App Store arrived!

Date Arrow  July 10, 2008

Click on the “Applications” item in iTunes, and you’ll see this at the bottom of the screen:

Clicking there, you’ll get to the App Store:

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App Store coming!

Date Arrow  July 10, 2008

Seen in the preferences of iTunes 7.7, just released via Software Update:

When enabled, it adds the following icon to iTunes:

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Basic vs. Digest

Date Arrow  July 7, 2008

In the series of highly boring posts ;) here’s another one; in this case, a simple explanation of two different authentication protocols available in the HTTP standard.

HTTP Basic Authentication Protocol
This is the simplest HTTP Authentication protocol available:

The browser sends a request to a protected resource: GET /index.html
The server looks for the “Authenticated” header [...]

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Pourquoi pas?

Date Arrow  May 21, 2008

(Cet article a été publié sur Profession-Web!)
Pourquoi ne peut-on pas avoir des conférences comme celle-ci, avec des mini-events comme celui-ci en parallèle en Romandie? Ou encore comme celle-ci? Ou bien comme cette autre! Ou celle-là!
Pourquoi pas? Est-ce que le marché est trop petit? Y a-t-il un manque d’intérêt général? Je pense que le problème est [...]

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Symfony con MAMP

Date Arrow  May 14, 2008

estuve jugando un rato con symfony y MAMP, y esta bastante bueno, aunque hay un par de cosas que no me gustaron. aqui van unos comentarios que te podran ser utiles.
me puse a leer las instrucciones de instalacion, y despues encontre el tutorial, de donde saco gran parte de lo que escribire en este articulo.
ahi dice [...]

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Electronlibre

Date Arrow  March 4, 2008

I’ve been working at Electronlibre since the beginning of the year; a friend of mine told me that I fit perfectly well with the name of the company ;) In any case, Electronlibre is, simply put, the best place to work in Switzerland. And take a look at our clients: being here is playing in [...]

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Best books of 2007

Date Arrow  January 23, 2008

I have several mantras in my life. One of them is to learn a new programming language every year. Another one is to read at least 6 technology-related books every year.
I’ve already talked about Erlang (and boy that was the most read article ever in the whole life of this blog! More than 1600 visits [...]

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Scoble vs. Facebook

Date Arrow  January 8, 2008

Robert Scoble aura été écarté de Facebook pendant seulement quelques heures, grâce à un simple script allant à l’encontre des terms of use; néanmoins, cela a suffi pour relancer un débat fort autour du modèle de business de cette société (dont j’ai déjà écrit auparavant de manière assez critique, et dont d’autres en doutent déjà [...]

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Here Comes Another Bubble

Date Arrow  December 6, 2007


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Startups and The Problem Of Premature Scalaculation

Date Arrow  December 4, 2007

Startups and The Problem Of Premature Scalaculation
One of the reasons why startup founders so often spend too much too soon on scalability is that it is satisfying to do so. You can spend resources and have something to show for it. It is also easier to take credit for tangible progress. “Hey, we just [...]

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