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Parrot AR Drone: pilot with your iPhone
10/01/10
The 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.
Last Friday of July : SysAdmin Day
31/07/09
This 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 !
Une vidéo vaut mieux qu’un long discours…
15/07/09
Lorsqu’on doit expliquer un concept ou une technologie (si simple soit elle) à des « néophites» , on a vite tendance à s’emballer et à se perdre dans des détails inutiles et par la même occasion perdre notre interlocuteur…à qui celà n’est pas arrivé!
Si vous avez du mal à faire des explications claires en schématisant et en vulgarisant votre vocabulaire technique, CommonCraft est le site qui peut vous aider.
Le concept est simple, des vidéos courtes avec un vocabulaire simple et des illustrations explicites.
On peut retrouver 4 catégories : Ecologie, Economie, Société et Technologie.
Même si pour le moment il n’y a pas énormément de contenu, celui disponible peut déjà s’avérer utile et vous permettra peut-être d’économiser un peu de temps et d’énergie!
Voilà, c’est réparé !
9/07/09
Dans la même veine que le FailBlog, je suis tombé sur « There, I fixed it» .
En gros, ce sont des photos de réparations de fortunes, assez disons…. vous verrez…
« Viral marketing is awesome. Let’s make anything awesome.» might say Facebook
16/06/09
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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Facebook et le Konami code…
14/05/09
Dans la section des tips inutiles donc indispensables, je vous propose de découvrir le Konami code sur Facebook…
Pour la petite histoire, le Konami code un un cheat code qui fût crée dans les années 80 par un développeur de Konami afin de pouvoir tester plus facilement les jeux. Pour plus d’infos à ce sujet je vous suggère Wikipedia.
Si vous voulez vous amuser essayez la combinaison de touches (Haut, Haut, Bas, Bas, Gauche, Droite, Gauche, Droite, b, a et Enter) sur Facebook. Ensuite cliquez n’importe où sur la page et là … magie!
Save your precious time with LMGTFY
20/04/09
A 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
19/04/09
Twitter 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.
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22/03/09
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