Monthly Archives: March 2007

Miguel has finally seen the light :-)

I had the privilege to meet Gnome’s founder, Miguel de Icaza at the first GUADEC back in… oh my, 2000, has it been that long already. I was still co-leading gtk– at the time. Miguel is a brilliant fellow, full … Continue reading

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more on ajax and web UIs

Following up on my ‘ajax sux’ post, this post by Jeff Atwood. I agree with his conclusion : after all these years we should be able to make something better for app development than this hodge-podge of different technologies. There … Continue reading

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Poisonous users, a live example

It’s ironic that a couple of weeks after this silly display of zealotry, this interesting video on how to deal with poisonous users would be highlighted on slashdot. We’re quite fortunate with Rosegarden that we almost never had to deal … Continue reading

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Free software as a political paradox

This slashdot story prompted me to write a post about free software and politics which I had hinted in a footnote of my first post. Before carrying on, for the sake of clarity I should state that in France, I’m … Continue reading

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on software testing

A long time ago, in a galaxy… err, no, scratch that. A long time ago (circa 1999-2000), I used to work for a company which was making software debugging and testing tools. One of the main product was a C++ … Continue reading

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