Voici un petit guide pour dessiner un oeuf avec Gimp.

Les techniques décrites ici permettent à la fois de dessiner un oeuf réaliste pour les boulots sérieux (!) et un oeuf type “bande dessinée”, typiquement à usage de gamification ;-)

Vous trouverez le fichier Gimp complet en pièce jointe, que je vous invite à réutiliser ou à prendre comme source d’inspiration.

Etant un utilisateur occasionnel de Gimp, je ne garantis pas que...

Here is a tutorial to draw an egg with Gimp.

With the following techniques, you will be able to build a realistic egg for a serious business (!) as well as a cartoonish one typically for a gamification usage ;-)

You will find the full Gimp source attached to this article, which I invite you to reuse at will.

Being a casual user of Gimp, there might be better approaches to...

Draft !

Today, all developers have heard of Unicode : this character encoding allows all characters of any language in the world.

This article outlines the basics of Unicode through some key points for Java developers.

It also talks about the influence of Unicode on the JVM, like how characters are stored into a String and why you have to get cautious when using char and <code...

Why the need for WebSockets ?

We already have sockets (C programmers know them well), XMLHttpRequest (core of AJAX techniques), Long polling (like comet, …). So why the need for WebSocket ?

Here is an exerpt from the WebSocket RFC’s abstract :

The goal of this technology is to provide a mechanism for browser-based applications that need two-way communication with servers that does not rely on opening multiple HTTP connections (e.g., using XMLHttpRequest or <iframe>s and long polling).

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