France

How to Recognise Code Constructs (from quite a long way away)

No. 1 the Foreach Loop Last weekend I attended JB Evian’s code camp in the l’Ardeche département in the south of France, just to the north of the Provence region that forms the south east part of the French Mediterranean coast. (I was very interested in visiting this area since my wife and I became begin fans of Nigel Farrell’s “A Place in the France”  and  “A Place in the France – Indian Summer” when we first move to France, Nigel’s problems seem to dwarf any we had and helped put things in perspective). Anyway the aim of the project was to create...

Artist Models on Strike

The models at Paris’ prestigious art school “Beaux Arts” intend to strike today over the mayor of Paris' decision to ban the tips that students pay to them. Traditionally at the end of the session, if the students liked the model because they sat still or because they inspired their imagination, they pay a small tip called “cornet”. The mayor of Paris has decided to bad this practice because it is paid directly to the model in cash and so not taxed and therefore “argent au noir”. This decision does seem a little mean given that the models are paid...

Prochaine réunion d’alt.net de Paris - mercredi 4 juin, 20h00 - Le Café des Initiés

La prochain réunion d’alt.net de Paris aura lieu mercredi 4 juin, 20h00 à le « Le Café des Initiés », 3, Place des Deux Ecus, 75001 Paris. Moi, Julien et Symon sera là, et vous ? ---- The next meeting of alt.net Paris will take place on Wednesday 4th June at the “Café des Inities”, 3, Place des Deux Ecus, 75001 Paris. Symon, Julien and I will be there, will you?

Reportage : le première alt.net de Paris réunion

La première réunion a très bien passé, nous étions cinq, pas mal pour une réunion organisé en moins qu’une semaine. On s’est vu dans le « frog et rosbif », peut-être pas le meilleur choisi de lieu, normalement j’aime bien cette pub, mais ce soir là ils ont eu un match de foot à la télé et c’était trop bruyant. Donc, on a bu un verre d’hors de la pub et on est allé au « les têtes brûlées » juste à côté qui était plus calme et plus agréable. On a beaucoup discuté NHibernant, qui était très utilise pour moi, parce que je ne...

alt.net de Paris

Le mouvement alt.net s’agit de un groupe  des développeurs qui s’organisent eux-mêmes et qui sont intéressés par l’amélioration du processus de la création de logiciel. Ils sont intéressés par des outils .NET open source comme nunit, nant, et cruisecontrol.net mais surtout dans des techniques comme « agile », « test driven development », et « design patterns ». Après le réussit de leur conférence global à Seattle il y a un vague des groupes locale qui s’organise, et donc des adhérents de la liste alt.net parisien ont décidé de organise un alt.net de Paris. La première réunion d’alt.net de Paris aura lieu mercredi 30 avril, 20h00 à le...

Chestnuts

Took advantage of the nice weather and went for a long cycle today, we came across quite a few chestnut trees and could help taking advantage of this free food. I think we got over 3 KG in the end   Saw plenty of people out mushrooming, would have liked to have gathered some of those too, but I don’t know enough about it so would have probably ended picking the poisonous ones.

Ségolène’s Election Blues

So apparently there’s an election for a new president in France at the moment. I don’t know how much appears in the media outside of France, but here you can read about little else. Well that’s not strictly true – but it seems to me no edition of my preferred newspaper, le Parisien (also probably the paper that one that requires the lowest level of French), is complete without at least 2 stories about the left’s presidential hopeful, Ségolène Royal, and one about the right’s Nicolas Sarkozy. The problem for Ségolène is she isn’t doing too well at the moment, despite starting...

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