As much as possible, I always take the opportunity to write. I mean to write anything: documentation, vocabulary, definition, quotes, book chapters, articles…. any kind of stuff! It’s almost compulsive. I always believe that there will be a future usage for these text’s chunks, somehow. I may be wrong. Indeed, with Mardown, you have an universal and a common format […]

Hello bloggy my old friend! I have come to talk with you again… I just released 3 books on Amazon and several videos tutorials about it. That was the occasion to create also a new entrance in this Blog’s menu named « Publications » Ohhhh. So, I was pretty busy. Anyway, when I decided to create my page on Amazon, I saw […]

Since few months, as I am working on new back-office made with Symfony, I tried to explore the best way to share information with the minimum of repeatedly work. The documentation is gathered mostly for user support. It should be available for any kind of users from end-users to training people through developers and in especially in any format (pdf, […]

Tackling the fact-checking issue and the truth’s relative notion in media is skating on thin ice. It is a very dodgy but necessary questioning nowadays. For those, who get easily bored with reading and want action, you can find directly the plugin in this repository https://github.com/bflaven/PluginWordpressForFun/tree/master/check_news Apparently, on a historical point of view, we entered in the « Anthropocene », or even […]

I was looking for the shortest way to learn something about Docker. I have heard a lot of praise about Docker and the opportunity it gives to build up any development environment in a snap of fingers. The principle of Docker is containerization, so you can build any specific virtual environment that you want : a certain version of PHP […]

As I have talked with a friend creating a web application with Laravel. I have share with him few insights about how to perform testing on such environment and at the same time I discovered that in the last version of Laravel is shipped with a very practical tool for testing named Dusk. So here is the the POC made […]

Previously, I have made a lot of inquiries to understand how to create an API using Node. I guess, I have satisfied almost all my curiosity and it was the occasion to discover testing. Nevertheless, 2 questions remain : find a solid alternative to the PHP-MySQL tandem on how to build a rudimentary Single Page Application, find also the way […]

These latest months, I have made a lot of research on Testing an API. I dug deep into Mocha, Chai, Postman and Newman. I have also taken a large breath and dived into the Node’s world as it is the quickest way to build an API. The idea of this post, it is to strengthen the ability for non-developer to […]

It is true I have given a title to this post that sounds like a user story of somebody who want to make name dropping. In a sense, it is true but it is for SEO purpose. The story behind is absolutely genuine : I wanted to explore testing on an API with the help of Postman and Chai! But […]

Due to the coming GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), that should come into force on 25th May 2018. Many organisations have to rethink their privacy policy. Indeed, GDPR establishes in terms of storage and exploitation of data a lot of new restrictions and duties. There is a lot of literature and business around this new directive. After meeting some so-called […]