January 2012
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36 years later, printers are still wrong
Hi,
So today I bought a printer. Not a big deal you would think, but I can remember having a lot of problems with printers since I first had one. They’ve always been difficult to configure and you would usually get some troubles to get the driver to work correctly (well, this is an experience I had since Windows 95 - the first Windows OS I ever used). Eventually, the printer would just...
August 2011
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haXe 2: Beginner's Guide book is published and on...
(Note that this is the mail I’ve sent to the haXe mailing-list. More to come about my feelings on the writing of the book in the next few days.)
Hello everyone!
This mail is a bit unusual and I hope everyone will be happy to read the news inside. It is my great pleasure to announce that my new and first book “haXe 2: Beginner’s Guide” is now available!As the name...
April 2010
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Going untyped or Dynamic : the difference and how...
Hello,
Most of my fellow haXe developers may think that untyped is just like a block of code where everything acts like Dynamic. Well, that’s false, and I’m gonna explain in this post what both of these things really are.
So first, untyped. Untyped is a keyword that acts on a block of code and basically, it just tells the compiler to get out of your way when it comes to typing. One...
March 2010
4 posts
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haXe/Java is still there and it's closer than...
Hello,
Yes! That’s true! I’m still working on haXe/Java (to give you some news about the project I’m alone on it again because David had to leave due to free-time lacking, and some of my fellow haxers have offered to help so I know I can ask them if I have problems).
Not only am I still working on it, but I’m really back to it! You know, I was kind of disappointed because...
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Training newbies : How a whole corporation may...
Hello,
As you may know, I’ve been a trainer in a well-known IT school in France. I’m now back in it as a student, and although I’ve been mainly teaching Linux Technologies, I’m still really interested in everything that’s related to training.
That’s when a student who’s a freshman told me something : in their C class they were asked to display a...
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The Internet Explorer Nightmare
Hello!
Today at work, I had to create one of these things I don’t like because I think they’re not really useable but the client wants… Today the “I don’t like that” thing is… a vertical news scroller!
So, it’s a pretty simple thing indeed… a block (typically a rectangle) and inside it some content going from bottom to top until everything...
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The Podcast is coming
Hi,
Just a quick note to tell everyone that I’m sorry for being late to publish the first Podcast. You know, it’s always the same thing : quite a lot of work, a bit ill (nothing bad, don’t worry), and the need to sleep… Not to say that the Olympic Games haven’t been of any help. ;)
I hope to be posting it tomorrow evening!
See you soon!
February 2010
2 posts
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WatchAnnouncing the new haXe podcast serie.
Why you shouldn't put a contact form on your...
Hello,
Today at work I’ve been prospecting for a (web|communication)-agency. I came across several ones and I had to contact them.
That’s a pretty obvious and straight-forward thing. Well, at least it should be, because most of the time when calling you have difficulties to get to speak to someone who can help you (certainly because they are at a meeting).
But my point today is...
January 2010
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Bought a netbook : Acer Aspire One
Hello,
Some weeks ago I bought a netbook. The reason was pretty simple : I have a macbook that I use both for my personal use and for school. So I have MacOSX on it, but being a web-developer and an IT student, I sometimes need to be able to do some testing on Windows. Add to that the fact that I’m the proud ashamed owner of Windows Mobile based phone and that I want to be able to...
December 2009
2 posts
WatchI suggest you watch this video in HD to be able to read the code.
haXe Podcast 1 : Getting started with haXe/Neko.
There’s sound ; turn up the volume if needed.
Also, sorry for not editing it more, I will certainly work on it again and replace it with a new and better version.
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Some news about haXe/Java
Hello,
Sometimes ago I’ve been talking about haXe/Java and show-casing it with a very simple Android Application sample.
Obviously, the generated buzz has been quite huge (compared to our community’s size) but I’ve been surprised that no one contacted me to participate in the project.
Some days after, some events happened that prevented me to continue most of my personal work...
October 2009
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Ejecting a CD on a MacBook without booting an OS.
Hi,
This is a tips that may be useful if one day you’re messing with OSes installations on a Mac.
As you certainly know, you can press the Alt key when booting your computer to choose between different boot media, what you may not know is that when this is done, you can also eject the CD-ROM. That may help you one day!
HaXe's community management
This post was written for the haXe’s mailing-list. I decided to cross-post it here because I want people who do not read the list to be aware that this discussion is taking place and its place is on the mailing-list. So, if you want to participate, do so on the mailing-list.
/* Please note that this is a long post. There’s no pun intended in it. There’s no complaining for the...
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Typing functions in haXe
Hello everyone,
There’s been an interesting question on the haXe’s mailing-list regarding typing of functions. No matter what the question really was, it made me think I should write something about functions typing in haXe because it may not be really obvious when you’re not used to it.
So, Functions are typed.
Yes, functions are, like any other object, typed. Their type...
August 2009
2 posts
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Why I'm not going to target Fan nor Scala
Hello,
Yesterday, Michiel Crefcoeur, sent a mail on the haXe mailing-list in which he pointed me to two languages : Fan and Scala.
His point was that those language support dynamic typing and compile to Java and .NET, so that would ease the development of a Java&dotNET back-end. In that, he got a point.
But there’s a problem to me… Fan seems to be pretty cool but it...
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Why haXe has so much potential (not about syntax...
Hello,
Nicolas Cannasse has written about why Action Script 3 is a failure, so I’m going to write about why I think haXe has a great potential to become the language of the future.
haXe is about Web Development
Well seriously… Everyone is aware of that, first targets of haXe were Flash, Neko (was mostly used for server-side at the time) and JavaScript. That’s the basic...
July 2009
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I finally implemented Generics!
Hello everyone,
I just wanted to write to let you know that the haXe/Java generator (the one used in the haXe on Android video) now supports generics.
It may seem obvious but that was not that easy to implement.
haXe supports constraints on generics, but those constraints won’t be written in the generated output.
I hope there aren’t too many bugs and by the way, I’m getting...
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MacOSX : An OS designed for development?
It all began on Twitter.
madd0: "Mac OS X is an [OS] designed from the ground up for serious software development work." http://bit.ly/47Z2gu — any comments? I LOLed :P
Pignoufou: I think it is. First there's the Framework and the Obj-C VM at the core of the OS. MS is doing the same, just years later!
Pignoufou: Then, there's the environment for the dev himself : XCode is pretty good at what it's supposed to do. No less, no more.
My new webspace.
Hello and welcome on my new web-space.
This one is dedicated to all my tech-related stuff. You will mostly find ressources and my thoughts about Open Source, web-development and haXe-related development.
But at first, I would like to thank Mr. Nicolas Mérouze from Yeasty Mobs (a french company specialized in consulting for the web and applications development in Ruby) who is managing the...