Older blog entries for Akira (starting at number 43)

6 Feb 2006 »
Basicwork
    You need people capable of producing clean, flexible and only-as-complex-as-necessary architecture. You won't get that from an army of code monkeys, even if you hire 1,000,000 of them, even in Bangalore, even in Python.
18 Oct 2005 (updated 18 Oct 2005 at 16:54 UTC) »
Life
    Do not criticize the design of our software when one sees an organization without design
Rhetorical question ...
    I am not trolling and this is not a rhetorical question. I would like to know why developers would choose Perl on a new project ; Python or Ruby for example are more modern scripting languages ?

    I'm looking for some scientific arguments for a colleague who still hesitates to change ;-)

Hacklog
18 Aug 2005 (updated 2 Jun 2006 at 06:42 UTC) »
30 Jul 2005 »

About the French debt:

There is no response to the problem of the national debt in the column of the revenues from taxes. There is only in that of the national expenditure

-- François Bayrou

10 Apr 2005 (updated 10 Apr 2005 at 15:06 UTC) »
European Constitution
    Elementary democratic pedagogy orders to answer the question that one poses to you, and not to who asks you it.

    One should not make pay with the European Constitution the debts of Chirac with respect to the French country ...

Hacklog
    I have added some screenshots of the iTrade very preliminary release. I'm starting working on the candlesticks then I will polish existing screens then I will officialy release this proof of concept stuff. Stay tuned!
Life
    My kitten has just arrived at the house :-) It is a striped white female of the name of Plume (feather in english).
20 Mar 2005 (updated 10 Apr 2005 at 07:58 UTC) »
iTrade preliminary python code is able to import trades of a quote using hack extracting data from abcbourse.com. Get code from itrade_import_abcbourse.py.

25 Jul 2004 »
Mapping the Tour de France riders from space !
13 May 2004 »

"Who would have thought that play could be turned into work by rewarding people for doing what they like to do?" - Rosemarie Anderson

11 May 2004 (updated 2 Jun 2006 at 06:44 UTC) »
jayaCDL
    Just put the new beta release of jayaCDL on sourceforge. Read the release notes.
Micro Emacs
    I'm trying to port microEmacs 4.00 to the Zaurus. Has someone already done that ?
25 Apr 2004 (updated 2 Jun 2006 at 06:45 UTC) »
Hacklog
    I excavated a long time to understand why my const variables were stored in DATA segment, not in TEXT segment. GCC for the ATmega161 AVR proposes a proprietary attribute, accessible by __ATTR_PROGMEM__, to place a variable in program memory. It is also necessary to include the file <avr/pgmspace.h>.

    Why not make like the competitor environments by proposing the keyword code ?

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