My good friends of the Eclipse team at Anyware Technologies have joined other expert companies to create the Eclipse Training Alliance. If you need Eclipse/RCP training from real practitioners involved in the community, check out the course schedule!
Useful tips and tricks to scale MySQL on large web applications. A must read!
I've been on vacation for one week already, in the family house in the Alps. Nice weather, and it really feels good doing almost nothing but hiking in the mountains! We're now starting the second phase of our vacation, a road trip through Alsace (Strasbourg) and south Germany ...
Last week was quite intense with the Joost 2nd company meeting, gathering something like 150 people! Lots of new faces, and also lots of face to face discussions with people working in other countries that I've had not met for a long time. Even with all modern communication tools ...
Many of the talks of the recent Google scalability conference that was held on June 22th are now online: MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets (Google) Scaling Google for every user (Google) Lustre File System (Lustre) SCTP's Reliability and Fault Tolerance (University of British ...
As many people, I tried Second Life to understand what the buzz was all about. But I did not found interest in it, probably because I already have a lot to do in my first real life. Now if you ever went into Second Life, this video will make you ...
The Wicket project has graduated! What this means is that after 9 months spent in the incubator, Wicket is now a real Apache project, and you'll find it pretty soon at wicket.apache.org. 9 months... just what is needed for a baby, but is actually pretty short for ...
Andrew recently invited me to Dopplr, where I can see his travels, and of course where I can add my own planned trips. Now why would I want to add yet another web 2.0 site to the LinkedIn, Flickr, Dopplr, Frappr, Twitter, and all others (including this blog) where ...
Safari 3 will be availabe not only on the Mac as usual, but also on Windows! Browser wars again! Now how will Apple invite Windows users to use this new browser? Nothing announced, but I assume they'll use their massive iTunes user base as a their door to the ...
I bought last saturday my first DSLR camera: a Nikon D40x kit with two lenses (a 18-55mm and a stabilized 55-200mm zoom). Kit lenses generally aren't top quality, but I didn't wanted to spend a huge amount of money, and those ones have received pretty good reviews. I ...