Archive for the ‘ Geeky ’ Category

Auto-start of my computer when I go back home

  Because one of my first action is to start my computer when I go back home, and because I’m really geek, I thought it could be a great idea to create an auto-start of my Desktop computer when I’m coming back home. I made a tiny script in Python running on my home server. It starts [ READ MORE ]

Songs in code

I found a funny hashcode on twitter : #songsincode (thanks @jessyjones). songsincodedb.com should aggregate them, but it seems to do not work since October 2009 … The goal is to write some code to make you recognize a music. I wrote some. Let’s see if you can discover them if(night.isCame() && land.isDark() && me.saw() == moon.light) [ READ MORE ]

C’s Humor

Is it possible to express a feeling with C language ? Whereas the definition of hacker is a guy who transforms a system to make it do something that is unrelated to its primary purpose, I believe that the extended definition is someone who consider the code as an art. And art implies expression of a feeling. Jump [ READ MORE ]

Hide an image in a magic text page

While twitting, I discovered a nice special page full of plain text. (edit : http://fichtre.net/yop.html) Nothing special … But when you select the text (CTRL + A), an photo appears in the selection. Wow ! Yesterday I could not sleep, so I decided to write a little code. I was not enough awake to work on my mission, [ READ MORE ]

Real-time Webcam Wallpaper and Eiffel Tower Wallpaper

Did I tell you I love Paris ? My previous flat had a view on the Eiffel Tower. But I had to leave it for another in Courbevoie, near La Défense. But because I still want my view on the Eiffel Tower, I created this tiny program in Python to show the Eiffel Tower webcam (powered by [ READ MORE ]

Save the world, stop breathing when you google

What power do you use when you're google-ing [ READ MORE ]

VHDL wired web server

Hey, I talked a few time ago about a webserver I implemented in a FPGA. The project name was CB12. I received some mails of people asking me more information about this. Thank you very much for your interest ! The main question you ask me is Did you use a Picoblaze (i.e. a processor) ? The answer is [ READ MORE ]

ASCII art is fashion, and makes the buzz over Internet with Portal.

Do you know ASCII Art ? This is the art to draw images with only the 255 characters your computer can handle. When computers were big cabinets, and screens were simple 80-characters-a-line-x-25-lines terminal green screen, you could only draw shapes with characters. Like my homemade computer. Recently, ASCII art comes to fashion with the pretty amazing story of Valve and [ READ MORE ]

Preview of Pystcache, a simple Python caching framework

In the previous article, I talked about the caching issue : when your specifications require to implement a caching system, do I have to think about at the beginning when I begin to design my application, or can I report the problem for a second pass ? During my research, I found an elegant way to [ READ MORE ]

Yes, cache is a secondary problem, but still a main optimization.

Maybe you know I’m working on the K project (it’s a nickname) as a freelance. The K project is a Web application. I decided to program it in Python with the Tornado framework. One of my strong constraint is high availability. This application should support potentially around an half million of users. And even if I could be [ READ MORE ]