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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Saint Barth and its 101 yachts…
Very high season in St Barth now. Actually the period almost all St Barth lovers would not be on the island, as it’s time for “show off” and “celebrities”.
Concentration of big yachts is just crazy now there, about 100 yachts (and no small ones) are present near the Gustavia harbor. And grouped outside the harbor, as the swell is very strong :-)
(From MarineTraffic.com)
Flickr users, you feel uncomfortable? …
…I understand ;-) Was the same for me since now already 2 years, when I decided to move from Flickr to SmugMug. The reasons for this change in December 2008 were listed in detail in this post, but as a summary, I recap my points from 2008 that are more and more valid to my understanding…
Why I left Flickr?
- The huge functional differences between Flickr and SmugMug
- The lack of innovation and service updates at Flickr. In the last months, nothing happened at Flickr. SmugMug is principally launching new functions and testing new ideas each month!
- I was impacted by all the controversies and censorship stories (Thomas Hawk is relating some of them here and here) around Yahoo!/Flickr.
When you follow a bit the Flickr story, you have for sure heard that mainly the whole team and founders have left Yahoo now…
So now the "good news" for you if you’d like to leave Flickr is that the migration to SmugMug is quite easy (I’ve done it for 2 years). And refugees are definitely welcome in the SmugMug family ;-)
Have a look at the special SmugMug offer for you (20% discount)!
As a SmugMug user since now 2 years, I personally strongly recommend their service, really great!
(I’m not affiliated in any manner with SmugMug, excepted as a paying *happy* customer ;-)
It’s freezing here
This was the first snowy Christmas here since a while (if I’m not wrong, since 1985). It is more common that we have some snow before Christmas and afterwards, in January/February.
It was also exceptionally cold yesterday, we had -15°C, i.e. 5°F. Which is a record since 1962 or something like that ;-)
This week-end…
We had a cool lunch at JYS (Chef: Jean-Yves Schillinger, 1* Michelin) in Colmar, which is really a very nice town during this Christmas time. I had specially a super entree, 3 eggs with a simple potatoes’ puree for strengthening the flavor of the truffle :-)
A stroll in the old city.
And this evening, a nice colored sunset!
Software industry
via Judith Hurwitz (first and second articles)
As usual, very interesting feed for thoughts coming from Judith.
Some abstracts:
The definition of an application is changing. The traditional view that the packaged application is hermetically sealed is going away. More of the new packaged applications will be based on service orientation based on best practices. These applications will be parameter-driven so that they can be changed in real time. And yes, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) didn’t die after all.
Exactly what we are doing at Innoveo with our product Innoveo Skye since years!
Managing end points will be one of the key technology drivers in 2011. Smart phones, sensors, and tablet computers are refining what computing means. It will drive the requirement for a new approach to role and process based security.
Totally agree, we are working on that also at Innoveo. Cannot disclose yet.
Cloud computing moves to the front office. Two years ago IT and business leaders saw cloud computing as a way to improve back office efficiency. This is beginning to change. With the flexibility of cloud computing, management is now looking at the potential for to quickly innovate business processes that touch partners and customers.
Also something we feel coming out of the market and as new business need. Why not working on that too ;-)
cross-posted on the Innoveo Blog
Counting down! 2 months left :-)
Yes yes yes, in exactly two months, we will be on THE island, Saint Barth.
Just by writing that down, I’m already super happy :-)
iPhone theme switcher
I have installed and activated a WordPress plugin called iPhone theme switcher which allows in a super easy way to detect if my site is being viewed by iPhone or iPod (about 2% of the traffic here) and to switch to a selected iPhone theme. I use the iPhone WordPress Theme 1.0.1
Now, if you have a look at this site with your iPhone, you should see something like that:
Warm welcome to Carlos!
We are very happy and proud to be able to inform you all that we have hired Carlos Prieto Cañal, our new Senior Solution Architect. Today is the first day of Carlos at Innoveo!
Carlos has a Master Degree in Computer Engineering of the University of Oviedo/Spain, with a Master Thesis pending in Artificial Intelligence. One of his publication:
Hybridizing a Genetic Algorithm with Local Search and Heuristic Seeding
Carlos is also a SUN Certified Java Programmer 6, and has a Master in J2EE Applications development from SUN.
He was working for CSC (Gijon, Spain) in the last 4 years, where he could, among others, acquire knowledge of the Insurance market while he was involved in an international project developed for a major Insurance company based in Swindon/UK during 2 years.
Carlos (middle right of the picture) at our recent Innoveo X’Mas Event 2010 (I will come back to that ;) with Andrea, Nestor, Laurent and Cédric.
Quite a long time that we haven’t got colleagues from Spain in our Team, so it’s a great pleasure to increase also our “internationality” again!
cross-posted on the Innoveo Blog