En février, lors de Microsoft TechDays à Paris, je n’ai pas assisté à une seule conférence (ce n’est pas grave, il y a toujours les webcasts) mais j’ai quand même pu arpenter le salon pendant trois jours pour rencontrer du monde entre autres pour la WebTV de SUPINFO.
J’ai fait, avec d’autres, plein d’interviews pour aborder à peu près tous les sujets : les communications unifiées, les femmes dans l’IT, les communautés, etc. L’épisode TechDays 2009 avait été mis en ligne il y a un moment, mais ma préférée reste quand même celle que j’ai fait d’Eric Mittelette (a.k.a. ericmitt), responsable du groupe pour les les relations techniques avec les développeurs chez Microsoft France. C’est normal, puisqu’on parle développement. C’est pour ça que j’ai récupéré les rushes et je l’ai reprise en entier pour la partager ici.
Je déteste ma voix sur la vidéo, mais j’adore la discussion avec Eric, que je remercie une fois de plus pour les minutes qu’il m’a accordées, même si je sais qu’il était extrêmement occupé pendant la conférence. Je vous laisse regarder :
Enfin, si le “développement vert” ou la “Green Dev Attitude” vous intéresse, voici la conférence Développement d’applications vertes dont parle Eric.
Et comme je sais que la plupart ne voudront pas aller chercher trop loin, voici aussi l’épisode complet de la Web TV:
I met Hugh MacLeod at LeWeb ‘08 this week and he was kind enough (yeah, I know he was there for that, but thanks anyway) to draw something on my business card:
As Hugh predicted, I am twittering this, too ;)
I chose to remove my contact info to avoid spam, but it’s not like it’s hard to actually contact me. Follow me on Twitter or hit one of the links on the right.
The award ceremony of imagine Cup 2008 took place on Tuesday, July 8th in the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. SUPINFO teams were competing in two different categories: Game Development and Software Design.
Traditionally, prizes are handed out to the three first places in each of the nine categories of the competition. However, this year many special prizes were also awarded. One of these, an invitation to participate in the “BT Innovation Accelerator” program was won by Régis Hanol and Gauthier Chanliau–SUPINFO Languedoc Roussillon in Montpellier, Sébastien Warin–SUPINFO Nord-Pas de Calais in Lille and Jean-Noël Gauthier–Ecole des Gobelins, of team Well’k Home.
The winners of this program, growth catalyst for innovative projects, are invited to work directly with the BT teams that will help them take their student project and transform it into a business plan. For them, Imagine Cup is only the beginning of the adventure!
I would also like to congratulate Frédéric Pedro, Anthony Chen Kuang Piao and Nicolas Gryman – SUPINFO Ile de France, and Maximilien Paitel – SUPINFO UK of the ECOThink team, who were able to distinguish themselves among 200 000 competitors and made it to the world finals with a few other privileged teams.
Finally, I’d like to encourage all students to follow these exemplary teams by registering today for the next edition of the competition, the world finals of which will take place in Cairo and Alexandria, in Egypt. The theme will be “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today.” Students will be asked to create software solutions that are aligned to one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). More information about the MDGs can be found at http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals.
Registration for Imagine Cup 2009 is already open. You’ll find more information at http://www.imaginecup.com.
No, these are not lottery or horse numbers, it's the order in which the teams from SUPINFO that are going to the Imagine Cup finals next week in Paris!
There are two kinds of competitions going on next week:
- Software design, embedded design and game development, in which teams must basically sell a finished product to judges from different countries and backgrounds;
- The rest, in which teams have 24-36 hours to create something new from scratch (that's what I had to do last year).
6 will be the position of ECOThink, our Game Development team.
54 will be the position of Smart Cooking, our Software Design team.
Watch Max, Rogerio and Tim as they draw the teams and they explain what's going to happen.
Imagine Cup 2008 Worldwide Finals Drawing
Oh, by the way, did I already mention I'll be covering the finals? More on that soon ;)
The French keyboard has a key for the currency symbol (¤) that is basically useless. It has a key for the letter ù, which is used in one single word of the language! However, the non-breaking space is nowhere to be seen.
I'll admit that you probably don't know what I'm talking about to begin with. It's typographer jargon, even if I'm not one myself. Nevertheless, it's a character that is often used when you are writing in French, or at least it should be.
In French, a space is required after and before the semicolon (;), the question mark (?), the exclamation mark or bang (!) and the colon (:). The problem is that, even though there's a space before these characters, they are supposed to always stay together with the word that precedes them. Don't get me wrong, but nobody likes orphans:
Qui es-tu parmi les hommes
? Où est ta ville ? Où sont
tes parents ?
I manipulated line breaks in the example to illustrate orphan punctuation marks, but it is something that can really happen. It is also something that can be avoided by using the non-breaking space or no-break space. This space indicates that the characters before and after it must stay together regardless of carriage returns or page breaks.
In HTML this space can be created with entity but I don't write these posts' HTML code by hand, so I'd really appreciate a key that directly inserts Unicode character 0xA0, the non-breaking space.
Photo by jm3
Pour ceux qui veulent suivre, en français, la délégation française à Séoul, voici quelques blogs :
Et j'éditerai le post au fur et à mesure que j'en trouve d'autres...
