Sylvain Wallez

Our company is attracting more and more smart developers in the Toulouse area. Look at what wrote Benjamin, a new recruit at Anyware Technologies.

Wow, I hope we'll be up to his comparison ;-)

More and more people are asking us for a job, having heard of us by word of mouth, and this certainly a good sign of the company's health!

The new french-speaking mailing-list for Cocoon users has just gone live.

More info (in french) in the new fr-zone of the Cocoon website.

I nearly forgot about it as I was so excited by all the discussions I had at ObjectWebCon: I'm 38 since yesterday.

Only 2 years to go before 40... Ouch!

I'm at the ObjectWebCon '05 today and tomorrow. This conference takes place in Lyon, which is way closer for me than ApacheCon in Las Vegas!

A lot of interesting sessions are planned, and a lot of interesting people to meet. There will be a BOF on ASF/ObjectWeb relationships this evening, with Brian Behlendorf as a special guest star.

Presentations are held in english, even if most of the attendees are french. It shows how usually bad we are, we french people, at speaking english. Horrible accent, which fortunaltely I have no problem to understand ;-)

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That one made me ROTFL!!

Via Erik.

Take a look a the new Mac mini. It is cool. Definitely cool. And cheap. $500.

A computer that everybody can use. No complicated installation. No viruses. No nasty security holes.

A computer you can put everywhere in you want: living room, room, office, etc. A computer you can move everywere.

Certainly a big hit. Well done, Apple!

There's also the new iPod shuffle, but that one would really have been cool with a small LCD display.

Bonne année à tous! A happy new year to all of you!

This traditional sentence seems a bit cynical when thousands of people have died in Asia and millions are homeless. But well, the show must go on and we should be optimistic and help them be happy again.

On the picture, musicians and singers of the Opéra Bastille in Paris also wish you a happy new year. We went there today to listen to the new year's concert, which was Beethoven's 9th symphony, that ends with the Hymn to Joy.

I wish you the best for 2005 to you all, known and unknown readers, along with your families!

Dear Lazyweb, I've been searching for several hours with no success how to remove the grey zebra stripes that were added to Thunderbird for MacOSX since RC1 (see screenshot).

They don't look fine on LCD screens, where darkness of shades of grey highly depend on the screen tilt angle.

I tried adding this to my userChrome.css with no success:

treechildren::-moz-tree-row(odd) {
 background-color: #fff !important;
}

Any hint, anyone?

An O'Reilly blog mentions some cool new features in Struts 1.2 among which "wildcard mappings".

Woah, I'm so impressed... Yawn... looks like a poor-man's Cocoon sitemap. There was already struts-flow that brought Cocoon's flowscript to Struts, and now wildcard matching (which, let's recall it, is just the default matcher in Cocoon).

People, why don't you directly use Cocoon, rather than waiting for Struts to copy some of its basic features?

I just found Bwana, a very small utility to view Unix man pages, that once copied on your disk provides a very powerful man pages viewer in a totally invisible fashion: it handles a new "man:" URL scheme that opens a colored and hyper-linked version of the man page in your favourite browser.

So useful and so unintrusive... Typically Mac!

Via MacOSXhints.