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 [...]

The screaming groupies disturb my concentration, so I will reluctantly take a few minutes to silence the general hysteria. The secret is no more: we have über-optimized queries in XMMS2!
All thanks go to nesciens, who dived in the optimization documentation of SQLite to fix some stupid bottlenecks of my query generator. The two most [...]

Let’s keep the blog rolling!
This idea popped into my mind the other day, surprisingly not while I was in the shower. I guess it was the combination of my nostalgia for Japan, people talking about daily new XMMS2 clients in #xmms2, and all the fun visual stuff (Clutter, WebKit, etc) I saw or heard [...]

Posting well thought out blog entries every other century might help trick the world into believing that you’re an insightful young man, but it’s also a waste of the mountain of ideas which are not yet finalized, completed or polished, yet might still interest or amuse readers.
So here we go, I will try to blog [...]