Archive for September, 2006

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Eclipse Summit 2006

I will attend the Eclipse Summit 2006 in Esslingen, Germany. I will be representing Intalio in the Eclipse Modeling Symposium.

I have taken contacts with the guys down there - people from the ATLAS team in the INRIA which field is being more and more related to our activity.
More to come - links to the papers, links of interest and my experience on all this.

links for 2006-09-21

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Tips for using Gmail

Assaf Arkin gave us a set of tips to use Gmail. I reproduce them below with his authorization.

1. If you’re using GMail as POP/SMTP, set it to archive (not delete) all popped messages. That way, if you need Web access you have an empty inbox to start with, with access to the last e-mails you popped with your e-mail client.

2. If you’re using GMail as a Web client, delete that which is redundant, archive everything else. That way you can keep your inbox empty. When a new message arrives, GMail will show the entire conversation, including archived and sent messages, so you know what you’re talking about. No need to keep e-mails in the inbox to save context.

3. To get around spam false positivies, create labels for e-mails you expect (e.g. Intalio addresses, mailing lists). That way you can scan the spam for false positive. Scanning and clearing spam is easier if you set GMail to display 100 messages in a page.

4. Keyboard shortcuts save a lot of time: http://evhead.com/hodgepodge/gmail-shortcuts.html

5. Safari doesn’t like GMail. There’s no rich HTML editing and to get keyboard shortcuts to work, you need to first click the page with the mouse.

6. GMail archives all GTalk conversations as if they were e-mails. You can see all recent chats by going to the contact, and reply to a chat by sending an e-mail.

7. Login to GMail using https://gmail.com gives you HTTPS access. Login to GMail using http://gmail.com gives you HTTP access to the login page, but then downgrades to HTTP access.

8. The GMail Manager for Firefox will alert you of new e-mails and show snippest: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1320/

9. For even better shortcuts, install this Greasemonkey scripts. You can label e-mails, move around to labels/folders, archive/trash and pretty much avoid using the mouse: http://persistent.info/archives/2005/12/23/greasemonkey

10. More tips & tricks here: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/gmail/gmail-tips-and-tricks-monster-roundup-198488.php

links for 2006-09-19

  • Il est un homme que tout le monde déteste et qui porte avec élégance du vert pomme. On ne le présente plus pour ses talents de comique, roi du standup à Paris, il édite avec son compère Benoit Préteseille leurs propres ouvrages.

Office 2.0 Conference

Une conférence s’organise a San Francisco sur le thème de l’Office 2.0, une notion à mettre en rapport avec le Web 2.0.

Cette conférence rassemble entre autres mon CEO, Ismael Ghalimi, que j’aime bien lire, et beaucoup de startups ou de boites vraiment très branchées sur les nouveaux usages d’Internet.

Personnellement, j’aime bien utiliser des petites applications comme Orchestrate, bien sur Gmail, ou encore ZohoCreator. J’ai du récemment recourir à eFax également. Malgré un design fait pour te pouser à l’achat, leur site est pas mal. Ils ont un service qui permet d’ouvrir un numéro de fax et de recevoir les fax en pdf par e-mail. Ca semble évident après coup, mais il fallait vraiment y penser.

Je suis encore trop techos pour me mettre complètement à l’usage de ces applications. J’aime de plus en plus Ruby On Rails, surtout à la lumière de la lecture de l’excellent ouvrage de Martin Fowler, Rails Recipes.