Archive for August, 2008

PhD defense slides

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

I’ve just set up an account on Slideshare and uploaded an export of my PhD defense slides:

PhD Defense
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

Another great service if you don’t mind having some data in the “cloud” :-)

Dropbox: I like it

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Dropbox

I’ve been using Dropbox for a few months and I must admit that it is a really great and useful service.

Dropbox provides you with a 2Gb space for storing and synchronizing files across several computers (e.g., work and home). It works in a seamless fashion:

  • install a Windows / MacOS X client (a Linux version is apparently in the works, and there is still a web interface)
  • put some files in the Dropbox folder
  • …and voila, they are automatically synchronized.

Dropbox also supports a notion of shared folders so that you can easily exchange some stuff with friends. You can also have public folders and give the URL of a file there to the world.

Last but not least, it works well across firewalls (I can speak of that as I’ve been through some very picky ones). I don’t know if they are using a WebDAV protocol or a custom one… did anyone sniff the network traffic?

It is currently an invitation-only service (thanks Guillaume!), so leave me an email if you want to try out, I have a few invitations left!

BerllOS offers Git and Mercurial hosting

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

I went back to check out the pages of BerliOS which was the previous IzPack developer services hosting provider.

While most of the infrastructure is still based on the aging Sourceforge codebase, I was pleased to see that the administrators are no short of service improvements. Indeed, BerliOS is now providing Git and Mercurial hosting. Cool!

In da mix, one more time

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

One more mix, fresh from the bakery :-)

I’d be interested to know how many of you are actually downloading them?

Anyone interested in a Podcast? Just drop a comment!

In da (quiet) mix

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Here’s a rather quiet holiday mix that I made for fun. Enjoy!