Monthly Archives: November 2006

A good reason to blog - it’s all about returns

Fred Wilson has a toughtful article title How To Blog Your Way To Fame and Fortune. The closing paragraph sums up nicely the reasons I have been blogging here for more than six year now…
So my blog acts as an amplifier and a filter. I see many more opportunities, but they are also way more [...]

Green IT (eco friendly geekiness!)

With a question like this one discussed in infoworld and market positionning for servers with a green angle we might get somewhere… Makes me think about a new category here, if I had time I might even start a blog because the niche is so good : eco geek. I am thinking about all of [...]

On open source Java (GPL)

David Berlind on the ZDnet blog between the lines (one of the most insightful tech blog at the moment) has a long a detailed piece about Sun's announcement to release Java under the GPL license : The ripple effect of a GPLâ??d Java will reach far and wide. He covers the choice of the specific [...]

How to enable pdf upload to your mediawiki install

Note to self, to make the search snake bite it’s own tail later… as seen on the documentation page :
If you want to upload file types other than .jpg or .ogg, e.g., .pdf, in newer versions of mediawiki, you have to modify the file LocalSettings.php by copying the variable and its contents from DefaultSettings.php. Afterward, [...]

[Frog Trail 200611/08-11]

There’s linkfests and there’s linkdumps!
Well a partial braindump of stuff read in the last few days (yead I could organize them a bit more, but then I wouldn't post, what a dilemna). So go for it, mine this flow, it’s still a small subset of what I read, maybe the top 10% links… If I [...]

Punk and Alternative music for data modelling and functionnal specification writing

Hey, that’s what I find most efficient when I need to band and spew words and describe application flow with wireframes. But for planning - budgets and timelines, I prefer classic rock (aka Zepellin, Hendrix, The Doors). For specifics, check my last.fm profile. I wonder what type of ads are going to get served by [...]

I am, sadly, not at the Montreal Game Summit

I was invited to blog Montreal’s Game Summit but the spike of consulting work I have right now does not allow me to this this treat. I guess it’s a good thing. Nonetheless, here’s a gaming linkfest, insightful links collected in the last few months…

[Frog Trail 20061102]

The Firefox Kid
Techcrunch - Blog Archive - TV 2.0 Should Be Easy: An Interview with Paul Cleghorn of Tape It Off The Internet
Techcrunch - Blog Archive - Last.fm Relaunches with New Features
Hou-Hou Blog : Top Blogs québécois selon Technorati
Disco - Mac Disc Burning
Why WordPress.com Rocks | Tubetorial

[Frog Trail - 20061101]

New concept. As I read *so* much more than I post, I tried this little experiment today. Read from my feed list. Open interesting articles in new tabs (with some hacked firefox 2 tabMinWidth values). Bookmark all tabs in  a folder.
Open my bookmark.html file in Smultron to get only the relevant section. Save the source and [...]