Jean-Francois Amadei

We might be often annoyed by ads but let's face it we're addicted to them; the first thing I got rid of when I installed a no-ads plugin for Firefox (when I was a Firefox user a long ago) was the plugin itself, the websites became much less lively without all the garlands. Some people (rightly) think that advertising is art and that you need more than a genius touches to makes thing work (i.e make people interested to your product or your brand in here).

As you may know, Matt Porter was heavily involved in the MIPS and PPC ports of Android, so he and his team have seen the lowest levels of Android, more and deeper than even cellphone manufacturers ever have to look into it.

The presentation shows how Google has simply thrown 5-10 years of Linux userspace evolution into the trashcan and re-implemented it partially for no reason. Things like hard-coded device lists/permissions in object code rather than config files, the lack of support for hot-plugging devices (udev), the lack of kernel headers. A libc that throws away System V IPC that every unix/Linux software developer takes for granted. The lack of complete POSIX threads. I could continue this list, but hey, you should read those slides. now!

By browsing the different teachers available on Chineseteachers.com I found out that one their teacher (named "Annie") is giving away free one to one chinese lesson for the whole month of november.  For that You only need $1 in your account to have lessons with her, and of course that $1 will not be deducted! She is the only teacher with the special promotion 'S'  red icon .

Every week

Last Saturday I spent 1/4 of my salary in a place I really hate: Ikea. It's crowded, it's huge (you have to walk hours) it stinks and you basically fuck up your whole Saturday afternoon (and night, as you are exhausted after a 5km walk within the maze) but let's be honest, the result is often nice. However, the apartment is not fully furnished yet, still need to buy bed and mattress (I use futon for now) for the bedroom, plants, retro style armchair and chairs for the bar and another sofa, armchair, rug for the home cinema & computer room.

You always find strange stuff in Taiwan (the best and the worst) and I saw one last night in NCCU. Before showing you the picture, I must mention that NCCU (國立政治大學) is a university (where I was a student once) located in Taipei and mainly ruled by "blue" (KMT) people following the "blue" guideline, thus seeing stuff related to mainland china (such as mainland newspapers, teachers and even students) is quite common. But this was quite awkward :

The creation and development of any projects (mobile applications & video-games here) need method and rigor in order to quickly move forward and not get lost along the way. To manage our projects, team as well as external contractors I have been advised to create a Wiki and so far, it was a very good piece of advice! I like the fact that I can start a page (ideas, scenarios...) and that everyone (that I accepted) can edit and enhance it...etc.

I chosen to use PBWorks' Wiki service because I used to have an account on the Ogilvy 360's Wiki (hosted on PBWorks) and I just loved it. It's simple, clean, powerful with tons of options and so far I'm still very satisfied even though our organization its way smaller than Ogilvy's. Now that the team is growing (7 people now, certainly more quite soon) and with the appearance of freelance, the free version will soon be not enough (in term of security and confidentiality, particularly) so we decided to subscribe to a premium plan.

In France we say that any work deserve a salary (it's not always respected I know...) and we're happy to support services (Checkvist, 16bugs and Balsamiq for instance) that makes our life easier, but for that the pricing plan must be "fair" to everyone, which PBWorks' one isn't. Indeed, the Standard plan (that suits our needs) cost 8$/m (which is OK) per users (which is absolutely not). 8$/m per user?! How is possibly sane to create a Wiki and base your pricing plan on the number of users?! Can you imagine that it will cost me 672 fucking dollars per annum for the whole team and that only for a Wiki?!

It's been a while since we've had a Taipei Tech Club meetup so here's the info for next Friday's gathering at the Taiwan Beer Factory.  If you haven't been before, it's a large venue with food, music, geeks and of course plenty of Taiwan Beer to go around. 

Time: Friday, October 30th at 7:00pm 
Location: Taiwan Beer Factory (aka Taiwan Beer Garden, Taiwan Beer Bar)  
Address: 85, BaDe Road, Sec.2, Taipei, 台北市中山區八德路二段85號‎  02-2771-9131
Directions: Google Map

Our events are always open invite so please feel free to pass the message to others that might be interested.  

Look forward to catching up with you next Friday evening at the Taiwan Beer Factory.  

Cheers, 

Well...I do :)

I took advantage that I had some private stuff to do in Singapore to
pass two days an Indonesian's resorts based on Bintan Island.

As we're in the middle of the week, the island is half empty (at
most)...so are the prices (at least)

Soon the incenses and the 拜拜 will come ;-)