Translating the Formula for Primes to C++ with AISome of you might remember an article I published more or less a year ago, called “Mathematical Curiosities”. In that article I showed an indeed curious formula: the 1964 “Formula for Primes” by C. P. Willans.
Mathematical CuriositiesThis post contains some interesting mathematical curiosities I’ve recently learned about.
Hugo in DevOps ModeAs I explained last week I have been updating this website in various ways; I removed the downloadable PDFs, then added privacy-friendly analytics, and finally, I set up a scheduled pipeline in GitLab to automatically build and deploy this website every Friday morning.
Yup, Still Learning a New Programming Language Every YearI gave an update on this lifetime activity of mine in 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2013, and here we go for 2023.
Reusing Apps Between Teams and Environments Through ContainersThis was my speech for the WeAreDevelopers Container Day on February 3rd, 2021. The talk will feature a live demo showing how to build, optimize, and distribute containers to be reused in as many environments as possible, 100% based on the experience of the VSHN team.
Fortune AppsAs part of my work in VSHN, I lately prepared a set of demo applications ready to be containerized and deployed in our new product APPUiO Cloud.
Polyglot ConwayMy personal project during the pandemic was Conway, a project providing implementations of Conway’s Game of Life in as many programming languages as possible.
Password Hashing in DjangoThis technique can be useful when migrating applications from Django to ASP.
COVID-19 Vaccination ProgressThe (low) speed of the COVID-19 vaccination in Switzerland is infuriating.
The Developer Guide to Migrate Across GalaxiesThis is the presentation I gave at the second App Builders Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 25th, 2017.
Still Learning One Language per YearQuick update about my “one language per year” lifelong initiative:
Learning One New Language Every YearHere’s an update of the current status of my “one language per year” lifelong initiative:
Extracting e-mails from a vCard file with PythonLet’s say that you have a vCard file. You can export it from your Mac OS X AddressBook.
Quick spec from your Python testsUsing Python’s own unittest package, here’s a small script that can iterate over your test suite to output a small, quick, nice list of the tests in your application:
Django Architecture ApproachesI’ve just had a very interesting conversation with my colleague Marco about different approaches to the organization of code inside a Django application.
Playing With HTTP LibrariesIt’s fun to find out how to tackle the same task in different programming languages; in this case, it’s all about doing HTTP requests over a network: fortunately, there are networking libraries in virtually all major programming languages.
My First Django ProjectSo here it is, my first Django project: the gazillionth blog engine on the planet!