Bertrand's brain grep

I usually do my best to look at the positive facets of people and things, even when mistakes happen.

I created this little jingle a while ago to try out GarageBand, with FeatherCast in mind.

US 2008 in New Orleans has been my best ApacheCon so far!

We'll be giving away nice Sling polo shirts at the end of my talk today, be there!

Being in the US to watch the Obama speech yesterday evening on the big screen in the hotel lobby was really cool - people cheering, standing ovations and I could feel the hope in the air.

If you cannot make it to ApacheCon, streaming videos of the keynotes will be available for free at LinuxPro magazine.

I'm on my way to ApacheCon US 2008 where I'll give two talks.

The call for papers for ApacheCon Europe 2009 (Amsterdam, March 23-27) is open, proposals must be submitted before October 24th.

Working on macosx, I often find that things are easier than I thought - just drop something where it makes sense, or do what you would naturally do, and things work as expected.

This is not a review: apologies to the Wicket In Action people for not reviewing the book yet, my review copy has been sitting on my desk for weeks, just read a few pages here and there and I like what I see!

Day has won the CH Open Source Award 2008 in the business category.

The Apache Travel Assistance Committee is looking for people who would like to attend ApacheCon US 2008 but need some financial support in order to get there.

Rod Johnson, Spring founder, in the TSS thread about the new SpringSource maintenance policy: Anyone who refuses to compile an open source project under any circumstances doesn't really believe in open source: they believe in other people working for them…

We're talking about Sling at openexpo.ch tomorrow, together with Michael Marth, Day's technology evangelist.

Searching for Robert Moog invented it on wikipedia.cognition.com returns the Minimoog page as its first results, and the other results are very relevant to that story.

Via Christopher Blizzard. 1.

expr $(date +%s) - $(stat -t %s -f%c that_file) Don't you love bash one-liners?

I haven't seen the browser yet but Google Chrome's cartoon is the best description of o piece of software that I've seen in a long time.

Being considered the best speaker in a computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

Two weeks ago I was at Google headquarters to represent the ASF for the GHOP Awards Ceremony.

Contrary to what The Register reports, Microsoft is not paying $100,000 annual membership to the Apache Software Foundation.

In French we say "the best often leave first".

Microsoft just announced their platinum level sponsorship of the Apache Software Foundation. history.forward(), indeed!

In my quest for a new snare drum last week in Silicon Valley, I ended up at Gelb Music, where Don suggested that I try his favorite one, the Craviotto one-ply snare (nice store by the way, friendly staff and lots of instruments and accessories to try out).

From the very useful department: the Gmail superstars option augments the message starring feature with different colors and shapes.

Although many websites produce just white noise, simplynoise.com is the first one that's totally honest about it - and lets you choose your flavor.

I'll be staying in Sunnyvale next weekend after the GHOP awards ceremony, and as I need a new drumset it might be a good opportunity to shop for that.

I've been too lazy to take pictures of my trip to Oxford earlier this week, but Steve has them - lovely.

I wrote this today while discussing configuration mechanisms with my colleagues.

Wordle creates beautiful word clouds from text that you supply.

Michael Ogawa has created stunning videos showing animated commit activity for various open source projects.

I'll be talking as a co-speaker with David Nuescheler at Jazoon next thursday, on the revenge of the weblog in 15 minutes.

The nominations are open on the www.ossaward.ch site, in the following categories: swissness (a project), business (a company), pioneer (a person or institution), advocacy (a person) and youth (a young person).

Check it out yourself - seems like these guys' Objective J might help (just a bit) in creating rich browser-based applications.

The members meeting of the Apache Software Foundation is over, and I've had the pleasant surprise of being elected as a member of the board.

ASF projects need to include the correct attributions for the dependencies that they redistribute, in NOTICE files (see the http example).

I tend to use Eclipse only for editing/navigating code and for remote debugging, leaving the heavy lifting of building and executing stuff to the old trusted command line.

I've been getting at least one, if not several invitations for new social networks every day lately.

Codesearch looks like a very useful tool already, even if not everything is indexed as I write this - robots.txt need to be fixed here and there.

I'll be speaking at the next Meet the Communities event on June 12th, on Working in and with the Apache Software Foundation.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach (Albert Einstein).

I wasn't impressed at first when looking at the livescribe smart pen hardware specs (although impressive, that's in a way just another smart pen), but the demos made the coin drop: synchronizing audio with smart paper notes sounds like the killer app for…

Last week, Apache Sling won the fifth prize at the JAX Innovation Award.

The list of accepted students was published yesterday, for Sling we're happy to welcome Janandith who's tasked with making Scala usable in Sling.

In my lightning talk last week at ApacheCon, I presented the results of a scientific analysis to demonstrate that the ASF needs a project with a name starting with K and another starting with Z.

I was at the JCR meetup last Tuesday before ApacheCon, and we had a good time!

$ history | awk {'print $2'} | sort | uniq -c | sort -k1 -rn | head 975 cd 755 mvn 623 svn 467 ls 320 find 236 less 209 rm 195 curl 189 java 115 vi

Really?

I arrived in Amsterdam this morning, and already met quite a few friends and colleagues, looks like the start of a very social week.

A journalist called me regarding a post on my french-speaking blog about getting an eBook reader for christmas.