Computer science thoughts

Welcome

On this website, you will find some of my texts translated from french:

several tips and scripts simplifying operations or correcting computer software problems
some thinking and strategy games
différents texts around computer science
my personal utilities as well as others that I appreciate

Eric Quillévéré

Latest utilities & scripts

Allow geolocation in HTTP

HTML / JS / CSS

If you develop a website locally, you do not necessarily use an SSL certificate. Unfortunately, this blocks certain features, such as geolocation. Here's how to work around the problem.

Talend: avoid modifying context variables during a job

Talend

On Talend software, on a job, it's possible to assign the value of a context variable, via a tJava, by writing for example: context.myVariable="abc";There is no error and most of the time it goes very well. Except...

Talend: fix "Plugin X or one of its dependencies could not be resolved"

Talend

On Talend, you can have the following exception: "An error occurred (java.lang.Exception: [ERROR] Plugin X or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Cannot access central (https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/) in...

Read and edit ePUB files

Various tips

An overview of some software on Windows to read and modify ePUB files.

Open a JSON file on Windows

File tools

To open a JSON file and display its hierarchical tree structure, there are a plethora of websites. However, for convenience, privacy or filesize reasons, you may need to open a JSON file locally, without sending it...