Looks like I manage to write an entry in this diary every three years. Not bad!!! :-)

Very long time without a diary update.

Since my last update (Jan 2001) I have moved to Montreal and worked there for three years. I really enjoyed the experience! (hub: I hope you'll like it as much as we did :-)

In just a few days I'll be moving back in France with my wife and kids. I'm going to work on the french riviera, and hopefully we'll like that.

LTND.

Happy new year to you all!

I've been quite busy lately. My son has been growing (he is now almost one year old now, and already walking all around the house), I've changed job in July and I'll move to Montreal in the beginning of April (I finally got my permanent visa).

On the free software front I've done almost nothing, except rewriting the geometric engine of Dr. Geo in Python (50% done, the basic functionnality is in there with full undo/redo support). This is just for fun!

I've noticed that quite a few people here are working/living in Montreal. I'm currently living in France and I would be really happy to hear about specific issues that I should think of before the move there... (feedback to lolo at seul dot org).

I've not done much lately, as I've been absorbed by real life. I even completely failed to deliver mod_virgule patches I promised to lkcl (sorry about that).

I'll be able to actually code a little in the next few weeks, and I've decided to work on implementing unlimited undo/redo for the geometric engine of Dr. Genius. And of course I'll try to finish my patches for mod_virgule.

Food for thought for all the "Advogatos": Requirements Elicitation in Open-Source Programs.

Raph: your pictures are awesome! The baby is sooo lovely. I'm moved...

<joking>Could you translate the mensurations of your little boy to the metric system, please. It makes it hard for me to appreciate the result of your hard work</joking>.

I've been experimenting recently with a Wiki clone named pywiki, which has version control implemented with RCS. I like it, and now I think I will do something like that for mod_vigule, but using XML datastructure as the backend instead of RCS. I'm pretty confident that this can be implemented with only a limited number of lines of code.

I've been really interested by the diary of Christopher Blizzard about performance tools for Linux. <wish>I think that would be great if someone knowledgeable could write an article for Advogato on the subject.</wish> This would be of great interest for all free software developers.