Project Fondue

Project Fondue is a team of experienced web developers who are passionate about making the web a better place for all.

Team Fondue are:

• Stuart Colville

  

  Stuart is a web geek with a penchant for muffins and the finest coffees known to humanity.

  Stuart worked on some of the world's busiest sites as a Senior Engineer at Yahoo before joining Global Radio to build sites and tools with Python and Django.

  Stuart has a blog at Muffin Research Labs where he blogs on all aspects of web development as well as pimping Python and Bazaar to anyone who will listen.

  For Project Fondue, Stuart specializes in Python, JavaScript and Infrastructure.

  Photo credit: Mark Norman Francis

• Cyril Doussin

  

  Cyril is a traveling salesman web developer with experience working for large and small companies in France, Australia and the UK.

  After working and drinking way too much coffee at Yahoo! London, he's now consulting for Opera Software and lives in Paris.

  Cyril's coding adventures include all sorts of web technology, playing with many APIs, and extend to desktop and mobile software development. He very randomly writes a blog at cyril.doussin.name.

  Cyril specializes in manipulating data with Python for Project Fondue.

• Ed Eliot

  

  Ed, unsurprisingly, also likes coffee.

  As a developer at Yahoo!, Ed built the initial release of the current Yahoo! homepage in Europe. Later, whilst working as a Web Development Manager, he lead a team tasked with building a new frontend for Europe's leading shopping comparison site, Kelkoo.

  He now works at IPC Media, one of Europe's largest magazine publishers, as a technical team lead.

  At Project Fondue Ed focuses on security and performance and is our resident PHP guru.

Featured Projects

• CSS Sprite Generator

  This tool provides a quick and easy way to create CSS sprites. Using sprites can help to cut down HTTP requests which will improve the performance of your web sites.

  Project source code available on Launchpad.

  Visit Sprite Generator

• Favicon Generator

  Creating favicons can be a pain. Making sure they work cross browser, even more so. Upload any image to this tool and it'll generate a favicon with instructions for use on your web site.

  Feeling artistic? The built-in editor provides the facilities to draw one from scratch.

  Visit Favicon Generator

• Unix Permissions Calculator

  Remembering the syntax for the chmod command can be tricky. Whilst it's easy to remember the basics, do you know the difference between setgid, setuid and the sticky bit?

  The Unix Permissions Calculator provides a way to understand permissions more fully as well as provide a resource to point colleagues to when you want to explain the use of permissions in documentation.

  Visit Permissions Calculator

• Restructured Text API

  We love reStructuredText here at Project Fondue; so we've been experimenting with an reStructuredText API running on Google App Engine. This allows you to test converting your restructured text files to HTML or JSON - including linking conversion of RST docs directly.

  If you're new to restructured text take a gander at the reStructuredText docs

  Visit reStructuredText API

What we're writing about

• Muffin Research Labs

  1. Solved: VirtualBox Ubuntu Karmic Server VM crashes
  2. Howto: SSH into VirtualBox 3 Linux Guests
  3. 2009

• Cyril Doussin

  1. Project Fondue Favicon Generator launched
  2. Contract and a new adventure in France
  3. kthxbai Y!

• Ed Eliot

  1. Unix Permissions Calculator Released
  2. Favicon Generator & Editor Released
  3. Inbound Link Analyser - a tool for analysing links to your site

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