The past 2 weeks I’ve paired with Theo Cushion (Theo’s Twitter | Theo’s GitHub).
Was planned some Erlang joy, a lot of system/server maintenance, good amount of Ruby and some JavaScript goodness.
Pair programming?
Pair programming is an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together at one work station. One types in code while the [...]
I’m just back from 10 days holidays in France. Catching up with family and friends was really good, but what I really enjoyed was my disconnection for all development/web platform during these 10 days.
It’s always a good way, at the end of the year, to do a little retrospective on his work/life and give the [...]
\o/ \o/ Tweetcetera is now live! After several development weeks, it’s finally out!.
What’s Tweetcetera …
Tweetcetera is meant to look similar to Twitter web interface, so that you don’t need to learn how to use a new website. But we have added some nice features, which we felt were missing from the original product.
You won’t find [...]
A happy week is coming.
Last week I was really busy. A lot of work in my day job, and a lot of work at home on the travelplanner.
I’m now really proud to annonce that Nathalie, my partner, will help me in the launch of the two projects.
What are these 2 projects?
The first one is [...]
If you’re planning to start a new project, from scratch, Jim Neath, from Fudge, had the good idea to create Bort, your application skeleton to start without pain.
What is Bort ?
Ruby on Rails popularity brings to it a lot of very good plugins. And it’s that, on 98 % case, when you [...]
After long hesitation, I finally took a place for the Rails Rumble 2008.
What’s the Rails Rumble :
Basically, you have 48 Hours long to build from scratch a deployable Ruby on Rails web application.
Every team will have a virtual seat. The rumble starts on October 18th 2008 at 00:00 GMT and stops on October 19Th 2008 [...]
Currently, in my team, we are looking for a new junior web developer.
Each time it is the same process.
1. Read the CV. 2. First call to see if the person will be ok FOR the role. 3. Second call with technical questions.
In these technical questions, one is : “Have your ever used a source [...]
Last Sunday I was working on my current personal project, when, during a tea break, I thought about “how to be productive on your personal projects”.
Problematic :
We all have a life (I hope for you), and we all need asocial life. But as a web developer, you also have some dreams and some personal “killer [...]
This will be the buzz of the day, announced on the Google Blog, Google is launching their Open Source web browser today, based on Webkit (as Safari).
As every Google products, the idea is to have a product with lots of innovations, but, we can assume a lot of interactions with the existing Google Apps, and [...]
I was preparing the future of this blog, and for that I need to have a sandbox ready for the development and the production.
I decided to give a test to Passenger (aka modRails) for the apache2 Ruby on Rails integration. It’s amazing how simple it is to have a Rails application working now …
What’s Passenger [...]