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Greg Young webcast

Posted on May 20, 2010 by nicdex

Greg Young made his first summer webcast live from PCMS Conseil office in Montreal today. I work at PCMS so I had the chance to listen to it live. The presentation was about how the DDD Ubiquitous Language is actually … Continue reading →

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building v8 using mingw on windows

Posted on April 17, 2010 by nicdex

By default v8 only builds on MSVC for Windows. It also supports building with mingw, but it is not documented anywhere and I’ve lost some time finding how. So here it is, easy steps for whoever needs it. Prerequisites 1. … Continue reading →

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Exporting html to excel 2003 and 2007 using utf-8

Posted on February 17, 2010 by nicdex

Using html in Excel is very usefull, because it allows to do easy reporting with nice features like colors, tabular formatting, etc. First we need to output some headers so the browser will open the ouput with Excel. This works … Continue reading →

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exceptions and threads with mingw

Posted on November 14, 2009 by nicdex

If you’re having trouble using exceptions and threads with MingW, here is the solution: 1. Add these compiler options: -mthreads (enable exception support in threads) -fexceptions (enable exception handling) 2. Get the latest version of gcc (I have the 4.4.0, … Continue reading →

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X1office.com

Posted on September 18, 2009 by nicdex

X1office est un nouveau service offert par l’entreprise où je travaille. Le type de clientèle visée est la petite et moyenne entreprise. Voici un résumé des services offerts: – Boite de courriel Outlook 2007 avec serveur Exchange. – Service de … Continue reading →

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Using dynamic canvas creation with google excanvas using IE

Posted on June 30, 2009 by nicdex

When you are using IE and ExplorerCanvas, dynamically created canvas with document.createElement are not working. They’re are not extending the ExplorerCanvas functionnality by default. Include this script after excanvas.js in your html header to extend the created element at creation: … Continue reading →

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WordPress

Posted on June 1, 2009 by nicdex

WordPress est maintenant la plateforme officielle de mon site web. ———————————— WordPress is now the main platform for my website.

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Reportage sur mon employeur

Posted on June 1, 2009 by nicdex

Voici les trois reportages qui ont été réalisé sur PCMS Conseil, l’entreprise pour laquelle je travaille. http://www.radio-canada.ca/audio-video/pop.shtml#idMedia=0&urlMedia=/Medianet/2007/RDI2/Telejournal200707262100_1.asx http://www.radio-canada.ca/audio-video/pop.shtml#urlMedia=http://www.radio-canada.ca/Medianet/2008/CBFT/TelejournalMontreal200802251800_3.asx http://www.radio-canada.ca/audio-video/pop.shtml#urlMedia=http://www.radio-canada.ca/Medianet/2009/RDI2/TelejournalSurRdi200904231700_4.asx

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