GooTrans, a cross-platform python frontend to Google Translate

A description of my first usable desktop application: a frontend to google translate.

Python is great, but why do python frameworks suck that much !?

An inner scream against the poverty of python web framework, and the unbelievable good press they receive.

Pretty pretty please….

For every web developers out there, please stop blogging about ExtJs license change.

What can a threaded web server do for a memory hungry application ?

I tried to migrate my server on a Apache Worker MPM, and was impressed by the results it gave me.

An interesting new player in the Database world

I just stumbled over a very interesting announcement just a couple of minutes ago. I company named Zvents just released an implementation of Google's distributes database specification "BigTable". You can see the papers written by 9 Google top engineers "Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data which is dating from 2006. The Zvents implementation has been [...]

How to transform a RSS feed in HTML in 3 simple steps

How to transform a RSS feed in HTML in 3 simple steps I have been asked recently if I knew a simple way of transforming an RSS feed in html via PHP. This procedure is indeed fairly simple, and can done a serie of small steps that I'm going to present here. Namely, what you will need, is [...]

I looked for an XML+XSL generating framework/class for PHP but could not found one…

...So I wrote it. It's the main reason this blog have been slow. Well, apart family meetings, sickness, holidays, laziness and such, but you've got the idea. For a bit more than 1 year now, I work on an Oracle DB. I work on an school management application based on oracle which use XML with XSL style sheets [...]

Sun, mysql and postgresql

So, Sun have acquired MySQL.... A rather surprising move, that not many peoples have sen coming, but interesting nonetheless. What strikes many peoples (well, more developers) mind is "What will be the future of sun support to postgresql?" I seriously hope that it won't change. Sun is already one (if not The) biggest supporter and resource giver to [...]

JavaFx, silverLight and flash challenger

Synopsis Following my last post about silverLight, I discovered JavaFx. As JavaFx is still rather premature for the highlight, I'll cover what my views (and honestly, my hopes) are for it. My background I'm a web developer by passion, but as being a Linux fan too, I've been more attracted by Java, and it's recent openness than Microsoft before. [...]

Silverlight, Flash as seen by Microsoft

Synopsis: There have been some noise made around silverlight recently, and it finally caught my attention. Today, I'm going to tell you what I see in the silverlight plugin by Microsoft, and what I think will be is future. What IS silverlight? According to Microsoft web site, silverlight is: Microsoft® Silverlight™ is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the [...]