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Why add a Messenger bot to your Facebook page?
Why add a Messenger bot to your Facebook page?

125 reads
Category: Social networking
Level: Beginner

I thought it would be interesting to write an article on the subject now that I've set up a Messenger bot for my Boréales Créations Facebook page. What is a Messenger bot? You've created a robot? It's your fault, isn't it Skynet? Well, not yet anyway. Here the Messenger bot is simply used to answer for you when people, prospects, customers write to you on your Facebook page. 😃 You know what it's like when you're busy, you don't necessarily check all the notificat...

Josselin Dionisi - Freelance developer
Josselin Dionisi
Mar 15, 2021
How do I get my Turbo application onto Android?
How do I get my Turbo application onto Android?

125 reads
Category: Development
Level: Confirmed

Hello 🙂 Lately we've been talking about Turbo and iOS, and about making PWAs installable. This article is the continuation of those two articles (well, more the one on iOS), so I invite you to skim it, because even if the two systems are quite different, the principle is the same. The application in production As always, the app we're going to talk about is the one I use every time I want to test new technologies. As I write these lines, it's available on the Google Play Store....

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Oct 16, 2023
How to auto-host Google Fonts in 2025?
How to auto-host Google Fonts in 2025?

124 reads
Category: Web development
Level: Confirmed beginner

Hello good morning 🙂, Ah, you're still on vacation? I'll come back later with my article, then? No, it's okay? Can we go now? Top! 😁 Today, we're going to talk about Google Fonts, more specifically: how to "self-host" them ? Let's turn on the fan, warm up our fingers and get started! What are Google Fonts? Google Fonts are a set of fonts created by Google. What's special about these fonts is that they're designed for screens, especially the web. On this site I don't us...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Aug 20, 2022
Ideas for improving your Instagram profile
Ideas for improving your Instagram profile

123 reads
Category: Social networking
Level: Beginner

Instagram has become a must-have social network, with 18-24 year olds spending an enormous amount of time on it and ... like all social networks its business model is to capture and resell attention. In this article, I propose a non-exhaustive list of ideas for improving your presence on this network. Put keywords in your account name and display name Instagram's search engine doesn't use the data in the "bio" to find a user, it only uses the data in the account name and display name, so...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Mar 9, 2021
Buying cheese with Bitcoin? It's possible
Buying cheese with Bitcoin? It's possible

123 reads
Category: Web development
Level: intermediate

Hello hello hello, Today, we're going to talk about my latest little adventure: enabling a 142-year-old company to accept cryptocurrencies. Setting the scene I've been working with Les Frères Marchand, for over a year now, at first we made a website together (it was Ludo Dev CMS's second instance), then we got the urge to create an online cheese shop together, which has been online since September 2021. On this cheese shop, everything is automated to simplify life for customers...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Feb 9, 2022
MealPay, contactless payment (QR Code) for restaurateurs
MealPay, contactless payment (QR Code) for restaurateurs

122 reads
Category: Digitization
Level: Beginner

Hey, hello there ... it's been a long time ... well, a week! How have you been? Sunbathing, sunbathing? Yes, it's important to have a good time! Speaking of good times, have you been sitting on a terrace recently? No, because that's what we're going to talk about today. In fact, we're going to be talking about MealPay, a project that grew out of an adventure that began with my partner Josselin Dionisi. The QR Code as a contactless payment system In fact, the basic idea is simple: we're s...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Jun 2, 2021
Why isn't MYSQL a search engine?
Why isn't MYSQL a search engine?

122 reads
Category: Web development
Level: intermediate

Hey there. How are you? Good, not too cold? so much the better! This week's article is for my fellow developers, and we're going to talk about search ... but real search! I often see MYSQL used as a search engine ... It's a fact! In the projects I've worked on, I've often seen this database management system (or MariaDB or Postgresql) used as a search engine, with things like "where my_attribute LIKES '%blabla%". And this is a very bad practice... What's the real use of a relational...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Nov 8, 2021
How do I manage a workflow with Symfony?
How do I manage a workflow with Symfony?

120 reads
Category: Web development
Level: Confirmed beginner

I think you'll have gathered by now that on this blog we're particularly fond of Symfony. 😛 The robustness and versatility of this framework (I should almost say ecosystem, by the way), we've already talked about here Well, I suppose for this time that the principle I'm going to present also exists in other frameworks, but again, it's really simple to use in Symfony. What's a workflow? This principle is workflow. If you're used to working in an English-speaking context, a workf...

Josselin Dionisi - Freelance developer
Josselin Dionisi
Dec 5, 2022
Arc, the browser for power-users?
Arc, the browser for power-users?

120 reads
Category: Tech tips
Level: Beginner

Hey there! 🙂 To read this article, you use a software, this software is so present in your life that now, for you it seems "part of the scenery". I'm talking, of course, about your browser 😛. Over the last ten years, we're not going to lie to ourselves, there's been one all-category champion who's been raking in all the market share, well, especially on the "desktop", I'm talking of course about Google Chrome. On mobile, this is less true, with Apple forcing the use of...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Feb 20, 2023
Mailcow, a plug and play e-mail server?
Mailcow, a plug and play e-mail server?

120 reads
Category: System administration
Level: intermediate

Hello, hello 🙂, Thank you for clicking on this article, was it the cow photo that made you click? So, yes... I see what you mean... I let loose on the image and on the title of this page... yes no, but it's summer, we're relaxing here 😛. So, have you ever managed your own e-mail server? I have, several times in the past for different companies I've worked for... Today, we're going to talk about a cow, but, not the one from interville (old man's reference...), but ano...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Jun 27, 2024