A bit late, but better late than never : Merry Christmas to all the readers of this blog :) … [Read more...]
Moodle promotion on Packt Publishing Books
In their December promotion, Pack Publishing are offering heavy discounts on all their Moodle books during all the month.You can find all books available on offer on this page : http://www.packtpub.com/news/moodle-festive-monthThere are … [Read more...]
Packt Open Source Awards 2011
Packt launched the Open Source Awards 2011 contest. This is a contest that aims to encourage, support, recognize and reward Open Source projects.This contest has been running since 2006.The nominations started the first of August and finished … [Read more...]
Git Tip : Restore a deleted tag
A little tip that can be very useful, how to restore a deleted Git tag.If you juste deleted a tag by error, you can easily restore it following these steps. First, usegit fsck --unreachable | grep tagthen, you will see the unreachable … [Read more...]
Now writing from Berkeley, California
Hi,This message has been written from California, where I'm for 3 months. I'm making my bachelor final project in Berkeley Labs.I'll certainly give some informations about the project and my researches during the next months.I hope … [Read more...]
The Pragmatic Programmer – Book Review

This week, I finished a new book : The Pragmatic Programmer, from journeyman to master, written by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas.According to the author, reading this book will make you a better programmer, a pragmatic programmer. A pragmatic … [Read more...]
Solve Einstein’s Riddle using Prolog

This week, we started learning Prolog at school. So to exercise, I choose the Einstein's Riddle. Einstein wrote this riddle in the 19th century. He stated that only 2% of the population can solve it by mind. Personnally, I'm not of this two %, I … [Read more...]
Hardware Guide : The power supply

After writing a lot about Java concurrency, I wanted to write about something else, I chosen Hardware, so I wrote a new guide about power supplies. Introduction The power supply provide electrical power to the computer and to the several … [Read more...]
Java 7 : The new try-with-resources statement

From the build 105, the compiler and runtime of Java 7 Releases have support for the new form of try : try-with-resources, also called ARM (Automatic Resource Management) blocks.This new statement make working with streams and all kind of … [Read more...]
Holidays
Monday, I will go on holidays for one week. I'll not have internet except on my smartphone, so I'll not post on this blog during one week.I will just approve comments and perhaps answer to comments if this is necessary, but this is all.So, to … [Read more...]