Philippe Cloutier's personal website
A fairly powerful mind caught in a fairly weaker body…
gratuitously releasing its solutions to [most of] the world's problems, in fairly maximal modesty
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Abject-Oriented Programming This wonderful piece about programming is getting old, but unfortunately remains just as funny. |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | AV1: A Victory for Open Video Rejoice. One major component of modernity - video - can now be compressed using a stable, specified and fully open royalty-free video codec, with [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/07/11/royalty-free |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | EasyPHP review - not so easy to choose over XAMPP In recent years, I ranted about 2 of the main options for installing a development AMP (Apache, PHP) stack (including Xdebug) on Windows, namely XAMPP and [http |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Fausse alerte, Google n'a pas fumé de joint J'ai pris connaissance de l'étude High intelligence: A risk factor for psychological and physiological overexcitabilities . Mal |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | FHoS - Igor Escobar and the jQuery Mask Plugin Designing Web forms can still be a pain today. I thought HTML version 5 and its tel type input field could replace the complicated triple text fi |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Issues using GNU/Linux as a "desktop" (PC) I hit numerous issues when I moved my desktop from Microsoft Windows to GNU/Linux. When this started to feel like too many, I remember starting a document listing the main issues. Eventually, I hit ma |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer on Debian 8 ManageEngine's NetFlow Analyzer is probably the best NetFlow analysis software. It supports GNU/Linux and is even free for a maximum of 2 network interfaces. NetFlow Analyzer 12.1 can be installed |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | No More Tofu, Thank You I don't remember having seen "tofu" on my personal computer for a while. That's probably thanks to [https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/10/an-open-source-font-system-for-everyone.html|the Noto font |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Pour boire, manger... et toute autre ingestion Ma mère est d'une générosité extraordinaire, c'est bien connu. À preuve, suffit de rappeler le cadeau à l'humanité qu'elle fit en lui donnant son fils. Mais en regardant sa facture le lendem |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | SQL Anywhere and Interactive SQL quietly losing transactions in default configurations SAP SQL Anywhere and its GUI Sybase Central (now SQL Central) have been part of my 5 most important tools for 4 years now. A few times, I noticed some oddities, but it wasn't until yesterday that I re |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | The European Union's Interference Equation: Inaction + competition = over-reaction In 1996, yearly worldwide PC sales went beyond 70 million units. It was obvious that personal computers would become ubiquitous and that the World would crucially need operating systems and commodity |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | The Invented Here Syndrome A serious form of analysis paralysis may threaten you - the "Invented here syndrome" . |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Twitter's Bootstrap shall now bootstrap itself Last Summer, as I was working on the Tiki project, which uses Twitter's Bootstrap framework a lot, and as Bootstrap is quite hard to discover organically, I decided to bite the bullet and go through B |
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