As a consultant/trainer/developer with a focus on efficiency and simplicity, here’s my selection of 5 excellent free software I use on my Macbook Pro instead of famous paid counterparts. DaVinci Resolve Instead of Adobe Premiere or Apple Final Cut Pro, give a try to DaVinci Resolve, a professional-level video editing and post-production…

As a consultant/trainer/developer with a focus on efficiency, here’s my selection of 5 free command-line utilities (all being open source and free) I use regularly on my terminal. ffmpeg FFmpeg ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.avi FFmpeg 5.1 "Riemann", a new major release, is now available! Some of the highlights: We…ffmpeg.org Created by a French guy, this more than 20 years old tool is still on point for all video-converting needs. It simply…

As a game enthusiast (both board games and video games) and having dabbled into game development and theory for both personal and professional reasons, here’s the first part of my 10-step checklist for ensuring a solid gameplay experience. — Games are the ultimate medium if you think of it, potentially combining of course visual, audio and textual, but also continuous and sequential storytelling. They may include roleplaying elements, or other decision-based gameplay mechanics to add to the immersion in ways no other art form can achieve. …

As a consultant/trainer/developer with a focus on efficiency and an attention to design, here’s my selection of 5 free software I use everyday on my Macbook Pro. Numi Beautiful calculator for Mac Beautiful calculator for Mac that blends math with text. Currency, units, time zones, numeral systems, variables…numi.app Numi is a calculator that does not look like a calculator, but does the job even better. It sits in your menu bar…

Upload images and other files efficiently — So you have a frontend app communicating with a backend, and you need to upload media to a CDN provider before handling the metadata? Excellent, we’ll see how you can do that with reuse and flexibility in mind under Node.js. We’ll cover how to write your server-side CDN service abstracting…

And how to extend the solution to Android and iOS — So you have a frontend app communicating with a backend, and you need to send notifications to the user: We’ll see how you can do that with no overhead under Node.js. We’ll cover how you can send regular notifications through WebSockets, taking clustering into account, and we’ll also show mobile…

This is the story of how I decided to build the app I believed in and wanted to use while having a marketing-focused consulting job as my main occupation as well as little to no prior knowledge of the technologies involved. …

C’est un sujet à la mode, mais rarement disséqué sur le plan méthodologique. Nos 5 conseils pour bâtir une approche cohérente basée sur le couple objectif-récompense et appliquer cette mécanique à ses projets. S’appuyer sur le contenu et le réel, mais aussi l’alimenter en retour Dans l’industrie du jeu vidéo, plusieurs grands succès, notamment les jeux de tir, ne s’embarrassent pas de…

In the last year, one of the main projects of mine and my (French) company Iperiago was the complete reinvention of our tool for creating and following map-based, playable itineraries. This lead to the new and improved Paris Parcours web & mobile app. It was written under Node.js for the…