How to manage invoices with the CLI and an editor

Here’s a common thing we often hear: if you’re doing a task more than once, automize it! Following up on a former article I wrote in french four years ago, where I was showing how simple it was to do my invoices in LaTeX, I have since then built a more generic framework around that. Let’s have a look after the break.… ≫

Git-Repo The ultimate utility for managing services

There are many online platforms offering repository hosting, though they all suck at one thing, it’s to integrate nicely in the flow of coding. Some have a GUI tool, others integrate more or less in your editor (or IDE), and that’s rarely the ones you’re using for your work. After the break, let me show you my take on this, with a little tool I wrote called git-repo…… ≫

Python Event Source Library

For a project, I needed to have a simple way to make a central software be able to send commands to several slaves appliances that are on the internets, i.e. they can either be on Internet with a public IP address, or be behind a proxyfied-firewalled private network that can only communicate through port 80. That’s how I came across a W3C working paper about a very simple technology based on HTTP/1.1 long-polling, called EventSource. The full story and real code after the break…… ≫

Gestion des factures en autoentrepreneur

Je me suis depuis peu inscrit au statut auto-entrepreneur, et évidemment, j’ai vite eu besoin de sortir une facture. J’ai cherché sur le net, et ai trouvé deux blogs qui ont fait un système identique Tengu en suisse et Godefroy en France. Dans la suite de l’article, les sources LaTeX.… ≫