QOTD - about dwarfs

Being considered the best speaker in a computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs. This is from Randy Pausc...

R.I.P. Randy Pausch

In French we say “the best often leave first”. I’m not teaching in schools anymore these days, but if I was I would watch the las...

GHOP Grand Prize Winners @google

Two weeks ago I was at Google headquarters to represent the ASF for the GHOP Awards Ceremony. Visiting the Googleplex was very interesting as an e...

Hey, El Reg - Microsoft is *not* becoming an ASF member!

Contrary to what The Register reports, Microsoft is not paying $100,000 annual membership to the Apache Software Foundation. ASF membership cannot ...

Welcome, Microsoft!

Microsoft just announced their platinum level sponsorship of the Apache Software Foundation. history.forward(), indeed!

Gmail superstars

From the very useful department: the Gmail superstars option augments the message starring feature with different colors and shapes. Very useful if...

Craviotto drums - wow

In my quest for a new snare drum last week in Silicon Valley, I ended up at Gelb Music, where Don suggested that I try his favorite one, the Cravio...

Simplynoise.com - at last, a honest website

Although many websites produce just white noise, simplynoise.com is the first one that’s totally honest about it - and lets you choose your f...

Email, email, tell me who’s a nice drum store

I’ll be staying in Sunnyvale next weekend after the GHOP awards ceremony, and as I need a new drumset it might be a good opportunity to shop ...

Oxford is a beautiful city

I’ve been too lazy to take pictures of my trip to Oxford earlier this week, but Steve has them - lovely.

Why I love unixish configs

I wrote this today while discussing configuration mechanisms with my colleagues. I love the unixish way of configurating things because the configs...

Beautiful words at Wordle

Wordle creates beautiful word clouds from text that you supply. Via Bruno Giussani who’s got more examples.

Talking at Jazoon, Zürich, next week

I’ll be talking as a co-speaker with David Nuescheler at Jazoon next thursday, on the revenge of the weblog in 15 minutes. The talk descripti...

code_swarm - open source like you’ve never seen it before

Michael Ogawa has created stunning videos showing animated commit activity for various open source projects. Watching one where you know something...

Swiss open source awards 2008

The nominations are open on the www.ossaward.ch site, in the following categories: swissness (a project), business (a company), pioneer (a person o...

280slides’s editor - best browser-based application I’ve seen so far

Check it out yourself - seems like these guys’ Objective J might help (just a bit) in creating rich browser-based applications. The editor re...

On the board

The members meeting of the Apache Software Foundation is over, and I’ve had the pleasant surprise of being elected as a member of the board. ...

Automating the generation of NOTICE files

ASF projects need to include the correct attributions for the dependencies that they redistribute, in NOTICE files (see the http example). Creating...

Fixing the output of mvn eclipse:eclipse for Sling

I tend to use Eclipse only for editing/navigating code and for remote debugging, leaving the heavy lifting of building and executing stuff to the o...

Give us today our daily social network invitation

I’ve been getting at least one, if not several invitations for new social networks every day lately. So, please don’t feel offended if ...

Google code search: now’s the time to cleanup your code

Codesearch looks like a very useful tool already, even if not everything is indexed as I write this - robots.txt need to be fixed here and there. S...

Speaking at “Meet the Communities” event in Luxembourg on June 12th

I’ll be speaking at the next Meet the Communities event on June 12th, on Working in and with the Apache Software Foundation. Looking forward ...

QOTD: Albert Einstein on the teaching power of examples

Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach (Albert Einstein). Sounds so obvious…you don’t teach babies to sp...

livescribe note-taking smart pen - wow!

I wasn’t impressed at first when looking at the livescribe smart pen hardware specs (although impressive, that’s in a way just another ...

Apache Sling wins prize at JAX innovation award

Last week, Apache Sling won the fifth prize at the JAX Innovation Award. Carsten, seen here playing happy Sling committers with Felix, writes about...

Summer of Code 2008 is on!

The list of accepted students was published yesterday, for Sling we’re happy to welcome Janandith who’s tasked with making Scala usable...

K and Z projects coming up…

In my lightning talk last week at ApacheCon, I presented the results of a scientific analysis to demonstrate that the ASF needs a project with a na...

Pre-ApacheCon meetups work for me!

I was at the JCR meetup last Tuesday before ApacheCon, and we had a good time! Many thanks to the organizers (that’s mainly Arjé) and sponsor...

Me, a Maven fan?

$ history | awk {'print $2'} | sort | uniq -c | sort -k1 -rn | head 975 cd 755 mvn 623 svn 467 ls 320 find 236 less ...

Open Source Collaboration Tools are Good For You! (really)

Really? Well my talk at ApacheCon is done and went well, so that’s real at least. Someone commented that it was good and depressing at the s...

Free ApacheCon live video

I arrived in Amsterdam this morning, and already met quite a few friends and colleagues, looks like the start of a very social week. If you aren...

Are you using an ebook reader?

A journalist called me regarding a post on my french-speaking blog about getting an eBook reader for christmas. I guess Santa is not reading my bl...

Who’s who at ApacheCon (that’s next week)

The ApacheCon’s Crowdwine site allows you to find out which contributors to a given project are attending the conference (assuming they provi...

JCR community meetup, Amsterdam, April 8th

A JCR community meetup is being organized as a sidetrack of ApacheCon Europe 2008. If you’re intersted, see the wiki page for signup and top...

Google Summer of Code: accepting student applications now

See the timeline, now is the time for students to talk to us (mentors) and to prepare and submit applications. See the ASF’s list of ideas (w...

svn delete CVS ??

Geek trivia question: when do you need svn delete CVS? Answer: when (like me) you’re silly enough to commit CVS metadata directories to your ...

Automated tests == reference documentation

Someone was asking about ujax:redirect in Sling. We have no docs on that yet, but how about some (readable) automated test code? Using automated te...

Automated tests == reference documentation

Someone was asking about ujax:redirect in Sling. We have no docs on that yet, but how about some (readable) automated test code? Using automated te...

Google Summer of Code 2008!

Searching for info about past GSoC programs I stumbled on http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ - looks like the 2008 edition is starting already!

Suggestion to podcast interviewers: record both sides!

I’ve been listening to a few podcasts recently, which were obviously recorded using Skpye or another VoIP technology. Probably Skype, judging...

Bertrand’s (tentative) Rules for Maintainable Documentation

On second thought, I’ll post my (tentative) recommendations for creating maintainable docs here, excerpted from my post to sling-dev. These ...

Developer Usability

Reflecting on my activities in the last few months (especially around Sling and how we use it), I notice that Developer Usability is often my conce...

Sorry, planetapache readers

If you read this on planetapache.org, the post title most probably says “Bertrand”. This is due to the move of my blog to wordpress.com...

Untangled - at last

Although it’s old news already (well, two days old), I’m pleased to mention that Roy Fielding finally has a blog. Subscribed, of course.

Moved to wordpress.com

Content moved, redirects are in place, looks good. Please update you feeds, the new URL is http://grep.codeconsult.ch/feed.

About to move this blog…

I’m preparing to move this to a hosted wordpress blog - hosting your own sounded like fun a few years ago, but I have more fun things to do n...

No LIFT - but thanks nouvo for the video