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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...
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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...
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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...
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Category: Digitization
Level: Beginner
To avoid contacts, restaurants are now using QR Codes to allow their customers to consult the menu. The PDF format To start with, you'll need the menu in PDF format. The "PDF" format is a standard format that can be read on any device, iOS or Android, so using the PDF format means you won't have any compatibility problems with your customers' phones. It's also possible to have a simple web page, but since that's more difficult to achieve, stick to a PDF format, which you should already ha...
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Category: Tech tips
Level: Beginner
Hello, hello?, The last article was about PowerToys and how they improve productivity in Windows. To make this article more fun, I thought it might be a good idea to capture my screen and give it to you as a GIF... So, in this week's article, we're going to look at how to capture your screen in GIF format, on Windows and macOS. Yes, we're doing an "articleCeption" here, having as much fun as we can? Are you ready? Let's get started! Capturing your screen in GIF format, on Windows...
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Category: Web development
Level: Confirmed beginner
Hello there, This week's article comes from an observation I made recently. Before, in Chrome, when you visited a site that offered OpenSearch, it automatically added it to the browser's search engines, so all you had to do was type "a keyword" + space and start searching directly from the browser's omnibox. This browser behavior has recently changed (perhaps for the better, as it prevents anything and everything from being added to the browser). Now, in Chromium (and therefore Chrome and...
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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...
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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...
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Category: Tech tips
Hello Hello ?, Windows isn't my main operating system, in fact I'm more Linux / macOS, but that doesn't stop me from following what's going on with Windows and using it from time to time. It has to be said that Microsoft's work over the last few years has been quite remarkable; between the terminal, "WSL 2" and "Powershell", there's plenty to do. This week, I'd like to talk a little about "PowerToys", a set of tools made available by Microsoft to enhance the Windows experience. As the...
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Category: Tech tips
Hey, good morning 😁! Thanks for clicking on this article 😛. This week we're going to talk a bit about application, not the one I code, but the one I use 😁. Are you ready? Then let's get started. The world is changing... and so are business models Have you noticed? No ? Yes, you have 😁. In the software industry, subscription has become the norm. Gone are lifetime licenses... well, if they still exist, but hey, your version will soon be "obsolete",...