I can’t believe Apple didn’t fix the biggest flaw of iChat in Leopard — you just can’t go through with this message popping up every single time, Apple support forums are full of people reporting the problem since iChat have been introduced, in 2003. From what I understand, iChat use the SIP protocol to initial the [...]

I’ll be attending my first BarCamp Montreal this saturday, november 3rd. The schedule is kind of heavy — 9AM to 8PM — but it looks fun. See you there!

06:30 PM October 26, 2007. Unpacking the box and… Launching the Leopard installation… I’ll be back if everything goes fine. 06:35 PM October 26, 2007 Leopard installation just finished… I’m now running the beast. For the next 1/2h, I’ll write about my first impressions. Stay tuned. 08:07 PM October 26, 2007 Installation went fine. It’s [...]

With the coming out of Leopard, I’m truly excited about the new programming features, it gives me lots of ideas about applications I’d like to build. But each time I dig into the Cocoa Fundamentals, I’m just having a heart attack. Why desktop programming is still stuck in the 80s and so unproductive? Here is [...]

The other day, I had a very interesting conversation with a friend about what and how comment spam works. I though it was a good blog topic as well. What is comment spam? Comment spams are weird comments full of links and garbage you might have seen on some blogs. Unlike junk mail that fill [...]

We create stuff online everyday and everywhere — Google apps, Flickr, Zooomr, Facebook, LinkedIn, Backpack, Twitter, Pownce, Delicious, Second Life, you name it — but do we really own our data? None of these services propose an easy way to backup your data on your computer; some of them provide an API but that’s not [...]