Erwan Loisant

Erwan Loisant

Web Architect @ Zenexity
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Paris

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France

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Search Engine Optimization Basics

As my friend Nicolas suggested, I decided to give some guidelines and pointers about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Now, full disclamer: I’m not a SEO expert, so what I am going to write is just very basic rules. Also, since ... Lire la suite

Simple Tips to Build Scalable Websites

A few days ago I’ve been invited to a launch party for a web product in Paris. While the product was nice and polished, it seems like the developers didn’t understand anything about scalability. They didn’t even understand my question ... Lire la suite

Facebook’s Bugzilla and Open Source Code

It’s always a pleasure when a company offers a public bug tracker for users and third party developers. So it’s great to see that Facebook has a public bugzilla. The problem with having a public bug tracker is that you’re ... Lire la suite

Thoughts on Google App Engine

I’ve been playing with Google App Engine recently. It’s actually pretty cool, to the point that I’m almost ashamed to have ignored it when it was released. I kind of felt like it would be too restrictive with just Python, ... Lire la suite

Chromium extensions on Linux?

I just compiled a recent build of Chromium (unbranded Google Chrome) from here. I would love to start playing with extensions, so I tried stuff from there. Alas, it doesn’t work. Since a bunch of stuff is still missing from ... Lire la suite

OpenID to break the web 2.0?

Reading on Techcrunch that Facebook was going to let people log in with OpenID left me with a mixed feeling. On one hand, it’s a shame that most services claimed to support OpenID while only offering an ID, but not ... Lire la suite

Thank you, AMO!

The website addons.mozilla.org recently changed the rule for sandboxed addons: you no longer need to register and login to install one. That was a big issue because the review process is a bit heavy, and a lot of add-ons were ... Lire la suite

There’s a New Gang in Paris

Thanks to my friend Manish, my homies just moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Paris. Each one of them successfully passed all immigration checks at CDG airport, and they will soon be ruling the 17th ward. Homies from ... Lire la suite