Personal rant Once again, I have been way too much silent in here. There must be a reason why I find writing posts so difficult. Or maybe it's just because I'm lazy. Probably in fact. I did reduce my twitter, facebook and Hacker News consumption lately, as I
I feel fat Or let me rephrase this : I AM fat. I am fat of all the junk food I eat way too often. I am fat of all the biers I have where I should drink water instead. I feel fat sitting in front of the computer all day, when I should
personal Let's scratch those itches! It's been a long time since I have written stuff regularly on this blog. But it doesn't mean nothing happened; far from that in fact! [http://github.com/jlengrand?tab=repositories] For some strange reason, blogging is just like sport : the less you practice the less
android About Time to market As a lot of people, I have pages full of cool ideas I'd like to implement. I start to work on some of them [http://github.com/jlengrand], write about a few of those [http://www.lengrand.fr/category/projects/], and to this day am happy about none.
xbmc XBMC: Share your external drive to your other computers As already said in my last post [http://www.lengrand.fr/2013/02/xbmc-wont-leave-me-ever-again/], I gave my first try to xbmc [http://xbmc.org/]last week. The basic setup was almost fully automatic. There was one thing I had to do manually though, and I want to share it here
XBMC won't leave me ever again After almost ten years without a TV, I finally bought a 101cm Samsung [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-UE40EH5000-40-inch-Widescreen-Freeview/dp/B007IHYP5Y] last week-end. Not that I feel the need for it that much, but being in the process of learning dutch I thought it might be a valuable tool. See,
How we won our first startup weekend! [{{ site.url }}/images/posts/2012/12/header.png] Three weeks ago, I attended my very first startup weekend in Utrecht [http://utrecht.startupweekend.org/]. I not only met a whole bunch of great guys, but also won together with my team [http://www.greengame.co/] ! I would like to share
My (almost) perfect setup to stay focused Here is a pattern I recognized for some time now, and that I'd like to share. I keep trying to be as efficient as possible [http://lifehacker.com/5658800/dont-be-efficient--just-be-awesome] in my daily working environment. Productivity is really important for me, as it is the root which allows
Automatic tweeting using ifttt Test for automatic tweeting of Computer Vision articles on planet using ifttt [http://ifttt.com/dashboard] ! This should be tweeted soon on the OpenCV Planet [http://twitter.com/OpenCVPlanet] !
Stack Overflow: a hate/love story A lot of great people already blogged [http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/10/the-gamification.html]about the reasons why they loved SO [http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/12/building-social-software-for-the-anti-social.html] . All of this is true [http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2009/11/03/why-i-love-stack-overflow/]. Definitely true [http://mikeongis.
Petit guide de l'expatriation. . . ou comment partir travailler hors de France !Si certains d'entre vous lisent régulièrement ce que j'écris, vous devez savoir que je vis [http://www.lengrand.fr/job-space/] aux Pays-Bas [http://www.lengrand.fr/job-space/] depuis plus de 6 mois maintenant, et que j'ai envie
First alpha of the Ivolution Project is out ! It's been two weeks I haven't blogged about Ivolution. . . and there's a good reason for that:The first alpha of the project is out . . .and I definitely need some alpha testers ! [http://jlengrand.github.com/Ivolution]The software is fully free and open-source, and
Ivolution – Development status 36 Below is an update of my progress on the Ivolution [http://github.com/jlengrand/FaceMovie] ! As you can see, the software has never been so close to be released :) * Hunt for bugs and crashes I spent a lot of time the last week pushing buttons like crazy, having incoherent behaviour
Ivolution - Development status 35 Here is my weekly post about the status of the Ivolution [http://jlengrand.github.com/FaceMovie/]. During these last days, I have mostly been working on another project [http://www.lengrand.fr/2012/08/the-pirate-patch-python-flavored/]. But at the same time, I also progressed like crazy on Ivolution ! So here are
The Pirate Patch, Python Flavored Some of you might already have heard about The Pirate Patch [http://elite.so/tpp/] (at least those who read Korben [http://korben.info/le-pirate-patch.html]). For several months now, the pirate bay is blocked in several countries such as Belgium or the Netherlands [http://www.t-mobile.nl/sorry]. Qarizma,
Ivolution: Your personal timelapse Here comes a new blog post, after almost two months of silence. I was in holidays for the last two weeks, and decided not to touch the computer for all that time. And I must admit that with the combination of my friends coming from France and the perfect weather
My very first Python script : DocFinder As you may already have noticed [http://www.lengrand.fr/category/programmaing/python-2/], I am quite found of Python as a programming language. I fell in love with Python some years ago, but you should know more about this soon :). As many of Python users, I started withDive into Python
development How working as a cook helped me be a better developer How working as a cook helped me be a better developer. This blog discusses things I've learnt as a cook, from using idle time to optimizations which made me a better developer today
Llama : Profile activation problems A really quick tip today : I am completely fond of Llama [http://www.appbrain.com/app/llama-location-profiles/com.kebab.Llama]on my Android phone. Actually, it the very first application I would install on a new device. Taken from the Android market, Here is Llama description :> Phone going off
Remove all your Thumbs files You too may have enjoyed Windows and its tendency to hide Thumbs files [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_thumbnail_cache] in any folder containing media files. Basically, Windows creates those files to let you seethumbnails [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbnail] when you browse from file to file (or
Is Descartes the father of Agile development? Methodology coming from Elders : Descartes's advice As a scientist [http://www.lengrand.fr/job-space/], I love reading old books [http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-War-Sun-Tzu/dp/0385292163?tag=duckduckgo-d-20] about ways to improve my workflow and get things done [http://www.davidco.com/]. As a french guy [http://www.
Design, Innovation and Hacking in a couch As a 'starter in life', I have always been grateful toIkea [http://www.ikea.com/]for providing classy, cozy and functional furnitures at low prices. I am a huge fan, at a point that most of the times I need anything I turn myself towards Ikea even before
Count the number of lines of code of your projects After having finished a project, I always like to know its actual size. It does not give any value to my work, but it is always fun to see :) I found this simple command that will pop out the number of lines of code for a given file extension. cat
Insert urls into a Latex document A really simple tip today, that helped me a lot some time ago. If you use LaTeX [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX]to create your reports, you may want to include weblinks or urls. The process is quite simple, simply include the url package in the header of your
Easily change file separator You may already have found yourself in front of a huge csv file to be processed. Five minutes after having started working, you realize that you want spaces instead of commas in your file. Only problem, the file is 500 megabytes big. Do you run Linux ? In this case, your
