mardi 11 juillet 2006

Quote of the day

Found in Firefox users decide fate, an article published by Thomas Crampton in the International Herald Tribune For a software company that is rapidly cutting into Microsoft's share of the Web browser market, Mozilla Corp. has a particularly unimpressive European headquarters. Firefox, Mozilla's  […]

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lundi 29 mai 2006

Worst tech products of all time: what do they have in common?

Asa recently mentionned a PC World article listing The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time. Some of these products are just terrible ideas or badly implemented good ideas (unreliable hardware, terrible User Interface...). But for some of the products listed, there may be a trend waiting to be  […]

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En vrac

Faire fonctionner les applications Ajax avec des lecteurs d'écran, parce qu'il ne faudrait pas que le progrès des applications Ajax se fasse aux dépends de l'accessibilité ; Chris Wilson, Monsieur IE chez Microsoft, s'étonne d'être moins méchant que prévu. Du coup, j'ai fait le même test, et le  […]

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vendredi 26 mai 2006

What if... French made Open Document Format mandatory?

Yes, this sounds amazing, but it be happening right now. Just like Massachusetts has decided that ODF was the format of choice for office documents, the French Document may just do the same. It's not yet written in stone, but it's already written in the RGI wiki, where the government is asking for  […]

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Working on Mozilla code... and getting paid for it

I'm amazed by the number of jobs available related to Mozilla technologies these days. More and more companies are looking for XUL developers or Ajax developers. Daniel is hiring in France, someone from London asked me for leads in hiring, so I redirected him to the Usenet mozilla.jobs newsgroup,  […]

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lundi 22 mai 2006

The fishing pole, Open-Source software and IT in emerging markets

Everyone one knows the famous adage: Give a Man a Fish and He Eats for a Day. Give a Man a Fishing Pole and He'll Eat for a Lifetime In French, we actually have a variant of it, where it's not about giving a fishing pole, but teaching how to fish (this may very well be a by-product of the French  […]

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mercredi 17 mai 2006

Attending X-Tech... without physically being there

So flying to Amsterdam, spending 3 days (or more) away from the office and forking $1200 prevented you to attend XTech? Cry no more, dear reader, as you can get most of it through your Web browser, just by visiting planetxtech.org. For example, you'll find: Paul Graham's keynote, 'How American are  […]

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vendredi 5 mai 2006

Everyone wants to 'own' your PC, writes Bruce Schneier

I've found a great article in Wired, written by security guru Bruce Schneier, Everyone wants to 'own' your PC. The reading is fascinating, as it goes through how various software companies try to control your computing experience. When technology serves its owners, it is liberating. When it is  […]

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