It’s not common for me to speak about a game, but once again, the new GTA is Amazing and I needed to do a post on it. It’s impressive how the beauty of the game is ! In addition the map is awesome : sea, buildings, streets…and the liberty that you have is unbelievable. This is once again a must have ! Thanks again to Rockstar for it :-)

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I recently made a script at work to act as a service when a pattern is found (or not) on a website. You can also run pre and post script if you want. It’s a Windows binary that you can find on my GitHub or on my Git. I did it in Perl. As described in the last post as I needed to have the interpreter embedded in the binary. I’m so bad to find good application name that I called it url_service_action.

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In the past, I already made an article on how to make exe from a Perl script on Windows. I was using Strawberry or Activesync but have a preference for Strawberry as it’s totally free :-). This time, I tried to reproduce the tips but encountered several issues. The first one was that error : The locale codeset (cp1252) isn't one that perl can decode, stopped at Encode/Locale.pm line 94. It could simply be resolved by addressing ‘-x’ parameter to the ‘pp’ command line.

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WordPress and Jetpack are currently working hard to give more security and features to WordPress. The last version of JetPack, brings a newcomer to the social sharing solution : Google +. I’ve enabled it, that mean in addition of this blog and Twitter, you’ll now be able to follow me on Google + :-)

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I recently read a post (on Korben’s blog) regarding a command called bd to go back to a directory from you current full path. It permits to do more than that ! In fact this is a simple shell script, but it really helps when you’re in a long subfolder list. For example if you reside in ‘/home/user/project/src/org/main/site/utils/file/reader/whatever’ and want to change to ‘/home/user/project/test’, then try ‘bd p`/test. If you want to see all the possibilities, you can look at the main site project.

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I recently needed to install a simple translation tool that helps on follow the translation activity of a project. Pootle answered my requests very well and that’s why I created a documentation to deploy it. It’s written in Python and use Django. Here is my Pootle tutorial.

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