Recent blog entries for manu

• Day 4 of my (stupid) stop smocking project. I try chewing gum but it's not very pleasant with coffee :-)
• Bad day: our mail server load suddenly increase. Even after ldap restart,... it keep on showing a 5.x load
• Bad day, "the come back": a customer's server stops responding so paris video chat is offline... Remember to ask it a detailed procedure sheet...
• Bad day, "the revenge": another problem trying installing pptp with f*cking mppe
• The good news(TM) is that tommorow can't be worse...

• Last monthes news...
  • March: first operational release of eCommStep, our e-commerce engine based on GNUstepWeb
  • March: Release of Cyber DVD Film, an online shop selling DVDs. This project was for one of our cutomer: Microcom. really a success for the 1st eCommStep based site.
  • April: Release of Cyber DVD X, a site like Cyber DVD Film but for X DVDs. Also based on eCommStep.
    It handle around 4500 visits, 40 000 pages and 400 000 hits per day. No too bad :-)
  • Submitted a news on this usage of GNUstep/GNUstepWeb on LinuxFR.
  
  
• Currents news...
  • First of all: that's my 3rd day without smoking.
    After smoking around 20 or 25 cigarettes/day for 14 years, I've started to stop last sunday.
    It's a little hard when you spend something like 12 hours a day on a computer :-(

  • Yesterday was Catherine birthday. Happy birthday, Catherine !
  • I've finished new version of Orange Concept web site with the help of Catherine which made all presentation and nice graphics.
    Most of the pages are generated from XML files. PHP XML functions allows fast use of XML files. Very nice. Trying to avoid thinking about cigarettes...

  • Still working on eCommStep, debugging and adding new features...
    Trying to stop thinking about cigarettes...
  • There's a nice article on GNUstepWeb in a French magazine: Login.
    Really trying to forget cigarettes...

• Release of GNUstepWeb Apache 2.x adaptor.
  

• We've finally released the first version of GDL2
  GDL2 is an acronym for GNUstep Database Library, an Objective-C implementation of the EOF 3.x framework from NeXT Software, Inc./Apple.

  It consists of EOAccess and EOControl layer, EOModeler library to support eogenerator and a PostgreSQL adaptor. Actually there is no support for the interface part and the model inheritance.

  
  See GNUstep
• Still working on GNUstepWeb...

• Not a daily diary :-)
  So what's new ? Nothing really interesting. I work for food...
• We've finally finished Cartier's project.
• I now work on a commerce site (X DVDs selling) for a customer. Technology ? Apache+PHP+MySQL...
  Not really fun but I ameliorated our administration framework. It will be LGPL'ed and available on Oxymium/Free.
• No news about GNUstepWeb. I really want to work on it but still can't find time. I hope september will be more quiet...

• PS: Apple G4 and WO story is not finished: I've never find a way to install MacOSX server last pre-release to use it with WO 4.5 !
  I'll have to purchase MacOS X Server and WO5. Too bad ! Iv'e already purchased MacOS X workstation and WO 4.5. Merci Apple !

• Last days adventure was to get a Mac G4 and WebObjects.
  I've started by trying Apple store but company account creation didn't work for 3 days. I've waited and finally get an ID. So I've filled my basket (thanks to session expiration. I think Apple people know nothing about customer phone call and how long they can be.), submit it and checked payment by check.
  I've waited something like 24h but no mail aknowledge. So I've called Apple and the person sayed to me that there was a delay of 10 to more than 25 days when paying by check (I have to send the check to Nederlands, next the computer is build and shipped from Ireland). BTW, the payment request came into my snail mailbox more than a week after ther order !
  Finally I've canceled the order and found a G4 from a reseller (I've got in in less than 24h !)
  Next, I've tried to find WebObjects. I've called 10 resellers but none of them have it because Apple don't sell it anymore in France. Last solution: Apple store again. I've ordered it (and payed with Credit card, this time). 2 days later, I receive Mac OS X (from a reseller) and WebObjects from Apple. But WebObjects development application runs only on Mac OS X Server (which is not yet sold) or Windows NT.
  So I have an unusable Mac G4 and WebObjects running on NT (really too bad: Apple can't make their application runing on their own plateform). I say that the Mac is unusable because network file sharing doen't works between it and my Linux or Windows computers. I think Apple have to reallyThink Different".
  Anyway, I come back to my well running linux laptop to work with GNUstep and GNUstepWeb

Waoo, 6 month since last entries... and still working on same projects :-( Cartier. Luckily, we should have near completed it this night.

• What's new ? Find time to work on GNUstepWeb for a customer project (an interesting one this time !!!)

May be something to write later...

10 days since last entry. Lot of work: Cartier project, meeting with Fluxus, meeting with Luxyz (a partner), GNUstepWeb, work for Oxymium, finalize Microcom project, ...

• The power was down this night. UPCs handle the problem few minutes. Next, have to verify serveurs :-(

• [Free] ANTLR parser replacement with XML in GNUstepWeb is near completed.
  There's a bug in libxml in encoding handling (franch characters :-) but should be corrected quickly (I hope).
  Thanks to Daniel Veillard for the help on XML !

• Still working on affiliates,...

• Worked on Cartier project.

• [Free] Working on replacing ANTLR parser with XML one in GNUstepWeb.
  libxml drive me crazy: it seems to work for 'tool' (not dynamic executable) but don't work when used in a dynamic library !
  I hate going to sleep without solving this kind of problem.

• Still working on affiliates,...

• Worked on Cartier project.

• Made accounts to pay taxes :-(

• Discussion with camel about an estimate for a customer. It seems they have readen only the last line and didn't seen that there was 3 differents possible solutions. Bah !
  Discussed about ISP and prices. I don't understand why companies care about 10$/month for important things when they spend thousands for superfluous ones. May be I'm too stupid...

• [Free] Working on replacing ANTLR parser with XML one in GNUstepWeb. BTW here is a portal on XML.