Posts Tagged ‘Web’

WordPress 3.3 “Sonny” released!

WordPress 3.3 introduces some very interesting features, specially for the blogger itself. It includes a new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, a new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and a new Tumblr importer.
The admin interface has add a great cleanup too.
More information on the official release notes : http://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/sonny/
I already updated the blog to WordPress 3.3 and it looks great for now. For the first …

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 on the 9th of September. The finalists of each category are available on the website.
You can vote for your favorite open source project in each of …

Google+ is now open to all

After about 90 days of trial on invitation-only mode, Google+ is now open to everybody.
For those who don’t know, Google+ is the social network platform of Google, with several interesting features like Circles, Hangouts, …
For example, you can see my page on Google+.
Personally, I find this social network very interesting, but there are not enough people on it to concurrence really Facebook …

Upload files to FTP using Bash

This morning, I wanted to automatically update a little website from my computer without using Filezilla. So I searched a little bit and found that there is a very useful tool called nftp. To install it, you only have to use apt-get :

sudo apt-get install ncftp

This tool can be used directly from bash to upload files to FTP (and also to get files of …

Save time with the Gmail Priority Inbox

Hi,
Some days ago, Gmail released a new feature, the Priority Inbox. Actually, the feature is not released on all accounts, but if it is released on yours, you can see a message “Try Gmail Priority Inbox”, in top right high corner, just after your user name.
Once you activated this new inbox, you will see two inbox, the new Priority Inbox on top and the …

Top 15 Best WordPress Plugins

When working on a WordPress site or blog, it’s essential to install several plugins to optimize the site readibility, accessibility, performances, …
Here are 15 plugins that I think the best of the WordPress plugins and that I use everyday. The list is not in interest order but in alphabetical order.
Akismet – Avoid spam
This plugin automatically filters spams for you. It’s really simple, you just …

Play Framework – The template engine

In the previous post about Play Framework, we seen how to install Play and create a first simple application. In this post, we’ll see how to customize the views and use the template engine of the framework to easily create web pages.
Play has its own template engine to generate HTML web pages. The template engine use Groovy as expression language. You will use Groovy …

Getting started with Play Framework

It’s time for me to test the Play Framework and I’ll try to make some posts during my tests about this web framework.
Play Framework is a framework to create web applications in Java. The main goals of this framework are (according to the official site) :

Hot reload : You can edit your java files and html files and you just have to …

Improve performances of WordPress with W3 Total Cache

Performances of a website is often a hot topic. That’s not always easy to create quick websites with low response time and without high server usage.
WordPress is not very slow but when you’ve a lot of readers (this is not really my case ) at the same time, the response time can be critical.
But there is some ways to improve very easily …

Links of the week (April 20)

Some interesting links of the week :

Poll Results: We’re Not Quite Ready For Web Based IDEs : Interesting poll results on how the developers are ready about web based IDEs
How to localise a Play Framework application : Peter Hilton explain how internationalize a Play! Framework application
The Top 15 Google Products for People Who Build Websites
Swinging Task Dialog (part 5) : Eugene Ryzhikov continue …