Swing On James !

Thanks for the music !

(Photo credits www.chicodeluigi.it)

Thanks SpeedTouchAFEA62 !

I see that the WiFi revolution is moving forward at a steady pace. We stay at my mother in law’s house in Brussels over the holidays every year, and its the first time I’ve enjoyed acces through a neighbor’s shared access point.

Carthik Sharma Rounding Up Ubuntu Bloggers

If you love and blog about Ubuntu too, then you should definitely write a post linking to Carthik’s entry and get your blog counted in his Ubuntu bloggers roundup.  I wonder what the results will be ?

P.S. I hope this will work, I’m not familiar with pingback.

XWiki.org Relaunches With New Look and Feel

Super job guys !  The new XWiki.org site is looking hot and attractive (even if I find it a bit dark) with that new XWiki 1.0 skin.  I hope the XWiki Open Source Community will appreciate our efforts and get busy sharing information, tips and snippets and continue to foster interest and contributions.  Everyone in the community can benefit from your efforts in documentation, bug reporting, ideas for new features, and code contributions.  We would love to get your feedback on the new site, please write to the user mailing list with your comments and suggestions !

Marketing Bubble Broken – The Web 3 Disaster

I’m laughing my pants off ! Although I personally like Loïc Lemeur because he is very enthusiastic and makes things happen, and I also enjoyed his first TypePad meetings which led later to the first Les Blogs meeting that I attended and also enjoyed, I am kind of glad that the marketing bubble has broken, and that some people are seeing the light. Thanks Ross for pointing that out to me since I didn’t attend Les Blogs 2 or Web 3.

What a joke ! At XWiki we focus on the enterprise market and we pride ourselves on doing real good fundamental R&D in the area of large scale distributed collaborative work and integrating those features in a highly flexible and extensible product like XWiki. We have adressed most of the usability issues through some hard work started in 2005 when we were 2 people and executed in 2006 leading to the XWiki 1.0 skin architecture and the XWiki Open Source Edition 1.0 beta 1 released later on this afternoon at JavaPolis. We now have a reloaded stellar management team with the likes of Vincent Massol as CTO and Stephane Laurière coming from Mandriva with an advanced research agenda in the area of the semantic web, 13 other great people covering London, Bucarest, Saigon and various places in France and Paris, and of course Ludovic Dubost our CEO and founder.

The funny thing is that XWiki is a great platform for Web 2.0 applications, probably the hottest open source enterprise wiki on the planet ! So come talk to us you Web marketers if you’re ready to provide real value to your market segment and let’s get 2.0 right before moving on to the next version.

New Laptop

I got a new Dell Insipiron 640m laptop today and although installing Feisty was a bit of a hassle because of the live cd’s X breakage, I managed to find a post on ubuntuforums.org where somebody mentioned doing an xorg reconfigure and that worked out well.  Feisty screams on the Intel Duo and Beryl is doing wonders to my desktop experience.  The unit is fairly light compared to my previous computer and I got a nice backpack with it which will replace my old attaché case type thing that probably has been responsible for some serious arm lengthening.