This blog has been running Jekyll since 2014. It served me well for years, but the theme was showing its age, the tooling felt stuck, and I wanted something faster and more modern. So I migrated to Hugo. One theme per decade I guess. ...
Happy New Year! I will try to write a little more on this blog in 2019. Mostly about programming, but also as a way to use social media less and express thoughts in more than a few lines. May 2019 be great for you, spending time on this shiny blog. Franck
This blog used to run Octopress and I blame myself for not updating it as much as it should have been updated. From now on, I’ll try using a basic Jekyll/GH Pages setup. Permalinks have been preserved, so I believe it can’t be a bad move anyway. As usual, finding subjects is going to be the tricky part, but I have some topics I always wanted to cover. So… stay tuned? :-)
A couple of days ago I’ve decided to drop my old username CesarioGW to become franckverrot. My GitHub and Twitter accounts have been renamed. I will slowly take care of the remaining accounts.
Trying out a new blog engine. Pretty simple backend: everything is stored on Github so publicly accessible.
Thanks to Luciano (@lucianosb) Live-Note has got its own Google Chrome Extension. He even shot a video about it: ...
I was about to call this article “Gemcutter Webhooks on Google Wave (and Google App Engine) part 2” but then I realized that it was no more about that I wanted to focus on, but more on the Wave part (sorry Rubyists friends, but I had fun with Python (as long as I don’t try to do metaprogramming Python is nice to play with :)). Google released the Google Wave Robot API v2 (hurray). In that major revision, they are introducing the Active Robot API that makes it possible for robots (i.e. GAE-baked applications) to interact with Waves. In the previous version, your robot was being notified each time a wave (or wavelet, or blip) was modified or when a participant was added to the wave, but now, your application can actually be active and contact Wave on its own. In the first part of this series of articles, I was demonstrating how to build a GAE-baked application and how to subscribe to a web hook (being a Rubyist I was taking the webhooks from Gemcutter / Rubygems.org). I went only half-way as I wanted to actually see the result inside Google Wave. But then I think to my self, what a wonderful world think it would be to do something actually useful in my everyday life instead of just demonstrating mix of technologies (even if it’s neat to be able to make applications talk to each others). So today, it’s gonna be about a 12-hour-design application: Live-Note. ...