Daily scrum backlog, today, tomorrow …

Mes developpeurs sont plein d’humour … dans le daily scrum backlog du jour j’ai reçu ceci: TODAY added update load and delete methods secured checks updated database for thumbnails TOMORROW Thumbnails handling TOYOTA ah bah dis donc, elle bonne celle-là !

Really impress by Google Wave error handling + reporting

While muting a wave and moving it to the trash folder :-) I can’t wait to wave :P

ubuntu on: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 – hp EliteBook 8530p

To install ubuntu on this PC you need to desactivate the FAN in the BIOS menu Deactivate in the BIOS: Fan Always on while on AC Power desactivate acpi for the ATI card System > Administration > Hardware Drivers > ATI/AMD propietary FGLRX graphic driver: Install but don’t reboot now !!! In a terminal: sudo [...]

The last day of epoch (32) – toute une époque :-)

Is Tue, 19 Jan 2038 04:14:07 +0100. The next second, we will be back on Fri, 13 Dec 1901 20:55:13 +0009. And unfortunately, I will not be retired at that time… I’m pretty sure that it will be like in the 80s with every developer thinking that his code will last only few months (years)… [...]

Distance between cities

First of all I need to cite my sources: Calculate distance, bearing and more between two Latitude/Longitude points Geocoding Belgium Postal Codes The goal of my project was to find out which cities are nearby (within a user specified distance). Of course users don’t know their city coordinate, so you will have to find out [...]

PHP test – #1

What happens with the following code: <?php for($i=a;$i&lt;=z;$i++) echo("$i\n"); ?> And what’s the difference with? <?php for($i=a;$i&lt;z;$i++) echo("$i\n"); ?> Why is the result different? and How? … Worst: <?php $i=a; while(strcmp($i,z)<=0){ echo($i."\n"); $i++; } ?> Gives exactly the same result as the second exemple. … hints: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.conversion http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

Coding Dojo

@ São Paulo University http://www.dtsato.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/sato-codingdojo.pdf Session process: Problem choosing (5 min) Problem discussion (10 min) Coding session (1h) Retrospective (10 min) 2 Style of coding sessions: Randori dojo Prepared Kata Session roles: Moderator: Moderating the discussion, conducting the retrospective Organizer: Room Reservation, setting up computer, projector, sending reminder, preparing the program, cleaning the room Scribe: [...]

Quechup is selling (let steal) e-mail adresses: honey pot #1 triggered

My subscription to quechup was used for spam mail such has: Cindy Foster – CindyFoster1533@live.com to quechupxxx@xxx.sbw.be H! I find your post interesting. I am pretty chick. I am moving to your area from russia I am looking for a good man to show me around and may be more ;) Could you please kindly [...]

Clean and efficient mysql ssh tunneling (on linux)

ssh -L 3307:localhost:3306 <user>@<remotehost> -f sleep 10; mysql -u <mysqluser> -p -P3307 -h 127.0.0.1 ssh -L 3307:localhost:3306 –> create a 3307 listening port locally that will be forwarded to a 3306 port on the other end of the ssh tunnel <user>@<remotehost> –> user allow to connect via ssh on the remote host -f –> go [...]

Google longitude