Everyday, I read the web just like I would read the newspaper. I aggregate news feeds in Netvibes.
Now what if you would prefer to read the news off-line or to print it ?
You can use some services which transform the news feeds into a PDF file.I have tested two of them : Tabbloid and FeedJournal, on my own feed. On the right you have Tabbloid, on the left FeedJournal.
For a deeper look, you can download the PDF files here :
Il y a toujours dans la vie des convergences qu'on ne s'explique pas. Par exemple on recoit plusieurs offres d'emploi dans la même semaine. Cette fois ci, j'ai crée un miniblogue hier soir. Sur mon blogue, hier midi, sans relation de cause à effet que je puisse m'expliquer SouCaline a posté un commentaire sur un de mes blogs. Son URL est celui de ... miniblogue. Son commentaire est don antérieur à mon inscription à miniblogue. Moi j'ai découvert miniblogue via Wikipedia...
Ce que j'aime dans le miniblogue c'est qu'il faut même pas chercher un titre. On dumpe directement ce qu'on pense et c'est un peu plus long qu'un Twit.
Je recherche un peu le bon mix pour le futur de mes sites internet. Mon laboratoire c'est ma page publique de Netvibes.
In twitter I have followers who follow thousands of people. See for example http://twitter.com/chrisblake. I wonder how it's possible to do that. Why do they do that ?
"Moi j?aime bien les réseaux sociaux. Facebook est celui que j?aime le moins. Je n?aime pas devoir ?installer des applications?, c?est pour moi contraire aux principes même du web.
Ce qui me fait peur avec Facebook c?est l?utilisation qui pourrait en être faite : si on pense à comment les juifs ont été pourchassés avec des registres papier pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, on se rend compte il serait aujourd?hui tres facile de cibler un groupe particulier via un système comme facebook. Et je ne parle pas encore d?une éventuelle application de dénonciation (anonyme) qui serait installée sur Facebook.
En cas de troisième guerre mondiale, la première cible à détruire serait peut-être facebook."
Recently I had a problem on my home computers. We couldn't connect to www.google.com anymore. A ping didn't work, a nslookup didn't work, a tracert didn't work. All other sites were ok.
I searched the Internet (using google.be ;-)) and many people had the same problem. It seems to be a strange DNS problem.
For those people, here is a temporary solution. Edit your Windows Hosts file (in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc) and add this line at the end:
216.239.59.147 www.google.com
This way you tell your computer directly where to find Google.com. Note this solution will no longer work if Google.com changes its IP Address.
After that I could again read my gmail, my Google Calendar, my Google Notebook and Blogger.
I could not blog for several days because I couldn't connect to www.google.com due to very stange dns problems. Whatever, I would like to wish you the best for this end of the year.
I hope your holydays are filled with happiness and good cheer !
Very soon I will send you my Best Wishes with my Best Shots 2008.
Last week (Dec 8-12 2008), there was Devoxx (formely known as JavaPolis) in the Metropolis in Antwerp.
The fair usually welcomes 2000 developers for technical conferences on Java, PHP, JavaFX, Scala, Ruby on Rails...
IBM invests on this event and this year Robin Mulkers proposed to demonstrate IBM's technology leadership with a real use case of one of the hottest technologies: RFID.
The project was exlained in the keynote (see some photos here below)
Furthermore, it's a usefull use case for the Devoxx Organization : All participants receivedan RFID badge. Those badges were tracked so that one could for example see which sessions were the most popular. Or participants could leave their name at the booths by letting the hostess scan their badge to participate to games or request for more information.
At IBM, we call this innovation that matters !
PS : Devoxx is one of the best events that I know. The organization is really great. You have free WiFi, you can take drinks directly from the fridge, speackers are accessible, topics are cool... Everything is in place to have a great Developer experience !