En 2022 j’ai lu plus de cinquante livres sur le développement personnel. Un par semaine en fait, ce qui était complètement impensable pour moi qui avais plutôt tendance à lire 1 voir 2 livres par an sur la dernière décennie… — Voilà quelques un de mes tips et enseignements concernant la lecture: Je reste sur la version papier. Le livre physique à cet avantage d’être facilement feuilleté, transporté, mais surtout bien visible comme un rappel à le lire.

I think I did my first technical interview about ten years ago and in the last two years I’ve had the chance to do even more. As a result I’ve improved my approach. Today I find that the technical interviews with our candidates are rather well structured and efficient, for us…

Si j’ai bonne mémoire, j’ai dû recevoir mon premier candidat en entretien technique il y a une petite dizaine d’années. Depuis, l’exercice s’est répété régulièrement, s’accélérant même depuis deux ans, et sans prétention, je pense que avoir affiné mon approche. Il me semble en effet que la démarche de nos…

While working on a Symfony project using Doctrine and MySQL, I discover that our application was relying on a doctrine method: Doctrine query that could be translated like this: SELECT * FROM User WHERE email COLLATE utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci = <?php echo strtolower('jose.perez@fakemail.com'); ?> How MYSQL manage this: Assuming that “MySQL is insensitive” is a shortcut…

Voilà, c’est fait. Cela fait déjà un an que je travaille sans environnement de dev. Ce qui devait être temporaire, est finalement devenu mon quotidien. Pour tout un tas de raisons maintenant, je n’ai plus d’environnement de dev pour faire tourner le monolithe sur lequel je travaille au quotidien. Il…

The company I work for is a data-driven company. It is necessary for us to make the best decisions and aim for our core value: being customer-centric. Naturally, when we iterate on a feature, we study the data to define how to improve it. And because we can’t improve what…

Lets see how this great piece of PHP engineering is working! — The Doctrine Project is a very big project, used and integrate in many PHP projects or libraries. It’s a set of package, whose the best known is probably the ORM build on top of the DBAL package. But there’re also many great packages like the Annotation, the Collections or the…

Keeping your projects documented is very important. Everyone want to have it, but it must be simple, efficient and well maintained. — API Blueprint is another specification for describing REST APIs. It written in a Markdown-flavored syntax, but not exactly. It’s based on on the element names, order, spacing, and other details. If you describe your API with API Blueprint, you will find a lot of tools that support it.

Why creating another monitoring service when there are new monitoring services every day? — I love this comic, because it definitely apply to monitoring services: Here are the 5 reasons why creating a new monitoring service: — Need something simple and fast to configure — Wan’t to have distinct information about our deployment impact — Powerful configuration that could be updated by an API…