Friday, March 30, 2007

Ohio Car Seat Rule Under 4'11

New Kappa

Time passes and I realize I should be less this blog. So here's some info on the progress of Kappa ...
Yesterday evening I was invited to Innovation Awards organized by Technopole de Mulhouse and the Region, as Kappa was one of 18 innovative projects selected to compete. I did not have prices, but it does not matter (although, the check would not hurt to account Kappa). I was able to present the project to a number of officials and some bankers, which allowed me to roam a bit for my presentation. There's even a journalist who said he contact me, but I expect to see.
Apart from that, it is also quite likely that team Kappa is expanding in the coming weeks: the discussions are progressing well. A blogger whose name is not unknown for frequent Web 2.0. A little patience ...
development side, we can say that I'm pretty happy. The features fall into place, gently advance the graphic ... Unless major time-cons, I think the first beta version should out within two months . That

to keep you a little about Kappa.

Reminder: for those who have not read the previous posts on Kappa is a new advertising service that is innovative in its research strategy. The objective being of course to avoid users having to search regularly full of different sites ...

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Harold And Kumar Party

Ziki's it started to benchmark PHP OpenID

Yes, well, I know, I have two days late for this info ... Still, as Jean-Francois was announced on the blog : Ziki accepts the connection via OpenID, pout those who already have an account, and becomes identity server for those who want it.
So yes, yes, there is still thousands of sites that use OpenID for authentication, but I can only applaud that.

Regular readers of this blog (they exist?) already knew it was in the pipes , it seems that it's finally come fast enough.
There's just a little to evangelize among the 8,000 enrolled, and in some time you can test your ID on Kappa (and yes, it goes on ...)

Friday, March 16, 2007

Benefit From Dried Mango

Breakfast: json_encode vs serialize

Souls non-technical, go your way ...

Quite simply, for site development of Kappa I needed a comparison between the functions json_encode () and serialize () PHP 5.2
Both approaches can transform the variables into a string, and JSON and used extensively for some time to trade Ajax, because it is implemented in different languages (unlike serialize () which is only for PHP).

For me the point is to serialize an array to store the value in a cookie. Now the function serialize () me back a string that is about 40% more Long than json_encode () . The saving in space is precious to me, because a cookie has a size limit (about 4000 characters). But do not think it saves space has a significant cost of time.
So I made a small benchmark that does not pretend to be universal, on my personal machine with Ubuntu 6.10, and I noticed that json_encode () takes about ... 40% more time than serialize () .
However, the difference is still not huge, since in my case this is equivalent to 2.5 millionths of a second more. I know I'm a maniac of optimization but I think I'm going to meet that.

Anyway, as I did not find any comparison between these two functions, I shall (if that can be used for other ...)

Monday, March 5, 2007

Chivas Brothers Ltd Bottle

few problems with my Fonera

After 2 months of using my Fonera Wikio courtesy, the results are mixed. No, say rather that there was no problem for a long time, but in recent weeks I have connection problems a bit harsh.
regularly accessing my PowerBook over the network while I use it. Not that I lose the signal, it seems rather to be a story IP addressing . So, I am obliged to request a new DHCP lease. I find it a little galley.
But I do not think there was any update Airport recently ... I'll maybe try the firmware modified francofon.fr ...
Someone there a feedback on that?

Walgreens Collodial Silver

Ziki and OpenID is growing! Small

Some will perhaps think that I'm a little too much on this subject, but it does not matter. I just wanted to share a little phrase of the last mail received from Jean-François Ruiz:
You'll be happy, we will implement OpenID on Ziki soon (I have no date to give you but it will be done soon ).
me I find it rather well. I suspect that announcements made by Netvibes, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo have had a little more weight than my posts on the subject, but it does not matter.
What I do not know is whether it will be possible just to connect to Ziki via OpenID, or if they will implement an identity server (which would be much more consistent I think).

So when Jerome explains that the notion of digital fingerprint (also highlighted by Jeff ) Ziki is more relevant than OpenID, the best is to say, do both! My thumbprint, which identifies my productions and my mark on the web, can also serve as my identity to log on new services ...

I do not pretend that this is the ideal model (there are also still some serious security issues to be resolved), but we must move in one direction, no?

Thursday, March 1, 2007

List Of Mandarin Verbs

mystery MySQL

Caution: This ticket is a rather technical (you're warned from the start). As

Kappa has a geolocation part, I have a table that includes cities for now all the cities of France (DOM-TOM included) with their coordinates (latitude, longitude). There are currently only French cities, but as I plan to open Kappa other countries (like, a revelation), I of course a field which is a country CHAR ( 2) and is indexed. Although
. The scene is set. Let's see what is mysterious ...
 
mysql> SELECT COUNT (*) FROM cities;

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If ever a pro MySQL goes by that I do not mind some light.