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Drupal Camp Montreal 2009

Saturday, I’ve been at the Drupal Camp Montreal.  It was my first presence is that kind of event and it was nice.  Lots of geeks, nice meetings and interesting presentations.   I have attended to “Tips & Tricks for Building a Multilingual Website with Drupal” presented by Suzanne Kennedy.
The localization client is my first discovery.  It [...]

Next race: 10k at the Marathon de Montréal

Yes !  I’m back at running.  I’ve started to train last week.  I made my fourth run tonight with Martin.  It was his first run with a partner and I am trying to convince him to run a 10km during the Marathon Oasis de Montréal with me.  But still, my utlimate goal is a 21km [...]

Cygwin sharing Vim configuration with Windows

If you are stuck on a Windows machine and miss the Unix style, you probably have cygwin installed already. In my case, I also had Vim installed on Windows plus some configurations and plugins.  Well, if you want to use the text editor inside cygwin, you won’t have the configuration you made under Windows.
In [...]

Training started for Ottawa marathon

Since my commitment to run my first half-marathon, I am really motivated to achieve this first time race.  I’ll will publish here some post about my training advancement.  It will serve as a “journal de bord” …
I started to train my legs and my cardio.  Last year, I got injured  before the Montreal marathon, it [...]

Sent using Wordpress for iPhone

I just installed the latest Wordpress application for iPhone.  It could be useful for writing a post while I am in the bus. But, it takes some time to write a post using only one finger. Still, I like it.
Wordpress for iPhone / iPod

Still not using XHTML / CSS web standards ?

Last week, I presented my thoughts about XHTML / CSS.  My goal was to discuss about how I think we should build a web site, the structure, the appearance.  In fact, I have concerns about how developers are using HTML, inline styles and javascript.  So many developers don’t know about XHTML, javascript frameworks or even [...]

Getting ready for my first Half-Marathon

This is decided, I am starting my training for Ottawa’s 21k happening on May 24th.  So, this is my official commitment for the race.  I will be logging my workouts on mapmyrun and display them in the sidebar using their Google Gadget.  For now, it displays old workouts, it will soon be replaced with my [...]

Satchmo e-commerce platform

It has been a while since I tried to find an e-commerce platform which seems to be a real development platform, not only a tool to be configured with incomprehensible settings.  Satchmo seems to be what I am looking for and will be the next platform I’ll use for a web store.  It is built [...]

Django 1.0 planned to be released in early September

After a long wait, Django 1.0 is planned to be released September 2nd. As some of you knows the philosophy behind Django version management, a version 1.0 does not mean a first incomplete version. In fact, a lot of work has been done since few years.  The guys behind the framework decided that [...]

My current stack

Recently, I’ve been reading and discovering many technologies, but I stayed at the observation level. Having more spare time since few days, I decided to crunch into those technologies by reading the APIs, blogs, forums, reviews and listening to podcasts. Now, it\’s time to start test projects for this new stuff.
First, in the [...]