Olivier Lacan

I held back for a few weeks because new OS X releases are usually pretty unstable when it comes to development tools.

Whether you consider yourself a designer, a developer, or a balanced hybrid of both, we all tend to have the mindset of engineers.

Craftsmanship is a fascinating thing.

This afternoon I fell off my bike.

If there’s a common thread uniting all the people that inspire me, motivate me, and who I work with, it’s that they’re addicted to solving problems.

When’s the last time your put yourself in your customers’ shoes?

Update (2013-12-29): I can’t believe I’ve never corrected this post over the last year.

There’s a fundamental problem in the way most work environments encourage interruptions.

Many words are hammered every day about what men and women do and should do in an environment when women are scarce and men aren’t.

The Problem Upgrading Rails apps has become a lot easier over the years.

I’ve presented a talk called Essential Rails Tools at RailsConf 2012 in Austin, Texas last April and more recently at the Orlando Ruby User Group (ORUG) on May 10th, 2012.

There’s something I’ve rarely seen pointed out about the kind of online educational experiences we provide at Code School, it’s how easy we make it for people to screw up.

For a dear friend.

My digressive brain started to run wild while watching Bret Victor’s fascinating talk Inventing on Principle a few minutes ago.

I joined Envy Labs a month ago today.

Sublime Text 2 ships with a CLI called subl.

Humble HTML beginings One my first website ever, which I built in 1999 with Microsoft Front Page, I decided to have on the left side a menu that listed each page.

I finally started watching this fascinating interview of Neil deGrasse Tyson by an out-of-character Stephen Colbert today and the first question Stephen asks to Neil sounds like a joke: “Is is better to know or not to know?”

I asked the lovely people on Twitter how they dealt with Internet Explorer during their development process in 2011 and what tools they used to do so.

This morning I decided to go back and finally watch the end of the iPhone 4S keynote presentation.

Three years ago my grandfather died while I was 7000 kilometers away from him.

Do work, instead of talking about it.

What is Homebrew?

Many of my friends are teachers, children of teachers or people with a general disposition toward helping out others to learn stuff.

An anonymous contributor to the Washington Post: Three years ago, I received a national security letter (NSL) in my capacity as the president of a small Internet access and consulting business.

I recently replied to a friend, as a response to her reaction to this admittedly imperfect article from the Washington Post’s opinion column entitled Why do Americans still dislike atheists?.

I had an uncomfortably heated discussion with someone dear to me today about the “It Gets Better” video released by the lesbian, gay, bi and transexual employees of Apple Inc. today on YouTube (Adobe Systems employees released a similar video).

“You can’t understand Google,” vice president Marissa Mayer says, “unless you know that both Larry and Sergey were Montessori kids.”

I was looking around old photos for something I’m making for a great friend and I realized that I had never connected two important events in my life.

Note : This article was originally intended for fellow students at Full Sail University’s Web Design & Development program.