Long time no see!
History
Let me present a brief history of dfolio’ website . I don’t remember exactly when I have created an account on the free.fr hosting service, but it must have been in the early 2000’s. This was when I’ve started to discover the Internet and some basics of the web development. But, it was around the 2004’s (during my PhD), that dfolio(at)free started to be designed (a bit) suitably. At this time, I liked well developing with PHP, but I didn’t like database management (up to now). Thus, I have focused on a website with a flat-file system. That’s when I discovered PmWiki.
2004 – 2008
I have performed some web development with PmWiki and PHP, mainly devoted for scientific diffusion. Hence, I have developed a PHP-based parser for BibTeX entitled ‘PhpBib’ (I still have it somewhere if someone need it). But today, with CSL and more advanced parsers my PHP’ BibTeX parser is obsolete. During this period, I have also investigate some security issues (i.e. cryptography). But, I have mainly studied web standards (HTML 4.0, xHTML, CSS, and so on), and have tried to have a compliant website.
However, let me notice that I am not a web designer nor a web developer. I am just interested in these topics… as an ‘hobby’. So all development and design are made when I have time.
2008 – 2018
Nothing happened! I didn’t update, neither posted anything on dfolio(at)free. Why? Basically, because I had managed my personal website with my Institute’ hosting (former http://perso.ensi-bourge.fr/dfolio/). But this service is down since autumn 2017. Thus, I came back to dfolio(at)free 😄 … but, as you see, mainly in English.
2018 – 2023
When I came back to dfolio(at)free (after 10 years), I learn that free.fr hosting service does not (really) allows flat-system database, and thus PmWiki :/ That is why I have looked for a new website management system (but I still dislike databases). Finally, I have discovered Jekyll that is for static website, from plain-text (aka markdown based). This has lead to a totally new dfolio(at)free website. For now the previous dfolio(at)free contents have been removed. But maybe, latter, I’d put back some of the previous contents. Come here again to see the evolution.
Since 2023
Jekyll is really quite impressive for a website development. But, most of my regular works relies on the use of Rmarkdown, and now Quarto. They both offer great features for developing website. So, since I don’t want to spend a lot of time on effective design or to manage multiple template/layout languages, I switched to Quarto. Actually, for most of my documents production (e.g. teaching materials, academic papers, presentations…), I first used Rmarkdown and now mostly Quarto (which is more versatile).
Secondly, from march 2023 dfolio(at)free will be moved to http://dfolio.fr domain.