Finally the wrap up/poster of my Saint Barth Portfolio 2009.
I have started to publish this portfolio on June 18, 2009 with this post.
The idea was the following:
I will publish 2 pictures from each region of the island per post. Force to choose ;-)
I hope I haven’t bothered you too much with these 16 posts!
I really had to finish, as the countdown is running for our next stay in Saint Barth (February 2010)! About 50 days to go :-)
I have passed the 5’000 pictures uploaded on SmugMug / visuals.didierbeck.com in about one year.
I *really* like SmugMug more and more. Still discovering a lot of very useful functionalities there. So happy to have left Flickr!
It seems that you like it too, as the traffic there is increasing more and more :-) I have now almost the same number of “photos viewed” as “pageviews” on this blog, i.e. more than 100’000 per month for each. Gosh!
Thanks for your interest!
Again, quite an high traffic on my visuals this month :-)
Second time over 100’000 views per month. And more than 600’000 pictures & video viewed since January…
Wow, thanks for your interest, don’t deserve that!
In a way, this morning, I need to see some Saint Barth pictures ;-)
Have a good Friday!
Still not in St Barth. 70 days left to go.
We had some great time this week-end in Strasbourg (wikipedia) with my wife and son. Always a great pleasure to go there, as it is a great city, and also because we have studied there for a while ;-)
We had two great meals:
[…] Numerous gourmet guides have noticed the restaurant, the cuisine being daring, and the mixes being done with “opposites attract” as a motto. A star is born…
Here is Gault Millau Young Talent that really charmed ideal gourmet. Ideally located, decorated with a lot of taste and personality, this gourmet address is on the rise and it will no doubt surprise you thanks to an ideal gourmet menu composed according to the season, with a thousand and one surprises in store for you. […]
Besides the meals and shopping, I could test a bit more my new Canon EPS 5D MarkII, this time with my “old” wide-angle lens (Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0). I could really feel the advantage of the “full-frame” for the first-time. Great!
Full gallery here.
I am still not in Saint Barth…
SmugMug is evolving very well, nice new features are published very regularly. Really a great service. From far better than Flickr…
An example of the embedded slideshow feature below:
http://visuals.didierbeck.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2009090305.swf?AlbumID=8565060&AlbumKey=bxxiE&transparent=true&bgColor=&borderThickness=&borderColor=&useInside=&endPoint=&mainHost=visuals.didierbeck.com&VersionNos=2009090305&showLogo=false&width=600&height=400&clickToImage=true&captions=true&showThumbs=false&autoStart=true&showSpeed=false&pageStyle=white&showButtons=false&randomStart=true&randomize=true&splash=&splashDelay=0&crossFadeSpeed=250
via passionateforparis and The New York Times
I have found by chance this excellent article introducing St. Barts (Saint Barth for the French-speaking persons ;-) to newbies. Really worth a read, very funny and informative, a good summary of the possible explanations of the “why do so many people go back to Saint Barth?”.
It’s relatively easy to maintain a healthy disdain for the renowned fabulousness of the Caribbean island of St.-Barthélemy until you actually go there and find yourself up to your neck in deliciously warm turquoise water, not quite hungry after your recent two-hour lunch but beginning nonetheless to ponder your plans for the drinks and dinner to come. […]
It’s not an instant process, but there are steps you can take, places you can pause and genuflect, like stations of the cross, on your way to that nirvanalike state of a St. Barts veteran. It needn’t take as long as you think, or even, perhaps as much money, though a credit card certainly helps.
“Yes, St. Barts, I am here, at last, here I am where I belong.” […]
Too late for us ;-)
via Laurent and the Innoveo Blog
Cool stuff!
At Innoveo Solutions we are using .NET and WPF for our Innoveo Skye® Editor application. Skye® Editor is a distribution channel editor targeting business people letting them edit and configure their insurance products.
From the beginning we have adopted the Model-View-ViewModel architecture. Having our solution growing we were facing the issue of having our ViewModels dependency growing too. Some ViewModel became too much dependent of others. This was obvious in our unit tests whose complexity to setup were growing too. It was time to find a solution to decouple the ViewModels.
The solution came out after a discussion with Laurent Bugnion, the famous author of MVVM Light Toolkit. At that time we used the V1 that already helped a lot in this decoupling.
Now with MVVM Light Toolkit V2 it is even better with the new Messenger API. What we also really appreciated in comparison to other frameworks is that it is really light and the ability to open and edit the user interface into Expression Blend.
So Thank you Laurent for this GREAT framework and I looking forward for V3!
I also would like to thank my managers at Innoveo Solutions who understand Open Source and the need to have people contributing to Open Source projects, even during their professional working time. A Win-Win situation and not just a one way benefit as often.
Thanks also from my side to Laurent Bugnion, great work and contribution!