Sylvain Carle: Tech Management

Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:57:41 GMT

Habeas
Habeas Sender Warranted Email ("SWE") is helping to eradicate the scourge of spam by creating and enforcing a system for individuals and companies to warrant that the email they are sending is not spam, and is, in fact, "the email you want". Habeas SWE enables Habeas to enforce that warranty by suing spammers that try to label spam as Sender Warranted Email(SM), and by obtaining against them enforceable injunctions and judgements from the Courts through the use of trademark and copyright law. C'est une approche qui combine technologie, loi et volonté corporative... innovateur! J'ai découvert par hasard (sur une liste de discussion) qu'un de leur employé, Neil Schwartzman (qui publie l'excellent SpamNews) travaillais à Montréal, je vais le rencontrer la semaine prochaine...

Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:00:21 GMT

Microsoft Just Says No to .Doc Replacement Panel
Un message syur Slashdot qui illustre bien ma postition sur le sujet: OpenOffice.org is a tremendous threat to MS Office (...) all OOo needs is for a few major corporate users of office suites to spend a fraction of the $ they send to Redmond instead on funding the final polish of OOo and the benefits of essentially zero $ cost coupled with open file formats and free-as-in-freedom will take care of the rest. If Microsoft does not see this as a real and serious threat, they are fools. (I believe they do see it as a threat, and will act accordingly) Boeing is on board, it shouldn't be too hard to get AOLTW and a few other obvious examples, and soon the dominoes will begin toppling. Microsoft cannot win the fight in the long term. They may win some battles, but they cannot win this war. Hehehe. Même pas eu besoin de l'écrire moi-même... vive l'hypertexte! Voir aussi l'article d'Infoworld sur le groupe de travail d'OASIS.

Fri, 22 Nov 2002 17:55:27 GMT

/dev/nul
It really doesn't matter that Java is faster than .NET. In this test, it was 30% faster. In most tests it is 10-15% faster. I say "so what?" for two reasons... Allez lire la suite, c'est rempli de bonnes perspectives techniques.

Fri, 22 Nov 2002 17:01:07 GMT

Matt Haughey: Begun this spam war has. En effet. Je suis toutes ces discussions de très près (Death by spam et les répliques qui l'entourent, les produits commerciaux, les solutions ouvertes et autres prespectives. )... c'est un débat clef de l'année et ça touche plusieurs niveaux qui me passionnent: réseautique, logiciels, identité et communications. Je me demande si je ne vais pas me créer un blog que pour cet problématique... ouais, bonne idée! [citation d'introduction via Hack the Planet]

Fri, 22 Nov 2002 06:29:23 GMT

79 percent of companies will use Web services over next 12 months. Ok, je pense qu'il est enfin temps de passer à l'action pour ma plateforme...

Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:13:07 GMT

RDF Primer Primer
This document was written by Aaron to fill what he saw as a hole in RDF's documentation. It has not been looked at or approved or asked for by the Working Group. Simple et bien fait.

Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:35:07 GMT

TcpTrace
I got fed up with installing Java & Apache SOAP just to get tcpTunnelGUI, so here's a native Win32 version, built using Attila (no MFC :) ). It started out as a copy of the Apache tool, but has taken on a life of its own! À rajouter dans mon webdev toolkit...

Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:28:28 GMT

Spam Conference
Interested in spam filters? Come join us in Cambridge on January 17, 2003 at the first conference on spam filtering. While anyone will be welcome, we're hoping most of all to make this an opportunity for hackers working on spam filters to get together and compare notes. Hum, pas trop loin de Montréal, il y à des intéressés pour organiser un petit voyage en Janvier?

Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:03:56 GMT

Michael J. Radwin's couvre dans son carnet la Convention Apache, avec des sujets tels que: Scalable Internet Architectures, Waka: a replacement for HTTP, XML and I18N, Apache 2.0 Filters et Watching the Alpha Geeks. Pas aussi trippant que d'y être en personne mais informatif tout de même!

Wed, 20 Nov 2002 00:38:25 GMT

"J2EE / .Net" Smackdown
Oganized by the Software Development Forum, an independent organization. Sun and Microsoft were each represented by three panelists. The format is simple: ten questions have been submitted to the participants a month ago and they will answer them all in turn in five minutes. Each party has the right to three rebuttals if they feel like contesting what the other boxer, I mean, participant, just said. What follows is a summary of the questions and their answers. Whenever I feel like adding a personal remark, I will do so with a particular color. Merci du rapport Cédric, très content de pouvoir mettre la main sur une version écrite et commentée!

Tue, 19 Nov 2002 20:21:48 GMT

Macromedia Contribute, premières impressions.

J'ai testé pendant environ une heure ce matin... Impressionnant. Très bien fait, du travail de pro, je ne m'attendais pas à moins de la part de MM.

Intéressant fichier contribute.xml qui contient l'information du site est créé sur le serveur dans un répetoire "_mm". Pas mal plus ouvert que frontpage comme mécanisme (par contre par défaut il est accessible publiquement, mais les informations sensibles sont encodées, reste à savoir comment). Je n'ai pas testé l'intégration avec les templates de Dreamweaver mais ça semble tout un atout, avoir de zones éditables ou non faciles à configurer.

Autre fait à l'avantage de MM c'est que le code généré est super clean, j'ai testé sommairement sur http://www.afroginthevalley.com/15juin.html qui validait xhtml 1.0 transitionnel et après édition dans Contribute elle validait encore, tout un exploit! Le logiciel gère aussi les permissions, la création d'utilisateurs à même l'interface de contribute et sauvegarde les versions, permettant de retourner à une version ultérieure de la page en cas de pépin.

Le niveau d'encadrement pour les utilisateurs types est aussi très bon, en tout cas, après une analyse sommaire d'environ une heure, c'est prometteur. J'ai eu quelques problèmes d'accès et de performance avec mon firewall Zone Alarm et un petit bug du correcteur orthographique (en anglais pour l'instant), mais rien de majeur.

Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:16:02 GMT

A framework for Open Source projects. I recently completed my masters thesis A Framework for Open Source Projects (1.5MB PDF). I hope it can be useful for someone. Feedback welcome. [via Advogato]

Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:12:57 GMT

Spam Filtering's Last Stand
Recently, a relatively new idea for filtering spam has surfaced: Bayesian classification of e-mail, or at least Bayesian-inspired analysis. This seems to have been recently been brought to the Internet community's attention by Paul Graham in his essay A Plan for Spam, though I know he's not the first to think of it: For instance, here's a programming assignment given at the University of California, Irvine's Information and Computer Science department in Dec. 1999. That the idea was not popular until recently is probably a direct consequence of the fact that since 1999, the war on e-mail spam has been victory Spammers at every turn. The need for bigger guns is now more acutely felt then in 1999. Allez lire le reste sur le site de iRights si le sujet vous intéresse, c'est un survol très complet de la question.

Mon, 18 Nov 2002 08:10:33 GMT

SuSE Linux eMail Server 3.1
SuSE Linux eMail Server 3.1 supports all relevant Internet standards, including IMAP, LDAP, SMTP, POP3, TLS, and SASL. A special characteristic of this Open Source solution: since the number of possible users per e-mail server is unlimited, an increase in the number of users will not cause any additional costs or more administration workload (Total cost: 999$). Pas cher comparé à une license d'Exchange pour 25 utilisateurs (8200$, incluant le système d'opération, comme l'offre de SuSE)... je sais que ce n'est pas identique mais ce produit couvre 99% des besoins dans 90% des cas... et sans pénalité de croissance (license par utilisateur, ça devient très cher très vite!).

Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:57:29 GMT

Web Services' Idées Fortes
Many people ask us at ZapThink what's really so special about Web Services. We're the first to admit that Web Services are more evolutionary than revolutionary, building upon earlier Service-oriented technologies and approaches to distributed computing. Sure, Web Services are standards-based, using XML and XML-based protocols like SOAP to act as a common basis for communication across different vendor implementations. But open standards are really only the price of admission. The true power of Web Services lies in three related powerful ideas (idées fortes) that in combination describe how Web Services will change the fundamental nature of distributed computing: Asynchrony, Loose Coupling, Coarse Granularity. Excellent résumé des concepts techniques qui font des services web un avancement réel, c'est un avancement plutôt techno-philosophique, mais le mélange standards et ouverture est explosif...

Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:44:00 GMT

Some Windows 2k Tools
Un petit paragraphe assaisonné juste à point de savoureux hyperliens: That said, from time to time, I do need to tweak, clean or fix something that goes a bit wacky. Today, registry problems. If you're in the same boat, may I suggest the LabMice - Windows 2000 Utilities. If that doesn't cut it for you, or if you want to blow your foot clean-off with some nifty developer-oriented tools, perhaps the Windows 2000 Resource Kits Page will offer something of use. Then there are those other power tools I sometimes need...

Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:39:47 GMT

Random Hacks: Bayesian Whitelisting: Finding the Good Mail Among the Spam. Défénitivement un sujet chaud et les geeks commencent à s'y attaquer de façon créative... C'est un de mes sujets de réflexion sur le futur de la messagerie numérique, de quelle façon ces outils changent la donne (ou la rétablissent, selon l'angle).

Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:27:13 GMT

RealVNC
RealVNC is the official home of VNC, staffed by the original team who created and developed it whilst at AT&T. The mission of RealVNC is to act as the focal point for open source VNC. We are continuing to improve VNC with our own new features and by evaluating features developed by others in the open source community and incorporating the best of them into the official codebase. New features and bug fixes will be released on a regular basis. In addition, we are also offering commercial support and development services around open source VNC.

Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:18:34 GMT

eMail Headers
To handle complaints about email, it is often necessary to obtain detailed information about a particular message. This information is included in every message but isn't normally displayed to the computer operator. However, every email client can be configured to show this information. After the information is displayed, it can be cut and pasted into another email message or other document to be forwarded to the investigator. Here is how. C'est pour terminer la rédaction de ma prochaine chronique dans VirusMag...

Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:13:17 GMT

Setting Up a Real World Hotspot
Are you thinking about putting up your first hotspot? If so, you're probably working hard to learn the basics of the business and technology. You're reading, talking to vendors and striving to learn all you can about this exploding opportunity. Still, nothing answers questions like real world results. So it makes sense to look at an actual first time hotspot deployment.

The Value of Planning
Pitching the Venue
Choosing the Technology
Actual Deployment
Future Plans
Conclusions

Pratique et très applicable dans le cas des projets avec la gang de quebec.sansfil.org...

Dan Bricklin: Tablet PC - First Impressions

Fri, 15 Nov 2002 23:17:35 GMT

So, one day in, my verdict: I can't see ever buying a portable laptop that isn't a convertible -- the benefits are too great for me. It's a Tablet PC, not a Pen PC, and not a Clamshell PC, and that's a win. While these are clearly still basically a version 1 or 2, they are still very useful. If you read a lot on a PC, and move your laptop around a lot, and have benefited from 802.11, and don't mind using early software that works but is basic (like the original VisiCalc was), and are in the market for a new laptop, take the next step and move up to a tablet.
[via Scott Loftesness]

Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:48:37 GMT

Apache flaws: several security holes in the Apache source are being actively exploited on the Internet; upgrade to version 1.3.27 or 2.0.43 or higher. Patch your apache! [via internetnews.com: Web Developer News]

Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:34:38 GMT

SmartyPants for Moveable Type
If you're using Moveable Type and are interested in producing "proper" quotes, dashes and elipses , definitely have a look at John Gruber's SmartyPlants plugin. MT devient une plateforme de plus en plus, il faut que je retourve le lien de la discussion sur Joel on Software qui parle de la différence entre une application et une plate-forme (je suis offline et je n'ai pas accès à ma mémoire secondaire pour l'insant)... Update: le lien en question, merci à Dylan Foley qui me l'a envoyé par courriel.
[algorhythm]

Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:46:04 GMT

Jabber on Zaurus: NewsForge takes note of new Jabber chat and whiteboard software for the Sharp Zaurus. [via Jabber Software Foundation News]

Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:29:22 GMT

Lot's of P2P papers from Stanford. De belles lectures en perpectives... [via Blogging Alone]