This is a question I ask to everybody: what are the best tools for project management ?. I never found a good answer — especially in the corporate environment.

I’ve tried to propose Basecamp to my company but the confidentiality of online tools make people nervous — I’ve been told that Basecamp terms of service allows [...]

Three years ago, I wrote an article entitled Why Virtual Machines are a Bad Idea. My concern was about virtual machines (the JVM and CLR) and the issue of efficient implementation of dynamic languages.

A couple of days ago, during the MIX07 event, Microsoft introduced Silverlight — a Flash-like programming environment powered by a small .NET [...]

Panic just released another quality software for Mac: Coda, an all-in-one web development tool.

Coda is not an IDE “a la” Dreamweaver but rather a collection of apps. Serious web developers generally use separated apps to develop their web site: a text editor, an FTP client, an SSH terminal, several browsers and a bunch a reference [...]

Ubuntu 7.04 is finally out and among their press releases you could read this one: Java Technologies Extend Global Distribution with Canonical’s Latest Ubuntu Linux Release. A very good news for Java folks.

I recently had to write and deploy a custom Rails app for a customer. When it was time for me to install the dedicated server, I looked for which Ruby version to install. I naturally went for the latest stable version of Ruby: 1.8.5. Unfortunalety I quickly ran through serious trouble with this version and [...]

In my previous article I depicted a quite depressing picture of the mobile business… Actualy, most people are not really aware of the technical possibilities offered on mobile right now. There are limitations to bring innovation and ease of use for end-user but a part of the technology is already mature.

Some information are starting to leak out of the WWDC about the core changes in Leopard for developers.

Ironically, it’s a Windows developer site that gives a pretty much complete overview of the developer improvements for Leopard.

Managing the content of a web site is still a painful task, more that 10 years after the web took of. Web site management is an holy grail and Content Management Systems (CMS) have try to fill the gap without much success…