Since I will soon have to transfer my money from an USD ($) bank account (Wells-Fargo) to France (in EUR €), I had to look around to find the best solution. With the help of one friend (Stéphane Damolini), I started discovering some solutions last year ; but none of them were satisfying. I thus [...]

Recently, the three major search engins (Bing/Yahoo and Google) agreed on using the microdata system Schema.org. This allow any website to provide semantic information to the search spiders. For instance, you can specify what kind of content you are publishing, like a recipe of an apple pie, or a movie review. More than that, depending [...]

I wanted to add a google +1 button to my website. As I am using YOOtheme zoo CCK component, I add to create a new "element" to be print at the end of my blog post. You can download it bellow. Of course you can use it on any zoo applications (blogs, businesses, recipes ... [...]

A quick note to let you know how I hacked Yootheme Zoo 2.3. I wanted to have a wysiwyg editor while my users were submitting article in frontend with ZOO. Usually you can activate the "trusted mode" to have this wysiwyg editor. But you will also have several other fields which are too much for [...]

A quick note to let you know how I hacked Yootheme Zoo 2.3. I wanted to have a different numbers of articles on the frontpage, and in the classical category view.As I did not find an easy solution (a parameter should be added to the configuration for the front page), I decided to code it. [...]

Suite à mon post sur "Comment regarder Arte ou Roland Garros à l'étranger" (top ten de vos lectures sur mon blog), un évènement récent me pousse à écrire la suite. Informé de cela par Daniel Nicollet, l'auteur de la pétition que je citais à la fin de mon article, je pense qu'il est utile pour [...]

Une équipe de l'université de Delft en Hollande (où est récemment arrivé mon ami Pierre Bathelemy pour faire son Post-Doc) a récemment mis au point le concept de nanomoteur électrique. Celui-ci est encore théorique, mais pourrait voir le jour dans un proche futur. Le concept, mis au point par Johannes S. Seldenthuis et son équipe, [...]

Ils l'ont trouvée la solution qui viendra peut être à bout des script kiddies spammeurs, ceux qui utilisent par exemple XRummer (logiciel qui permet l'envoi automatique de commentaires/messages forum avec des liens spammy). Mais de quoi s'agit-il? NuCaptcha est une société basée à Vancouver qui propose une solution plutôt élégante de captcha (enfin, tout est [...]

The focus of this article is really small. It will only interest people involved in Research, who own a Nanoscribe device. I was a little bit annoyed by the software, very heavy, and running only on windows. I wanted to design my structures on Linux (or any plateform actually), and I wanted to plot the [...]

When you want to use a Matlab script to perform simulations with Comsol,  a remote server is often used. This post is a quick note to help you creating matlab scripts that would be run on a remote server. The strategy is the following. We will use the nohup command to let the server do [...]