One positive aspect of getting an Android smart phone, i.e. of being online anywhere/anytime, is that I can read Neil Gaiman’s ever entertaining Twitter feed while sleep-walking home from a night out. A corollary of this is that I can then tweet to my own Twitter feed, too. Which I do.
It’s an interesting technosocial experiment [...]

I finally gave in to the 21th century a few weeks ago and bought a smart phone. A very smart phone. It goes by the grandiose name of HTC Hero, although T-Mobile somewhat confusingly sells it under the G2 Touch moniker, which is not to be confused with the T-Mobile myTouch 3G (originally HTC Magic), [...]

Having finished my crazy gonzo travel blog saga about my last trip to Japan, I have decided to split my blog in two. The idea is to start posting more technical articles without scaring the hell out of friends/relatives who don’t care about Git merging strategies, reading their mail in Emacs or experimental Ruby prototypes [...]

I’m still waiting for nesciens’ conclusion notes about his very successful project, Collections 2.0, but he’s been busy with his starting university so it will take a few more days.
In the meantime, I wanted to write a wrap-up post about this year’s mildly successful Google Summer of Code with XMMS2. Out of 6 projects, [...]

Here is the conclusion post by Igor Ribeiro de Assis (AKA greafine) about his nycli project (new command-line XMMS2 client) which I mentored for this year’s Google Summer of Code, with XMMS2 of course!
As Google Summer of Code is finishing I would like summarize my experience working on the NyCLI for XMMS2.
Looking what have been [...]

Git is the coolest content versioning system since the birth of bits, and I gave two talks/courses recently: the first at the BarCamp in Lausanne (edition 2), and the second for the local LUG, AKA the GULL.
I’ve uploaded the PDF of the slides in English and in French, and in case anyone is interested in [...]