February 2012
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Create geek slideshows
I heard one day that consultant finish to see the world into bullet points. Abusing of ppt everyday, their brain slowly mutate and they finish them self to behve as a continuous slideshow of concepts. Funny or scarring. It depends.
However, since 1 or 2 years, we observe people making js presentation, homemade or not. This might be a continuation of Google doc presentation growth or simply a...
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Monolithic Databases are dead
It’s today a common statement to affirm that hegemony of monolithic relational database system is ending. ORM, Object Relation Model, were the last trial to perpetuate that pattern born in the 70’s. ORM bring to software development specialist the sweet feeling of directly interacting with objects. In Ruby on Rails world, Active Record was a wonderful implementation imposing its...
August 2011
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_Why Travis?
_Why? August 19th 2007, _Why the lucky stiff, anonymous author of “Why’s poignant guide to Ruby” book and various OpenSource project such as Camping, Shoes or hpricot disappear from web radar. Since then August 19th is commemorated every year, all over the world and developers offer their strength, knowledge and will to help building Free content and applications. This year, in...
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The Netocrats
Title: “Les nétocrates” (in french)
Author: Alexander Bard, Jan Söderqvist
Edition: Léo Scheer
Abstract: Feudal lords, capitalist bourgeoisie then knowledge netocrats. Three historical eras, three ways to structure the society. In netocraty, the last paradigm, netocrats architect their power on contacts and knowledge sharing. No more fields and castles or industries and funds. Only matter...
July 2011
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When Salesforce meets awesome Ruby gems →
There are multiple ways to connect your app to a SalesForce account but this one is pretty elegant and modern as it uses the new Winter ‘11 release with support of OAuth2 authorization standard through Omniauth. This article also describe the built of a REST API using HTTParty awesome gem.
June 2011
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RuLu 2011: "Yes we did it, now it's your turn !!"
Or “How to organize an international Ruby Conf in 4 months ?”
4 months ago, in february, so impressed by the massive coming success of Euruko Berlin, we decided with few friends of Lyon.rb to organize an other international Ruby event in Lyon. The idea behind was to gather french community on a classic international event in France and prepare the french application for Euruko 2013....
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Why we, Rubyists, care about Salesforce-Heroku?
Everybody might have heard in our Ruby/Rails technosphere that recently, the successful company Salesforce.com, famous for his platform, his growth and his position as the first huge Cloud business oriented app, has bought the tiny and innovative Heroku Platform.
I am not going to give an introduction about what those two key cloud actors do. You have to know that already. I am here to explain...
May 2011
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Ruby Lugdunum Conference 2011 →
“The ruby ecosystem is thrilling in Europe with major events happening everywhere. Barricaded in the last free village in Gaul, we will treat you with talks (in English), some hacking and good food.” What a program :) Hopefully, for those ticketless for Euruko Berlin, most of RuLu speaker are international one and where speaking in Germany last week. An underground and smart conf for...
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From Mint to P2P currency
Few months ago, in my 19 floors tower of Santiago I met in the lift an american neighbor, Ken. Who know why we decided to discuss and drink beers together? Anyway. Ken, was CFO of a classic mid-size company in US till 200x. After 2008’s crisis, he has been gently pushed out as so many other American citizens. Ken was in his sixties and it’s a more than a reason for a CEO to offer you...
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Book: Design Patterns in Ruby
Title: “Design Patterns in Ruby”
Author: Russ Olsen
Edition: Addison Wesley
Abstract: Getting better in Ruby using the Gang Of Four holy knowledge. From today I will read a chapter once a while and put my comments here. Reading such traditional sciences is a must-done for any hacker.
Pattern I: Template Pattern
Template Pattern aim to re-organize your code when a part of it only...
April 2011
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Book: Les Eclaireurs d'Antoine Bello
Title: “Les éclaireurs”
Author: Antoine Bello
Edition: Gallimard
Abstract: The Reality Falsification Comity is back. Sliv will try to get more explanation about the final and real aim of the organization. Not a great suite just a typical one. The universe described in the first volume “Les falsificateurs” was terribly inspiring. Nothing really new come in this one.
February 2011
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Start Up Week End - Lyon 2011
Last week-end after the Lyonrb.fr apéro, we have been 21croissants Ranksa and me to the first Lyon Start Up Week End (SUWE) as partners of the event. Nice place to evangelize and spread Ruby good word.
This said, what is a Start Up a week end?
The recipe:
Take 100 people with following proportions 60% of business or management school students, 20% of IT Students or professionals and 20% of...
January 2011
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Moutain.rb Ruby Camp 2011 - Savoie : Caching with...
My last talk during the Moutain.rb Ruby Camp was about caching with rails. It’s an introduction to main concept. Next one will be more dedicated to memcached configuration and usage.
View more presentations from VzMind ItSelf.
November 2010
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Padrino Ruby Web Micro-Framework →
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Book: Metaprogramming Ruby
Title: “Metaprogramming Ruby”
Author: Paolo Perrotta
Edition: The Pragmatic Programmers
Abstract: Knowing Rails is necessary to understand how modern web frameworks work. But soon, you’ll hear there is something behind and Ruby will be the real big step for you to be a Rails hacker. Sure, you’ll be amazed by Ruby flexibility. You’ll see objects everywhere and...
September 2010
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Clone/Back Up/Restore OpenVZ VMs With vzdump |... →
A key command to handle your cloud and replicate it.. This could save your life if you do it in time.
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Diaspora, le Facebook Killer, vient de sortir
They did it!!
Diaspora est sorti comme prévu, hier, le 15 septembre. Après 3 mois de Rush incroyable, des débuts digne d’une des plus fabuleuse success story de la Silicon Valley, les 4 geeks New-Yorkais viennent de dévoiler le code de ce qui s’annonce comme le grand concurrent de FaceBook. En quelques mots, après avoir déposé une vidéo sur KickStarter pour une levée de fond initial...
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No Reforms, No Revolution: Création d'une Utopie
L’Empire est l’organisation mondiale qui définit notre espace de liberté. C’est le carcan mental qui détermine notre espace des possibles. Selon la norme, les deux alternatives pour transformer notre monde sont la réforme - défendue par les partisans du maintien des organisations en place - et la révolution - soutenue par les plus pessimistes critiques du système. Une troisième...
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Utopia: a first overview of involved modules
So the idea is to build a distributed ecosystem of Utopias. Each Utopia is something like a Rules Engine simulating a society. Rules are defined by human being, or groups of, using a DSL like in cucumber. At the beginning Utopia will be like a game. We would like to let people try different options of society. A kind of SimCity but multidimensionnal => Politic, Economy, Cultur, Social;...
Simulex, Inc. | Synthetic Environments for... →
The SEAS-VIS model is a representation of the Institutions, Organizations, Leaders, Individuals, and Infrastructure that make up a society. The geography of the society is modeled at various levels…
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Code Name: Utopia
That blog is not innocent. It’s a place to speak about 2 things:
my next big poject,
cosmic coding.
Let’s introduce the first one. It’s a bit ambitious, much more than that Generic Rails CMS I made with some friends in India www.blankapplication.org. But it’s on the same road to applications’ interconnection as dreamed with FlooxDB. “Simply” speaking,...
August 2010
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The Rails Initialization Process →
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Thinking In Rails » Blog Archive » Database and... →
ReR09 - Bart ten Brinke - To Measure is to Know on... →
Using Indexes to Improve Rails Performance - Geek... →
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Geokit Plugin: Geocoder, Distance Finders, and... →
The perfect tool to use google map and other geolocalization tools
“« La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un cœur...”
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And you call that a Blog bitch?
Wake up your are not your blog, your twitter account or those fake narcissic posts. Why people should look at you? Because you’ve just said WE HAVE TO BE RELEVANT? Did you at least whatched http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_theory. That’s not a movie where you are making fun writting stupid situation. We are supposed to be programmers, acting and making money for/with what...
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Theorie de la Pertinence →
Presumption of relevance, notion that (a) implicit messages are relevant enough to be worth bothering to process, and (b) the speaker will be as economical as they possibly can be in communicating it.
Pragmatic Efficiency applied to Smarts’ daily communication.
Reduce NOISE, Improve MESSAGE.
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WatchIs that really what they call being FRENCH in China? After all I have seen worst on Mars.
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Getting Things Done - Wikipédia →
Getting Things Done, the art of stress-free productivity (“Faire avancer les Choses, l’art de la productivité sans stress”), le plus souvent désigné par son abrégé GTD, est le titre d’un livre de…David Allen
A MUST
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WatchPolemical talk from eastern guys about Rails, Perf and Postgres and why Rails could be seen just as an ORM interface.
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My soluble Identity
From anywhere, any improbable medium will guide me to that point. I LOVE IT and they already know !