Category Archives: misc

On March 18th, I received the following email: On 18 March 2012 16:26, Jen Rhee <thisisjenica@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Eric, I came across your site and wanted to share my infographic about Wikipedia and how it’s redefining the way we research. … Continue reading →

Week 2 of the Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book is about the Io Language. Day 3 is more specifically on how the flow of control (how messages are passed to an object or to its parent) can be hijacked … Continue reading →

I’d like to have many visitors. But compared to some blogs I follow, I still have work to do. Here are some information, according to Google Analytics. Compared to Claude Aubry, who writes in French about Scrum, I now reach … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

This August, as I was vacationing in Malta, I grabbed Guns, Germs & Steel at a bookstore in the airport. It is a fascinating book that explains how the European civilization basically ended up dominating the rest of the world. … Continue reading →

One thing that we teach in Agile courses is estimating. One technique is taken from Steve McConnell and called Count, Compute, and Judge. The idea is that, to make an estimate, you have 3 options. First, if you can Count, … Continue reading →

I’ve just learned that Telelogic, one of my former employers, is to be acquired by IBM. From 1998 till early 2000, I used to work for Verilog, a French software company (I was based in the Dallas office) that was … Continue reading →

I just tried: it works reasonably well, though a bit slow (as one could expect). More here.

The original briefcase-style bag that came with my laptop one year ago was finally so torn that I decided to buy me a new bag. My criteria were the following: it must be a backpack. I’m sick with having something … Continue reading →

I discovered only yesterday about Pandora (yes, I know, I’m late; it’s being talked about since 2005), a really neat website that is able to play songs similar to those you suggest. You suggest a song (or an artist); it … Continue reading →

A few month ago, free.fr, the second-largest ISP in France, stirred things a bit in the French server hosting arena when they introduced their debibox solution: a dedicated machine with unlimited bandwidth for 30 euros per month! Just a few … Continue reading →