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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 [...]

This post has been publish with Google Docs

Since I switch all my mail hosting to Google, I started to use Google Docs. I just discovered that using Google Docs, we can write a post and publish it to our blog as easy as two clicks. Just write the post, click “Publish” and then “Post to blog”. I love it [...]

How to Make the Time for Your Personal Goals

I’ve just found the following post on Digg : “How to Make the Time for Your Personal Goals“. I am sure many people will recognize themself in that post. Here the proposed “steps” to augment the achievement chances of your personal goals.  In resume, know and understand why you want to achieve the [...]

Mefeedia, welcome in my life

Oh yeah, i know what you think … i am a bit late about discovering Mefeedia. Anyway, this discovery now helps me to fill my empty iPod Touch podcast playlist.
Mefeedia works by giving to every user a RSS feed, called a channel, where you received the new videos of the different others channels, shows, [...]

Hey! I forgot the milk !

Past few weeks, i was looking for an application where i could keep a categorized and easily updated list of tasks. Looking at what is most popular, i found RememberTheMilk. More, i could use it in iGoogle.
After testing it since a couple of weeks, i was feeling comfortable to use it to keep [...]

Montreal on Rails 3, another great event

Tuesday, i went to Montreal on Rails 3.  The presentations were nice and interesting.  I like this event, sure for the presentations, but also for the contacts and the discussions we have with all theses guys.   That time, I made contact with new people like David Fugère from Code Génome, Gary Haran and had a [...]

New blog appearance, new blog content

This weekend, i spent some time on rebuilding this blog. So there is the new skin / template which i think is cuter and easier to navigate in.
At the mean time, i made the decision to switch the language to English. My goal is to communicate in the same language of the community [...]

Mes irritants avec Visual Studio

Cet été, j’ai vécu mes deux premières expériences à travailler sur des projets utilisant les technologies .Net. J’ai rencontré plusieurs difficultés et frustrations que j’énumère ici.
Tout d’abord, il est important de mentionner que mon expérience est surtout en Java. Donc, naturellement, je pense en fonction des technologies / architectures / outils [...]

Mon buzz word de la première de Montreal on Rails, Simplicité !

Hier j’ai assisté à la première de Montreal on Rails. À mon avis, ce fût une première réussie. L’évènement a attiré une trentaine de personnes dont plusieurs expérimentant ou travaillant avec Rails régulièrement.
Tout d’abord, j’ai assisté à cette rencontre en cherchant à comprendre et découvrir le pourquoi de l’enthousiasme qu’on peut lire [...]

Installation/configuration d’un environnement de développement pour Django sur Windows

Voici les étapes que j’ai parcourues pour installer et configurer un environnement Django sur mon poste Windows. Comme IDE, je me sers de PyDev dans WTP (Eclipse). Je connais déjà bien Eclipse et PyDev est quasi-transparent à l’intérieur d’Eclipse en plus de permettre le débuguage. Au lieu d’installer MySQL indépendement, j’utilise WAMP [...]