Blog Archive

Upcoming articles

Consider this a list of ideas more than something set in stone – I’m going to note down here articles I will (hopefully) have the time to work on:

I don’t care about your notice period
Automating tasks with Google Chrome and Puppeteer
Probabilistic data structures: count-min sketch
(Fake) SSL everywhere
Hiring a remote team might turn out like Argentina at the World Cup
Stop it with the dogmas already: 5 worst-practices that repeatedly saved my bum (shared databases, memoization through setInterval, no tests)
Prometheus monitoring for developers
Spinnaker: pipeline like it’s 2018
patterns of stability: circuit-breakers
Performance made simple: use the memory

See this for more info.

2018

Chrome’s DevTools console getting cleared unexpectedly? Blame the Buffer extension!

Web security: hardening HTTP cookies

Valid SSL certificates for local development

Book review: Cloud Native infrastructure

Secure your web application with these HTTP headers

Security: HTTP’s perspective

Book review: Why We Sleep

Book review: The personal MBA

WASEC: understanding the browser

Introduction to Web Application SECurity

Web security demystified: WASEC

Finding where that IP address is from with iploc

Advertising on Twitter: give us your personal data or we’re going to bomb your timeline with NSFW, sexual ads

How did that bug happen? Git bisect to the rescue!

Book review: Debugging Teams: Better Productivity through Collaboration

Book review: Node.js Design Patterns (1st edition)

Emit a beeping sound with JavaScript

mssqldump, a small utility to dump MS SQL Server data

#OffFacebook: half a year later

Import a Google spreadsheet into a MySQL table with docsql

This is how a (dumb) hash table works

The simplest template engine for NodeJS

TSV, better than CSV

Istio is the real deal

How to easily deaggregate an IP address range

Bloom filters: when data structures get smart

My favorite algorithm (and data structure): HyperLogLog

Running out of space because of docker containers / images?

Probabilistic data structures: an introduction

A little bit of strace doesn’t hurt

I trolled a digital salesman because their tactics are simply unethical

2017

Cross-posting on Medium

Unix goodies to the rescue - Vol.2

Intro to React for busy people

Concise async / await in ExpressJS

Book review: Code simplicity

Book review: The Go programming language

Book review: Kubernetes cookbook

Book review: Kubernetes management design patterns

HTTP cache 101: scaling the web

Local development with rkt containers

SPA, isomorphic and back to the server: our journey with JS

Book review: Site Reliability Engineering

Book Review: Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future

Web APIs of the Future

Benchmarking JavaScript snippets

Debugging NodeJS applications from your browser

When debugging doesn’t suck: beautiful errors

Beware of Lodash (and the cost of abstractions)

Book review: Computing, a coincise history

Book review: Release It – Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software

What’s up with my gem install? symbol SSLv2_method, version OPENSSL_1.0.0 not defined

Book review: Scalability Rules

Eval no more: a journey through NodeJS’ VM module, VM2 and Expression Language

Book review: NodeJS High Performance

Book review: An Introduction to Stock and Options

Better performance: the case for timeouts

The 2017 blogging pledge

2016

2 Web APIs I’m particularly excited about

A tech team of ~10 people

Why did Google create the Go language?

Dockerize it: stop living in the past and embrace the future

We’re hiring (again)!

XYZ programming language sucks

Using Terraform in AWS Mumbai

A message to all the tech teams out there: start doing Tech Trivias

Bundling static files within your Golang app

Connecting to the inflight internet on Emirates’ flights

Enable remote debugging on chrome for React Native’s webviews

Contributing to React Native for Android

2015

Deploying 3 times a day without a downtime

How Docker changed me

I have built my own IDE and I’m happy to trash it after a year

Minimal docker : run your NodeJS app in <25mb of an image

The MySQL ARCHIVE storage engine

Are “considered harmful” lists considered harmful?

How to test 3rd party hooks and webservices locally

4 unix goodies I cannot live without

Using gists like git repositories

Married!

Generating badges / shields with NodeJS

Generating SVGs with RaphaelJS and NodeJS

My (nice) experience with Golang

3 years at Namshi…and still counting!

Victory

Things I ask during interviews

Mobile development’s future is a big question mark

OrientDB: just like any other NoSQL database?

5 technologies you should keep an eye on in 2015

On monoliths, service-oriented architectures and microservices

OrientDB: going beyond RDBMS

Refresh your JavaScript configurations with freshen-up

Spring cleaning of your docker containers

Netflix, you have a problem

An overview of OrientDB’s capabilities

The strange case of OrientDB and graph databases

Cannot connect to the internet from your Docker containers?

2014

Downloading the content of your GoPro from its WiFi

AngularJS, (almost) a year later, at a PHP conference

Nikki 0.25.1: let’s play with the filesystem!

Nikki 0.19.1: awesomeness won’t stop

History of HTTP, SPDY and HTTP/2.0 - Video

Tips and tricks for your Service Oriented Architecture - Video

Planning to write long-term APIs? @cirpo and me shared our experience

The 5 golden rules when writing open source software

Nikki v0.16.5: first issues ahead

Last weekend I wrote an IDE. In JavaScript.

Use a custom HTTP status code for your apps’ healthchecks

Increase mobile performances by implementing transparent redirects

Service Oriented Architectures with Symfony2

6 takeways from the second day of ConFoo

AngularJS is the future. Maybe.

7 takeways from the first day of ConFoo

OrientDB, the fastest document-based graph database

7 reasons why working for Namshi is great

If you love AngularJS, you should definitely join us…we’re hiring!

How to make your JavaScript apps SEO-friendly

2013

Frontend web development is not as fun as it could be

Drop OpenJDK and upgrade Java to the Oracle packages

Speaking about AngularJS, SOA and OrientDB in Montreal at the Confoo 2014

Space to the youngsters…

CakeFest 2013 wrap-up

See you in Paris at the 2013 edition of the PHP Forum

HTTP/1.1, SPDY and HTTP/2.0, again

Tips and Tricks for you Service-Oriented Architecture

WiFi not connecting or being wonky on a Dell XPS in Ubuntu 13.04

Hello US, I’m coming to San Francisco

Sending HipChat notifications in PHP

AB testing in PHP with namshi/ab

Notificator, sending notifications through PHP in a clean and lightweight way

Using Emailvision’s CampaignCommander APIs from PHP

Beautifying JSON data from the shell

Desktop notifications for PHPUnit tests on Ubuntu

PHP User Group Dubai, here we start again!

Integrating Twig in your legacy code, Part 2: a less wild approach

Integrating Twig in your legacy PHP code

Configuring a Symfony2 application to support SOA

Securing your HTTP API with JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption

Why our business chose Symfony2 over any other PHP framework

Automated tests from a novice’s perspective

Doctrine 80% faster?

My experience with our development team in Dubai: in between business, SOA and sun

A brief visit to the cold lands of Italy

Refactoring your architecture understanding SOA

Symfony2 console: permission denied during autocompletion

Using Selenium and Symfony2 to help your frontend developers coding without risks

Namshi is looking for a new Lead Developer!

PHP: ‘The script tried to execute a method or access a property of an incomplete object’

Profiling PHP applications from the browser

Making the OrientDB ODM 5 times faster

Starting to play with the Doctrine OrientDB ODM

2012

Please welcome the Doctrine2 OrientDB ODM

Video introduction about NoSQL graph databases and OrientDB

Coding bureaucracy

OrientDB ODM beta 5: repositories, compatibility with 1.2.0 and more stability

Mixing the history of HTTP, SPDY and HTTP/2.0

The state of HTTP/2.0

Ready for europe, IPC and pizzas

So yes, I’m writing a book

Optimizing loading times with images’ lazy loading

Shell aliases for Octopress

Human-readable user agents for JavaScript error reporting

ping: sendto: No buffer space available with DU DNSes

Source code workflow after 3 months of Github

The hope is that IE will drown in 2 years

How refactoring influenced the World Wide Web

Logging JavaScript errors

Using Monolog for PHP error reporting on New Relic

Bootstrap of a Travis-CI test-machine

Where is Agile?

Speaking at IPC 2012

Going beyond HTTP at IPC in October

Use the Strategy to avoid the Switch-Case antipattern

Back in track with OrientDB

Y U NO access WHOIS informations in PHP?

Search engines are making the web slower

Wanna be hired? Go get yourself a blog and a github profile

Checking a domain’s availability with PHP

Moving to Dubai

Scaling asynchronously through HInclude

Book review: Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce

How to argue with junior and stubborn developers

Create a Composer command line installer with the Symfony2 CLI

Launching PHPUnit tests from a browser with Symfony2

Using the Symfony2 DIC as a standalone component

Retrieving raw WHOIS informations in PHP

A PHP library to retrieve WHOIS informations

The web benefits from SPDY just as SPDY benefits from HTTP

Roy Fielding on SOAP in the W3C context

Enter SfCcTesting: Symfony 1.X Client-Crawler Testing

Functional testing symfony 1.X with PHPUnit: the Symfony2 way

Quality isn’t always better than quantity

Managing PHP dependencies with composer

Media types and hypermedia services: beyond REST architectures

Edge Side Includes, how to spare terabytes every day

Getting back on OrientDB

2011

Less REST, more hypermedia

OSIDays 2011 wrapup

Application-level caching: fight the right battle

GraphDB in PHP: time for the serious stuff

The “new” development here in DNSEE: BDD and much more

HTTP saves time, saves money, saves you

A warm welcome to Orient beta-4: data-mapping and much more

Changing the layout of Joomla! ‘category blog’ view

The shortest path problem in PHP: demystifying Dijkstra’s algorithm

Behaviour-driven development in PHP

Unit testing your symfony forms

News from the Orient library: OrientDB query-builder goes out

Hands on PHP 5.4: traits and other good stuff

Integrating Zend Framework 2 in Symfony 1.4

Contributing to the Zend Framework via GitHub

Why Joomla sucks, why the Joomla platform sucks even harder and how We can fix this

Resources about HATEOAS

REST in peace, again

Jazoon 2011 wrapup

PHPDay 2011 wrapup

Get prepared for OrientDB’s query builder

Yahoo’s S4 stream computing platform

The problem with non hypermedia-driven webservices

Some common questions about Edge Side Includes

The OrientDB PHP data mapper, from the trenches

The current status of my work with OrientDB

The query builder for OrientDB

OrientDB, the Graph DB for the web

Symfony2, HTTP cache & the good parts of both of’em

Real-time scaling: when NoSQL almost wins, HTTP almost wins, and the customer smiles

A data mapper for OrientDB

The current vague state of PUT and DELETE in HTML5

It’s client’s fault

A simple menu and the relational model collapses

XML vs JSON for real

Graph in PHP through OrientDB

Graph databases: OrientDB to the rescue

Long live XML (too sorry for JSON fanboyz)

REST in practice, my review

NoSQL day: from enthusiasm to consciousness

Singletons of the web

REST better: common pitfalls

Be clever with your Etags

REST better: HTTP cache

Ideas of March: REST better

Re-doing things with Symfony2

The art of agile development, my review

A f****** awesome 2011 PHP Benelux Conference

Symfony Live 2011, my POV

I broke the REST

Don’t hurt HTTP: If-(None-)Match & the 412 HTTP status code

Installing and configuring Varnish on Ubuntu

A CRUD with Symfony2 and Doctrine 2

tar: web.tar: Wrote only X of Y bytes

Redis slow with PHP? Think again!

Symfony2 routes

Creating your own services for the Symfony2 DIC

2010

iMacro: JavaScript loops with variables

Versioning other behaviours’ columns with Doctrine Versionable

The Pomodoro Tecnique on your Linux distro

Amend committing in SVN

Browsers rest too much REST lesser

Mockups of web authentication: the REST rescue

SfWidgetFormChoice* with spicy empty values

Magento’s request doesn’t collect GET and POST

Custom pagination on different models with symfony and Doctrine

mysql/mysqldump: command not found on CentOS

Deploying a symfony application

Il buio nell’anima

Basic HTTP authentication on a symfony backend

Customizing pagination in symfony

Convert a password the Magento way

Setting up cron jobs in Magento

Border radius and IE 8 and previous yes we can

Pass a variable to a .phtml block

Retrieve top rated products in Magento

Headers already sent… what’s up PHPUnit?

Typing into TinyMCE with Selenium

How to discover if a site has been built with Joomla!

Magento and PHPUnit

Profiling with Xdebug and Kcachegrind

Deliver content as XML with Zend Framework

FFMPEG: get a thumbnail from a video with PHP

Debug a SQL query in Magento