November 5, 2002Il nous faut peu de mots pour exprimer l'essentiel. Paul Éluard.
(mais parfois beaucoup d'hyperliens de rajouter la grenouille!) #
FilmGimp, VirtualDub, Jahshaka ... Pas encore tout à fait After Effects et Premiere, mais presque... avec code source en prime! #
So what is XDocs?
From ZdNet: Here's what we know for sure: XDocs is a forms application and soon-to-be new member of the Microsoft Office family. (...) XDocs is also the company's trial balloon Web services client. Microsoft execs referred to XDocs as a "smart client alternative to Office." For those laboring to keep pace with the latest Microspeak, a smart client is the fat PC desktop revisited. Goodbye, Web browser front end; hello, hefty smart client. Remember, XDocs didn't appear out of thin air. There is a considerable amount of NetDocs philosophy, if not actual code, under XDocs' covers. Remember NetDocs? It almost ended up being a rival to Microsoft Office—which would have been fine, except that it was developed inside Microsoft. The company axed the NetDocs project last year, folding its remaining staffers into the Office team... Un peu de perspectives sur ce projet de Microsoft. #
PDF2TXT
PDF2TXT software can extract text from pdf files, it needn't Adobe Acrobat software, it has high speed in process. It can convert a lot of pdf files on the fly to text files. Voir aussi PDF2HTML. Je déteste les PDFs, 90% du temps ils sont inutiles. #
MailMan-to-RSS: MailMan RSS feeds
Yahoo! Groups does it -- so why shouldn't MailMan? A quick Perl script which scrapes a MailMan list archive and generates an RSS feed of the most recent articles. Mucho pratico! #
GuLSE - Groupe des utilisateurs Linux de St-Eustache et des Environs
Réunion du GuLSE, mercredi, 13 novembre 2002 @ 19:30, Sainte-Thérèse. Première réunion du GuLSE au collège Lionel Groulx! À 10 minutes de mon domicile banlieusard... j'y serais peut-être. #
How to Obscure Any URL
There's a little more to Internet addressing than commonly meets the eye; there are conventions which allow for some interesting variations in how an Internet address is expressed. These tricks are known to the spammers and scammers, and they're used freely in unsolicited mails. You'll also see them in ad-related URLs and occasionally on web pages where the writer hopes to avoid recognition of a linked address for whatever reason. Now, I'm making these tricks known to you. Read on, and you'll soon be very hard to fool. Geeky et passionnant (le deuxième adjectif s'applique seulement si vous qualifiez pour le premier). #
Creating Web Services with AXIS
Apache AXIS is a substantial and comprehensive open source Java (and eventually C++) toolkit for building and deploying Web service clients and servers. Based on standards (HTTP, the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and XML), AXIS includes APIs, tools, and lots of sample code that you'll find invaluable whether you're deploying your first simple Web service, a full-blown commercial service, or a Java applet that interacts with another vendor's Web service. Bonne introduction à une autre pièce d'interstructure. #
Geeks on the Half Shell 2.0
Un extrait de la synthèse de Doc Searls suite à une semaine intensive avec quelques geeks influents sur un bateau dans les Caraïbes.
- Linux' presence in the world is steadily, inexorably, commodifying operating systems, and there is nothing anybody, including Microsoft, Sun or anybody else can do to stop it.
- Hardware is now so commodified that tolerance for relatively expensive software is bound to go away at the low end of the market.
- Transparency is a virtue that make the case for a lot of open-source code, as well as its development methods.
- New generic applications will become platforms of their own, thin layers of hard code on which countless scripts and scripted applications can run.
- LOTD--Linux on the Desktop--will inevitably become popular. It might not happen rapidly, but the success of Mozilla 1.x is a useful harbinger.
- The big companies are finally getting fed up with the high cost of doing business with Microsoft.
