Sylvain WallezIrregular musings of a busy geekA new AntIvy committer!- February 26, 2008 My dear colleague and friend Nicolas Lalevée has been elected committer on AntIvy, the dependency management tool that allows the use of Maven repositories without the pain of Maven, for his work on the Eclipse plugin for Ivy. I've been working with Nico for two years, and he's one of the main guys behind the Joost search engine, powered by Lucene, another popular Apache product. Congrats and welcome in the big Apache tribe!http://bluxte.net/blog/2008-02/26-31-16.html The hidden gem in the Wii remote- February 8, 2008 Did you know that the Wii remote contains a 1024x768 pixel infrared camera With this knowledge an a bunch of IR-emitting LEDs and tape, Johnny Chung Lee, a student at Carnegie Mellon, has done some truly amazing things. Multi-touch screen, Minority Report-like interaction, 3D scenes controlled with you heads movements, etc. Oh, and of course Mac addicts should try Darwiin-remote to use the Wiimote as the Mac's mouse (or whatever you want). What, you didn't not know that the Wiimote is also a...http://bluxte.net/blog/2008-02/08-47-08.html Skype and the global warming- February 5, 2008 Skype is constantly eating 10 to 15% of the CPU on my MacBook, and makes it hot even when I'm doing nothing. Is it because I have close to 200 contacts and usually more than 15 open chats I have about the same number of contacts on Adium, and it usually stays in the 0.5 to 1.0% CPU range. There should be an environmental ranking for software, according to the amount of CPU they use while just waiting...http://bluxte.net/blog/2008-02/05-41-42.html Google opens social graphs- February 3, 2008 Google is shaking the social networking arena lately. After OpenSocial, they unveiled yesterday the social graph API. What is it Basically a specific use of the complete set of hypertext links they build while crawling the web. The links between people (or their website) described using XFN or FOAF can now be searched to discover who is linked to who, and on what site. Practically, this means that when you register in a new social network, that site can ask Google who your relations are, and..http://bluxte.net/blog/2008-02/03-29-52.html Anyware Technologies bought by Wavecom- February 1, 2008 Anyware Technologies, the company I've been co-founding more than 7 years ago was bought by Wavecom today. Wavecom is a manufacturer of embedded wireless communication modules that wants to expand its activity higher in the application stack to provide end-to-end solutions. Anyware's business, which was initially focused on webapps for the IT domain has been growing organically over the years, expanding to a number of domains as opportunities emerged: web applications, Eclipse plugins...http://bluxte.net/blog/2008-02/01-27-42.html |