The context With the COVID-19 and the shelter in place, there is not much opportunities to play D&D face to face with friends. Some groups decided to go to platforms like Roll20 or Fantasy Ground. While I love those apps they are lacking something in my opinion: an integration with DnD Beyond. I personally have a LOT of digital content on DnD Beyond and the idea of buying it again on another platform is not something I am considering. ...
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: ...
Few years ago I created a docker image for me to play on Minecraft with friends. I have been updating this image from time to time but basically it’s almost always compatible with the new version since it’s building the game server from the sources. The project can be found here: https://github.com/AshDevFr/docker-spigot The docker image can be found here: https://hub.docker.com/r/ashdev/minecraft-spigot I provide the image with an ubuntu base or an alpine base which is much smaller. ...
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 ? ...
The event This week is the Docker’s 3rd birthday. Around the world, a lot of meetups were organized with the same program. For this event the Docker team has created a specific presentation with a fun training on how to build, ship and run a distributed application with ease. The slides of the presentation : The training was in two parts: First, a self-paced beginners’ tutorial for attendees to learn Docker. ...
Edit: Due to the Docker Meetup in Paris, the Hands-on Docker is rescheduled to the 22nd of March instead of the 24th of March. Hi! Few months ago, I gave a talk about Docker (the article). During this talk I saw that a lot of people are really interested by Docker but did not know where to start. So, I decided to create a Hands-on Docker to help them understand how to use it. As front end developer, the hands-on will be nodeJS/mongoDB oriented. The same principle could be applied to anything (Java, php, …). ...
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. That is exactly what Blogular is. ...
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. I will probably provide it in few weeks in Paris. Let me know in the comments if you are interested. ...
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 ...
Few weeks ago, as every month, my company has organised their Tech evening. This time, it was about Docker. As a long time user of virtualization and for the past year of Docker, I offered to talk about how to integrate docker in our everyday work. As a front end developper, I use very often Gulp, Grunt and/or Node.js in my projects. These tools are pretty awesome but when I deal with external libs I have to be really careful of what I put in my dependencies file. ...