Mailhook

Mailhook is an amazing idea. You provide an url and they provide an email address. When you send mail to this address, it is posted to your url.
Just came right as I was investigating incoming email handling on DreamHost.
A great sample usage for WordPress integration here.

Interview with Joel Spolsky

Great interview with Joel Spolsky at Podtech.

DemoCamp Montreal 2

Just came back from DemoCamp. It was great, 5 amazing demos of upcoming applications. Lots of great ideas, lots of people.
Talk Now was the first demo. A thing to know when people are available on your Blackberry. Aimed at business people. As I don’t own a Blackberry, neither a cellphone, I don’t really see the [...]

C# Generic headach

I recently converted some code to use Generic types in C# 2.0 and got the following error:
Cannot create an instance of … because Type.ContainsGenericParameters is true
Turns out, you can’t dynamically call methods on a generic class. Well you can, but you kind of have to convert the generic type to enable late bound reflection.

type = [...]

DemoCamp today

Later today I’ll be at DemoCamp Montreal, a demo session for montreal software people to showcase their work.
I look forward to see what’s happening in web development here in montreal.

Blogging : living a life of dangers

Lots of noises around Kathy Sierra death threats.

Mouseless

Following Jeff Artwood’s blog post, I started working without touching the mouse. I was used to it on my MacBook since I hate trakpad and TextMate snippets are so addictive, you have to use them all the time ratter then point-and-clicking. And TextMate key bindings really easy to remember, but I the case I forget, [...]

Microsoft re-reinventing the wheel again (bis)!

I can’t beleive it! Just when you think they did something non-sense (see my previous post), Microsoft strikes again, harder then ever!
They recently announced a subversion client clone at CodePlex (via RTB)

Metaprogramming: why dynamic languages matters

Reading Adam’s excellent
Javascript metaprogramming presentation, I’m realizing how much constraining static languages can be. Even tough type checking can help you find some errors before they occur, metaprogramming and DSL makes you write code that works by removing ambiguity. Chances are if you don’t have a clue what the code you just wrote is doing, [...]

What is OpenKiwi ?

I hate IM softwares! A couple years ago I was using mIRC like a freak day and night then I switched to MSN Messenger then got sick of it, really. I haven’t opened any of my IM accounts for two years now.
IRC was a good step forward of BBS in the 90s, but let’s be [...]