ADL Paris! Nexus One for free
I went to the Android Developer Lab on Feb 10 2010. One of the main speaker was Romain Guy. His talks included
- the Android stack in 1.5 was only 8K bytes (now 12K bytes). So it ‘s no use to kill process to allocate more memory.
- useful tool HierarchyViewer optimize and debug the User Interface.
An occasion to meet the French actors and get some useful contacts.
In the afternoon, everyone got a free Nexus One. (I feel bad for those who ordered previousl but one told me he re-sold his second)
Conference Android
Vendredi, je me suis rendu a la conférence GET en soirée pensant rencontré des passionnés.
http://android-france.fr/tag/google-efrei-technologies/
J’ai suivi avec 2 personnes de Google dont un commercial basé a Paris. Le 2eme de Mountain View me demande en me voyant avec un HTC Hero, ‘what’s your twitter client ?’
- the default one, I love the hero because the HTC Sense really bring something on top of it.
On a eu la chance d’avoir entre nos mains des portables : Motorola Droid, HTC Tattoo … bien sur il fallait les rendre a la fin.
Pas de tutoriaux, aucune presentation techniques neanmoins j’ai pu me faire 2 contacts qui ont publié leur appli sur Android.
Back from KingsOfCode
It’s one week old since I’ve been to Amsterdam for KingsOfCode. I had one contact (never met in person) on my LinkedIn who organized a side-event. In less than 5 days I planned my trip from Paris to Amsterdam. And I so enjoy it, I talked with passionnate people. With smaller conference, I can feel mor human atmosphere where you can to talk to speakers directly.
Here are some pics. Mike Malone (Pownce) and Andy Smith (Jaiku) both were doing a presentation on Django framework.
- - About micro-blogging . What makes Twitter so popular ?
- - If you find that one, please let us know . Mike
- - That’s not because it’s built on top of Ruby on Rails
- - I don’t think people care what’s build n top. Andy
I also chatted with Francisco Tolmasky, former Apple employee.
- - What kind of profile does Steve Jobs has ? Is he a UI designer, software architect, marketing guy …
- - Well he’s the guy who chooses what features to add or remove from the ideas . Without Jobs , Apple wouldn’t be what it is today.
Kingsofcode / chèques-vacances
I learned beginning of this week from one of my LinkedIn contact the existence of KingsOfCode conference in Amsterdam. Hell yeah, I’ve got a bunch a travel tickets ….
J’ai des chèques vacances (350 Euro ) qui vont se périmer en décembre 2009. Chouette je décide de les utiliser pour un voyage a Amsterdam. Avec une queue pas possible a la SNCF de Montparnasse, je sors mon numéro de dossier de réservation. Et la le gars au guichet que non,le Thalys ne prend pas les chèques vacances. EUH les chèques vacances ne sont valables qu’a l’intérieur de la France. A quoi ca sert de voyager alors seulement dans le pays ?
De plus le petit con au guichet me dit qu’ils sont remboursables 100%. OUI mais en pas cash sous forme d’autres billets SNCF. Bande d’arnaqueurs.
Il y a une astuce a ce système :
http://blog.effraie.org/post/Bug-SNCF/cheques-vacances-%3A-workaround?pub=1#pr
1 acheter des billets remboursables en France avec vos chèques-vacances
2 se faire rembourser
3 acheter un billet pour l’étranger avec cette somme. Voila
Low budget Lord of the Rings : the Hunt of Gollum
This morning on TV, I learnt about a fan Tolkien made movie : ‘The Hunt of Gollum’ for a budget 3000 £ . 160 people were cast on the 40-minute story I think it’s mind-buggling how much can be done for so few means.
With a budget of £3,000, the film cost somewhat less than Peter Jackson’s trilogy, but that doesn’t mean this fan-film looks like it was put together with cardboard and string.The trailer promises a lavish production that models itself closely on Jackson’s vision of Middle-earth – with North Wales, Epping Forest and Hampstead Heath doubling for Tolkien’s orc-infested lands.
For more information http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8022623.stm
The trailer is available on youtube.
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