Fab

About Fab

Solutions Architect, I build great workflows for the news and media production industries. I play with data too.

Google Apps Engine doesn’t allow cURL, among lots of other things, like PHP native mail(), we will come back on this another day. I needed to post a tweet from Google Apps Engine and couldn’t find a library using URL Fetch to do so, in few lines. It seems that […]

Codebird without cURL

7 June 2014 in PHP / Projects tagged github / library / twitter API / URL fetch by Fab

Spirulina theme

8 March 2014 in Wordpress Theme by Fab

Earlier this month, I have prepared an introduction to Ruby on Rails for beginners. Here is what I have advised them. Feel free to comment, add information or ask for more! — Ruby on Rails is a popular framework to develop web applications quickly with tremendous easiness. But where to […]

Getting Started with Ruby On Rails

10 February 2014 in sysadmin tagged for beginners / ruby on rails by Fab

Cela fait maintenant plus de deux ans que je vis et travaille à Tokyo et je reçois régulièrement des demandes de conseil pour trouver un emploi dans l’informatique au Japon. Voici donc un petit billet qui résume l’expérience que je partage. Cette note s’adresse particulièrement aux personnes qui ont des […]

Trouver un travail dans l’informatique à Tokyo

12 January 2014 in Japon by Fab

As working closely with IT systems, this is the book I wish I have read a long time ago. Written by David Kennedy, Jim O’Gorman, Devon Kearns and Mati Aharoni, all working in Security and contributing to security tools, the book describes precisely how a modern professional attack against an IT infrastructure is […]

Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide

25 August 2013 in Book Review by Fab

Reverse a regex in javascript ? function reverse(s) { return s.split('').reverse().join(''); } function reverseSequence (s) { // chopper les expression conditionnelles // et construire un tableau pour les stocker var conditionals1 = s.match(/\[(.*?)\]/g); var conditionals2 = s.match(/(\[(.+)\])+\{(.*?)\}/g); var conditionals3 = s.match(/[A-Z\.]{1}\{(.*?)\}/g); var conditionals4 = s.match(/\^(.)/g); // on reverse la sequence […]

Attempt to reverse a regular expression

8 August 2013 in Javascript by Fab

A little javascript class to handle geolocation in a web browser https://github.com/FabFab/GPS-in-your-browser How it works : GPS.get(); [...] var latitude = GPS.position.latitude; var longitude = GPS.position.longitude; or with a callback: GPS.get(updatePosition); function updatePosition() { var latitude = GPS.position.latitude; var longitude = GPS.position.longitude; [...] } More about Geolocation in web browsers: […]

GPS Geolocation in web browser class in Javascript

25 July 2013 in Browsers Compatibility / Javascript / Projects by Fab

I have recently booked an airplane ticket on AirFrance.fr. Normal online booking procedure, nothing exciting as usual, but then, in the end of the process I am forced to check my identity using a code that I would receive on a mobile phone, in order to complete the transaction. This […]

Dear 3D Secure SMS security

5 September 2012 in /Rant by Fab

This was an annoying bug on one of my wordpress + buddypress for a while and the fix is amazingly simple : Edit your wp-includes/query.php around line 2762 // Always sanitize foreach ( $this->posts as $i => $post ) { $this->posts[$i] = sanitize_post( $post, 'raw' ); } and replace by : // […]

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() wp-includes/query.php on line 2762

2 August 2012 in Wordpress tagged buddypress / wordpress by Fab

Recently on wordpress.com for another project, I had this problem with uploading gif image : there is a f*** auto resize embed in my theme that transforms my image tag <img title="bugs" alt="bugs" src="https://blabla.files.wordpress.com/2012/bugs.gif"> in <img title="bugs" alt="bugs" src="https://blabla.files.wordpress.com/2012/bugs.gif?w=479"> and therefore resize the gif on the fly with the ?w=479 […]