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FEATURED · Web Development Nov 01, 2026

PdfCraft: a PDF reader and editor written from scratch in Rust

I spend a lot of time fighting with PDFs: splitting invoices, redacting a page before sending a contract, or just trying to read a scanned document without my PDF viewer choking on it. So when I came across PdfCraft, a PDF reader and editor built en...

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Oct 30, 2026 Web Development

Eveil.cloud grew up a lot since launch (here is what changed)

Eveil.cloud is a marketing agent that finds your customers for you. You give it your website URL, it figures out what you sell and to whom, then it goes and tells people about it on every channel a small team never has time to cover by hand: cold...

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26
Aug 2015
Domotic

HCP #2 Access Synology Shared Folders from Raspberry Pi

If, like me, you own a Synology server and a raspberry pi, and they are both connected to your local network, you might want to find a way to access the Synolo...

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19
Aug 2015
Web Development

Wamp problems on Windows 10

After upgrading to the very nice Windows 10, you might experience some problem regarding WAMP Server. For my part, I got a lot of troubles trying to starting...

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11
Aug 2015
Domotic

HCP #1 Intro

Helloooo everyone and welcome to the first part of House Configuration Project ! Ok I know, there is nobody here.. Let me imagine being famous for a while....

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28
Jul 2015
Web Development

Easiest way to bind events to your models

In this article I'll explain what I think is the easiest and cleanest way to bind events to your models in Laravel 5. In fact, I am working on a new project...

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23
Jul 2015
Personal

Combattre, refouler, fuir

Notre condition d’être vivant pourrait se définir par un simple concept : le libre arbitre. Si la plupart des philosophes sont d'accord sur ce principe fondame...

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🇫🇷 · FR
13
Jul 2015
Music

BRNS - Any House

Cette semaine est sorti le nouveau clip de BRNS, dans lequel joue Martin Colet, mon beau-frère ! Son interprétation est totalement géniale et a fait rire tou...

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30
Mar 2015
Web Development

How to get all Gmail Contacts with Laravel 5

Hi folks ! New quick tutorial today on how to retrieve your user's google contacts with Google API in Laravel 5 . Ok, to explain a bit how I did it, I f...

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18
Mar 2015
Web Development

Finally A Decent Search Package For Laravel 5

I know it's been only a few weeks that L5 is out, but still. Even with Laravel 4, I couldn't find any good package that made search queries easier. I'm showi...

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18
Mar 2015
Web Development

Why you should use Sublime Text

Because. That's why. Now go, young apprentice : http://www.sublimetext.com

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18
Mar 2015
Web Development

Laravel 5 And His F*cking non-persistent App SetLocale

Hey! Looking for a more SEO Friendly way to manage a multilingual application with Laravel5 ? Check this tutorial ! Edit: This article have been updated t...

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15
Mar 2015
Personal Web Development

Informations about this website

Hello guys, I am currently buidling this website using only opensource technologies and tools. This blog is actually an opensource project itself, based on t...

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11
Mar 2015
Personal

So, this is new !

Hey folks Welcome to this new website ! If it's not the first time you came here on mydnic.be, you know that I was once used to run a blog about cinema, es...

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07
Jan 2015
Personal

Le Petit Tailleur de Pierre

Il était une fois, un tailleur de pierre qui en avait assez de s'épuiser à creuser la montagne sous les rayons du soleil brûlants. " J'en ai marre de ce...

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🇫🇷 · FR
10
Nov 2014
Personal Music

Fauve

"C'est tellement plus facile de sourire plutôt que d'être heureux" <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/519_pOvP9x...

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🇫🇷 · FR
20
Feb 2013
Personal

Format de date en PHP

Fini les galères avec tous ces formats de dates et toutes les fonctions différentes et toutes ces manières différentes de formater une DATETIME. Voici une si...

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🇫🇷 · FR
11
Feb 2013
Personal Web Development Cinema

Le documentaire sur The Pirate Bay

À découvrir sans tarder : <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ui-w6ZUCzj8?si=WSj8b9Rq547I7qs2" title="YouTube video player"...

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🇫🇷 · FR
11
Feb 2013
Web Development

Above the Fold

Encore une expression à comprendre et à maîtriser pour avoir un bon visuel sur son site web. Le concept signifie : "avoir son contenu principal au dessu...

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🇫🇷 · FR
11
Feb 2013
Web Development

Les skip menus ou la skip navigation

Le concept est assez simple et je vous l'explique rapidement: Le but est que l'utilisateur aie la capacité à naviguer dans votre site, grâce au menu, sans ut...

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🇫🇷 · FR
11
Feb 2013
Music

The Unreached Kiss

<iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/users/12148638&c...

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21
Jan 2013
Web Development

Compresser son site avec Gzip

Rendre son site web beaucoup plus rapide, c'est très simple! Voici toutes les informations dont vous avez besoin, tirées directement du site http://www.what...

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