Category Archives: Technology

Distributed Revision Control

I am always interested by software project management. I was surfing the web today for new ideas and ways to see how others are managing their projects. I was introduced to this new concept: distributed revision control.

I have been a Subversion and mostly a TortoiseSVN user for quite a while now. I like it. It [...]

Living on the bleeding edge

Are you one of those who lives on the bleeding edge? One who choose to use the beta build instead of the stable one to see those new features? One who install every updates the minute it become available?
I use to be part of that group but I got burned.

That is what you get for [...]

Rich applications on the web the open way

You might remember my article about the future of applications and the offline/online mixin that we are currently seeing. What I wrote was mainly about the proprietary side. There are many developments being worked on in the open field.
First of all, what is missing from the current browsers to transform them into rich application framework? [...]

The CAPTCHA revisited

There were many news regarding CAPTCHAs recently. If you have been reading my posts, you know that Yahoo, Microsoft and Google, the big 3, had their share of problems regarding broken CAPTCHA that are based on character recognition.
According to Websense Security Labs, the account creation form for Live Hotmail at Microsoft has been the target [...]

Staying in touch with the new trends

What is new in the computer world these days? That is a question I asked myself many times a day. In my case, the question is: what is new in the computer world these hours? The sad truth is that I am a news junkie.
On a daily basis, I read or fast-read about 10 to [...]

Creating life with DNA engineering

Can you imagine a world where we create life by taking the building blocks and putting them together just like you are building your Lego castle? Stop thinking, this is happening right now.
This is what the J. Craig Venter Institute is pretending. They did a presentation last February on TED about what they are doing [...]