Recently, our ‘AI Robotics Programming’ Team has delivered a proof-of-concept robot used to explore and map unknown industrial and residential spaces while identifying floor types. The robot (with the exception of its Roomba chassis) is fully built from open-source (OS) hardware and software components. The result is an elegant blend of genetic algorithms and neural […]
Web Development Getting Started with Server-Side Rendering in Angular By Kévin Barralon This week we released a tutorial for developers using the Angular JavaScript framework to set them up with a pre-configured server-side rendering environment. This environment allows for the pre-rendering of an Angular site so that its contents can be made visible to robots […]
Design What Is Design System? By Patrick Bracquart For several years now, the complexity of the websites and applications has pushed us towards rethinking the concept of design, as well as the methodologies we use in the design process. This rethink is pushed by an ever-expanding field of necessary skills and positions in design such […]
PyCon 2017 (Part 2!) Talk: “Double Click: Continue Building Better CLIs” Summarized by Kévin Barralon This PyCon Canada talk was a presentation of Click, a Python package that allows you to create CLIs (Command-Line Interfaces) with only a few lines of code. Click is simple and easy to use, in that the configuration of commands […]
Special Edition on PyConCa 2017 This week, we attended PyCon Canada which started on November 18 and lasted through 21. We are also proud and happy that we played a role in sponsoring this dynamic event. In this Special Edition of Press Review Inno, you find articles from our SFLers who actively participated in the […]
Mobility Generic Protocols and Type Erasure in Swift By Thibault Wittemberg With Swift, you can define protocols by associating one or more generic types. These types are defined using the “associatedtype” keyword. The name “Generic Type” is a bit misused here. We should actually talk about a placeholder for a reserved type. Indeed, we will see that […]
Ring keeps surprising communication experts and enthusiasts! Ring is now available on Android TV box and other smart TVs. Ring has become the only communication software available on the Google Play Store for Android TVs, since the discontinuation of support for the TV version of Skype in June 2016. This new release is quite different […]
Design Atomic Design By Patrick Bracquart Since the early days of the web, we talk about what goes into creating a Web “page”. This term shows how our vision of the web was informed since the 90s: it came from an architecture that was structured as a series of documents, like if they were printed […]
Web Development Node.js releases LTS of version 8.x By Jacob Cook The release schedule for Node.js provides for updates in long-term support (LTS) most every October, and this year will be no exception. Node.js offers developers a happy Halloween gift this year in transitioning its current version branch (8.x) to a stable LTS version. This means that […]