Monday, February 26, 2007

How Long Before Anorexia

Google Apps For Your Domain V2: a killer app for SMEs is needed as a reference

We said a long time and it becomes each passing day more of a reality: Google will soon become a major player in the enterprise application. The new version of GAFYD has indeed plenty of evidence to convince a bunch of SMEs (speech to business user!):
- webmail far ahead of competing solutions
- a system for publishing and sharing Documents
terribly effective - an online calendar on top
- account management easier and more convenient
- opportunities and support specific developments finally worthy of a company like Google

If the sales team for Google's enterprise are slightly expanded in France, it could change many things in our small businesses. Especially after that will probably happen this year ... ie:
- a solution of PowerPoint-like
- an offline mode
for different applications - the further development of interfaces
Smartphone - integration with Google Appliance

Good luck to the competitors!

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Sensativity To Pain During Menstration

OpenID digital identity

The management of our identity through the different services Internet is one of the unresolved issues that had raised Uncle Tim O'Reilly "What is Web 2.0 . Small reminder of the problem in question eg stupid ...

JB Boisseau is terribly jealous of the talent and success Fred Cavazza and decides to take revenge on that dirty trick fate into impersonating him.
How? Nothing more simple: he just go to the blog and Loic Lemeur unload a stream of insults ... signing "Fred Cavazza. Having no way to identify clearly the person in question, the Machiavellian JB Boisseau manage to confuse users easily transition from 2.0 and this, potentially a large number of services.

other hand, good Fred would like to benefit from a "single sign-on on the web allowing it to access all its services with a single authentication ... thing he would save valuable time.

Many services have tried to establish itself as standard in the field (where, by definition, there can be only player) and it seems a winner is emerging. The winner in question would be OpenId. The reasons are as follows:
- AOL announced the following Microsoft ready to use OpenID for authentication services.
- Several reference websites (Digg, Technorati, MovableType ...) have adopted the system
- OpenID providers are both numerous and influential: Verisign, JanRain, Sxip, MyOpenID.com ..

short, if some questions remain about the ability technique OpenId fully play its role, it is far better placed than others to win that battle.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Guitar Hero Dongle Repair

Upcoming Elections





Elections will follow, but not alike. The polls are contradictory, Charest stagnant Boisclair back and tries to fuel up his respirator while trying to rekindle lost passion and ... ADQ goes back!


Charest definitely a very heavy record to defend. Since 2003, broken promises, strikes, tax cuts that never came, scandals, in short, the perfect cocktail of popular dissatisfaction. However, the Liberal Party has a campaign budget level, but also good strategists. Indeed, it is not out of opportunism that Philippe Couillard, one of the few ministers with a popularity rating is satisfactory in this region of Quebec. The idea is to create a momentum to save a few counties in the capital that are threatened. In short, this is not a coincidence that at this point that Charest has decided to call an election. An adversary is crumbling and the other takes the good. Divide and conquer. Charest could easily escape.


Boisclair has demonstrated beyond any doubt that he has not lived up to expectations. Indeed, it has created division within the caucus, many members, young and old, took their cliques and claques, labor is not as enthusiastic about the PQ that the has traditionally been we speculate on a return of Bernard Landry or Pauline Marois, in short, nothing goes. The baffle is stiff and stuffed! This is the point where the big brother of Ottawa school club, Gilles Duceppe, must intervene. In short, the PQ starts campaign backwards.


It remains the ADQ. 4 years, the media have struggled against the party of Mario Dumont, predicting the death of the movement, announcing the bankruptcy next, but nothing helped. In short, since the fall, we had a leader who has demonstrated his experience and he learned from his mistakes. He has initiated several debates position and moved quickly, especially on the issue of reasonable accommodation, even though Boisclair was invisible. For six months, the opposition leader, Mario Dumont was this. Moreover, the Liberals will no longer attack the PQ, but the ADQ! The ideas of the party have come a long way (to the point where the other two parties are based on the program of the ADQ). A victory in sight? Earnings, certainly, but the victory, I do not think so.


I keep reading in my crystal ball. The reason is simple: it is the media who decide elections. Consider Some examples: in 2003, Charest has been strangely proclaimed winner of the leaders debate, even if merely "mouth" and without bringing any new ideas. Moreover, the finding of the case Parizeau, when the facts are still unclear today, out of control and promoted the election of the Liberal Party of Quebec. Meanwhile, the CBC broadcast airtime unfairness between the parties, to the detriment of the ADQ (indeed, the Ombudsman de Radio-Canada agreed with the ADQ) and, through the media , editors of newsletters were instructed to place only negative images Mario Dumont and negative (and if they did not, he should look in the archives). The 2003 election is not an isolated case. Think of the 2006 federal election that gave victory to Stephen Harper (this case was also covered by Infoman) where the images we saw of Paul Martin were negative, compared to those of Stephen Harper. And at the municipal, Andrée Boucher won with unprecedented media support (like that of Andrew Arthur !!!). These media have raised a false news story against Vincent Lacroix Marc Bellemare with administrators and Norbourg. All that to say that you need to monitor that the media will cast their eye, especially from the leaders' debate. At least that for the first time, more voters will dictate their vote by the media, but with their heads.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

How To Hide The Pipes Pedestal Sink

scenario a crash 2.0

2.0 The crash will occur, rest assured: the economic and financial cycles are so made that any rapid growth is accompanied by a correction. Only uncertainties: the timing and magnitude of the crisis. Anchored us a little ...

I think (it's actually a belief) that the 2.0 will crash fairly or very different from the first. The collapse of the "new economy" was in fact quite slow: no real black day but rather a process of regular sharp decline in technology stocks spread in late 2000 to mid-2003. Investors still had money to put on the table, even if they had less: So they began to avoid technology stocks which proved less profitable than anticipated. The result was therefore a general slowdown the economy, but a crisis really focused on the IT sector.

In contrast, the next crisis could be much more violent and does not just affect the industry of new technologies. Why? Because some fundamentals of the U.S. economy are frightening: thus, the flexibilities that existed in 2000 to absorb the shock will probably greatly reduced.

These fundamentals, they are:
- jumaux deficit (state budget, trade balance) have been increasing since 2000, now reaching alarming proportions in the eyes of quite a lot.
- because of these deficits, The dollar resumed its decline logically, but could face more serious tensions if Asian banks stopped supporting the U.S. Treasury as they do for many years to promote their exports.
- the bursting of the U.S. housing bubble is real , and soon will have repercussions on the rest of the economy. Indeed, American households large debt by mortgaging their homes, a significant drop in real estate have very direct consequences on their ability to borrow.

The first domino to fall is therefore that of the U.S. housing and by the violence of his fall (not completed), it will cause (or not) the following:
=> decrease in consumption => panic and financial crisis => general economic crisis (where the IT sector as toast all) => export the crisis in global

Here is a scenario which, if it occurs, should s'ammorcer in the next 18 months (the time to push the second domino) ... but especially the likelihood and magnitude are uncertain as we are little compared to the profoundly chaotic (in the mathematical sense) of the economy.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

In Floor Heating Removing Air Lock

The real heroes of the Web 2.0

Every day in the shade of businessmen and bloggers hits, hackers were brilliant insights and willingness to build the web (2.0) today and tomorrow.

Since they probably never know the fame he deserved, I would now give them a little tribute via a 100% subjective selection of the best of them.

David H. Hanson, definitely on track
This man is more than a clever techie: his vision of web development is so effective that it has revolutionized the profession almost by itself. His work, RubyOnRails , is indeed at odds with many habits: unknown language, a pattern (ActiveRecord) too often considered lax structure (MVC) that rhymed far more rigorous that efficiency ... and now many try to copy it!

Alex Russell, the master of the dojo
Alex Russell is the project manager dojo, this innovative javascript library which not only includes an impressive number of features but also has an architecture very well thought out.
Alex Russell is also one of those who lean most on the developing COMET, a technology that certainly has the future but is still AJAX more nightmarish to set up.

Brad Neuberg, offline, but the blow
I've already talked a lot, but the work of Brad on the offline mode and its coup for use Flash cookies in Javascript is really impressive.

Sam Stephenson, chief prototyper
Sam Stephenson is neither more nor less than the creator Prototype, the javascript library reference to the Ajax development. It is also part of the team working on the core RubyOnRails.

Thomas Fuchs: scriptaculeux!
Thomas Fuchs had the good idea to rely prototype scriptaculous to build his very practical effects JavaScript library ... it is also involved in developing RubyOnRails should therefore probably no coincidence. Also note, its good development practices JavaScript that should be better known.

Joe Hewitt, our savior daily
Joe Hewitt has had the excellent idea of developing the most faithful friend of the developer through javascript Firebug : let it be!

Note that 2 of these hackers 2.0 (David and Sam) are part of the famous team 37signals (Basecamp, Getting Real) and 2 others (Alex and Brad) are employed Sitepen ... 2 small companies they would move our old web faster than some behemoths?