D&D Beyond DM Screen

Few months ago, I worked on a Chrome extension to make my life easier when DMing D&D using DnD Beyond characters. DM Screen Extension Screenshot D&D Beyond Campaign DM Screen The extension has a simple goal: providing the characters’s stats in a useful way and refreshing the data when the character’s sheets are updated. Without the extension With the extension When using the embedded version of the DM screen: When using the popup version:...

April 20, 2020 · 1 min · 79 words · Sylvain Cau

One step in the Progressives Web Apps

Few months ago, a friend of mine @florpeliere started to work on progressives web apps. First, I was intrigued, but not that much. Then he gave us a talk about them, and I started to realise the potential of this concept. Well, it is not a huge change, it is something which is used for a while; but now, there is a name on it and an official specification. A web app on my phone, with offline data, ok but what kind of app ?...

April 15, 2016 · 2 min · 263 words · Sylvain Cau

Blogular

During the last past year, I trained a lot of people on AngularJS in my company. Lately, I was thinking that our repository was old and not really good looking. Then, I had an idea, what if I wanted to train people outside of my company, like in university for example. So with this idea I decided to create a new set of exercises to learn how to develop a web application using AngularJS....

February 10, 2016 · 2 min · 355 words · Sylvain Cau

EmberJS

Last week, I gave a talk about EmberJS. As a long time user of AngularJS 1.x some people were expecting a comparaison between these two frameworks. My point was more about what is Ember, what is the good and the bad with this framework. I was hoping to give to people the envy of trying it. And after the talk some of them told me that they will try. I am currently working on a simple hands-on training on EmberJS....

February 9, 2016 · 1 min · 107 words · Sylvain Cau

ngMockStorage

Hi guys, I just released a first version of a new library for AngularJS. The idea is to have a mock in your AngularJS application, but not deployed on the back side. With this kind of mock you are able to deploy an offline sandbox version of your website. The library decorates the $http service and uses the localStorage or sessionStorage to store your data. You will find the library there : github / npm...

December 21, 2015 · 2 min · 297 words · Sylvain Cau