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sometimes...

shit happens!

Testing BlogIt

If you have a Facebook account, you may want to checkout BlogIt which allows you to update different blogs or sites from within Facebook. It's Hot.

(This has been posted from BlogIt actually)

On Vox: Renaming suggestion

Yeah, I know "Screen" (aka "Gnu Screen") was probably invented before web search engines were imagined, but please rename the product, anything but such a common name, because when you google for it, you don't find anything relevant.

Originally posted on yann.vox.com

On Vox: Impressions sur l'iPhone

Un petit post en Francais de temps en temps cela ne fait pas de mal, et ca tombe bien certains m'ont demande mes impressions sur l'iPhone! Et oui il semblerait que la date de l'arrivee de la fameuse machine en France reste tout ce qu'il y a de plus imprecis, et les interesses se languissent de savoir ce qu'il en est. Oh, je ne pretends pas en faire une revue exhaustive, juste quelques impressions en passant.

• l'iPhone est locke. C'est la grande guerre cela n'a echappe a personne, et j'espere qu'Apple perdra cette bataille car c'est une mauvaise guerre. Personnellement cela ne me gene pour l'instant pas tant que cela etant donne que je n'ai pas eu trop le temps de faire joujou avec, je l'utillise juste comme un telephone. L'installation de certaines applications tierces peut a terme etre interessante
  
• l'iPhone est plus ou moins fragile: Tres resistante au scratchs la vitre est donc tres dure et peu se briser.
• L'interface est intuitive avec quelques defaults (a mon gout) qui j'espere seront corriges (Exemple le bouton "play" dans la boite vocale visuelle) n'est pas bien identifie
  
• J'aimerais avoir un reglage du son directement sur les ecouteurs (en plus du click et du double click qui permettent de passer les chansons ou de raccrocher en communication)
• L'interface du telephone est tout simplement claire et intuitive - exactement ce qu'il faut quand on est occupe au telephone donc distrait
• Je me surprends pas mal a regarder quelques videos sur youtube a certains moments perdus... c'est tellement facile!
• Le web est lent, je l'utilise juste quand je ne peux pas faire autrement :) J'aimerais des applications dediees (twitter, blogging, newsreader)
• Je n'utilise pas le mail (je m'en fous un peu)
• J'aime bien l'interface multitouch. Je voudrais un auto-finder dans le carnet d'adresse quand meme (comme mon blackberry)
  
• Je voudrais une messagerie d'instantanée (AdiumX please!)
• Je veux des applications fun entre iPhone sur le reseau locale (40% de mes collegues au bureau en possede) donc les tables de reunion sont parfois remplies d'iPhone :)
• Je veux un jumelage bluetooth! et une synchro par bluetooth aussi
• Cela m'horripile que le reveil ne marche pas quand le telphone est eteint (tous mes autres telephones faisaient ca tres bien)
• Je veux utiliser l'iPhone comme telecommande universelle, ou comme interface Synergy, ou comme interface VLC
• J'aimerais un "eWallet" meme si 1passwd semble prometteur
• La qualite photo est plus que correcte meme s'il ne faut pas trop en demander
• J'adore assigner des photos a mes contacts, ca se retrouve dans toutes mes applications sur mon mac apres. cool :)
  

Les raisons de mon achat:

• Caroline et moi etions coince avec une qualite terrible sur t-mobile, on a decide de passer sur AT&T et a ce moment la, la question de l'iPhone se posait.
• Je voulais un telephone qui marche. Mon Blackberry Pearl etait incapable de m'afficher le "caller id" (nom de l'appelant), et etait franchement parfois trop complique ou posait de vrais problemes d'accessibilite dans l'interface.
  
• C'est un bel appareil qui n'a pas laisse un grand geek insensible.
  
• Le prix venait de chuter (- $200)
• Enfin un telephone qui synchronise parfaitement (ou presque) et simplement avec mon mac. Ce qui etait impossible a realiser avec mon blackberry. Je n'ai enfin plus qu'un carnet d'adresse.
• J'upgraderais quand la version 2 avec 3G + video + GPS sera sortie :)

un iPhone 8Go c'est 305 euros avec le cours actuel du dollars...

Originally posted on yann.vox.com

Long time no talk

It's because I'm actually very busy at work, and because, I mainly blog on vox...

And this post is acutally just a test for my current project @work ;)

hello from the iPhone

this is really a very good job!!

On Vox: Perl Survey

Perl Survey

http://perlsurvey.org/

The Perl Survey is attempting to take a snapshot of the Perl world as it currently stands. Whether you're a web developer, sysadmin, or using Perl for scientific research or finance or just tracking your DVD collection, we'd love to hear about it.

<= Take the survey!

Originally posted on yann.vox.com

On Vox: Firefox restart

After while, firefox on my mac starts to slow down, ok I usually have a lot of tabs opened, and I use heavy extensions like firebug, greasemonkey or NoScript...

Over time I've found that the best solution I have is to just force-quit firefox, aka:

killall -9 firefox-bin

The crash manager of firefox usually allows me to restore my previous session with all that valuable tabs saved. But not always, like two minutes ago :(

Originally posted on yann.vox.com

On Vox: Vim + Ack (App::Ack)

If one of this name doesn't sound vaguely familiar to you, you can safely skip this post -- Thank you.

If you don't know App::Ack, check it out from CPAN (it's one of the tool I cannot code without).

If you are a vim user, Antoine, did a nifty ingration of both, which let you run ack from vim, and integrates the results in a buffer, then :cnext is your friend.

Originally posted on yann.vox.com

On Vox: Yelp rox

For the last two years, Yelp had been of invaluable, er. help, when it came to find information about local services and business during my visits to San Francisco.

I was dreaming of having something similar in Paris just for restaurants (heavily using google maps and Metro station network), but I left Paris :D

Anyhow, Yelp just got it right. Kudos.

 

In France, justeacote launched not so long ago to do something similar, let's see how it goes a bit later.

Originally posted on yann.vox.com

MySpace + Jobs

MySpace is opening a new Job "Space", it's a partnership with SimplyHired that I love for its simplicity and speed. I'm curious to know what's the conversion rate? How many people are "Simply Hired" by looking at My Space Jobs?

There's also a partnership with another Jobs: Steve. You can win an iPhone by posting a resume

MYSPACE JOBS/SIMPLY HIRED CONTEST OFFICIAL RULES
1. We hate all the fine print, but our lawyers made us do it. Ugh.
2. No purchase necessary (even if you are buying what we are selling).

ahah, they haven't lost their sense of humour at least. The new iPhone is so appealing that I guess a lot of people will be posting resumes, very few of them will take the time to check that only one iPhone can be won (which is not very much considering the power of MySpace).

Flock test

Blogging from the browser is the future

OMG linkedin support connection removal

That's a feature ! ;)

Long time no write

Because of Vox I have not touched my TypePad account for a while. But somehow, I'll be working more closely with TypePad from now and then, which is terribly exciting :)

But because of the type of blogger I am, it's more likely I'll blog more often on Vox than on TypePad... This blog will help me test a few things though.

TypePad are two very different and exciting products.

Speaking of Social Text...

Social Text goes OpenSource !

Perl, wiki, socialtext

Tim Bray On Ruby

tim is praising ruby.

I haven't written a single line in ruby yet, shame on me (I read a few articles though)

Perl, ruby

JotSpot wiki

I've played for 10minutes with jotspot free wiki (sorry I wasn't able to find the &#8220;public permission&#8221; it looks like you cannot share with unregistered users). It looks nice, some features look really interesting like: form versionning. Some look scarry, like editing admin pages (I had a javascript in a textarea, ready to be changed !)

A lot of AJAX goodness, but It feels a tad slow --&#160; perhaps it's the recent buzz generated by Jawodny and techcrunch ?

Anyhow, don't miss SocialText which is very nice.

ajax, internet, jot, jotspot, wiki

J'ai commandé ma dédibox

J'en avais parlé au moment de la sortie de ce service d'hébergement dédié pas cher (broker taille unique). C'est commandé ! J'ai cru comprendre que je serais livré en une heure, mais je pense que le match de foot retarde les livraisons.

Qui vivra verra.

plus d'info sur dedibox

dedibox, hosting, linux

Gandi recrute un “Jedi” en Perl

Je ne suis pas sûr de la définition exacte du mot “Jedi” dans ce contexte, mais l'information peut être utile à certains!

L'offre en question.

Question du jour: Utilisez vous la Force quand vous codez ?

paris, Perl

google ambient joke ?

uses a home computer’s internal microphone to listen to the ambient audio in a room, determine what is being watched on TV and offer web-based supplemental information, services and shopping contextual to each program being watched

I can't really believe it, and I can't stop thinking about funny situations and jokes about usage of this kind of “software”.

I would certainly not use such a thing

google