Background Recently, I could finally setup an Amazon Alexa I won at a hackathon during GraphConnect San Francisco 2016. I’ve been very pleased by the experience except the “only-US”, “only-UK” features such as the mobile application. While I could definitely find workarounds on the internet, my geek inner me thought it…

Cet article détaille le concept du Graph-Aided Search, une combinaison de deux technologies de pointe, respectivement Elasticsearch et Neo4j, permettant d’offrir un système de recherche ultra personnalisé. Une brève introduction de Neo4j et Elasticsearch est l’introduction de cet article. Neo4j et moteurs de recommendation Ces dernières années, la popularité de Neo4j a augmenté de façon…

NeoClient is a PHP wrapper for the Neo4j ReST API. It was built from the beginning with multi databases support and flexibilty in mind. While, during the development of the 1.3 branch, I was adding support for the authentication extension from Michaël Hunger Meister and for the ChangeFeed extension from…

Think bundles and use the Components ! TLDR; In the Symfony full-stack framework, bundles are meaned to wrap php libraries inside the framework. This blog post is focused for people starting building new php libraries or intend to create new bundles. There is no bundle for that ! You have heard so many times there is a bundle for this, there is a bundle…

On July 22, Github announced the 3rd Annual Github Data Challenge presenting multiple sources of data available. This sounded to me a good opportunity to use their available data and import it in Neo4j in order to have a lot of fun at analyzing the data that fits naturally in…

While experimenting automated deployment with Capistrano3, I needed to upload a parameters.yml file specific for the stage. As the file is listed in the “linked_files” property of your deploy configuration, he should exist before symlinking happens. You can achieve this by creating a rake task that will upload your file and call this task before the symlink action. Let’s say your parameters.yml file is located in app/config/parameters/parameters_staging.yml and is, of course, not commited to git.