It’s been nearly a week now that we came back from our 2 weeks trip to the U.S. This has been very nice, except maybe the plane being delayed for 2 to 3 hours in both directions, and one rainy day. Although a bit of rain can be ...
An ex-colleague of mine is looking for a Java developer either in London or California. This is for U-Myx, something inbetween GarageBand and the MOD/S3M/XM music files that were popular before the advent of MP3. If you're interested, check out the job description. Note that I have ...
On wednesday, me and my family will be flying to the US for 2 weeks on the East Coast. We will start with 3 days in Washington DC, then one week in New York City, and finally 3 days in Boston. If you are around and want to share a ...
Fun times at Goojet in Toulouse yesterday: we made a lipdub with the summer song that constantly plays on the french radio this summer!
As many people, I was annoyed by the scaling issues of Twitter (and especially loosing the IM integration), so I gave identi.ca a try. Russell Beattie did it as well, but also played with the opensource code that powers identi.ca, and found some very basic scalability issues. The ...
Yes, we are live! Goojet has been in private beta for a couple of months, and we are now open to everybody. This is still a beta, so some things are still rough on the edges, and we still have a lot to do (and lots of ideas). So what ...
Shai from LWUIT fame has a very interesting post on J2ME device fragmentation. I wholeheartedly agree with what he says: portability across devices was certainly an issue in the early days of J2ME and probably still is when developping demanding games. But for other applications and modern phones (i.e ...
There's a lot of noise in the J2ME world around LWUIT, a lightweight user interface toolkit built by Sun that aims at providing high level UI widgets on top of the very basic features of MIDP. Very nice, since everybody ends up rewriting their own toolkit. Now look at ...
A few days ago, I started receiving Google alerts about me (yes, I'm following what's said about me on the web) that were linking to search results pages on my own blog, with strange query terms such as "steve" or "near", "idea" or "known". Why would such searches ...
It's been nearly one month since I started full speed at Goojet, and I already learned a lot on the mobile web and J2ME. One of the key issues in the mobile web is latency: connections are long to establish, and data transfer rates are low. Not everybody has ...