Gandi Cloud is a cloud hosting service, similar to Amazon’s EC2. Since you get full access to a Linux installation, deployment is similar to using a dedicated server. They have prepackaged solutions for various frameworks but not for Play. Fortunately deploying Play in general is pretty straight-forward. Note that, just like EC2, it’s not free …
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, …
As my friend Nicolas suggested, I decided to give some guidelines and pointers about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Now, full disclamer: I’m not a SEO expert, so what I am going to write is just very basic rules. Also, since Google is by far the most popular search engine, I will focus on it. I …
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 …
It’s always a pleasure when a company offers a public bug tracker for users and third party developers. So it’s great to see that Facebook has a public bugzilla. The problem with having a public bug tracker is that you’re supposed to be responsive and fix bugs; nothing worse that real bugs rotting in the …
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 …
I just compiled a recent build of Chromium (unbranded Google Chrome) from here. I would love to start playing with extensions, so I tried stuff from there. Alas, it doesn’t work. Since a bunch of stuff is still missing from the Linux builds, I guess extensions don’t work either. Did anyone manage to get extensions …
Reading on Techcrunch that Facebook was going to let people log in with OpenID left me with a mixed feeling. On one hand, it’s a shame that most services claimed to support OpenID while only offering an ID, but not letting people use outside IDs to log in. On the other hand, it’s going to …
I’ve already written about reading and writing Japanese on a Western Nokia phone. Now that I am in France, I got to test sending SMS in Japanese from my E71 to my dear’s E65. And it works, in both ways! There is nothing to do other than setting both phones to display and input Japanese. …
I’ve just read on Techcrunch that Flock was going to switch from Firefox to Chrome. This is not completely news to me because at the time I was still at Flock, one colleague (Chris Campbell) was doing experiments with Chrome to see the feasibility of the switch. I don’t know what’s going on inside Flock …
