Sylvain Wallez


Random musings of a busy geek

(3+3)*(3+3)+3...

...makes 39. Plenty of 3's as I'm entering today the last year of my 30's. Wow, 40 is soon now! So old already? I don't feel like I am :-)


Sails

Note to self, an others interested in Rails-like frameworks in Java: after the current crazy schedule period, have a deeper look at Sails. It seems to implement some of the late-night ideas I had recently. Also, the "Sails" name made me realize that if we replace the "R" in Rails ...


Growling build

Andrew explains how he uses Growl to monitor long checkouts. Here's an additional growlity that I use to track Cocoon's lengthy build process (I want a MacBook!): build.sh $* && growlnotify -m 'Build done' -t Cocoon || growlnotify -m 'Build failed !!' -p 2 -t Cocoon && exit 1 The "-p 2 ...


G... H... I...

Your G4 PowerBook is slooow compared to recent PC notebooks? Hurray! Apple just announced the new Intel-powered Macs!!!


A new Cocoon committer

A vote is underway to accept a new committer in the Cocoon project, Jean-Baptiste Quenot. This isn't the classical committer vote for me, as he is a coworker, and also the second french Cocoon committer. Jean-Baptiste started working on Cocoon in 2003 and I can't remember the number ...


ApacheCon is over

Yep. Already over. 5 intense days with the usual suspects which are always good to meet, and a lot of names that I can finally associate to a face. Among them, the most noticeable for me were Dims, which I was working with on Cocoon in 2000, J Aaron Farr ...


ApacheCon San Diego

I arrived late yesterday in San Diego for the ApacheCon. The trip was longer than expected, as the plane from Paris to Atlanta took of 2h30 late, and I missed the connection for San Diego. Also, I caught cold a few days ago, and that caused problems in balancing air ...


Cocoon 3.0...

I finally found some time to write down all the things I'd like to have (or not have anymore) in Cocoon, and Cocoon 3.0 is probably shaping up. Now should we still call it Cocoon? More than 3 years after Cocoon brought continuations-driven web applications to the world ...


Google Base: the rise of the semantic web?

Google Base introduces structured data to web search engines, which up to now mostly had raw text to base their search results on. A few days ago, I was chating with Bertrand about how GBase could be related to the search engine by adding a simple link to web pages ...


Welcome Thibault!

Stimulated by my blog's move, my good old friend Thibault Cantegrel starts blogging! I first met Thibault in 1995. I was working in the space industry at that time, and he was a student looking for an internship job to finish his MS in computer science. We worked together ...