Blog

My thoughts on Technology, Software Engineering, Lean Startup, Tools and Freelancing.

• Speed up the AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployment of a Ruby on Rails application
  02 Dec 2017
  How to cache artifacts from bundle install and rake assets:precompile commands
• Retrieve a random record in a Rails application
  04 Nov 2015
  A simple concern to add to some of the models. Retrieve one or several random records
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk commands for Rails
  20 Oct 2015
  Learn all the Heroku/Beanstalk command line equivalents
• Comment Le Wagon utilise Trello
  30 Sep 2015
  Le Wagon est une école de code pour entrepreneurs et utilise Trello pour son process de sélection
• Workflow technique pour Startup
  22 Jun 2015
  Une présentation des outils techniques et méthodos pour coder sereinement en startup
• Web2day 2015 - Born to code panel
  13 Jun 2015
  I attended a panel on how learning to code is important (and accessible) for the 21st century.
• Configure your Rails application to use Optimizely
  02 Apr 2015
  By default, a rails app cannot be embedded in an iframe, but the Optimizely Editor uses one.
• Pourquoi apprendre Ruby on Rails ?
  21 Mar 2015
  Question récurrente posée par de nombreux entrepreneurs désireux d’apprendre à coder
• Dump a PostgreSQL production database and mount it locally
  07 Jan 2015
  Useful to debug with production data or avoid writing seeds
• API for Beginners
  20 Dec 2014
  I did a talk on API for beginners at Le Wagon - Coding Station meetup
• Débuter avec git et GitHub
  20 Oct 2014
  Git est un outil opaque pour le néophyte, à moins qu'on lui présente par le bon bout
• Music Producers should now know how to code
  29 Jul 2014
  My brother is starting his career as a music producer. He called me because he needed help with JavaScript
• Le Wagon - CTO
  29 Jul 2014
  I am proud to announce that I am now CTO at Le Wagon, the French dev bootcamp for entrepreneurs
• Classement technologique des villes françaises
  13 May 2014
  Découvrez quelles sont les agglomérations qui comptent le plus de développeurs sur GitHub
• Petit déjeuner de présentation TheFamily CREW
  29 Apr 2014
  Compte-rendu de la présentation du nouveau service de The Family dédié aux freelances
• Host any front end project with GitHub Pages
  27 Apr 2014
  Work in the gh-pages branch of your git project, set up your own domain with a CNAME
• Practical example of using git in a school
  21 Apr 2014
  How Le Wagon harnesses the power of git remotes to serve exercises to students
• You do not need a database for your contact form
  15 Apr 2014
  Learn how to simply embed a contact form on your static website
• Static data files for your Rails static pages
  06 Mar 2014
  Avoid including a CMS engine or creating models for your Rails static pages
• Poor man's continuous integration
  06 Feb 2014
  Setup a git hook to run tests before each git push
• Angular + Rails with no fuss
  04 Feb 2014
  Use Angular to structure your front-end code without turning it into a single page application
• Quickly hack an algorithm with a TDD template
  09 Jan 2014
  Next time you have a phone interview, be ready with this template of mine
• Setup your new MacBook Pro
  05 Jan 2014
  So you've just received a new laptop for X-mas? Time to set it up!
• Goodbye Applidget
  27 Dec 2013
  As of January 2014, I am starting a new life as a web consultant
• Create Pull Requests from the command line within an organization
  10 Dec 2013
  Use the command line tool `hub` with some alias of mine to easily create pull requests
• Stay safe on unencrypted public Wi-Fi
  06 Nov 2013
  Set up a poor's man VPN, fowarding all your network traffic to a server of yours through SSH
• Hacking a Pomodoro Timer in two hours
  31 Oct 2013
  Leverage Github Pages hosting, and build favicons with canvas
• Réalité financière du Freelance Ruby on Rails
  17 Oct 2013
  Enquête auprès des freelancers francophones sur leur activité
• On testing
  06 Oct 2013
  My notes on Sandi Metz' great tech talk, The Magic Tricks of Testing
• Leverage Points
  05 Oct 2013
  My notes on 'Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System' by Donella H. Meadows.
• Why you should learn Jekyll today
  04 Oct 2013
  Use Jekyll to build your next static website (Portfolio or Landing Page)
• Display current git branch in your web app
  23 Sep 2013
  Visual help for your rails app to figure out if you are in development or production mode
• Be lazy, don't build that feature (yet)
  24 Jul 2013
  Validate the feature/market fit with a Minimum Viable Feature using other SaaS products.
• Keep your git repository clean and fresh
  09 Jul 2013
  Learn how to quickly remove merged branches from your local repository once your pull request has been approved on GitHub
• How I stay up to date
  27 Jun 2013
  My personal technology watch using RSS and Twitter as sources, Pinboard and Readability as buffer/archiving tools.