Hier matin je reçois un appel d’un opérateur d’Orange au sujet de mon abonnement de téléphonie mobile. Je n’ai rien demandé et en plus je suis à Londres (donc ça va me coûter un bras en roaming) mais je reste poli. La personne, très aimable, me propose de changer mon abonnement (Optima) pour prendre Maxima […]
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Today, Seth Godin has, once again, a good point about brand marketing. I noticed it myself on this blog as most of the Google searches that end on this blog use the keyword “vedovini”. To the point that next time I make business cards, instead of the usual e-mail and phone number I think I […]
They announced it yesterday at the Google Campfire ’09 (here and here) and it is today on the Google App Engine blog: Java is now supported on Google App Engine! It comes with a set of Eclipse plugins to test and deploy Java servlets, using JDO or JPA to support database access. Of course, the […]
Si vous habitez en Suisse vous devez connaitre “Passa Bene”, c’est le nom du système de la Coop qui permet d’eviter d’avoir à vider son caddie sur le tapis roulant de la caissière et de passer à la caisse en moins de 5mn, même s’il est rempli à ras-bord (enfin sauf quand le système décide […]
Some time ago I have been contacted by Sean Healy, owner of Wild Bassin Media and editor at the DITA & XML Community of the Rockies, to do an interview about my DITA Open Platform project. Three weeks ago we finally made it and the podcast is now online. It was my first time but […]
As you might have noticed already, Facebook as been on vedovini.net since last December. To this purpose I have been using the Sociable! fbConnect plugin for WordPress that enables visitors to login using their Facebook credentials and later comment using their Facebook identity and feature those comments on their Facebook stream. However, I wanted a […]
I have been participating in the SETI@Home project since January the 6th, 2000 (at this time I was a huge fan of The X-Files and I though it may help Fox Mulder find his lost sister…). Since then I have been installing the SETI@Home client on every desktop or laptop computer I have been using. […]
One think I hate about software is when you must integrate with a poorly documented system. To be able to code and unit test you part you have to make assumptions about the workings of this system, deploy in a real environment (which can be quite time consuming) and pray. This is like trying to […]
Yesterday, my colleague and friend Pierre asked my opinion about whether or not people would be ready to pay 20 bucks for the right to use well crafted and well documented software components. This spawned a discussion about how to make money with software components. Here are our thoughts for you to enjoy, comment and […]