Install Graphite in a virtualenv (python2.7) with Apache and StatsD (Debian...
I spend the last two days installing Graphite on our server at mapado. What we have: Linux server with Debian Squeeze Python 2.7 installed system-wide with python headers...
View ArticleCropy : How to crop an image keeping the richest content
Cropping an image with a script is not a big deal as there are many libraries available in every language, but some could lead to the following case : A few web searches about “failsafe crop” led us to...
View ArticleLogo design process
Designing a logo is the most engaging piece of graphic of a new product: it is supposed to say everything without telling everything. It is supposed to be (in our case) understandable anywhere in the...
View ArticleStartInLyon #3: we won!
Yesterday, and for the first time, Jerry presented Mapado to the public of StartInLyon. The concept is simple: 5 startups given 5 minutes of pitch and 5 minutes of Q&A. At the end of the pitches,...
View ArticleImage cropping with entropy and face detection
After testing cropping images using entropy, we now try to go deeper in Image crop automation. Those are nice feet One of our worst case scenarios emerged from pictures like that this one : If we only...
View ArticleFast and intelligent record search with Simstring, its PHP Extension and...
At Mapado, as you may know, we want to offer the possibility to search “things to do close to you”. And by close we mean culturally, and geographically too. About this second point, we did not find a...
View ArticleComposer command: difference between update or install ?
I love composer. It is really a great tool for managing dependencies. But as I work with some uninitiated people, they never know what to do : [crayon-529eb6e32cf4c929101100-i/] or...
View ArticleWeb page segmentation by visual clustering
Our job, at Mapado, is collecting all “things to do”, all around the planet. In order to get this huge amount of information, we crawl the web, like Google does, searching for content related to...
View ArticleA year of Scrum
Mapado is one year old ! One year with a 5 people team (6 now since a month), and one year with Scrum. Nobody had really used scrum or agile software development before that. Here is our feedback about...
View ArticleLa Fête des Lumières 2013 à Lyon, quelques chiffres et notre sélection de 10...
Une fois n’est pas coutume, un petit article en français En bons lyonnais que nous sommes, on est assez fans de la Fête des Lumières et de l’ambiance que ce festival crée dans la ville pendant 4 jours....
View ArticleTask specific logging in Celery
At Mapado, we use Celery, a python distributed task queue, to queue, distribute and execute all kinds of tasks. For example, in the case where you’d like to submit an activity to Mapado, which it...
View ArticleWhat’s the news?
Well, we’re not the best at keeping this blog up-to-date. We have a lot to do to make Mapado a great service and we focus on enhancing the product. Our sprints are intense and we like to keep them that...
View ArticleMultiple user type with Symfony FOSUserBundle
Today, I was confronted to a tricky problem: identify two different types of user, using the FOSUserBundle of Symfony. We have two kind of users: “standard” users, and “pro” users (consider them as...
View ArticleStage assistant Marketing / Communication (H/F) @ Mapado
Participez au lancement de l’activité B2B en France et à l’international dans une startup en assistant le business développeur. Et concevez des produits à destination des lieux culturels: théâtre,...
View ArticleStage assistant commercial (H/F) @ Mapado
Participez à la création de l’activité B2B dans une startup en assistant le responsable du développement commercial.Et partez à la rencontre des lieux culturels: théâtre, musées, salles de concerts,...
View ArticleCDI Développeur PHP expérimenté @ Mapado
Mapado est une startup dans le domaine de l’information de loisir à destination du grand public. Avec une approche très technologique du sujet (machine learning, extraction et manipulation de données),...
View ArticleCDI expert SEO avec compétence dev. PHP @ Mapado
Mapado édite le site www.mapado.com qui vise à proposer la plus grande base d’activité culturelle et de loisir partout dans le monde. Avec une approche très technologique du sujet (machine learning,...
View ArticleCDI Ingénieur Data et système de recommandation @ Mapado
Mapado édite le site www.mapado.com qui vise à proposer la plus grande base d’activité culturelle et de loisir partout dans le monde. Avec une approche très technologique du sujet (machine learning,...
View ArticleFast and intelligent record search with Simstring, its PHP Extension and...
At Mapado, as you may know, we want to offer the possibility to search “things to do close to you”. And by close we mean culturally, and geographically too. About this second point, we did not find a...
View ArticleComposer command: difference between update or install ?
I love composer. It is really a great tool for managing dependencies. But as I work with some uninitiated people, they never know what to do : [crayon-53b6564993c2a851492223-i/] or...
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