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27Dec/081

Happy new year!

Happy new year

(picture from Christopher Chan, under a CC license)

I am probably a few days ahead of time on this one, but since I am not much active online during those holidays, I thought that I would post the new year best wishes post earlier than later...

So here it goes: I wish you all the very very best for 2009!

Be a star ;-)

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17Dec/080

IzPack 4.2.0 has been released

As mentioned in the latest IzPack news, IzPack 4.2.0 has just been released!

You can get it now from our website at http://izpack.org/.

It brings the usual set of fixes, but there are some nice new features, including:

  • the support of REG_EXPAND_SZ data types when interacting with the Windows registry
  • the ability to plug data validators on each panel
  • the ability to provide user-oriented help written in HTML for panels
  • Ant-style fileset support for refpack definitions
  • a new utility for generating JNLP descriptors
  • the optional ability for an installer to perform a privileges elevation (i.e., run as an administrator instead of a regular user), works on Windows XP/Vista, Linux (xterm+sudo) and Mac OS X

Enjoy :-)

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17Dec/082

The Fish shell

Do you feel like Bash is boring? ZSH complicated? Then I recommend switching to the Fish shell :-)

This shell provides a neat colorized completion for a lot of commands:

I also hear that it has a nice functional scripting language.

To install it on Mac OS X with MacPorts:

sudo port install fish

then go to the Terminal preferences and replace Bash (or whatever you had before) with /opt/local/bin/fish.

i'm sure you'll like it!

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16Dec/083

I am done with my studies

I am glad to let the world know that I am now officially done with my studies as I now hold an Australian PhD!

I already obtained my French PhD last July, but I did a joint-PhD with the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and thus I was waiting for the results of the examination there.

I took quite a lot of time to get the 3 reviewers to write down their evaluations. I finally received a notification yesterday that all 3 reviewers validated the work without requiring any correction (it is common in Australia to require at least minor corrections as there is no oral defense for PhDs).

That is quite a special feeling as I have some really great memories of my time in Australia. That was a really great personal experience which I'm not going to forget any time soon. I'm pretty lucky to have been given the chance to come to Australia at UNSW which is one of the most prestigious University in the world.

The only flip side of the coin is that I have just finished my studies as the world is hitting one of the worst financial crisis ever... which means that finding a job is not going to be an easy task at all. Anyway meanwhile let's have some fun and celebrate :-)

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