I just finished migrating Play’s http client to Ning’s own asynchronous library. What does it mean? A lot. When you want to retrieve data from a different server, your web application behaves like a web client. Rather than serving a resource to a client, it requests one from a different server. For example, that’s what …
Busy as I was, I realized I didn’t blog about my recent employment change. I left Yoono 2 months ago to join a company called Zenexity (site in French). It’s really cool because after Flock and Yoono that were very similar (consumer oriented/social mashup/Mozilla technologies), I get to work on really different stuff: more server-side, …
A few days ago I’ve been invited to a launch party for a web product in Paris. While the product was nice and polished, it seems like the developers didn’t understand anything about scalability. They didn’t even understand my question when I asked them if the product could scale. It’s probably not a big deal …
I’ve been playing with Google App Engine recently. It’s actually pretty cool, to the point that I’m almost ashamed to have ignored it when it was released. I kind of felt like it would be too restrictive with just Python, just their own database and so on. But so far, I like it: It’s only …
The website addons.mozilla.org recently changed the rule for sandboxed addons: you no longer need to register and login to install one. That was a big issue because the review process is a bit heavy, and a lot of add-ons were stuck in that Limbo of Firefox. The difference for my recent sandboxed Video Games Spy …
This is a feature that I really love in Gnome (Linux), and that I wish Firefox had it too. That would make it even more integrated into the Gnome desktop. It is about the options for text and icons on toolbars. Currently, Firefox proposes three options: Icons only (the default) Icons and text Text only …
I just released a plugin for the media center softwares XBMC and Plex to watch the France2 news from your couch. Details in French here. Je viens de publier un plugin pour les media center XBMC et Plex permettant de regarder le journal de France2 depuis le canapé. Détails ici.
Flock 2.0 is on its way to the final release, and many of you have noticed that besides all the Firefox 3 goodness, the experience is pretty much the same as in Flock 1.2. Well, it’s pretty much the same, not exactly the same. One discreet feature is the recognition of Media RSS feeds for …
I’ve spent a day hacking on a new extension. It’s for gamers (like me!) who like to check reviews about new games before they buy. I’ve put Amazon customer reviews score, the mandatory Metacritic score. More to come – let me know what you think should be there. Also, when you visit Metacritic, IGN or …
