Catchy title, eh? No, no geek porn here! Lucas, who titled his blog "My Naked Truth", has been elected committer on Eclipse Modelling Project for his contribution of a search system for EMF models, using either XPath or regexp. Pretty cool! Congrats Lucas! PS: if you want to make Lucas ...
ApacheCon Europe 2007 is over, and it was kind of busy for me. Joost has opened the invitation gates last Thursday (no more limits) and people have rushed, overloading our backend. A stressful day (and night) was needed to fix it with Pier, Torsten and the team in Toulouse, and ...
For some time my freezer at home was behaving strangely. Going to alarm mode because of temperature rising, but then restarting normal freezing operations when setting super-freeze mode on the control panel. It was then working correctly for one or two days and then going to alarm mode again. Weird ...
Google has added GeoRSS support to Google Maps and Google Earh. Pretty cool! It's now insanely easy to build your curtom map. Take a look at the instant mashup Jeremy did with his latest pictures! What would be even cooler now is to have a digital camera with an ...
While looking at some JavaScript code from Joost's client software yesterday (you should all know by now that it's based on the Mozilla platform), I found some unusual statements which led me to discover the new features in JavaScript 1.7. It's actually not that new since ...
What is Web 2.0, and how we moved there from pen & paper in 15 years? Watch this brilliant video by Michael Welsh, assistant professor of cultural anthropology (wow!). Via Andrea
Hey Mac users! With the latest 0.8 beta, Joost is now available on your (and my) preferred platform! It is really similar to the Windows version because they share most of their code base, helped in that by the great Mozilla platform. The only differences are those little things ...
While browsing around, I incidentally found an article by Joel Spolsky where he introduces very simply and progressively the principles of the map-reduce pattern that underlies a big part of Google's infrastructure. A must read! We use map-reduce at Joost to process usage data (roughly equivalent to the log ...
Yes, today I'm leaving my 30's behind. What does it change to be 40? Feeling old? Not really, even if I sometimes play the old wise man with my younger colleagues. Age is in your mind, the body only knows the continuous flow of time and doesn't ...
One of the few cool features that as a Mac user I've been envying to Linux people is FUSE, aka filesystem in userspace. It allows to implement a new filesystem with a simple API in practically whatever language you want, and without requiring kernel privileges. FUSE has allowed the ...