Chez Benj

Err, not exactly but here they are, I've got keys for my new flat ... at last! My flatmates (including the famous incredible luk) and I are taking care of the essential details, that is to say setting up an decent internet connection and preparing a network map.

Not a very original post, but I'd like to congratulate Branden our new Debian Project Leader. As everyone that voted for Branden, I hope that he'll be successful in achieving his goals.

Today was an intensive hacking session on {@grisbi}. I must admit I'm quite proud of it, since it led to a nearly complete rewrite of the user interface and to 2200 lines of code suppressed due to various optimizations and code refactoring. Yeah, this rocks!

I'm working today for a customer from one of his desktop stations. I'm not really used to this Gnome desktop since I use {@w9wm} and {@emacs} quite extensively as my desktop system. To tell the truth, I do almost everything with emacs : reading mail, trolling on IRC, uploading files to my FTP or editing via scp ... and of course editing text.

As I wrote some times ago in my weblog, I had the opportunity to work on {@phpldapadmin} for a customer. As part of the project is not specific, my customer (the {@INHA}) decided that we would contribute back to the community and send all improvements to upstream. Needless to say, both {@Alcôve} (my employer) and I were quite happy with that.

Imagine you are working on a project and that there is a strike in public transportation today. Now, imagine you are the only one at the office to have the keys to unlock the room where our firewall is and that you left your keys at home. One would think that chances that the company firewall would crash just today are small. Just f... WRONG!

Today I tried to subscribe to some weblogs that only provide Atom feeds. Unfortunate, because to my knowledge Gnus/Emacs, which my favourite news aggregator (and mail reader, irc/ftp client, login shell, ...) only supports RSS through its nnrss extension.

I was working today for a customer that works in an French administration when something strange happened. We were fixing bugs when someone who was probably the head of the administration entered and asked everybody to come with him in the hall to observe a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the tsunami. He said that it wasn't his idea but national directives from president Chirac, as if he was excusing from a weird idea that wasn't his.

Happy new year to everyone celebrating. I hope 2005 will be better than 2004, which was quite horrible from a personal view. Thought, celebrating was great. It is nice seeing that friends you care about are enjoying life and having a good time!

I'm working today on the new {@grisbi} 0.5.4 release. This is mainly a bug fixes release, but support for the new {@libofx} library has been added and a new unit test feature has been developed by Alain Portal.