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November 17, 2007

Valtech Days: Reflecting on our Open Space Technology event

Filed under: conferences, facilitation, openspace, valtech — Eric Lefevre @ 2:04 pm

I have participated at a few Open Space events, and facilitated some, but the crowd never exceeded 60. So I was a bit apprehensive, when it appeared that the Open Space Technology part at Valtech Days Paris 2007 would gather more than 150 participants. Here are some things we did and lessons we learned.

Illustration Open Space Technology

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November 15, 2007

Paris on Rails

Filed under: conferences, ruby — Eric Lefevre @ 7:06 pm

Paris on RailsI am going to attend the Paris on Rails conference on December 10th. This is a rare treat: there are no other Ruby-related conference in France to my knowledge. Exciting!

November 7, 2007

After all these years, internationalization is still not working well

Filed under: misc — Eric Lefevre @ 4:40 pm

With all the techniques that we have at our disposal, with all the education that developers got, still we see websites that handle internationalization poorly. I noticed the problem recently on a minor website, but even Flickr and/or Yahoo got it badly wrong.

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