I have bought my flight ticket, my hotel room is booked and my conference fees are paid. I am ready for PyCon 2009.
I am really excited about it. It will be my first real development conference and an international one.
I will have the chance to meet or at least see Guido van Rossum, leaders and [...]
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Getting ready for PyCon 2009
Totally distributed
Some new software development models have appear recently. One of them is the distributed model. It can be used to structure a project in various ways, but the founding concept is that everyone owns a full working copy of the project and is not directly tied to a central authority.
In one of my previous post, [...]
Automation and you
Many new business software projects are about automating some repetitive and boring tasks. Instead of having a big spreadsheet in which we all enter our time log that we share by sending it by email to get some reports at the end of the month, we create a centralized client/server application where everyone can enter [...]
Getting closer to the universal machine
Not so long ago, there was this small internet news about a printer that could self-replicate. It is the RepRap. It did not fly high in the news list, but to me, it is an important achievement.
Why is this important? Because it is one of the small steps toward the universal machine: a machine that [...]
My canadian digital hero
My canadian digital hero is without a doubt Michael Geist. He is able to popularize important digital issues like net neutrality, privacy, and copyright. He is able to show what the government is doing wrong with his expertise in laws.
In this time where those important issues are being tackled by politicians, we need more of [...]
A call from the loyalty department
This is my unpleasant tale with Bell Canada. In case you do not know what is Bell in Canada, it is the biggest telecommunication company in the country. It owns many network links mostly in the easter part of Canada. It used to be a monopoly but now, I would describe it as a “minipoly”. [...]