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Gilles Grousset in Hack Like a Pirate

Jan 20, 2011

Ghost4J: Ghostscript brought to Java

Ghost4J is an open source Java library I’ve been working on for sometime now: it’s a JNA wrapper on the Ghostscript C API.

I got the idea of writing this library at the end of 2008 after reading an article about the JNA library (Java Native…

Gilles Grousset in Hack Like a Pirate

Jul 25, 2011

My new adventure: Whazzer

As I love challenges and code I decided with 3 friends of mine to start a new adventure: Whazzer.

Gilles Grousset in Hack Like a Pirate

Aug 30, 2011

iOS: working with remote services

When you design an iOS App it is most of the time a ‘connected’ App that interacts with a server to retrieve or post data.

However, there is no built-in way to enable remote communication in the iOS SDK, and everything has to be handled ‘by…

Gilles Grousset in Hack Like a Pirate

Jan 17, 2011

Do You know BuStopZ??

… The answer is probably no. BuStopZ is an iPhone application I work on as a hobby. It’s not an App Store blockbuster, and is only available in some countries. But yet, I think it can be useful to many people…

Gilles Grousset in Hack Like a Pirate

Feb 4, 2011

Chronicles of a garage App

Here is a post where I am about to tell you the story of the launch of my “garage App”: BuStopZ.

BuStopZ is an App I did during my free time: I made everything myself from the code to the graphics. It is probably not perfect but I had a lot of fun doing it!