Posted by Damien Pollet
Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:39:56 GMT
Panic and TheCodingMonkeys just announced Coda and the Subetha engine.
We are proud that this kind of collaboration now crosses application borders to the benefit of all Coda and SubEthaEdit users.
Great. I just find it a little funny that the infrastructure of these collaborative tools is developed in a non-collaborative way…
Thankfully we have Gobby, an open-source equivalent to Subetha that has been crossing platform and even implementation borders for some time now.
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Posted by Damien Pollet
Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:12:00 GMT
Today I sent my applications for assistant professor positions in the french academic system. Well, that was fun.
Rant and photos after the jump.
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Posted by Damien Pollet
Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:31:38 GMT
Nice post on the usefulness of jargon (via Martin Fowler). At work we recently had this dicussion with Kris Gybels, who is invited at our lab this month, and works on aspect-oriented programming using logic meta programming. Stef and I always confuse joinpoints and pointcuts.
Maybe that’s because both contain point, or because cut uses the mathematical sense and I hated math jargon since my first year in university – group? ring? Laplacian? I especially like that last one because besides at least it indicates who invented it, which is a really useful indication, isn’t it?
Maybe pointcut should remind us that aspects crosscut? But to non-native english speakers this is not so far of cutpoint, and to me weaving an aspect is more like joining things than cutting them…
For the record:
- joinpoints are specific places in the program execution at which aspects could be weaved, and
- pointcuts are sets of joinpoints that define where a piece of aspect code will be actually weaved. I’d map joinpattern more easily to this concept.
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Posted by Damien Pollet
Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:56:41 GMT
There has been cool stuff with fonts recently: the free fonts manifesto, Vitaly’s list of good free fonts, some updated instructions on how to install fonts for LaTeX…
Soooo yes, I admit it, I’ve been playing again with fonts under LaTeX… well okay, that was more like frustrating myself with baroque software and misleading documentation—I must have something like a Marvin in place of a standard subconscious… (who said Bender? I heard you!)—but hey, in the end it worked, so let’s call that play, huh? :-)
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Posted in Graphics | Tags font, latex, opentype, praise, rant | 4 comments
Posted by Damien Pollet
Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:04:14 GMT
…going back home from the railway station when the city is too cheap to have public transports on sunday night and a rain draining system good enough to handle a 1h summer storm.
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Posted by Damien Pollet
Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:33:00 GMT
Gorm 1.0, the GNUstep interface builder equivalent, was released recently. The release was announced on LinuxFR (in french), but of all the articles that were submitted to Slashdot the one that got finally published was the one sent as a joke:
<aurynn> I -know- this will be rejected
<aurynn> Today marks the occasion of the release of Gorm 1.0,
the Interface Builder for the GNUstep project, and with its release,
comes the obsolesence of the GNOME and KDE projects.
And a few hours later…
<aurynn> HOLY FUCK!
<aurynn> I got posted to slashdot!
<Stiivi> aurynn: it was you?? :)
* aurynn just woke up
<aurynn> Stiivi, that was me
* aurynn dances
Indeed, that was a good laugh ;-) But a sad way to go, Slashdot. And since the editors didn’t bother adding them from the other submissions, most of the interesting links have been posted by developers in the comments, among the stupid literal responses to a really fun article… For instance, GNUstep can indeed be visually pleasing, and there are videos demonstrating Gorm too…
Update: wow, is this real? onetwo pertinent comments? Impressive ;-)
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Posted by Damien Pollet
Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:22:00 GMT
Every once in a while, someone pops in a mailing-list with a pertinent, constructive, and well-written HTML mail. Since HTML mails are the ultimate affront to netiquette integrists who can’t read it in their poor text-mode client, the guy gets a rude “please post this again in plain text” reply.
While in this precise case the reply was not that rude, the first mail was really constructive, and even if the author obviously didn’t know about the usages, he had clearly structured his mail using blue text for citations. He even reposted his mail with “<< ” markers beginning each citation paragraph, which was perfectly readable even if mail clients usually prefer “> ” beginning each line, which is perhaps even a stupider convention…
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Posted by Damien Pollet
Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:52:00 GMT
Seriously, “intel inside” stickers? on Macs? Now that would suck!
I guess I’ll have to get a PS3 then. Oh well…
update nov. 2006 hehe, I’m happily working on a 2GHz Core Duo MacBook since last june…
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Posted by Damien Pollet
Sun, 08 May 2005 14:51:00 GMT
High Tone played a damn powerful set last night at the 38th Rock'n Solex festival, transmutating the electronic dub from their albums into raveparty-esque beats!
Too bad we nearly had to fight our way into the concert... hopefully next year's organisation team will remember that only one entry for 4000 people is not enough. For their defense, that was the first time the festival was so big, and the concerts were a big success.
Oh, and the festival is primarily about Solex competitions :-)
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