I was asked often to help many of my customers making or launching their new website or portal, I won’t go here through the life cycle of such project but just focus on the real first step after getting contact : gathering information. ...

Internet Explorer 7, FireFox, Safari and Google Chrome … it was really funny playing with them at the same moment, switching from one browser to another, testing their speed & capabilities … but at the end, the choice is still difficult… ...

sans commentaires 38 pages de BD qui expliquent tout. une installation de moins d’une minute, un web rendering engin le plus rapide que j’ai jamais vu … et la cerise … il est open source. google … chapeau bas! ...

Malgré le retard d’Android, la menace Google plâne. Aussi, Nokia vient de récupérer quasiment toutes les parts de Symbian chez Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, Panasonic, Siemens, Samsung étant le seul qui n’a pas encore donné son accord, le tout pour un montant total de 264 millions d’euros. Mais là où Nokia frappe fort, c’est justement que la marque finlandaise ne compte pas se garder pour elle seule Symbian et vient d’annoncer la Symbian Foundation pour transformer Symbian en logiciel libre sous licence Eclipse. […] ...

Any given program, when running, is obsolete. Any given program costs more and takes longer. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented. Any program will expand to fill available memory. The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it. Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug. Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited. Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. [ via devtopics.com ] [ from slim amamou ] ...

imagine how excited i am while playing with this toy …

“I just wanted to remind everyone that Saturday, January 19th 2008 will mark the beginning of the 30-year countdown to the Y2K38 bug, when Unix time will overflow 32 bits. Some 30-year loan calculation software might start having problems with this over the weekend.” ...

google released 23 translation chat-bots. you just send them a message and they’ll reply back with the translation within a second. you can use it inside Google Talk or any other jabber client. List of bots: ar2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fr2de, fr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, zh2en Explanation on the language codes: EN = English, NL = Dutch, DE = German, ES = Spanish, FR = French, IT = Italian, KO = Korean, RU = Russian, JA = Japanese, ZH = Chinese. ...

i was surfing when i found this funny [ and right ] article. Erasing Whiteboards Because whiteboards are often shared you need to identify a protocol for when to erase them. Here are my rules, in order of importance: Everyone should erase their own work once it is no longer needed. If you want to save your work for a future working session you must include a message indicating so. This message must include your name, contact info, and an erase date after which someone is allowed to erase it. If you need a board, and there’s no message or the erase date has expired, then erase it. If a message just says “Do Not Erase” but does not include the other required information you should make a judgment call whether you want to erase it. If you don’t put the date on the diagram then useless diagrams will proliferate throughout your org and you’ll quickly run out of whiteboard space. Don’t ever spit on the whiteboard to clean it. Not only is it gross, it means that subsequent writing will not ‘take'. If you’ve used a permanent marker on a whiteboard use whiteboard cleaner to erase it or simply go over the writing with a whiteboard marker to loosen the permanent ink. General Tips ...

j’etais invite pour participer au journee open source du jeune club ESPRIT libre de l’ecole privee ESPRIT a chargia, tunis. je viens juste de terminer mon invtervention sur les solutions hybrides open et closed source. la journee etait essentiellement un install fest pour la distro mandrivia ou plusieurs jeunes ont assiste a diverses presentations et ateliers. le club est tres jeune, dynamique et tres prometeur. longue vie aux open sources. ps : photos soon ...

il s’est deroule samedi dernier, 27.10.2007, la deuxieme journee des logiciels libres en tunisie. la journee etait organisee par une cooperation dynamique et fructueuse entre plusieurs clubs et equipes universitaires et jeunes. j’ai ete personnellement invite pour presenter deux conferences, l’une portant sur la technologie web 2.0 ( slides ) et une autre sur la cohabitation des open sources et logiciels proprietaires ( slides ). des grands stands etaient deploies de part et d’autres de la cite des sciences ou des jeunes doues ont pu exposer leurs creations et innovations. des entreprises 2s2l etait presentes aussi ou ils ont montre leurs contributions et leurs services aux chefs d’entreprises et DSI qui etaient sur les lieux. la journee a ete cloture par la remise des cadeaux aux participants qui ont gagne les prix des meilleurs produits exposes. je salue au passage la vivacite et le dynamisme des equipes et stt leurs devouement. ps: photos soon ...

The list below is a summary of many of the common features of typical “Web 2.0” sites : Simplicity Central layout Fewer columns Separate top section Solid areas of screen real-estate Simple nav Bold logos Bigger text Bold text introductions Strong colours Rich surfaces Gradients Reflections Cute icons Star flashes a nice article that teaches you how to imagine and design your site following the web 2.0 mode [ via web design from scratch ] ...

si vous me connaissez, offrez moi cette p’tite merveille :P #!/bin/tom sous safari sur un ipod touch via wifi. [ thanx to marouen mraihi]

j’etais surpris en suivant le journal de 20h sur la chaine nationale (tunis7) que Steve Ballmer le CEO de Microsoft est en visite a Tunis. sans entrer dans les pros et les cons de telle visite, je reste tjs sceptique… je peux dire qu’une telle visite presente un obstacle economique tres dur pour l’IT en tunisie. en somme, toutes nos ressouces educatives, humaines et financieres seront touchees si Microsoft dominiera sur le marche tunisien. etant un pro open source et sans etre fanatic, je vois, aussi, que c’est un obstacle aussi dur que le precedent pour la communaute open source tunisienne et l’open source en general en tunisie. c’est vrai que Microsoft reste tjs leader en terme de nouvelles technologies et surtout monopoliste, mais j’ai longtemps constate leur fermeture par rapport aux standards ouverts et publics. j’ai cette peur que tous le secteur IT en tunisie sera domine et gouverne par l’esprit accablante de licences et des annonces des fins de supports de tels ou tels produits, peur que nos ingenieurs deviennent plus consommateurs de la technologie que des innovateurs ou creatifs. quelque part, ca peut aider en eliminant toutes les formes de piratages clandestins ou prouver notre capacite de premouvoir les droits d’auteurs et logiciels; quoi que personnelement, je vois que nos pertes restent toujours plus enormes que les gains de Microsoft, et ce a long terme. ...

CSS3 is the new kid in the stylesheet family. It offers exciting new possibilities to create an impact with your designs, allows you to use more diverse style sheets for a variety of occasions and lots more. We created this site because we want to share our experiences of CSS3 with you, and want nothing more than to simply be the biggest online resource covering CSS3. (Hey, we’re ambitious!) ...

Error 0x2035 Le serveur ne souhaite pas traiter la requête. une erreur qu’on a eu lors d’une execution d’une requete sur ActiveDirectory !

I recently reviewed several commercial, closed-source slideshow authoring packages for Windows and came across an alarming trend. Several of the packages I installed included GPL and LGPL software without any mention of the GPL, much less source code. For example, DVD Photo Slideshow ( www.dvd-photo-slideshow.com) included mkisofs, cdrdao, dvdauthor, spumux, id3lib, lame, mpeg2enc, and mplex (all of which are GPL or LGPL). The company tried to hide this by wrapping them all in DLLs. There are other violations in other packages as well. Based on my testing of other software, it seems that use of GPL software in commercial Windows applications is on the rise. My question is how much are GPL violations in the Windows world being pursued? Does the FSF or EFF follow up on these if the platform is not GPL? How aware is the community of this trend?" ...

The mobile phone industry is today celebrating the 15th birthday of the Short Message Service Centre (SMSC), the principal application behind text messaging first brought to market by Acision in 1992. The first ever SMSC was introduced as a product designed primarily to deal with the demands and improve reliability of a developing mobile industry, […] Despite the rapid evolution of the mobile market, SMS is still the most important value-added service for operators. For operators looking to provide subscribers with robust messaging services, today’s mix and match platform means they can specify SMS capacity to meet their requirements. ...

do you want to chat quickly with your buddies using gtalk by clicking an icon on your desktop? well you can! add a shortcut to your dekstop with this url : gtalk:chat?jid=[YOUR_BUDDY]@gmail.com and yesss, you can personalize the icon !! as gTalk is all high voice quality so why only chat with your friends! well call them: gtalk:call?jid=[YOUR_BUDDY]@gmail.com ...

There are so many programming languages available that it can be very difficult to get to know them all well enough to pick the right one for you. On the other hand most men know what kind of woman appeals to them. So here is a handy guide for many of the popular programming languages that describes what kind of women they would be if programming languages were women. _Assembler - A female track star who holds all the world speed records. She is hard and bumpy, and so is not that pleasant to embrace. She can cook up any meal, but needs a complete and detailed recipe. She is not beautiful or educated, and speaks in monosyllables like “MOV, JUMP, INC”. She has a fierce and violent temper that make her the choice of last resort. _FORTRAN - Your grey-haired grandmother. People make fun of her just because she is old, but if you take the time to listen, you can learn from her experiences and her mistakes. During her lifetime she has acquired many useful skills in sewing and cooking (subroutine libraries) that no younger women can match, so be thankful she is still around. She has a notoriously bad temper and when angered will start yelling and throwing dishes. It was mostly her bad temper that made grand dad search for another wife. _COBOL - A plump secretary. She talks far too much, and most of what she says can be ignored. She works hard and long hours, but can’t handle really complicated jobs. She has a short and unpredictable temper, so no one really likes working with her. She can cook meals for a huge family, but only knows bland recipes. _BASIC - The horny divorcee that lives next door. Her specialty is seducing young boys and it seems she is always readily available for them. She teaches them many amazing things, or at least they seem amazing because it is their) first experience. She is not that young herself, but because she was their first lover the boys always remember her fondly. Her cooking and sewing skills are mediocre, but largely irrelevant, it’s the frolicking that the boys like. The opinion that adults have of Mrs. BASIC is varied. Shockingly, some fathers actually introduce their own sons to this immoral woman! But generally the more righteous adults try to correct the badly influenced young men by introducing them to well behaved women like Miss Pascal. _PL/I - A bordello madam. She wears silk dresses, diamonds, furs and red high heels. At one time she seemed very attractive, but now she just seems overweight and tacky. Tastes change. _C - A lady executive. An avid jogger, very healthy, and not too talkative. Is an good cook if you like spicy food. Unless you double check everything you say (through LINT) you can unleash her fierce temper. Her daughter C++ is still quite young and prone to tantrums, but it seems that she will grow up into a fine young woman of milder temper and more sophisticated character. _ALGOL 60 - Your father’s wartime sweetheart, petite, well proportioned, and sweet tempered. She disappeared mysteriously during the war, but your dad still talks about her shapely form and their steamy romance. He never actually tasted much of her cooking. _Pascal - A grammar school teacher, and Algol 60’s younger sister. Like her sister she is petite and attractive, but very bossy. She is a good cook but only if the recipe requires no more than one pot (module). _Modula II - A high-school teacher and Pascal’s daughter. Very much like her mother, but she has learned to cook with more than one pot. _ALGOL 68 - Algol 60’s niece. A high-society woman, well educated and terse. Few men can fully understand her when she talks, and her former lovers still discuss her mysterious personality. She is very choosy about her romances and won’t take just any man as her lover. She hasn’t been seen lately, and rumor has it that she died in a fall from an ivory tower. _LISP - She is an aging beatnik, who lives in a rural commune with her hippie cousins SMALLTALK and FORTH. Many men (mostly college students) who have visited the farmhouse,- enthusiastically praise the natural food, and perpetual love-ins that take place there. Others criticize the long cooking times, and the abnormal sexual postures (prefix and postfix). Although these women seldom have full-time jobs, when they do work, their employers praise them for their imagination, but usually not for their efficiency. _APL - A fancy caterer specializing in Greek food. She can cook delicious meals for rows and rows of tables with dozens of people at each table. She doesn’t talk much, as that would just slow her work down. Few people can understand her recipes, since they are in a foreign language, and are all recorded in mirror writing. _LOGO - A grade-school art teacher. She is just the kind of teacher that you wish you had when you were young. She is shapely and patient, but not an interesting conversationalist. She can cook up delicious kiddie snacks, but not full-course meals. _LUCID & PROLOG - These clever teenagers show a new kind of cooking skill. They can cook-up fine meals without the use of recipes, working solely from a description of the desired meal (declarative cooking). Many men are fascinated by this and have already proposed marriage. Others complain that the girls work very slowly, and that often the description of the meal must be just as long as a recipe would be. It is hard to predict what these girls will be like when they are fully mature. _Ada - A WAC colonel built like an amazon. She is always setting strict rules, but if you follow them, she keeps her temper. She is quite talkative, always spouting army regulations, and using obscure military talk. You gotta love her though, because the army says so. _Java - Bulky with big boobs. Does everything you want but slowly. Hardly complains about how you want it in bed. The kind of woman who is not sexy, but gives you amazing satisfaction. You have tried several women, but this one doesn’t get off your mind so you always go back to her. _PHP - Slick and slim lady. Very portable. Does nice and amazing things with her small body. Very good in aerobics. Not very sexy but intact. She is the kind of women that most men are happy to wed, though she will need a house maid because she is unable to carry heavy workload. _Ruby on Rails. The new girl in town. Everybody is talking about her. Very beautiful and sexy. Only daring men, because she is till new, have the guts to ask her out. She is modern and sophisticated. Already a lot of myth is surrounding her with regards to her ability. She is not talkative but looks rather very intelligent. _C# - The pimp from next door! She likes copying everything, from recipes to makeup to fashion. She is never original and likes to still other women’s ideas, then go about shouting that the ideas are hers. Those who are not aware of her source of ideas think she is very intelligent. She is very talkative and showy. Sometimes she is very good at perfecting what she has copied. _Python - The all complete lady who is the envy of the town. She came up with a slick new way of dressing that made her a hit. Those who initially scoffed at her new dressing later fell head over heals for it. She is not talkative, but when she does a job, she does it very well. _Visual Basic (Popularly known as VB) - The little bitch from next door. Probably the most dumb girl in town. She never turns a man down and all the boys in the neighbourhood use her as a training ground as they learn the ropes to adulthood. She never practise safe sex and regularly infects the whole system with memory leaks. Popularly known as VB, she is so loose a lot of fathers have spanked their sons for dating her. However, it is amazing how popular she is. Most men curse themselves once they taste lips of mature and sweet women. A lot of men have struggled to maintain decent relationships with mature women after being spoiled by this little brat! She doesn’t have a clue how to cook a complete decent meal without throwing up into the pot! ...

i would like to announce the release of the version ~0.0.1b 0.0.9c 0.1.0 of iNews. iNews is a small tool developped in php and mysql mainly to manage newsletters for mailing lists. it offers : _ add/edit/import a list of users. _ add/edit news (web format). _ add/edit/preview mail template (web format). _ send the newsletter. any contributions, suggestions or help are welcome ! update source code here ...

i was really sad, and even more, when my friend’s 1GB iPod shuffle dead ! it was really painful seen such a gadget become unuseful. meanwhile, after days of search, i found that appel released a reset tool to bring iPods back. useful … [ via 2:48am ] [ tool here ] ...

_ elle : c’est quoi ton signe astrologique ? _ lui : moi, je suis pengouin, ascendant GNU ! quel humour de geek ! [ via copinedegeek.com , ici ] [ via fourat ]

c’etait tout a l’heur en consultant mes mailboxes !!

michael howard, a senior security program manager at Microsoft, wrote an article discussing how to develop secure source code by using the right analysis tools and experts and how to reduce risks using fuzzing and threat modeling; the article invite us to check the application’s inputs and to learn the security concepts the article talks about the habits that any developer must have in aim to get a final, secure and efficent product : habit #1: taking responsibility habit #2: never trust Data habit #3: model threats against the code habit #4: staing one step ahead habit #5: fuzzing. habit #6: do not write insecure code habit #7: recognizing the strategic asymmetry habit #8: use the best tools the article is available in the MSDN magazine, here . ...

a good post about how to solve puzzle architectural/integration/merge problems using soa technologies [..] How can you keep a large, redundant, entrenched, heterogeneous portfolio alive and responsive to the business, while building for the future? _The go-forward application portfolio should be services-based, and product offerings should be assemblies (compositions) of services, business processes, events, and user interfaces, packaged by industry, and configurable by end customers. _For incremental gains (refresh, new features, migration), services and data stores developed for the go-forward application should be injected into the existing applications. _To facilitate interactions across domains and/or redundant systems, the existing applications should have access to a common integration mechanism. _Since no one can afford to start from scratch, the existing applications can be mined for assets that serve as providers in the go-forward portfolio. ...

voici un mail qu’a recu le service helpdesk d’une societe tunisienne ayant un portail clientel Original Message From: < _____@voila.fr> To: < contact@ _____.com.tn> Sent: 02/09/2006 18:33:40 Subject: avoir un nom d’utlisateur+mot passe pour consulter _____ null

i’ve just recieved my thanking gift from serence inc. as a recongnition for being a sponsor and a contributor in their rss feeder solution named klipfolio. i’ve been using klipfolio since 3 years now, and it’s a pretty light and powerfull tool for tracking feeds, rss or many others things by personnalizing the “klips” and by customizing them as you want. i feel happy … whatever was the gift … at least, my modest actions have some impacts here and there :) ...

Today, 24.08, is the birthday of Gtalk! I’ve been using Gtalk for a while now, and I appreciate it so much. It’s so light, simple, and especially ergonomic. Today, while I was talking with a friend, I was surprised by the logo’s change… and it was really funny, the same simple Google way to highlight a special event! ...

Bindows est un projet prometteur que je suis depuis 2 années maintenant. Le projet consiste à fournir un ensemble d’API pour le développement d’interfaces utilisateur de type bureau sur le web. Il s’agit d’un mélange d’AJAX, de composants web et de plusieurs autres technologies (XML-RPC, SOA client…) permettant de définir à la fin un framework très générique et utilisable. ...

MySQL RDBMS is not a real RDBMS, but it has a lot of similarities with any of them. MySQL has a configuration file called my.cnf (usually placed in the `/etc folder of the Linux box). By checking this file, you’ll notice that MySQL’s configuration is set to the classic/standard one dedicated to small machines with no heavy traffic. The file contains only the basic settings needed by any MySQL server. In my example, I had a heavy query that took almost 90% of the CPU performance for more than 15 minutes. No RAM was improperly used, and no buffers were altered during these 15 minutes. I succeeded in reducing the query time to 1 ~ 3 minutes. ...

PHP Magazine (mon hébergeur) vient de changer de look, et cela devient de plus en plus professionnel. PHP Magazine est une idée née avec mon ami Hatem, visant à créer une communauté de passionnés de PHP. En offrant un magazine avec des sujets et articles à jour, tournant autour de PHP et de l’informatique en général. ...

eMule en dialect arabe tunisien devient : البغلة الالكترونية [ dixite iNode ]

Je viens de revenir d’une conférence organisée par le club FreeWays de l’ISI (Institut Supérieur d’Informatique), où j’enseigne d’ailleurs. FreeWays est, comme d’autres clubs universitaires, un groupe d’étudiants passionnés d’informatique et, surtout, de logiciels libres. J’ai contribué à cette journée par un speech où j’ai pu faire un peu de publicité et de promotion pour un produit 100 % tunisien sous licence GPL, à savoir QCMGen (source ici). J’ai également eu l’occasion de parler du PHP, des webservices ainsi que de mes théories et opinions personnelles sur le sujet. ...

This is the most surprising tool that I have ever seen in my life… Imagine yourself decompressing a 1.5 MB file to over a 450 MB folder…!!! Yep, a tool called kgb1 can do this with its high compression rate, reaching 90% for text files and over 20% for binaries. The tool is available for Windows and Linux. Wow, really… ...

Marwen1, Karim2k2, Subzero3 et moi avons animé mercredi dernier (le 22/02/2006) une conférence pour initier le public au monde du blog. La conférence s’est déroulée à l’ISET de Zaghouan, précisément au foyer universitaire, devant une cinquantaine d’étudiantes en pyjama (clin d’œil à Marwen) qui étaient plus ou moins intéressées par le sujet. ...

اضغط هنا [ english version here ] [ via Wathek ]

le developpement, l’expertise en securite et le “project-management” seront les metiers les plus demandes en 2006. D’apres COMPUTERWORLD, en comparaison avec les offres d’emploi sur Dice.com de la meme periode en 2004, les demandes en developpeurs, project-managers et les techniciens en help desk ont augmente, respectivement, de 40%, 47% et 45%. Dans la meme etude, COMPUTERWORLD constate que les demandes sont essentiellement autour de l’outsourcing, avec le developpement au top, la securite en deuxieme lieu puis la gestion des projets et enfin avec les IT help desk. [ via slashDot ] [ more COMPUTERWORLD ] ...

Hé oui, tappez www.gppgle.com sur votre browser et ça tombera illico sur Google… ils sont fous ses Googliens …. parce qu’ils savent que le P et à coté de O sur les claviers et que les fautes de frappes sont fréquentes, ils ont alors pris le “gppgle.com” … ! ...

Fedora Linux community project has released the first test version of Fedora Core 5. RedHat, which is sponsoring Fedora but not supporting it, is giving to Linux experts an “avant-premiere” to some of the newest technologies that eventually will be used in the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. ...

one of the ideas that i have this morning is to check all the new posted issues in my bug tracker mantis via my RSSFeed agent klipfolio this is will let me uptodate for all events, updates and others issues posted by my teams in mantis without being forced to refresh my browser. ...

Hé oui, et c’est pas uniqement le nom du nouveau feuilleton de TV7 ! Mignart est aussi le nom de l’un des systèmes qu’on a developpé en interne chez Tunisie Télécom. C’est un costumer-care implanté sur notre intranet et qui est dedié à la gestion des services des abonnés prepayé-fixe. C’est le 4ème en importance parmis les systèmes d’informations en prod chez l’opérateur selon un audit du SI mené dernièrement. ...

On vient juste de parler d’AJAX que voilà les applications commencent à voir le jour … AJAX est une nouvelle technologie d’application web essetentiellement basee sur XML et le Javascript minimisant ainsi les coûts d’accès repétitives et de génération des données par le serveur. [ plus de details sur AJAX’s Blog @ phpmagazine.net ...

Je viens d’acheter mon nouveau pocket pc, un hp ipaq hx2410. Un pocket pc doté d’un intel xScale à 500Mhz, Bluetooth, WiFi, du dernier Windows mobile et surtout de 128Mo … A moi, la technologie … [ Specs here ] ...

Art and Computer Programming by John Littler – One of the great theoretical debates in computer programming is “Is programming art?” There are creative components certainly, and aesthetic aspects occasionally, but do programming’s functional concerns push it more toward craft or engineering? John Littler recently cornered several well-known hackers for their opinions on the subject. ...

Alleliua ! Je viens d’upgrader mon bug tracker … Y a eu un problème dans la base qui a failli me faire perdre des mois de travail dans divers projets. Mais bon, un [sale] quart d’heure de deboggage et tt est dans le bain :) ...

une bannière publicitaire sur laquelle je suis tombé dessus aujourd’hui en surfant sur le net ! Qui est le méchant ! va chercher … !

Je sais pas, connaissez pas un temps dans la conjugaison francaise ou n’importe quelle autre langue qui peut m’aider exprimer ca : Je viens de recevoir un mail qui n’est pas encore envoyé mais qui est quand même reçu. ...

Nokia vient de lancer son dernier nouveau ne le Nokia 770 qui tourne sur une plateforme open source base sur le linux maemo ! Le nouveau nokia 770 est de la catégorie des “handheld devices” et qui -avec l’apport des open sources- permettera essentiellement l’extension et l’usage du mobile GSM comme un terminal internet mobile/sans-fil. Doté d’un écran 800x450 pixels, la navigation devient plus aisée et conviviale. ...