http://www.pilango.com Crowdsourcing Innovation Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:53:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I got a strange breakage with this morning's updates to jaunty and finally tracked it down to an issue with xulrunner thanks to the comments on this post.  So if you're getting a blank dialog box on launching eclipse lately the short answer is, append -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner to the end of your eclipse.ini after ... http://www.pilango.com/blog/2009/02/eclipse-running-on-jaunty-again/ I will be at the Open Source Exchange organized by Skills Matter and Xebia on Wednesday to learn more about their partnership and to hear some of the speakers, including my friend Guillaume for an update on Groovy.  The event is free so if you're in town you might want ... http://www.pilango.com/blog/2008/11/pilango-the-skills-matter-xebia-open-source-exchange/ + If you are interested in a great tool to do collaborative user interface design then run off to Peldi's Balsamiq Studios website and follow the instructions to download a great new product that I am proud to have contributed to : Balsamiq Mockups for XWiki. If you want to learn a ... http://www.pilango.com/blog/2008/10/xwiki-mockups-an-awesome-combination/ I'll be at Google Developer Day 2008 Paris on Thursday.  It will be the opportunity to see some friends and get a hands-on update on some cool Google stuff like the App Engine and GWT.  Everyone has been asked to download all the toolkits and to bring their laptop (and ... http://www.pilango.com/blog/2008/09/pilango-google-developer-day/ If you are in France in October you will surely have the occasion to join the French and francophone agile community in one of the many cities where the Agile Tour 2008 will be held on: - 01 octobre : Besançon - 03 octobre : Mulhouse - 06 octobre : Genève - 09 octobre ... http://www.pilango.com/blog/2008/09/agile-tour-2008/ I have always been peskered by my lack of knowledge in setting up a virtual host setup in apache that would allow me to hide the name of a webapp in a proxied tomcat server.  After looking for a way to do this right with mod_proxy + mod_rewrite + ext_filter ... http://www.pilango.com/blog/2008/09/xwiki-virtual-host-setup-resolved/ I love this presentation from 37signals David Heinemeier Hansson: David's point is very much applicable to Pilango's evolving story...  Thanks to Matt Asay's post on the Open Road for pointing this out. http://www.pilango.com/blog/2008/09/the-secret-to-making-money-online/ I've been interested in (fascinated by ?) how the Ubuntu distribution is assembled with such regularity and with such a high level of quality for a long time.  I have been running development versions of Ubuntu since feisty I believe and have enjoyed (well most of the time) the occasional ... http://www.pilango.com/blog/2008/08/im-now-an-ubuntero/ I'm on assignment this week at Axians, a subsidiary of the large French conglomerate Vinci, that is specialized in providing custom audiovisual installations to corporate and institutional accounts.  The objective of my work is to secure a code base that is critical to continued operations at a high-level institutionnal account.  ... http://www.pilango.com/blog/2008/08/documenting-a-critical-code-base-axians/ I'm very happy to have gotten in touch with Peldi who has done such a good job on his Mockups UI prototyping tool.  There are several versions of the tool, either downloadable and installable on your Desktop as an Adobe AIR application, or as a plugin in several wiki products ... http://www.pilango.com/blog/2008/07/balsamiq-mockups-rocks/