http://www.technofeel.com Things that keep me up late Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:11:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the cool things when you write on a technical blog is that you can do some assumptions. So if you're reading these lines, you must be working in the software industry, either as a programmer or as a manager, and probably don't have read "More Joel on Software". ... http://www.technofeel.com/2009/09/15/book-review-more-joel-on-software/ This is a little post that may save you hours (because you are probably using the Google Web Toolkit along with the Google Gears API, the whole thing under OSX, right ? no ? Okay, so read forward because you may one day). So the problem comes when you try ... http://www.technofeel.com/2009/09/08/gwt-google-gears-and-osx-the-explosive-mix/ With the end of the holidays the number of really  links went down so it took some time to gather some must see articles , here's my choice: OCZ to sell the Z-Drive p84 PCI-Express SSD, a high performance flash drive on top of a PCI-Express architecture with impressive specifications: Read ... http://www.technofeel.com/2009/09/06/keep-up-links/ I'm right back in Paris after four awesome days at Lyon where I attended the Very Large Database Conference. Overall this was a very interesting event, with both very low level technical talks and architectural presentations. The event was really well organized as I've partially mentioned in my overview of ... http://www.technofeel.com/2009/08/29/vldb09-overview-part-2/ I have the chance to attend a few conferences each year all around the world. These events are an invaluable opportunity to learn about the latest innovations and get insights from some of the most respected people in our domains. This week I am attending Very Large Data Base 2009, a ... http://www.technofeel.com/2009/08/25/vldb-2009-part-1/ I used to read a lot of books when I was a kid. Of course, not the kind of book I'm going to talk about, but still, I remember saving all my little money and running to the book store. Later on, my father forced me to buy more sophisticated ... http://www.technofeel.com/2009/08/19/book-review-even-faster-web-sites/ I do think technology watching is one of the most important thing in an engineer day to day life, and it's something I often ask during interviews. It's really disappointing to see the low percentage of young engineers that really cares about spending an hour a day reading articles to ... http://www.technofeel.com/2009/08/17/keep-up-links-170809/ Hello World ! Some of you won't even believe this, but yeah, after more than a year without blogging, i feel like writing and sharing again. This blog will be much more technical than the defunct unixaumonde.com, so some of you may just get lost reading my thoughts, sorry :-) As your ... http://www.technofeel.com/2009/08/16/sharing-again/