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Karl Dubost a travaillé pour Phēromone de mars 2009 à octobre 2010. Il est quelque part dans le monde. ✈

27 Jul 2010

Open Data in Canada. Montréal ?

There is an international trend requesting access to open data. That is good. Open data helps organizations, companies and governments to create an environment of trust. There is a guide for open government data which is written by W3C.

Open Data and Licenses

To really promote open data, it is necessary to use the appropriate licence. Glen Newton looked at the licenses of different data sets published by canadian cities. The terms of the…

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22 Jul 2010

CSSVerificator

CssVerificator is a Rails application which checks 5 CSS items for performances. This prototype has been created by Benoit Goyette.

The Story

Nicole Sullivan (@stubbornella) recently outlined the Top 5 Mistakes of Massive CSS. After a survey, Nicolle Sullivan found out that

  • 42% Don’t GZIP CSS
  • 44% Have more than 2 CSS external files
  • 56% Serve CSS with cookies (yummy to eat, bad for static content)
  • 62% Don’t minify (check out the YUI Compressor!)
  • 21%

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19 Jul 2010

So Last Week, Communication Tools Edition

Because I was traveling to London for a conference last week, this So Last Week is covering the two last weeks.

Cookies in webkit

For RDS, we had an issue with cookies on webkit. I went on a quest to understand why. Webkit has an issue with “,” character in cookies. It strips everything after the comma in the value. There is a new specification in the process of redifining cookies. You can expect that some implementations…

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16 Jul 2010

Directeur du Développement chez Phéromone

Hier, Pheromone a publié une annonce d’emploi pour le poste de directeur du développement. J’ai relancé l’annonce sur twitter :

You love the Web? & you want to take over my job. Be the Dev Director at @AgencePheromone http://bit.ly/dtl7Pd #job #montreal

Juste après Jonathan Bélisle a réagi en posant une bonne question que l’annonce ne donne pas.

What are the challenges / innovation opportunities ?

Clarification : Je ne…

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5 Jul 2010

So Last Week, the tentative edition

Some Design agencies are publishing a little summary of their activities during the last week. Among a few of them, there are Berg, Stamen (is trying). It is an interesting idea which requires a strong commitment and needs to be done quickly to not be a burden. The ideal way of doing it would be on Friday evenings. It might be difficult, Friday evenings are sometimes a run for closing some projects, or we might be tired with no…

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2 Jul 2010

Data Love Step By Step

We often forget about the very basic steps for creating a project. There are no small achievements, each step in a process is rewarding by itself and help to build trust in what you are doing. I was reading again the section on Linked Data from Tim Berners-Lee‘s Design Issues.

Linked Data is part of the process of publishing data in a way that it will be useful for anyone else. It is all about creating

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28 Jun 2010

L’accessibilité agile sur OpenWeb

Elie Sloïm vient de publier un article sur OpenWeb à propos de L’accessibilité agile:

L’audit approfondi est une étape fréquente dans la démarche d’amélioration de l’accessibilité d’un site. Une telle démarche débute fréquemment par la recherche d’un état des lieux. Hélas, la production d’un rapport d’audit approfondi de l’accessibilité prend du temps et coûte de l’argent. Dans certains cas, cette approche se justifie parfaitement, mais dans d’autres que nous aborderons dans cet article, ce n’est pas

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27 May 2010

Astuce : Groupe intelligent avec l’addressbook (MacOSX)

Il est très souvent pénible de se souvenir de toutes les personnes appartenant à un groupe particulier avant d’envoyer un message. Le carnet d’adresses du mac est souvent un outil sous-utilisé.

Vous pouvez pourtant créer des groupes intelligents en fonction de catégories précises du carnet d’adresses (la société, le nom, les pays, etc.)

Les fiches contiennent une section libre appelée Remarques. Dans cette section, vous pouvez entrer du texte. Imaginez que vous réserviez cette section pour des mots…

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27 Mar 2010

Amazon, Apple, Google markets

Olivier pointed out an article on twitter this morning: Five lessons Apple can learn from Amazon. I have the feeling that the article is missing entirely the point, because Amazon and Apple are not playing in the same markets:

  • Amazon is using a device to sell books.
  • Apple is using books to sell a device.

It’s two different markets.

The strategy of Apple has always been the same: What can I do to sell more devices?

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    25 Mar 2010

    voice and data mobile traffic, but who?

    Ericsson has announced that during December 2009, the traffic of data has surpassed the traffic of voice. They also announce that 400 million mobile broadband subscriptions are now generating more data traffic than the voice traffic from the total 4.6 billion mobile subscriptions around the world. Passed the PR talk, what does it really tell us?

    1. People use the Web anywhere. It has nothing to do with mobile. It has to do with making actions on data… now.

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