Tools and Gadgets (and GTD)

I know, Fino get with the program, but I just heard this GTD (getting things done) term on Lifehacker this week. Sounds like a career of conferences from a certain David Allen and reminds me a little of the 7 Habits craze from Steven Covey back in the nineties. Apparently, this article in Wired magazine [...]

Java Performance Tuning White Paper

The task of memory management that was always challenging with compiled object‐oriented languages
such as C++. On the other hand, Java is an interpretive language that takes this memory management
out of the hands of developers and gives it directly to the virtual machine where the code will be run.
This means that for best performance and stability, it is critical that the Java parameters for the virtual
machine be understood and managed by the Application Server deployment team. This section will
describe the various parts of the Java heap and then list some useful parameters and tuning tips for
ensuring correct runtime stability and performance of Application Servers.

First post from my iPod Touch

Cool, I’m in a Parisian public park via a public wifi (thanks to Delanoe) and blogging via the AppStore’s WordPress app. Apparently, it isn’t tip sensitive so a bit tight on the micro-keyboard. But still rather cool.

Forgot one thing

Also trying to get Yahoo! Pipes working inspired by an article over at Tao of Mac (http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2008/01/27/2203) but it is tough going for a non-programmer-minded geek like myself. Rusty around those programming fingers or is it age??
First lame-ass attempt here: http://tinyurl.com/6anv9b

My long road to Web 2.0

In an effort to update my brain to the new millenium, I have been heavily investing this summer in getting up to speed with what I perceive as Web 2.0 stuff. Here’s where I have gotten to so far:
1/ RSS feeds: I aggregated all my RSS feeds (and by degrees of separation by links on [...]

Tips for using Leopard over Windows Part 1: Moving Outlook to Mail

I have been trying to free myself from Windows for some time now. Here is one trick I used to free myself particularly from Outlook for mail archives.
I have about 5 GB of archives of Outlook mail in pst files. As we all know, Entourage is gleefully ignorant of pst files and thus this was [...]

Tips for using Leopard over Windows Part 2: VMware and XP co-habitation made easy

Another tip I found useful for integrating my various environments between Leopard and VMware XP and Windows 2003 images:
Leave all data (Outlook and all Office files) on the Leopard disk and mount them into a common disk in your virtual machines (I used the M: drive). This way, no matter what VM you are [...]

Just starting (belatedly) blogging…

Hopefully, I’ll keep up with it this time after several abortive attempts. I hope to talk about various technical topics but also more cultural ones as well.
I visited theMusée du quai Branlyin Paris today. Fantastic collection of non-European art and crafts. Almost like a Louvre for Asian, Amerindian, Polynesian, African and Aboriginal collections. Well documented [...]