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Entrepreneur looking for a Programmer for long-term partnership

Required Knowledge
LAMP guru, fond of agile methodologies, eager to do his or her own thing.
Additional Info
**I am building a web based issue tracker with focus on SIMPLICITY and USABILITY. It will be a hugely successful application, and it will make us rich and famous. That’s the plan.**
Some of the characteristics of the application:
- Targeted at [...]

Posted 04 September 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Why, France?

In less than 5 minutes from each other, two examples of police state manners in France:

SkypeIn has special requirements for online numbers in France.
To obtain a French online number we will require some personal information from you. This information will be shared with our service provider in France. When your personal data has been verified, [...]

Posted 07 August 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

FinePix F100D, the best compact camera?

I think I’ve made my choice.

Posted 26 June 2008 § Reviews ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Drupal Taxonomy Block

Drupal is my CMS of choice since 2000 or so. Every single time I installed a site I was puzzled by its lack of a basic Categories block.
There are a dozen or so modules doing this in different ways, but the most down to earth is Taxonomy Navigator. Install the module and you get [...]

Posted 11 June 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

The Graphic Designer

When I started working full time, back in ‘96, I dreamed to be a graphic designer. I wanted to be an illustrator, a visual artist, a creative guru. I mastered PhotoStyler and CorelDraw, then Photoshop, Freehand and pretty much every graphics package on the market. I was sure to be on the right [...]

Posted 11 June 2008 § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Diff .patch Files

Is there a diff GUI that handles elegantly .patch files?
It would be great to be able to do something like this:
1. Select a file or folder for comparison on the left.
2. Select a .patch file on the rigt.
RESULT: The application compares the left file or folder with its patched version. The user can [...]

Posted 27 May 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

I CAN HAZ NU BLOG!

I decided to create a new blog to host all my English posts. It’s mostly geeky or work related (yeah, geeky) stuff that my regular readers don’t care much about. 
Technorati Profile Claim.

Posted 09 May 2008 § ‡ Comments (3) °