Researchers have found that after 20 minutes of sitting still the body is starting to produce toxins, that you are somehow poisoning yourself and that exercising even every day is not enough to counteract the effect. Here are two methods to avoid that and some other ideas to make your life better.
Here are ten reasons why I love FreshBooks, the cloud accounting application and why you should love it too (it did not actually save my life but it does save me a lot of time).
I heard or read someone, recently, saying that LinkedIn was nothing more than a glorified resume. Well, 10 years ago this was certainly true and I was not looking for anything more. I had ditched the Word documents since a long time and was distributing my résumé in PDF format, despite some recruiters stubbornly asking […]
Last year I started to grow concerns about my privacy on Facebook. Not because of another change in Facebook privacy settings or a hack of any kind but because I started to realize that the biggest threat to my online privacy are my friends themselves. Image Credits: John Goodridge
3D printing just got to a new level with the worlds smallest 3D printed objects (go read this and watch the video, I’ll be waiting here). 3D printing is a subject I have been discussing often with friends and I even mentioned it in a previous post, here (in French), about IP and piracy. This is a […]
One of the questions I am often asked when I meet fellow freelance developers is how do I find work? The answer is really simple: I don’t, work finds me!
SMS are not 160 characters long, they are 140 bytes long! This is what I discovered today after my SO complained that her mobile operator was charging her for SMS she never sent… And when you know how computers are working, it totally makes sense! “So what?” are you going to ask? So, this is again […]
When you have a problem with your car and you go to the garage you usually say something along the line of “I’ve got a strange noise when I do this or that”. The guy (or, in my dreams, the gal) never say “I don’t understand, come back later with a better description of your […]
You might have noticed already, if you administer community or professional pages or have developed Facebook applications, that contrary to your own personal wall you never get notified when someone post a status or write a comment on your pages? This is a problem for most page administrators and there is a 32 pages long […]
Here is a small snippet of code that I use on applications deployed on Google AppEngine to inform users that the application is in maintenance mode. It usually happen when the AppEngine team put the datastore in read-only mode for maintenance purpose but other capabilities can be tested as well.
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def requires_datastore_write(view): def newview(request, *args, **kwargs): from google.appengine.api import capabilities datastore_write_enabled = capabilities.CapabilitySet('datastore_v3', capabilities=['write']).is_enabled() if datastore_write_enabled: return view(request, *args, **kwargs) else: from django.shortcuts import render_to_response from django.template import RequestContext return render_to_response('maintenance.html', context_instance=RequestContext(request)) return newview |
This is a python […]