You might already know, the French government has been recently working on a “Google Earth killer” called GeoPortail and they officially released their thing a few days ago. Apparently their hosting infrastructure was not reliable enough to survive after the announce, so I could not give it a try. But today I did… Alright,...

You might already know, the French government has been recently working on a “Google Earth killer” called GeoPortail and they officially released their thing a few days ago. Apparently their hosting infrastructure was not reliable enough to survive after the announce, so I could not give it a try. But today I did… Alright,...

RubyOSA is one of my new projects. It is a bridge that maps the scriptable definition of an application into Ruby, and do all the AppleEvent stuff transparently for you. You can do in Ruby what you did in AppleScript. require 'rbosa' app = OSA.app('iTunes') track = app.current_track p track # -> #<OSA::Itunes::File_track:0x1495e20> p...

RubyOSA is one of my new projects. It is a bridge that maps the scriptable definition of an application into Ruby, and do all the AppleEvent stuff transparently for you. You can do in Ruby what you did in AppleScript. require 'rbosa' app = OSA.app('iTunes') track = app.current_track p track # -> #<OSA::Itunes::File_track:0x1495e20> p...

A nice presentation on Rails (in French) that deserves more visibility. Forward!

A nice presentation on Rails (in French) that deserves more visibility. Forward!

After a very long (several months) absence on the Web I am back! As you can see I migrated my diary engine from tDiary to Typo. Typo is very cool, though a bit slow. I wrote a script to perform the migration and sent it to the authors, it will perhaps be included in the upstream distribution. Otherwise, everything is OK as before. On the...

After a very long (several months) absence on the Web I am back! As you can see I migrated my diary engine from tDiary to Typo. Typo is very cool, though a bit slow. I wrote a script to perform the migration and sent it to the authors, it will perhaps be included in the upstream distribution. Otherwise, everything is OK as before. On the...

When looking for something I found this funny page about the pronounciation of the project's name. Does it remain something to you (especially when testing if your soundcard was properly configured in early GNU/Linux distributions) ? :-)

When looking for something I found this funny page about the pronounciation of the project's name. Does it remain something to you (especially when testing if your soundcard was properly configured in early GNU/Linux distributions) ? :-)

Vincent recently started a very ambitious project: translating in English the Ruby Hacker Guide, a complete book on Ruby internals that has been graciously released as free by the author, Minero Aoki. And the book is of course written in Japanese :-) As it is a very big project I helped him a bit, converting the chapter he recently translated...

Vincent recently started a very ambitious project: translating in English the Ruby Hacker Guide, a complete book on Ruby internals that has been graciously released as free by the author, Minero Aoki. And the book is of course written in Japanese :-) As it is a very big project I helped him a bit, converting the chapter he recently translated...

As usual. Please use laurent dot sansonetti at gmail dot com in the meantime :-)

As usual. Please use laurent dot sansonetti at gmail dot com in the meantime :-)