Olivier Garcia is yet another linux nerd

Write Rock Solid Code

SOLID is an acronym for fives good OOP principles found by Robert C. Martin. Read on to know more

A Practical 30m Intro To Git Vcs

The post contains the slides used in Git workshops I gave in Infrabel during 2015.

A 10 min. tutorial to PHP x Heroku

PHP runs well on Heroku. Read on to have a quick introduction to get an application up online fast.

La mesure, ce n'est pas que pour le devops

Slides of the presentation I gave with [Patrick Allaert](http://twitter.com/patrick_allert) at AFUP's PHP Forum 2014.

Create a PHAR out of a CLI based SF2 app

This article shows how to bootstrap a non web based Symfony app.

Compiling PHP 5.1.6 on a recent Linux

An unforseen need required me to put a six years old PHP 5.1 application back online for a few weeks in my customer Intranet. Between rewriting or adapt a significant portion of the code to make it work on 5.3+ or getting back a system with a running 5.1 PHP with its Oracle dependencies, business and team constrainsts made us patch the 5.1 code tree for recent libs.

An internship for a lead dev position? Not fair!

A rant about the overuse of trainees in our industry.

Be Careful With Php Documentation

Recent PHP versions change the way to use it and the documentation page can fool people working in 5.3 or below.

Some good practical quality metrics?

Naveen Maram asked on LinkedIn “What are some good, practical quality metrics for your IT development team that worked in your setting and you have personal experience with?”.

Extend redcarpet to support a media library 2/2

This is the second half of this two-part tutorial that explains how to modify Redcarpet library in order to support images and files of a media library

Extend redcarpet to support a media library 1/2

first half of this two-part tutorial to modify Redcarpet library in order to support images and files of a media library

Seven Handy Yet Lesser Known Ruby Gems

If you’re into Rails or Ruby development, chances are that you’ll already play with popular gems like Capistrano or Omniauth. Here’s seven nice gems that you may not known

3 Agile methods to turn uncertainty into success

Uncertainty is a constant of projects or companies, whether if you’re testing business model, receiving incomplete specs from a customer or just because unexpected - defects, unforeseen opportunities, competitors, new requirements, etc. - happens.

Translation Of Some Typical French It Words

I’m working on a project for deploying J2EE and PHP applications and it requires communication with customers in both english and french. This work is part of a traditional IT documentation but I had some trouble translating certain expressions especially those inspired from Public buildings and works sector (they’re typical to France) so I’m going to list them in this post, so other people can use them or suggest better translations.

You Got A Mail From Do Not Reply

Like a lot of people, I receive weekly or monthly opt-in emails from vendors but I’m always surprisedmailboxes it’s from not working address “do-not-reply”. Not very engaging.

Difference Between Ssh And Ssl

An answer to Linkedin question "What is the difference between SSH and SSL and how they work together?"