46 posts

[How2Tips] How to change several filenames with vim?

Want to change several filenames in one row? Know how to use vim? Here’s how you could do it: * You’ll need thevidir utility, get it by installing the moreutils package (on Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install moreutils) * Runvidir <dirpath>(dirpath defaults to the current directory), and you’l...

Published on Oct 26, 2017

[How2Tips] How to use your local private keys through SSH?

Let’s say you want to perform an action that requires some specific SSH authentication, through an SSH connection. For example, you want to clone a private Git repository from a remote server. Problem: this server does not have the right credentials to pull from this repository. The solution: forwa...

Published on Oct 24, 2017

[How2Tips] Share files on the local network with socat

> Important: some basic systems & networking knowledge is required in this article. You’ve certainly already faced this use case: you just want to share some file with a coworker, but emailing it to them seems so overkill and frustrating when they’re sitting right next to you. Cheer up, we’ve got ...

Published on Oct 19, 2017

[How2Tips] How to force the refresh of a page after after hitting the back button?

Most of the time the browser will display the previous page from the cache without making a request to the server. Actually it's not a problem except in the case where the user has just completed a complicated multi-page wizard or checkout process and then hits the back button. In order to prevent t...

Published on Oct 17, 2017

[How2Tips] Rollbar : a simple online bugtracker

Reading time : < 4 min For our How2Tips articles, we offer you code snippets or fancy tools, which we use for our projects. Those are small pieces of code we like to share with you. Find out what Pierre and Albin want to share about Rollbar ! Rollbar is a really simple online bug-tracker supporti...

Published on Aug 25, 2017

[How2Tips] How to benchmark your code with xdebug

Reading time : 1 min Dr Klein shares with you his thoughts about how to profile your php scripts, in a post extracted from our internal knowledge database. Before we start, let’s just be aware that there are many ways to profile your apps : * xdebug * xhprof (by Facebook, almost dead) * Friends...

Published on Jun 9, 2017

[How2Tips] : Git command squash / reflog / stash

Reading time : < 3 min Squash commits You may be asked to squash your commits during the discussion around a PR. "Squashing" means "fusioning" together many commits into one. Main advantages are: * clean commit history * no problem during git bisect how git rebase -i HEAD~3 # 3 being the numbe...

Published on May 5, 2017

[How2Tips] Call AWS APIs from EC2 instances with no credentials

Reading time : < 1 min Sometimes you need to consume some AWS services directly from your EC2 instances. Usually, when you develop those consumers you will use your own credentials (for instance, credentials stored in ~/.aws/credentials). But when it comes to deploy your service on EC2 instances, y...

Published on Mar 29, 2017

[How2Tips] AWS - Using multiple profiles

Reading time : 1 min If you deal with multiple AWS accounts on a daily basis, it might feel painful to update your environment variables or your credentials using aws configure again and again. Even more, doing such a thing repeatedly could lead to starting a CloudFormation stack with the wrong se...

Published on Jan 18, 2017

Back to basics: Rich model vs Anemic model

Rich vs anemic models Rich and anemic patterns are two concepts about the representation of your models and entities. If you are working with MVC frameworks (Model-View-Controller), you should be already aware of what's a model or an entity. These two concepts help you structure your application de...

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Published on Oct 19, 2016

Back to basics: Encapsulation

Stuff about programming Some day, you might have heard about "design patterns", "good practices", "programming principles". If you have taken a look at all of them, you sometimes find very long articles, black text on white background, no design, few text formatting, not very friendly. But actually ...

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Published on Oct 13, 2016

Back to basics: SOLID – Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)

SOLID: Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) Hi! This is the final article about SOLID principles, I hope it was nice for you to dip (ba-dum-tss) in these! As said before, learning is probably the main point of being a good developer. Some guys recommend to learn one language per year , other develop...

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Published on Oct 6, 2016