Articles

• 16 Jun 2020

  Code, stress and entropy

  Musings about the parallels between computer systems, physics, and biology to understand how we can make our systems ...

• 25 Sep 2019

  Categorizing images in Python

  How we brute forced a computer vision challenge with Python at the last NorthSec CTF in Montreal.

• 19 Nov 2018

  Hunting Mutants with Mutmut

  There are many reasons why you might want to write tests for your code: to prove it works as expected, to prevent bug...

• 05 Apr 2016

  Quick bash tips

  Just two simple bash tips that I picked up today; how to escape a frozen SSH session, and how to sequentially call a ...

• 30 Mar 2016

  Optimizing a fibonacci function

  A couple of days ago, one of my colleague was talking about a time when he was interviewed, and had to solve a bunch ...

• 10 Mar 2016

  Putting myself out there

  Like a lot of adventures, it all started with “why not?”, without putting too much thought into it. Confoo being a si...

• 13 Jun 2015

  Value Objects

  Value objects are an important building block of domain-driven design. They are small objects that encapsulate value,...

• 01 Jun 2015

  Choosing your project's dependencies

  If you work on any non-trivial project, chances are you’ll install one or many external dependencies at some point. I...

• 24 May 2015

  Design Pattern: Specification

  The specification pattern is a software design pattern used to codify business rules that state something about an ob...

• 23 Nov 2013

  Domain objects and code organization

  A few days – or was it weeks – ago, I answered hastily to a question on the Symfony2 Google Group. The question is si...

• 27 Oct 2013

  The pairfony project

  I’ve been reading and re-reading several books in the last couple of weeks and there are a lot of things I realize I ...

• 28 Jun 2013

  Réaction au nouveau site de Tourisme Laurentides

  Tourisme Laurentides lançait dernièrement le nouveau look de son site web, refonte qui était méritée depuis bien long...

• 13 May 2013

  Performance web et publicités (suite)

  Suite à mon billet sur un problème de perf relié à l’affichage de publicités, j’ai beaucoup cogité et j’ai fini par é...

• 26 Apr 2013

  Pourquoi utiliser Jekyll.rb et Github Pages ?

  Mon aventure avec un super hébergeurL’aventure de mon site web commence avec l’achat d’un nom de domaine et d’un forf...

• 09 Apr 2013

  Performance web et publicités

  PréambuleCes derniers temps, j’ai été confronté à un problème de performance sur le site d’un client. Le site est dév...