Agile Programming

  • Flagger – Monitor your Canary deployments with Grafana (0) | Sunday Jun 28th, 2020
    Flagger - Monitor your Canary deployments with Grafana October, 17th, 2020 : Use newer versions (Helm 3, Kube 18, Istio 1.7, Flagger 1.2). This is the third article in our series dedicated to Flagger. In a ...
  • Flagger – Canary deployments on Kubernetes (0) | Tuesday May 19th, 2020
    Flagger - Canary deployments on Kubernetes October, 17th, 2020 : Use newer versions (Helm 3, Kube 18, Istio 1.7, Flagger 1.2). This article is the second one of the series dedicated to Flagger. In ...
  • Flagger – Get Started with Istio and Kubernetes (0) | Saturday May 02nd, 2020
    Flagger - Get Started with Istio and Kubernetes October, 17th, 2020 : Use newer versions (Helm 3, Kube 18, Istio 1.7). This series of articles is dedicated to Flagger, a tool that integrates with Kubernetes, the ...
  • A Java 11 migration successful story (3) | Thursday Dec 27th, 2018
    A Java 11 migration successful story This post summarizes the work we have achieved within my team to migrate our micro-services from Java 8 to Java 11 for the website Hotels.com. In summary, for each ...
  • Autocomplete for Git (0) | Saturday May 20th, 2017
    Autocomplete for Git This tip only works on Unix-based systems (Linux, Mac OS…) Download the file git-completion.bash from Github. Add this line to your bash profile (e.g. .bashrc), I assume you have copied ...
  • Swagger, the automated API documentation (2) | Wednesday Mar 01st, 2017
    Swagger, the automated API documentation IT projects nowadays are mostly based on a microservice oriented architecture, it is not surprising that the different microservices are developed and maintained by different teams. Each service provides ...
  • Microservices architecture – Best practices (5) | Monday Oct 03rd, 2016
    Microservices architecture - Best practices I’m working on a microservices architecture since quite a long time now and attend many conferences on this topic. I want to gather my experience in this article ...
  • Java bytecode decompiler (0) | Saturday Nov 15th, 2014
    Java bytecode decompiler Sometimes, it can be useful to read the Java bytecode, i.e. have a readable version of the class files generated during the compilation. For example, you want to check ...
  • Doing some social REST with HATEOAS (2) | Wednesday Jul 02nd, 2014
    Doing some social REST with HATEOAS The article “API, REST, JSON, XML, HTTP, URI… What language do you speak?” gave some explanations on web services and their related technologies, REST in particular. Let’s assume ...
  • API, REST, JSON, XML, HTTP, URI… What language do you speak? (0) | Monday Jun 23rd, 2014
    API, REST, JSON, XML, HTTP, URI... What language do you speak? REST (Representational State Transfer) is a standard used for developing web services. As the name suggests, a web service makes available a service through web technologies. In other ...
  • Make your WordPress site multilingual with qTranslate (13) | Tuesday Mar 25th, 2014
    Make your WordPress site multilingual with qTranslate that “qTranslate XT” plugin (a fork) has taken over qTranslate. CarmaBlog is using qTranslate XT, I did not have any problem to ...
  • The day I discovered Android (1) | Tuesday Feb 04th, 2014
    The day I discovered Android Since the publication of this post, a new version of the CarmaBlog app is available. A dedicated page has been created gathering all the information about this Android ...
  • Debug easy, create breakpoints using conditions (2) | Thursday Dec 12th, 2013
    Debug easy, create breakpoints using conditions The new version of the application has been released this morning and the client already notifies you about a bug… Adding an item in a list make the ...
  • CSS and Javascript files play hide and seek in browsers’ cache (0) | Sunday Sep 29th, 2013
    CSS and Javascript files play hide and seek in browsers' cache You have just updated some CSS and Javascript files on your website? Unfortunately, your regular users will probably not see any updates because their browser will still use the ...
  • Manage a sequence database with Spring (5) | Sunday Sep 22nd, 2013
    Manage a sequence database with Spring It is better to let Hibernate manage technical identifiers (primary keys). But, if you need to generate a business identifier, an Hibernate generator can be not enough. In ...
  • Optimize your website for print in 5 minutes (0) | Sunday Sep 15th, 2013
    Optimize your website for print in 5 minutes Is it really useful? I think so! People who print pages on the Internet are probably more numerous than one might think. And it takes 5 minutes, so ...
  • Doing Responsive Web Design: yes, but easily! (5) | Tuesday Jul 23rd, 2013
    Doing Responsive Web Design: yes, but easily! Not so long ago, I was talking about the “Mobile theme” feature included in the Jetpack plugin to ensure that your WordPress blog is accessible on mobile devices ...
  • First steps with Apache Camel (3) | Friday May 11th, 2012
    First steps with Apache Camel To learn more about Camel, you can read a free sample of the chapter 1 of “Camel in Action”, the reference book. Raphaël Delaporte (@rafdelaporte) proposed us to tame ...
  • Give your application a facelift – CSS (0) | Wednesday Feb 15th, 2012
    Give your application a facelift - CSS Even bug-free, an application with a poor design will surely impede users from performing their day-to-day activities. It is therefore important to take some time to improve the ...
  • jQuery & Ajax (0) | Thursday Sep 22nd, 2011
    jQuery & Ajax Ajax Appeared in 2005, Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a group of existing technologies, including HTML, JavaScript and XML. With Ajax, web applications are able to make quick, ...
  • Date progress bar using JQuery (9) | Sunday Jun 12th, 2011
    Date progress bar using JQuery Progressbar is a JQuery plugin to display a progressbar. Input is a percentage and output is the graphic bar. You can modify its visual style with CSS. From a ...
  • Xebia White book : Software quality, pragmatism & productivity (0) | Sunday Jan 09th, 2011
    Xebia White book : Software quality, pragmatism & productivitySorry, this entry is only available in French.
  • Maven Site, one step further (0) | Sunday Apr 04th, 2010
    Maven Site, one step further Introduction If your project is mavenized (i.e. using Maven), it would be a pity not to use every possibilities from Maven, especially the Maven Site. With little effort, you can ...
  • Feedback on Continuous Integration (0) | Monday Mar 22nd, 2010
    Feedback on Continuous IntegrationSorry, this entry is only available in French.
  • EclEmma – Do you need a good cover for this winter ? (2) | Wednesday Nov 11th, 2009
    EclEmma - Do you need a good cover for this winter ? The official EclEmma website references this article in the “Blog Entries About EclEmma” category. Improve your code coverage with Emma In this new article, I introduce you the EclEmma plug-in ...
  • Eclipse keyboard shortcuts (0) | Thursday Oct 01st, 2009
    Eclipse keyboard shortcuts Here is a list presenting the most useful (and time saving) shortcuts for Eclipse. Search Ctrl + Shift + T : search for types. Ctrl + Shift + R : search ...
  • Test-driven Development (0) | Monday Aug 03rd, 2009
    Test-driven Development I use my last article about Continuous Integration as an opportunity to introduce you another XP (eXtreme Programming) practice: Test-driven Development. Actually, CI is often intricately linked with ...
  • Continuous Integration (2) | Friday Jul 17th, 2009
    Continuous Integration Actually, this article about Continuous Integration, has been posted only in French. Indeed, I think there is so few document about it in French (and so plenty of ...
  • WatiN, an automation web testing tool (0) | Wednesday Jun 10th, 2009
    WatiN, an automation web testing tool A few days ago, I discovered a kind of tools that enables you to test web applications. WatiN (pronounced as what-in) is a .NET GUI automation framework. By using WatiN ...