo Muschenetz.

Well, it is a bit unfair to list my favorite talks, because a lot of other talks were great and would deserve a distinction. I just regret not to have been able to watch Kevin's "Write Better JavaScript" talk, but there will hopefully be a video edit soon on Codestrong's website.

I won't say much more about the event itself, except that I am really really happy to have been part of it. You can feel that there's a strong and good community behind Titanium, not only Appcelerator, and I have met a lot of interesting people. That was for sure the right way to have a first contact with the community :-)

Abstracting databases access in Titanium mobile applications

That was the topic of my conference, and it went really well. I had time enough in the plane to build a small demo application - the source code is available on GitHub - which shows how to use joli.js and a new library that I published during the conference, joli.api.js. joli.api.js allows to transparently synchronize a local database with REST-style web services, thus helping the developer to focus on the app features and not on the synchronization, which is a technical part of the application.

I like to underline it: I did not start to code the application before the plane took off. The demo address book was built in less than four hours (hey, I also add to develop the REST web service man, and symfony's sfDoctrineRestGeneratorPlugin was really helpful!). Someone fluent with Titanium can build value-added mobile applications in a few hour, while an Objective-C or Java developer would have required days.

Basically, joli.js is to Titanium what Doctrine is to Symfony: it is an Object Relational Mapper, a tool which binds "objects" called "records" to the lines in the database, and eases their manipulation. This is a very short explanation, the complete one is available in the slides:

(Some slides are messed up on Slideshare, so if you want to download the presentation, I have put a pdf version online). Sorry, no poneys inside!

Even if the trip was almost as short as a splash-and-dash, I found some time to visit some parts of San Francisco, walking (huh, hiking even!) the streets. That was really enjoying, impressive, large, intense, noisy sometimes, and contrasted! San Francisco seems to be a very nice place to live in, from the "beach in the city" at Fisherman's Wharf or at the Embarcadero, to the wonderful city views from Telegraph or Nob Hill. I have put some pictures of my trip, for the curious ones.

4 days in San Francisco

2011-09-30T19:38:12Z

Venez à Lille pour le PHP Tour !

2011-09-26T14:45:00Z

Je me permets de copier sur ce blog l'annonce passée par Jean-Marc Fontaine sur son blog, je suis certain qu'il ne m'en voudra pas de cet emprunt ! La première édition du PHP Tour, le nouveau cycle de conférence de l’AFUP approche à grands pas. Pour les deux du fond qui ne suivent pas, il s’agit d’un évènement similaire au désormais traditionnel Forum PHP, mais qui a la particularité de se dérouler en région et de changer chaque année de ville. Le PHP Tour ne se substitue pas au Forum PHP, qui lui se tiendra désormais à la fin du printemps et toujours à Paris. Si vous comptez venir à cette première édition du PHP Tour à Lille et que vous voulez le faire savoir, n’hésitez pas à utiliser le code HTML suivant : <a class="afup.org/pages/phptourlille2011/"> <img src="/img/spacer.gif"> Je me permets de copier sur ce blog l'annonce passée par Jean-Marc Fontaine sur son blog, je suis certain qu'il ne m'en voudra pas de cet emprunt !

La première édition du PHP Tour, le nouveau cycle de conférence de l’AFUP approche à grands pas.

Pour les deux du fond qui ne suivent pas, il s’agit d’un évènement similaire au désormais traditionnel Forum PHP, mais qui a la particularité de se dérouler en région et de changer chaque année de ville. Le PHP Tour ne se substitue pas au Forum PHP, qui lui se tiendra désormais à la fin du printemps et toujours à Paris.

Si vous comptez venir à cette première édition du PHP Tour à Lille et que vous voulez le faire savoir, n’hésitez pas à utiliser le code HTML suivant :



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De Bilbao à Lorient...
2011-08-21T23:10:19Z



Pina
2011-04-26T22:45:00Z
par Wim Wenders


Quelques notes, en passant...
2011-03-18T11:30:00Z
Voici un bout de temps que je n'ai pas écrit de billet, il était temps que ça change ! Les réseaux sociaux alimentent mon quotidien, étouffant par leur confort facile les envies d'écrire... Voici néanmoins quelques notes, en passant, sur les évènements des dernières semaines...


  tout d'abord, je vous souhaite une bonne et heureuse année 2011... :-)
  je suis le nouveau vice-président de l'AFUP, depuis samedi 26 février dernier. Lors de l'Assemblée Générale de l'AFUP, le nouveau bureau de l'association a été élu à l'unanimité, et j'aurai donc le plaisir de partager l'année à venir avec Jean-Marc Fontaine, président du bureau pour l'année 2011, ainsi que Perrick Penet-Avez, Gauthier Delamarre, Mickaël Perraud et Aurélien Vairet. Le programme de l'équipe pour l'année à venir s'annonce chargé : lancement d'un nouvel événement PHP itinérant en région, en parallèle du Forum PHP Paris, développement de nouvelles passerelles entre l'AFUP et les écoles d'informatique, les grandes entreprises PHP, et les autres communautés gravitant autour de PHP. Nous nous attaquons également à la ré-écriture du livre blanc PHP, dont la dernière édition est parue en 2007 ;
  je passe parfois un peu de temps sur mon raccourcisseur d'urls, xav.cc, qui propose régulièrement de nouveaux services... Aplication Iphone, Android, extensions Chrome, Safari et Firefox, etc... Si vous ne l'utilisez pas encore, allez y faire un tour. Mieux : forkez le code !
  en novembre dernier, j'ai co-présenté avec Bastien Jaillot, une conférence au Forum PHP, au sujet de l'importance des frameworks dans l'écosystème PHP ;
  enfin, j'ai dernièrement co-animé avec Damien Alexandre une conférence lors de Symfony Live Paris, au sujet du développement de Web Service REST à l'aide symfony 1 et Symfony2. Toutes nos conclusions se trouvent sur l'inratable site symfpony-project.org !


La suite de l'année s'annonce aussi bien remplie que son début - et tant mieux !


Les Petits mouchoirs
2010-11-14T20:00:00Z
par Guillaume Canet


Remember Me
2010-09-15T23:59:00Z
par Allen Coulter


Le bruit des glaçons
2010-09-09T23:59:00Z
par Bertrand Blier


L'Homme qui en savait trop
2010-06-24T23:59:00Z
d'Alfred Hitchcock


Esther
2010-06-06T00:00:00Z
par Jaume Collet-Serra


Symfony gets a REST generator
2010-05-09T11:45:00Z

After long months, I finally pushed the documentation for sfDoctrineRestGenerator,  a plugin which allows to generate REST-style webservices in Symfony applications, and whose code had been published some months ago, but without any accompanying documentation.


In lots of projects, you must build rock-solid and performant web services bound to some of your models. sfDoctrineRestGeneratorPlugin is just aimed at building that type of webservice more easily, faster, and in a better way.


  I particularly love two things about the plugin:


  
    the fact that it uses Symfony's validators to validate the type/content of the request parameters
  
  
    the fact that, in most of the cases, building an efficient webservice will consist in typing a command line and uncommenting some options in a generator.yml file
  

The plugin is used by one very large french company, and therefore has already been rather deeply tested in terms of performance and capabilities. Please ask for new features or help on how to use the plugin on Symfony's users mailing list. You can also send me a mail directly. Happy REST!


Le rêve de Cassandre
2010-04-05T23:50:00Z
de Woody Allen


Alice au pays des merveilles
2010-03-31T23:59:00Z
par Tim Burton


[Rec]
2010-03-07T22:00:00Z
par Paco Plaza et Jaume Balagueró


La colline a des yeux 2
2010-03-06T23:59:00Z
de Martin Weisz


Ubuntu, PHP5, OCI8 and PDO_OCI : the perfect install
2009-11-03T01:19:56Z
I recently had to work with Symfony and Oracle, and struggled slightly before getting things up and running. This document is the verbatim of the commands I used in order to get a stable and (rather) performant architecture, even though I would urge everyone not to use Oracle with PHP. I hope it will help others struggling with the install.

Install some system applications

I started with a freshly installed Ubuntu 9.10 Server, and directly added several packages:
# apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-cli php-apc php5-xdebug php5-memcache php5-mcrypt php5-imagick php5-gd php5-xsl subversion imagemagick unzip htop memcached

In order to check if the extensions have been well configured, type the command "php -m" in the terminal, and they should display in the list.


Install Oracle Instant Client Libraries

Go to Oracle website, and download these two things:

Oracle instant client basic 10.2.0.4, zip packagew
Oracle instant client sdk 10.2.0.4, zip package


Put both of these files in /tmp. Then (yes, I know, it's the command horror show):

cd /tmp/
unzip oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.4-1.i386.zip 
mv instantclient_10_2 /opt/
unzip oracle-instantclient-devel-10.2.0.4-1.i386.zip 
mv instantclient_10_2/sdk /opt/instantclient_10_2/
export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/instantclient_10_2/
ln -s /opt/instantclient_10_2/libclntsh.so.10.1 /opt/instantclient_10_2//libclntsh.so
ln -s /opt/instantclient_10_2/libocci.so.10.1 /opt/instantclient_10_2//libocci.so
ln -s /opt/instantclient_10_2/ /opt/instantclient_10_2/lib


PDO, PDO_OCI and OCI8 installation
The default PECL install does not work straight out of the box. You must download and build manually the packages:

pecl download pdo PDO_OCI OCI8
tar xzvf PDO-1.0.3.tgz 
tar xzvf oci8-1.3.5.tgz 
tar xzvf PDO_OCI-1.0.tgz

cd PDO-1.0.3
phpize
./configure 
make
sudo make install

cd ../oci8-1.3.5
phpize
./configure --with-oci8=instantclient,/opt/instantclient_10_2/
make
sudo make install

cd ../PDO_OCI-1.0
cp /opt/instantclient_10_2/sdk/include/*.h .
phpize
./configure 
make
sudo make install

At that point, the libraries have been built but are not used by PHP. In this extent, you must add it at the bottom of php.ini files, /etc/php5/cli/php.ini and /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini:

extension = pdo.so
extension = pdo_oci.so
extension = oci8.so

As a sidenote, if you want to install PDO_OCI or OCI8 on Mac OSX, you'll have to declare a DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH shell variable, with the path to the Orale instant client install. Both OCI8 and PDO_OCI require extra configuration directives:

./configure --with-pdo-oci=instantclient,/path/to/instantclient,10.2.0.4

Conclusion

You should have been able to connect to a Oracle server and use it from within PHP. However I have a better advice: don't use Oracle. It has not been thought to work with PHP, nor has PHP been thought to work with it. Stick to a "classical" platform, or at least try more modern solutions. And that will be fine.