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"Je fais souvent un travail qui me plaît, parfois mieux payé qu'un travail qui serait dit 'alimentaire'. Quand le travail qui me plaît est mal payé, j'ai tout de même du plaisir à le faire. Il faudrait que les boulots qui ne plaisent à personne soient très bien payés. Ou alors, pour que les choses soient justes, il faudrait que chacun ait une activité qui lui plaise, plus quelques heures de service civil. On me dira, il serait dommage d'obliger des savants comme Einstein à travailler quelques heures dans un champ de betteraves, mais enfin on perdrait quoi ? Je vais peut-être me présenter aux élections pour être ministre du Travail." (Jackie Berroyer)

sigh!

Moonshine is a project based on Moonlight that leverages the built-in Windows Media capabilities of Silverlight to bring Windows Media playback to Linux in a fully legitimate way, without forcing the end user worry about what a codec is. This is possible because Microsoft provides the codecs directly to all Moonlight users, regardless of their choice of Linux distribution.

Not worse than Flash imho, but not better, gimme ogg/theora!

Ever wish you had your own UI-lab, but can’t build one with all the expensive cameras, big boxes and one-way-mirrors in your house right now?

It's a very small Silverback written in Python

Keeping two or more copies of the same document synchronized with each other in real-time is a complex challenge. This paper describes the differential synchronization algorithm. Differential synchronization offers scalability, fault-tolerance, and responsive collaborative editing across an unreliable network.

A main aim of this site is to promote website accessibility. The site incorporates a number of accessibility aids and contains relevant articles on the subject.

great resources and videos

PHIL 176: Death

This is a techtalk by Joël Bez from Liip AG.

The presentation is about giving a better user experience to iPhone users with your mobile website.

[…] the recorded sessions from last year’s Commercial Users of Functional Programming are now up in conveniently viewable form on Google Video.

Erlang, F#, ...

How do you program a multicore computer? Easy - do it in Erlang. Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language designed for programming fault-tolerant systems. With share-nothing semantics and pure message passing, Erlang programs scales on multicore computers. In this talk, Joe introduces Erlang, the ideas of Concurrent Oriented Programming and commercial applications written in Erlang

Bob Ippolito’s excellent presentation about Erlang

The guy behind Mochi(Web,Ads,Kit,...)

Finland's students are the brightest in the world, according to an international test. Teachers say extra playtime is one reason for the students' success.

and they use Firefox ;-)

DataPortability gathers existing open standards into a blueprint for a social, open, remixable web where your online identity, media, contacts and content can follow you wherever you go.

a talk (at Yahoo!) about High Performance Ajax Applications

video and slides on slideshare.

Yariv Sadan presents ErlyWeb, the Erlang twist on web frameworks. This talk was recorded at the December 6, 2007 meeting of the Bay Area ... all » Functional Programmers group. The meeting was kindly hosted at UC Berkeley.

What does Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve have in common?

great vid (via Batiste)

Oxford Geek Nights offer a chance for web developers and designers in the local area to get together, share their skills and talk about new ideas, techniques and technologies.

nice presentations, fast and easy.