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Important Concepts and a More Personal Approach to the Ipad
Well, given my new commitment to blogging and the just announced iPad from Apple, I guess it’s hard for me not to post something about it.
Problems are: where to begin and pretty much everything and more has already been said.
I was going for the Random thought about blablabla… until John Gruber posted his Various and [...]
How Dropbox Changed My Life
How DropBox Changed My Life
Yes. Again. I had a life changing experience.
OK, little clarification needed here.
By reading some of the latest posts titles, one might think I have a rather small life.
In fact, it’s the opposite. I just have many lives. Many many.
The main one evolves around my wife and my son.
Then there is [...]
Ruby On Rails – The Ecosystem
There’s a catch !
(One could argue that there’s always a catch, but still).
When you begin learning Ruby on Rails, you quickly realize that it’s not going to be that simple.
Several reasons.
The first one is so obvious that it’s in the name of the technology : there are 2 things to learn. Rails, of course, but [...]
3.times do |r| learn r end
Two times I have tried, already.
PHP is a very comfy scripting language. Forgiving, pretty straightforward.
I learned it in a few months, at least enough for what I needed.
Then, two and a half years ago, I began looking for a new web development environment.
I boiled the choice down to two.
On one hand, there was Flash and [...]
Project52 – Bring It On
A few days before Christmas, on one of those very rare evening I decide I will spend browsing/reading/maybe-writing-a-little, I joined Project52 (yup, #262, that’s me!).
Project52 is dead simple : by entering your blog’s address, you make the pledge to write one post a week, for 52 weeks in a row (yes, that’s a whole year).
So, [...]
How Sonos Changed My Life
Those of you who know me also know that I’m fond of music.
Really fond. Can’t-live-without-it fond.
This pretty much means that I need music everywhere all the time.
Walkman, then DiscMan, then MiniDisc, then iPod solved the problem when far from home.
But Home has always been a problem.
I need to easily have access to any one of [...]
Flip! Flip! Flip!
I could make a t-shirt with that :
A few months ago, I was raving for the soon-to-be-released Sony and Sanyo tiny/HD/pricy camcorders…
and all I got was a Flip…
It’s low res, it has no function at all but it changed my D-life.
Better than the One Ring: you don’t need 8 phrases to describe it :
On button [...]
Fighting moral crisis
Speaking of starting 2009 the good way,
here is a really good post from my friend @quidamned.
Here for the French Version,
and here for the google translated version.
Now, back to work !
PHP to XML to inDesign. How my two hemispheres ran into each other.
Next month is the first bday of my son.
A year ago, for the occasion, I set up some kind of blog so our closest friends and family could share some thoughts before the delivery, and we always said we’d publish a book for his 1st bday, with the content of the site.
Comes in the timing [...]
Why I like Twitter (among other things)
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A Matter Of Taste
A few weeks ago, I went to Fat Freddy’s Drop show, in Paris Le Zenith.
I just looove this band. My favorites artists right now. (And those who know me, know what it means…)
They have a few albums produced, and are preparing the next one.
They do great live performances too, 10 or more people on the [...]
Culinairement Vôtre Goes Live
This one is more for Paris based readers.
A friend of mine launched his web site, and doing that, his company also : culinairement-votre.fr.
Being a cook, he offer his services to cook for you, or to teach you how to cook.
He’s not the first, nor the last, but he might be one of the best…
Regarding the [...]
Gmail Dresses Up
A small buzz is running along the web.
Google introduced themes to its already wonderful Gmail.
Just go under the Themes tab, in the settings panel, and choose.
As usual, they worked well. 31 themes, you’ll probably find your.
They are pretty neat, and cover the whole app.
The geeky Terminal Theme, if not really easy to the eyes, will [...]
MS Photosynth, very cool indeed !
Most of my 2 readers know that: I’m a Mac Fan Boy…
We could put it another way: I’m usually not impressed with what comes out of Microsoft.
But once in a while, let’s face it, they have some pretty cool stuff.
Surface is cool, for instance.
But this time it’s more than cool. This time, it’s mega-cool.
This time it’s [...]
Hello World
Writng my first post from WordPress iPhone app.
The internet has evolved once more.
20 years doing something doesn’t make you an expert…
A few days ago, Macworld posted an article about the User Interface Design of a forthcoming third party iPhone App. Mighty Gruber posted it on Flickr, and the comments went wild.
Let’s say it, I think the design is pretty bad. Let’s say something else : some comments on the Flickr thread are plain wrong (a few are [...]
I lost… Fair & Square
This is one of these moments…
A bitter taste and a hard time getting through.
I was just beaten, Fair & Square, on the finish line, building a small web app.
Here is how it started.
Like many I was first confused when I heard about Twitter, a few months ago.
Some kind of broadcasted one-way IM, 140 characters limited.
I didn’t [...]
A FAILing industry
There are many kinds of FAIL. Some might even be quite funny (when you’re not the one failing, of course).
But there is one fail that bothers me right now, a whole industry failing: the Home Entertainment Industry.
I’m fond of US fictions, TV or movies. But I live in France. So from Day 1, I bought [...]
New Wordpress Is Great
The previous post was the first since Wordpress 2.5 upgrade.
It’s really cool. The work on the admin part is huge.
I particularly love the shift-return to make a new <p />, the embedded tag management, and all the DHTML nifty effects.
Cool !
We Want PHP!
Google App Engine will be big.
Lots of people are talking about it. There was this thing about HuddleChat, the rip-off of 37’s CampFire…
But beyond all that, it doesn’t take much foresight to guess it’s gonna be big.
They said it at launch, it will be language independant, but for now it’s Python only.
Here is a petition to make it [...]