Disaster Preparedness et Lettres Persanes

7810741Je viens de finir deux livres qui n’ont rien à voir du tout. Disaster Preparedness sont les mémoires de Heather Havrilesky une chroniqueuse de cinéma et télévision de Salon qui fait partie des transfuges de The Daily. Bien que j’apprécie beaucoup ses articles sur les séries du câble car ils touchent souvent juste sur les personnages, son livre est plutôt décevant. Peut-être parce que je me suis pas arrivé à m’identifier avec la vie d’une adolescente dans les années 70-80 en Caroline du Nord. On rigole bien car la journaliste a un style très incisif (on peut lire sur goodreads certaines critiques par des personnes évoquées dans le livre). Le chapitre sur son passage comme Cheerleader est très FNL. Mais j’achèterai son deuxième roman car elle a un potentiel.

509686Le deuxième est un classique: les Lettres Persanes de Montesquieu. Dans une édition (Collection “Étonnants” chez Flammarion) assez sympathique car quelques pages sont consacrées à remettre le livre dans son contexte (surtout quand on a quitté l’école depuis longtemps). C’est assez court mais je suis toujours étonné par la modernité de certaines idées (et le retard de certaines autres). Montesquieu utilise une fausse relation épistolaire d’un persan (imaginaire) en voyage à Paris pour distiller certaines vérités sur la France de l’époque.  On appréciera l’importance attachée au paraître par les Français, la fâcheuse tendance à se prendre pour le centre du Monde tout en étant assez pessimiste. Cela vous rappelle quelques chose ?

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.NET Community Review

I’m taking a break from writing the weekly .NET Community review. It was a way for me to keep up with the news around .NET and beyond. I’ve been short on time ever since I started working on a Windows Phone, with barely enough to keep up with my role in our local and informal software developer group without name). You can read my adventure with Stacks for Instapaper on my other blog.

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.NET Community Weekly Review–February, 7th 2011

Notable Tweets

http://twitter.com/#!/KodefuGuru/status/32866898634874880 Red Gate puts an end to the free version of Reflector.

http://twitter.com/#!/alimbada/status/32867465658634240 Jetbrains  made a move about it

http://twitter.com/#!/Lu_a_Jalla/status/33223276608241664 One of thoses Eric Lippert blog posts.

http://twitter.com/#!/TheCodeJunkie/status/32793518640472064 DI retired by Microsoft

The Stackoverflow Question

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9/how-do-i-calculate-someones-age-in-c A question somehow very simple but the comments in the most voted answer reveal a difference of performance between DateTime.Now and DateTime.UtcNow (Now needs to translate the UTC to the local timezone)

Microsoft News

The next MIX Conference will be held as usual in Las Vegas (11-14th of April). The vote for the sessions is finished. Dzone give its expectations on the event. The second edition of the virtual MVCConf is also announced. The conference is a mix of Microsoft and community-based content.

“Alt.NET” News

Mark Probst write a series of blog posts about the new Garbage Collector of Mon, SGen. The first post provides a good and quick overview of  how a garbage collector works.

On The Other Side

Ross Mason from MuleSoft writes about AMQP, the messaging protocol and its use in inter-operable scenarios. Smashing Magazine is publishing the second edition of the popular eponym book.


Local announcement: February 16th, join us for a presentation on REST: Hypermedia Driven Rich Clients: Bringing the best parts of web architecture to the desktop – Darrel Miller (@darrel_miller).

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stream 142, originally uploaded by MatthieuGD.

Essai de la nouvelle formule au Laloux : http://www.hour.ca/food/food.aspx?iIDArticle=21181
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.NET Community Weekly Review – January, 31th 2011

Notable Tweets

http://twitter.com/#!/navin_l/status/29572917381570560 Debug & Trace, the FAQ

http://twitter.com/#!/siravington/status/29932102073982976 TODO with Resharper

http://twitter.com/#!/abhi2434/status/30913593008463872 Task Parallel Library DataFlow or TDF, a new lab from Microsoft

 

 

The Stackoverflow Question

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4665045/how-to-get-the-word-under-the-cursor-in-windows Odd question about getting text under the mouse, interesting answer about automation.

Microsoft News

Microsoft reported their results for the latest quarter. The bread winners are still Windows 7 (300 millions licenses sold) and Office 2010 (+50% compared to the 2007 version) but Kinect (8 millions of units in 60 days) and Xbox 360 are coming strong. We don’t know the final numbers yet for Windows Phone 7 (2 millions “licenses” sold, but no device statistics released) but the software editor confirmed his commitment to the platform.

“Alt.NET” News

Dale Ragan founded recently SineSignal around some “alt.net inspired” products including Moncai. It’s a Mono-based Platform as a Service (PAAS) cloud solution. With a privileged link to GitHub and Mercurial, your deployment will be as simple as a push command. Moncai will handle the scaling of your application. More information with this podcast Herding Code 98.

On The Other Side

In this presentation at QCon San Francisco 2010 Ashish Kumar talks about the management of source code at Google : 5000 developers, 5000 developers and only one source code repository, 50% of the source code changes during the course of one month, systematic code review, aggressive caching of build artifacts and more importantly, lots of analysis to improve the build tools continuously.


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Matin d’hiver

Il ne neige pas (du moins jusqu’à maintenant) beaucoup cet hiver. Le froid par contre a fait un passage remarqué la semaine dernière avec une descente à –30. Ce matin une petite tombée de neige avec un peu de vent rends le café encore plus agréable.

Matin d'hiver

La rue Saint-Denis ce matin.

Matin d'hiver

Café La Petite Cuillère

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.NET Community Weekly Review – January, 24th 2011

Notable Tweets

http://twitter.com/#!/inkxel/status/27424550325059585 a logo for HTML5

http://twitter.com/#!/antsprofiler/status/27409823066755072 we talked about Profilers last week, a new version for the ANTS one.

http://twitter.com/#!/pzfreo/status/27791114102644737 SPDY, the Google alternative to HTTP is vastly used between Chrome and Gmail servers.

The Stackoverflow Question

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7551/best-practices-for-securing-a-rest-api-web-service REST and security, good answers with a different perspective.

Microsoft News

Microsoft published another iPhone application with OneNote Mobile for iPhone. The SP1 of Windows7 is RTM for OEM but doesn’t include any new exciting feature except maybe the dynamic memory adjustor for Hyper-V ….

“Alt.NET” News

JB Evain, developer of Mono.Cecil (a popular library to manipulate IL), describes in this article the new Linq API in .NET 4.0. In particular, he writes about the different types of node we can find in an Expression Tree and how to use them to build complex code.

On The Other Side

Amazon continues to add products to their cloud platform. The latest is AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This product is similar to GAE or Azure: you deploy your application and Amazon handles the auto-scaling, load balancing etc. Based on Tomcat, Amazon doesn’t close the door to other languages. The cost? Nothing more that the existing AWS resources you used (S3 and Ec2 mainly + RDS if you choose to use this database).


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