In the last version (0.9), TileMill has an additional dedicated process to serve the tiles. We had to change some bits of our server configuration.

Instead of documenting the new configuration in our internal Wiki, I prefered to share here a few technical lines (quite rough though).

Recently, while the whole world looks completely hyped up with Web applications,
we chose to design and develop a desktop software in Qt/C++.

Obviously, the choice was measured and justified ! We had to build a specific GIS application
with complex interactions and huge amounts of data, for a limited number of users.

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Webservices are everywhere ! There are relevant in many situations, and
accessing them from your Qt C++ application is not an heresy.

I will present here a very simple way to retrieve a JSON from a GET request.

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Sometimes I look for something which seems so simple and stupid that I can't imagine
it does not exist. It makes me wonder why and who is the fool. Worse, I can't be sure about my search keywords to prove me anything.

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Using an ORM simplifies and reduces greatly the amount of code to interact with databases.
Nevertheless, it can easily hide database design defects or become a source of serious performance issues.

Cela fait plusieurs semaines que je voulais présenter ma petite application de partage de cartes, dont je me sers déjà comme alternative aux marqueurs de Google Maps.

Voici le diaporama qui a été présenté ce matin pour le petit-déjeuner Git.

A great advantage of global menus is the ease of pointing them with the mouse.

Avec Flask et Couchdb (e.g. Flask-CouchDB),
on peut faire rapidement des trucs amusants, voire très utiles !