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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Une réussite pour Cork’d

Il y quelques mois, j’ai lu un livre sur CSS nommé “Bulletproof Web Design” écrit par Dan Cederholm. Ce livre m’a fait découvrir une méthodologie pour mieux bâtir des sites webs respectant les standards XHTML /CSS. Ayant adoré le livre, j’ai décidé de faire une recherche sur l’auteur. J’ai alors découvert qu’il [...]

Finalement, me voilà dans l’univers du blog

Eh oui, je me lance dans le monde du blog moi aussi. À la base, j’ai l’intention de discuter de nouvelles du monde technologique ainsi que des nouveaux produits web que je juge intéressants.  Au plaisir de lire vos commentaires !!