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Parrot AR Drone: pilot with your iPhone

AR_Drone_FlyingThe Parrot AR Drone is doubtless one the most exciting products for the iPhone/iPod touch announced this week. The quadricopter drone, under development by the French company Parrot located in Paris, is presented as new gaming experience based on the Apple products. They built a light quadricopter controlled remotely via Wi-Fi and piloted with the iPhone/iPod Touch accelerometer. Additionally, small but neat features have been added such as the autopilot enabling a handy piloting experience.

Limited number of units will be available this February for game developers. An AR Drone development kit will extend the possiblities of the drone with augmented reality games and applications. Two built-in cameras encoding straight to the screen of your iPod/iPhone enable a real time view of your in-air drone environment.

BeeBam : fresh job board for the web industry

Monster.ca, Jobboom.com, Workopolis.com and others are probably the biggest job sites in Canada. Yet, recruiters dealing with profiles search often feel low end-results from these general job sites. High number of resumes are received daily but the amount of CVs is too big to be well effective and the recruitment process is paced down. Additionally, job posting process reaches too many options and these general job sites offer wide range of job profiles which are not so helpful to get your job offers well defined and targeting the right people. And job postings cost money.

Beebam.com

Our friends based in the Bay area leaned on these concerns and worked hard to launch something new and fresh. The result ? Beebam, a neat and clean job board for the web industry with fast access to information through well defined categories. Recently launched last mid-October, Beebam is still adding new job offers, essentially located in the US and especially the Bay Area. In a near future, may be Canada ?

That’s nice but Beebam is likely to be YAJB (Yet Another Job Board). Yes, but not entirely true.

First because this job board is  developed specifically, by people who intensively work in the Information Technology industry. So, no worries, they  know their stuff when having previously looked for job positions with their skills in the Bay Area and in Europe as well. They also try to focus for entry professional. This type of positions is often let apart within major job sites. Mid-seniors and seniors level are more attractive for job boards in general and recruiters are more likely to post offers for experienced professionals. Internships and full-time positions are displayed together at the same level in the search path.

Give it a shot and whether you need a specific talent for your new web project, consider posting on Beebam to add visibilty to your job offer.

I got a Mac… it’s too late Windows 7

Now that Microsoft finally released to public Windows 7, this parodic video points out how this big launch might have been felt by previous Windows users… In a way it is kind of too late since you got a Mac, or a free alternative to Microsoft new OS.

Though most critics and professionals are in favor to Windows 7 and, copies are still selling well, the software editor would still have to meet the challenge to convince back home users to go again with Windows…

Last Friday of July : SysAdmin Day

SysAdminDayThis last friday of july, is the day to thank the guy you barely see in the office, because he has so much to do and to fix on a daily basis.

So July 31, 2009 is the 10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. This is the perfect day to know a bit more about the guys who struggle for everything working and to show them that you are grateful. At least make a thankful smile to your favorite IT guys without the intention to ask for an additional computer-related issue, please.

And obviously, there is an official website relating the event and answering your question about the sysadmin job. It contains gift ideas as well, in case your intention are to get an extra service from your sysadmins for the rest of the 364 days. Happy Sysadmin Day !

« Viral marketing is awesome. Let’s make anything awesome.»  might say Facebook

Facebook

Kudos for Facebook marketing and communication teams. Truly. Great job. Within a couple weeks in advance, they have launched a campaign to promote the availability to everyone to get customized URL profile. They artificially initiated a demand and provide an answer what seems a rapid for social-network users so basic but so obvious. Everybody relayed the ball from bloggers to high audience websites. Facebook made it to focus massive attention for a couple days by creating somehow an event. And it has been greatly handled from every side.

One of the current biggest actors of social-networking website made a lot of communication followed by a strong buzz for promoting their new profile URL feature. If we think about that, it does clearly shows an initial misconception of Facebook at its origins (every web projects has its weakness though). Major social websites offers URL following this schema. To mention a few, MySpace, LinkedIn and numerous profile pages from shared music communities, etc. In other words, everybody is clearly understanding the need and the benefits of having username-based URL for quick access to your profile and there is nothing new. Nobody pays even attention to that (I mean regular users, not a geeky one). It was so obvious that may be Facebook during initial design requirements, they might have skipped that part.May be, was it intentional? Hard to imagine.

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Save your precious time with LMGTFY

Google logoA usual work day and, you were almost hoping that a guy, with too much laziness on his side to resolve his so-hard-to-find-on-the-internet-and-unsolvable-issues, would not show up by your desk… But most likely, he would, and you will lose again almost five to ten minutes with his request.

Everything started because you had answered one day his first question that lead to resolution and made yourself as world savior. Yet, you did not even know this special parameter values or this exact number but you seemed to have a better best friend than him and you know how to deal with.  Yeah, I refer to Google. Unfortunately this process had been repeated weekly and the question guy turned to be fully confident in your Google-talkings.

You have the solution to tell him that your trick is to use Google. But no, he will tell you that he still does not find your results. Best ways are to be tough and pedagogical. LMGTFY.com is designed according to this two principles. This complicated acronyms stands for Let Me Google That For You and because you know how to use Google, you are glad to have found it.

When M.Hey-I-have-question-about-something comes by your area, just tell him that you will generously reply back by e-mail with a link containing his answer. Go the LMGTFY.com to enter your keywords in the Google usual search form and send the URL created. Prefer choose the tinyURL option to make more fun. Send it and you likely less hear from your number one question-maker.

Use it wisely though.

When Twitter meets an Oracle Database

twitterTwitter has been making a lot of fuss around for a few months. In not any particular order : Google might be on the track for a potential acquisition ; Twitter has been gaining traditional media focus ; some people forgot that Twitter is not so private and that may lead to hazardous work-related situations for your own career… Not so lately, showbiz people have found an additional celebrity key indicator with an unofficial highest followers owner contest. Well, you got it. It does not seem to pace down.

And you may think yourself : everything Twitter-related is a bit too hyped out ? You are likely to be right but computer geek people never desperate to find an odd way with trendy web products and to extend its basic feature.

In our case, a DBA guy wanted to use Tweeter with an Oracle Database. You may wondering what would be the point for doing that ? I guess this question should be merely ignored if you are already using Twitter and to be honest there is no point. Let’s pretend that we just want have fun. So no production should be involved. As mentionned by the author, in a corporate environment, this would not be recommended. First, most of database servers should not be internet access enabled from the corporate firewall. Moreover, addressing publicly the database status is also not the best security option.

Basically, a PL/SQL package (here named ora_tweet) is created to initiate calls to the Twitter API with the help of UTL_HTTP package. It enables a database to proceed HTTP requests. A Twitter account is needed so you would rather sign up for an additionnal one. Thanks to this setup, long processes once accomplished, will notify you with a 140 characters Twitter message.

If you want to give a try, follow the original post on database-geek.com (uh… we are not related FYI) with the whole instructions.

Visionner les Webcasts des Microsoft TechDays 2009

TechDays2009Du 10 au 12 février dernier, se sont déroulés à Paris au Palais des Congrès, les TechDays édition 2009, événement devenu incontournable des technologies Microsoft en France.

Au cours de ces 3 jours, près de 300 conférences ont été présentées. Offrant aux visiteurs des retours d’expériences des solutions mises en places, les différents partenaires de Microsoft présents lors de l’événement ont pu notamment évoquer les nouveautés apportées dans la R2 de Windows Server 2008, ou encore les efforts apportés pour le développement RIA avec Silverlight 2.

Pour tous les niveaux, les premiers webcasts des présentations sont accessibles dans l’espace dédié aux TechDays 2009. Pour ma part, voici par exemple les webcasts vers lesquels je me suis dirigé… mais vous avez l’embarras du choix :

Ce sont cependant les présentations de Windows 7 et de la plateforme tactile Surface qui ont manifestées un vif intérêt de la part de l’ensemble des visiteurs. Une manière pour Microsoft France de juger l’attente des utilisateurs face à leur prochain OS.

IE 8 Finally Released

IE 8 logoAfter almost two years and half, Microsoft released today Internet Explorer 8. This version is by now ready to download at this link.

Focusing on web standards and security, this version might be the right one for people stuck with its ancestors… Anyway, it seems as well that Microsoft development team worked on IE 8 on increasing its speed. Voices from its popular competitors would not agree though.

And yes, like the previous RC releases, Microsoft seems to not giving up on making you a potential Live services true lover…or surely the complete opposite. Be ready to keep your eyes wide open and select custom settings when running the initial-and-a-bit-annoying-wizard. Otherwise, you are going to clean up after yourself the whole bunch of not-so-useful stuff. Chrome or others, you still keep the point for the installation step. However, nice features were implemented.

Eventually, this day has been well celebrated by young people at Pwn2Own 2009 held by CanSecWest by exploiting already IE 8. But no worries, Firefox and Safari fell as well.