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	<title>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</title>
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		<title>The rumors of our extinction have been greatly exaggerated</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2010/03/02/the-rumors-of-our-extinction-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/en/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a public announcement to everyone who have seen the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver: Canada is still inhabited by French speakers.
Despite all the criticism the Vancouver Organizing Committee received after the opening ceremonies, little changed in the closing one.  Yes, the VANOC&#8217;s CEO made an effort to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a public announcement to everyone who have seen the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver: Canada is still inhabited by French speakers.</p>
<p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">Despite all the criticism the Vancouver Organizing Committee received after the opening ceremonies, little changed in the closing one.  Yes, the VANOC&#8217;s CEO made an effort to speak in French but that&#8217;s about the only change you could see.  That and the fact that Canada&#8217;s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium added a live translator on French TV so that the less &#8220;fortunate&#8221; can understand the ceremonies in their own country.</p>
<p class="firstHeading">Would have it been too much to ask for one of the monologues to have been in French? After all, I am sure there are Francophones outside Québec ready to do such a creed for Canada.  They probably just didn&#8217;t try to find one but I personally believe finding one could also have been a hard job, considering that doing such a creed, even if it&#8217;s a caricature, could mean professional suicide for a Québec comedian in Québec&#8217;s French market (where such creeds on any side isn&#8217;t popular these days).</p>
<p class="firstHeading">In short, we still exist.  What you have witnessed is a sad image for a country with 2 official languages.  It is reminiscent of old English-French frictions which we all would like to believe were long gone.  As it has been pointed out on this <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2010/03/01/vanoc-disappointed-me/">blog</a> (a post worth reading) and in the professional <a href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/opinions/chroniqueurs/nathalie-petrowski/201003/02/01-4256565-canadian-please.php">press</a> (in French!), denying French Canadians such visibility has done more for the sovereignty movement of Québec than the current leaders of the movement themselves. And that&#8217;s quite a job, considering the health of the movement at the moment (the leading party not being the ruling government for 7 years now).</p>
<p class="firstHeading">This is also reminiscent of West-East frictions.  The (mostly English) West feels bilingualism is being wrongly imposed on them. They feel too much power is given to the central provinces (where 60 % of the population lives).  They probably also feel (rightfully) they are paying for our social wealth services considering the thriving west economy of tar sands and, I have to admit, their just efficient administrations.  Those frictions may never disappear, after all British Colombia was almost part of the United States of America if it were not of the Canadian rails built in 1870s.  My point of view on the subject is that parts of Canada and United States are being unnecessarily separated on political reasons.  Vancouver&#8217;s economy is probably more active with Seattle&#8217;s than the rest of Canada.  The same applies with the province of Québec and state of New York.  Politically enforcing an horizontal relationship where the natural flow of business is vertical.  This argument has been mentioned in the latest High Speed Trains plans of Québec–Windsor and Montréal–New York.  I am going to stop here but this could lead to interesting debates on history and politics. <img src='http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p class="firstHeading">In conclusion, just don&#8217;t forget we still exist.  We have a thriving musical culture (among other) as you can see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T36n53N7n9c">here</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVAYnO45nC8&amp;feature=related">here</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z5UoYdcakk">here</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-0SShvHvGo">here</a> (my personal favourite local artists these years).  Its absence from the Olympics is an anecdotal abnormality.</p>
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		<title>My upcoming talks at Confoo.ca</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2010/02/03/my-upcoming-talks-at-confooca/en/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After touring FOSS events all around the world, I decided to see what&#8217;s happening on the local software scene.   I met with the guys from Montreal-Python, the Ubuntu Québec local team guys (after all Montréal is the home of Canonical&#8217;s Global Support Services) and the local start-ups at DemoCamp.
They convinced me I should give [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After touring FOSS events all around the world, I decided to see what&#8217;s happening on the local software scene.   I met with the guys from <a href="http://montrealpython.org/">Montreal-Python</a>, the <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu</a> Québec local team guys (after all Montréal is the home of Canonical&#8217;s Global Support Services) and the local start-ups at DemoCamp.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.confoo.ca/en/schedule"><img class="alignright" style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://confoo.ca/images/propaganda/2010/en/speaking.jpg" alt="confoo.ca Web Techno Conference" width="150" height="100" /></a>They convinced me I should give a talk at <a href="http://www.confoo.ca">Confoo.ca</a>.  In fact I decided to submit 2 talks and both were accepted.  Confoo.ca is a new conference building on the famous <a href="http://www.phpquebec.org">PhpQuébec</a> conferences but gathering much more communities together: .Net, Python, Ruby and Web developers. The conference will cover technical topics as well as project management, marketing and social medias.</p>
<p>Based on my personal knowledge and the experiments I&#8217;ve been doing lately with Web + Desktop apps combinations, I&#8217;ve submitted the following talks.</p>
<h3><a href="http://confoo.ca/en/2010/session/django-restful-apis-as-an-application-server">Django + RESTful APIs as an application server</a></h3>
<p>Application servers are the central part of data applications. They are responsible for mission critical activities of businesses and yet have to be cost effective. <a href="http://www.djangoproject.com/">Django</a> offers a lot of flexibility by providing rapid application development. <a href="http://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home">Django-piston</a> makes it easy to add RESTful APIs to existing Django apps. Web servers are very common and rather cheap to rent or host in house.</p>
<p>Once your application has a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer">RESTful</a> API, nothing is keeping desktop applications to access your web services. For example, using <a href="http://moblin.org/projects/librest">librest</a> on the desktop, <a href="http://www.novopia.com/emerillon/">Emerillon</a> accesses on-line databases such as <a href="http://www.geonames.org/">Geonames</a>. Librest simplifies accessing RESTful web services and makes parsing XML fun again (that&#8217;s a Robert Bradford quote if I am not mistaken).</p>
<h3><a href="http://confoo.ca/en/2010/session/introduction-to-openstreetmap-and-how-to-use-it">Introduction to OpenStreetMap and how to use it</a></h3>
<p>When thinking of online maps, <a href="http://maps.google.com">Google Maps</a> is often mentioned as a reference. But you can&#8217;t use their data in all the exciting ways you could ever imagine. Enters <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a>: community built openly licensed map data. You are virtually free to do anything with the data, short of not giving proper attribution of its origins.</p>
<p>With this gained freedom, you can explore and create unique maps adjusted to your needs. You can also simply reuse the default one available on OpenStreetMap.org, in some locations it is way more complete than any other maps anyway.</p>
<p>Come and attend <a href="http://www.confoo.ca">Confoo.ca</a>!</p>
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		<title>MapBuddy 0.2, libchamplain 0.4.4 and 0.5</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2010/01/29/mapbuddy-02-libchamplain-044-and-05/en/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What a big release week!
First, a quick update to MapBuddy:


Translations (French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Polish, Slovak)
A &#8220;Add to addressbook&#8221; button on merchant&#8217;s window (with the help of Jonathon Jongsma)
A precision circle is drawn around your position
Kinetic scrolling is turned on

Then, a bigger update for libchamplain 0.4.4:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a big release week!</p>
<p>First, a quick update to <a href="http://www.pierlux.com/map-buddy/">MapBuddy</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/screenshot23.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1396" title="MapBuddy" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/screenshot23-300x180.png" alt="" width="300" height="180" /></a></p>
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<li>Translations (French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Polish, Slovak)</li>
<li>A &#8220;Add to addressbook&#8221; button on merchant&#8217;s window (with the help of Jonathon Jongsma)</li>
<li>A precision circle is drawn around your position</li>
<li>Kinetic scrolling is turned on</li>
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<p>Then, a bigger update for <a href="http://project.gnome.org/libchamplain">libchamplain</a> 0.4.4:</p>
<ul>
<li>API clean up (with API backward compatibility): champlain_view_set_size should have never existed</li>
<li>Fix to make Python bindings work out of the tarballs!</li>
<li>Use shared paths by all tiles consumers on Maemo devices to store tiles (saves bandwidth)</li>
<li>Load tiles in a spiral manner from the centre (thanks to <a href="http://jasonwoof.org/jason_woofenden">Jason Woofenden</a>)</li>
<li>Optimizations resulting in
<ul>
<li>Faster start-up</li>
<li>Smoother scrolling</li>
<li>Energy savings (by doing less computations)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Then, a huge update for <a href="http://project.gnome.org/libchamplain">libchamplain</a> 0.5:</p>
<ul>
<li>First development release with new APIs:
<ul>
<li>Local map rendering (Google Summer of Code of Simon Wenner)</li>
<li>New Map Source mechanism à la Pipe and Filter (Jiří Techet)</li>
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		<title>J&#8217;ai invité Clutter pour Noël</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2010/01/20/jai-invite-clutter-pour-noel/fr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[C&#8217;est maintenant une tradition établie pour les réveillons de Noël du côté de ma mère: on se rassemble tous pour un bon repas de mets traditionnels, on échange les cadeaux et on joue à un jeu.  Mais pas n&#8217;importe quel jeu, un jeu fait maison créé pour cette occasion unique.   Par exemple, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>C&#8217;est maintenant une tradition établie pour les réveillons de Noël du côté de ma mère: on se rassemble tous pour un bon repas de mets traditionnels, on échange les cadeaux et on joue à un jeu.  Mais pas n&#8217;importe quel jeu, un jeu fait maison créé pour cette occasion unique.   Par exemple, ces 2 dernières années nous avons joué à une version de <a href="http://http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpents_et_%C3%A9chelles">Serpent et échelles</a> géante et une adaptation du <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Banquier">Banquier</a>.</p>
<div id="attachment_1352" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/noel2008.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1352" title="Le jeu de Serpents et échelles de 2008 (notez que l'échelle fait 20 cm!)" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/noel2008-300x198.jpg" alt="Le jeu de Serpents et échelles de 2008 (notez que l'échelle fait 20 cm!)" width="300" height="198" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Le jeu de Serpents et échelles de 2008 (notez que l'échelle fait 20 cm!)</p></div>
<p>Mais 2009 était une année spéciale, j&#8217;allais être l&#8217;hôte du réveillon.  J&#8217;allais avoir à bâtir un jeu pour l&#8217;occasion.  Ma mère est créative et aime bricoler mais ce n&#8217;est pas tant mon cas.  J&#8217;ai donc décidé de créer un jeu à l&#8217;ordinateur.  <i>Noël de fortune</i> était né.</p>
<div id="attachment_1350" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/splash.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1350" title="Écran de démarrage du jeu" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/splash-300x168.png" alt="Écran de démarrage du jeu" width="300" height="168" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Écran de démarrage du jeu</p></div>
<p>Après consultation avec mon cohôte, nous avons établi les règles de base du jeu: ce serait un jeu avec tours où chaque joueur doit deviner une expression.  Le joueur pourra nommer des lettres et elles seront révélées dans l&#8217;expression.  Si la lettre n&#8217;est pas dans l&#8217;expression, il perd un point et c&#8217;est au prochain joueur de jouer.  Le joueur peut également essayer de résoudre, mais s&#8217;il échoue il perdra 5 points.  Chaque joueur a sa propre expression à deviner.  Lorsqu&#8217;un joueur trouve son expression, il a droit à un cadeau.  Il y aura 3 manches.  Pour aider les joueurs, l&#8217;alphabet sera affiché en haut de l&#8217;écran et les lettres déjà nommées seront identifiées pendant la première manche, seulement les lettres nommées seront affichées pendant la 2e manche alors que rien ne sera affiché pour la dernière manche.  C&#8217;est une augmentation du niveau de difficulté.  Le joueur qui aura trouvé ses expressions avec le moins d&#8217;essais aura un cadeau supplémentaire à la fin du jeu.  Ces règles vous rappellent peut-être <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Roue_de_la_fortune">La roue de fortune</a> ou le <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Pendu">bonhomme pendu</a>.</p>
<div id="attachment_1354" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/jeu.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1354" title="Pendant le jeu" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/jeu-300x168.png" alt="Pendant le jeu" width="300" height="168" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Pendant le jeu</p></div>
<p>Nous avons trouvé plus de 400 expressions pour le jeu afin que nous puissions prendre part au jeu avec toute la famille.  Il y a eu 3 thèmes, un par manche: <em>Noël</em>, <em>Chose à faire</em>, <em>Personnalités connues</em>.  Sans surprise, le premier thème a été très facile mais les 2 derniers plus difficiles.</p>
<p>Pour créer le jeu, j&#8217;ai décidé d&#8217;y aller avec <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28langage%29">Python</a> puisque je voulais un langage de programmation avec des structures de base de haut niveau comme des ensembles, listes et dictionnaires.  Ces dernières se sont avérées très utiles pour l&#8217;implémentation.  Un jeu doit être excitant visuellement et puisque je m&#8217;y connais déjà en <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutter">Clutter</a>, ça aurait été un choix qui va de soi.  Le graphisme est plutôt simple: tout est une image (à l&#8217;exception du texte!) qui est animée avec Clutter.  Lorsqu&#8217;un joueur nomme une lettre, toutes les cartes sont animées comme si quelque chose passait sous elles et elles tournent si la lettre correspond. Un <a href="http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=51711">son magique</a> est aussi entendu! S&#8217;il y a une erreur (lettre déjà nommée, lettre pas dans le mot), une boîte de dialogue s&#8217;affiche.  Lorsque la manche est terminée, le pointage est affiché tel un diagramme à bandes qui s&#8217;affichent une à une (pour ajouter de la tension).</p>
<div id="attachment_1356" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/solution.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1356" title="L'écran de solution" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/solution-300x168.png" alt="L'écran de solution" width="300" height="168" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">L'écran de solution</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1355" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/mauvais.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1355" title="L'écran de solution erronée" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/mauvais-300x168.png" alt="L'écran de solution erronée" width="300" height="168" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">L'écran de solution erronée</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1358" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/pointage.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1358" title="L'écran de pointage (données simulées ;-)" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/pointage-300x168.png" alt="L'écran de pointage (données simulées ;-)" width="300" height="168" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">L'écran de pointage (données simulées ;-)</p></div>
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[Oups votre navigateur ne supporte pas le tag Vidéo!] Téléchargez le vidéo <a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/cards.ogg">ici</a>!<br />
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<p>Cela m&#8217;aura pris bien au delà de 80 heures pour créer le jeu.  En tout et partout, ça aura été un grand succès <img src='http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> Nos invités l&#8217;ont trouvé original et la partie a duré des heures.</p>
<div id="attachment_1359" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/explications.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1359" title="Gabriel explique les règles. Vous pouvez voir les cadeaux dans les bibliothèques." src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/explications-300x198.jpg" alt="Gabriel explique les règles. Vous pouvez voir les cadeaux dans les bibliothèques." width="300" height="198" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Gabriel explique les règles. Vous pouvez voir les cadeaux dans les bibliothèques.</p></div>
<p>Je ne rendrai pas le code de ce jeu libre.  Pour être franc, le code n&#8217;est pas exemplaire: c&#8217;était mon premier jeu, ma première application Python à partir de rien et à la fin, je ne faisais que corriger bêtement les bugs sans corriger les problèmes de fond. Mais bon, il fonctionne.  Je suis sûr qu&#8217;il y a des applications fermées pire que ça.</p>
<p>La plupart des images proviennent d&#8217;images disponibles sous licence <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons">Creative Commons</a> comme le fond d&#8217;écran.  Malheureusement, j&#8217;ai mal fait mon travail et je n&#8217;ai pas gardé le nom de l&#8217;auteur ou le lien de la page où j&#8217;ai trouvé les bordures utilisées partout dans le jeu.  Si vous le trouvez, je le lierai!</p>
<p>Ah! En passant, puisque ma mère avait beaucoup de temps libre (n&#8217;ayant pas à créer un jeu cette année), elle s&#8217;est investie dans l&#8217;emballage des cadeaux.  Avez-vous déjà reçu un cadeau emballé comme une <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/buche_de_noel">bûche de Noël</a>? ou dans le tambourin de l&#8217;enfant au tambour? <img src='http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<div id="attachment_1349" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/buche.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1349 " title="Mon cadeau était emballé à la manière d'une bûche de Noël.  Je l'ai mérité pour avoir trouvé le mot Ragoût de boulettes." src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/buche-300x210.jpg" alt="Mon cadeau était emballé à la manière d'une bûche de Noël.  Je l'ai mérité pour avoir trouvé le mot Ragoût de boulettes." width="300" height="210" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mon cadeau était emballé à la manière d'une bûche de Noël.  Je l'ai mérité pour avoir trouvé le mot Ragoût de boulettes.</p></div>
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		<title>OpenStreetMap mappers band to improve Haiti&#8217;s map</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2010/01/13/openstreetmap-mappers-band-to-improve-haitis-map/en/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to help people, free and widely available maps are a good tool to rescue parties.  Many users of OpenStreetMap have organized a wiki page to manage the work that needs to be done to quickly improve OpenStreetMap for this part of the world.  Thankfully, Yahoo has high resolution imagery of the region [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In order to help people, free and widely available maps are a good tool to rescue parties.  Many users of OpenStreetMap have organized a <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#2010_Earthquake_Response">wiki page</a> to manage the work that needs to be done to quickly improve OpenStreetMap for this part of the world.  Thankfully, Yahoo has high resolution imagery of the region making it possible to trace the streets.  Note: remember that only Yahoo imagery can be used, as OpenStreetMap has a signed derivative work permission with Yahoo.</p>
<p>If you know how to edit maps, maybe you can land a hand! <a href="http://crisiscommons.org/wiki/index.php?title=Haiti/2010_Earthquake">CrisisCommon</a> also has other resources.</p>
<p><strong>Follow-up:</strong> <a href="http://brainoff.com/weblog/2010/01/14/1518">Mikel Maron</a> has before and after images along with more info.</p>
<p><a style="text-decoration:none" title="See this map on OpenStreetMap.org" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=18.89&amp;lon=-72.83&amp;zoom=9"><img src="http://osm-tah-cache.firefishy.com/~ojw/MapOf/?lat=18.494&amp;long=-72.373&amp;z=9&amp;w=450&amp;h=380&amp;format=jpeg" border="0" alt="Slippy Map" width="450" height="380" /><br />
</a></p>
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		<title>One more map app for the N900</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2010/01/12/one-more-map-app-for-the-n900/en/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I finaly got my hands on a N900 (given as a Christmas gift by Collabora to Gabriel).  This gave me the occasion to observe first hand that the Ovi Maps, while having a lot of features, is slow and that the Hildon Emerillon port is less than perfect.  It is hard to use with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I finaly got my hands on a N900 (given as a Christmas gift by Collabora to Gabriel).  This gave me the occasion to observe first hand that the Ovi Maps, while having a lot of features, is slow and that the Hildon <a href="http://www.novopia.com/emerillon">Emerillon</a> port is less than perfect.  It is hard to use with fingers and feels alien to the platform.</p>
<p>To solve this, I created <a href="http://www.pierlux.com/map-buddy/">Map Buddy</a>: a map application specifically designed for Maemo 5.  It is quite simple to use and works out of the box (no configuration or selection of plug-ins required!).  It also has something other apps don&#8217;t: it uses web-services to provide business search capabilities.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="A search for Pizza in Montréal using Map Buddy" src="http://www.pierlux.com/map-buddy/screenshots/screenshot2.png" alt="" width="800" height="480" /></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the use case I built Map Buddy upon: you just arrived in Montréal and want to find a sushi restaurant.</p>
<ol>
<li>You start Map Buddy, it will be centred on the place you closed  Map Buddy on.  You can click on the &#8220;Center on me&#8221; icon on the bottom left, and it will centre the map on Montréal ‒ remember you are in Montréal for this example! By the way, your position is marked by a blue dot. Later version will display the precision too.</li>
<li>To search for businesses, you have to switch in business search mode, tap on the magnifying glass to do so.</li>
<li>Enter sushi in the search bar and press enter! The map will be populated with markers representing the places tagged with sushi (powered by <a href="http://www.praizedmedia.com">Praized Media</a>, a Montréal start-up).</li>
<li>To get the name of the place, tap once on the marker.</li>
<li>To get the complete details about a place, tap once on the name: a new window will be opened with the business&#8217; address, phone number and web site if available.  Map Buddy even provides a call button!</li>
<li>To clear the search results, tap on the trash can in the search bar or do a new search.</li>
</ol>
<p>It&#8217;s that simple!</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.pierlux.com/map-buddy/screenshots/screenshot3.png" alt="" width="800" height="480" /></p>
<p>Map Buddy includes a place search so that if you are looking for Pizza in New York, you don&#8217;t have to scroll from San Francisco to New York to get there.  Select the Place search mode, enter New York in the search field and press enter.  A picker dialog will be opened to let you select the correct New York.</p>
<p>To switch to other maps, click on the layer icon, it will bring up the list of possible maps to display.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pierlux.com/map-buddy/mapbuddy.install"><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.pierlux.com/map-buddy/img/ac_install_icon.png" alt="" width="85" height="75" /></a>I hope you like it!  Try it today! <strong>WARNING: </strong>Installing Map Buddy in this early stage requires adding the extras-devel repository which might install unstable software on your device.  <em>Try it at your own risk or if you are a professional <img src='http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </em></p>
<p>NB: Praized Media only has strong data sets for Canada and United States.  They plan to sign business partnerships to get data for Europe in 2010.  In the mean time, you can directly add businesses using this <a href="http://praized.com/merchants/new/">form</a>.</p>
<p>NB: Help is appreciated to translate it!</p>
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		<title>Can you spot what&#8217;s new?</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2010/01/04/can-you-spot-whats-new/en/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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Yes! Libchamplain now has a scale! It was long overdue.  In fact, I first started to work on it way before libchamplain 0.2.2 was even released (1.25 year ago).  It got impeded by more important features and bug fixes. Two or three months ago Tollef Fog Heen took over the branch and added [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/scale1.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1310" title="Emerillon with a scale" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/scale1-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Yes! Libchamplain now has a scale! It was long overdue.  In fact, I first started to work on it way before libchamplain 0.2.2 was even released (1.25 year ago).  It got impeded by more important features and bug fixes. Two or three months ago <a href="http://err.no/personal/blog/">Tollef Fog Heen</a> took over the branch and added the magic required maths to compute the scale.  I then took over his work (as he was quite busy and I wanted this too) to provide the final result.</p>
<p>Since all the changes are backward compatible, I&#8217;ll soon release a libchamplain 0.4.3 with the scale disabled by default (to ensure the same visual behaviour as before upgrade).  To display a scale, an application just has to change the <em>show-scale</em> property to TRUE.</p>
<p><code>#if CHAMPLAIN_CHECK_VERSION (0, 4, 3)<br />
g_object_set (champlain_view, "show-scale", TRUE, NULL);<br />
#endif<br />
</code></p>
<p>The scale also supports other exotic units than the SI/metric ones.  It can display miles and feet, if you&#8217;re into that. <img src='http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> By the way, the scale will automatically switch from kilometres to metres when it makes more sense.  That was quite more complex to do with miles and feet as they are not simply a power of 10.  Set the <em>scale-unit</em> property to <em>CHAMPLAIN_UNIT_MILES</em> to get miles.</p>
<p>You can limit the width (in pixels) of the scale with the <em>max-scale-width</em> property.  If you watch closely, the scale will adjust itself right away when you move the map.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/scale2.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1312" title="Emerillon with a scale" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/scale2-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a> <a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/scale1_miles.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1313" title="Emerillon with a scale" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/scale1_miles-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a> <a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/scale2_miles.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1314" title="Emerillon with a scale" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/scale2_miles-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
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		<title>Complainte funéraire pour la pomme</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/12/11/complainte-funeraire-pour-la-pomme/fr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ici se trouvait une pomme
Ici se dressait la table
Là était la maison
Là était la ville
Ici gît le pays

Cette pomme là
C'est la terre
Un bel astre
Sur lequel il y eût des pommes
Et des mangeurs de pommes
Traduction libre de &#8220;Nänie auf den Apfel&#8221; de Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<pre>Ici se trouvait une pomme
Ici se dressait la table
Là était la maison
Là était la ville
Ici gît le pays

Cette pomme là
C'est la terre
Un bel astre
Sur lequel il y eût des pommes
Et des mangeurs de pommes</pre>
<hr />Traduction libre de &#8220;<a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=bkgd-8MC0GcC&amp;pg=PA447&amp;lpg=PA447&amp;dq=N%C3%A4nie+auf+den+Apfel&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=NjibywusNc&amp;sig=cUlX_ZYwWzT3CaU7MqDsRDeUZ6o&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=Fs8hS6u5G4ejlAfClfiBCg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=8&amp;ved=0CDQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&amp;q=N%C3%A4nie%20auf%20den%20Apfel&amp;f=false">Nänie auf den Apfel</a>&#8221; de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Magnus_Enzensberger">Hans Magnus Enzensberger</a></p>
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		<title>Lancement de l&#8217;Agenda du libre du Québec</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/11/30/lancement-de-lagenda-du-libre-du-quebec/fr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Une nouvelle ressource en ligne pour la communauté de l&#8217;informatique libre du Québec est ouverte au public aujourd&#8217;hui: l&#8217;Agenda du libre du Québec. Ce site gratuit vise à rassembler en un seul point tous les évènements du Québec portant sur l&#8217;informatique libre: des InstallFest aux conférences, en passant par les Mapping Party d&#8217;OpenStreetMap.

Le site est [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Une nouvelle ressource en ligne pour la communauté de l&#8217;informatique libre du Québec est ouverte au public aujourd&#8217;hui: l&#8217;<a href="http://www.agendadulibre.qc.ca">Agenda du libre du Québec</a>. Ce site gratuit vise à rassembler en un seul point tous les évènements du Québec portant sur l&#8217;informatique libre: des InstallFest aux conférences, en passant par les Mapping Party d&#8217;OpenStreetMap.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/agendadulibre.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1305 aligncenter" title="L'Agenda du libre du Québec" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/agendadulibre-300x215.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="215" /></a></p>
<p>Le site est très simple à utiliser.  Dès l&#8217;arrivée sur le site, le visiteur voit les évènements du mois en cours dans un calendrier.  Il peut ensuite le filtrer pour sa région administrative ou passer à un autre mois.  Il ne verra alors que les événements pour sa région et les événements à portée nationale ou internationale ayant lieu au Québec.</p>
<p>L&#8217;Agenda du libre du Québec est aussi un service de calendrier en ligne.  Les visiteurs peuvent exporter les événements vers leur application de calendrier favorite (via l&#8217;un des <a href="http://www.agendadulibre.qc.ca/event/feeds/">fils WebCal</a>) ou leur application de nouvelles (via l&#8217;un des <a href="http://www.agendadulibre.qc.ca/event/feeds/">fils RSS</a>).</p>
<p>Le contenu de l&#8217;Agenda est contribué par la communauté et est modéré selon les règles suivantes: les événements doivent porter sur un projet libre (c&#8217;est-à-dire avec une license acceptée par l&#8217;Open Source Initiative ou Creative Commons). Le contenu de l&#8217;Agenda grandira au fur et à mesure où les événements y seront ajoutés par les membres actifs de la communauté.</p>
<p>L&#8217;Agenda du libre du Québec est une réimplémentation légitime de L&#8217;Agenda du Libre (France).  Comme cette dernière, le code source, le texte et le design de la version québécoise est entièrement disponible, en faisait un exemple de logiciel libre.</p>
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		<title>De l&#8217;anglais au CÉGEP: encore un peu plus SVP</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/11/24/de-langlais-au-cegep-encore-un-peu-plus-svp/fr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Le débat est relancé de plus belle au Québec sur l&#8217;obligation de forcer le peuple à faire une partie de ces études supérieures en français.  Rappelons qu&#8217;au Québec, il est obligatoire pour un francophone de naissances et les nouveaux arrivants (allophones) de fréquenter l&#8217;école jusqu&#8217;à la fin du secondaire en français si celle-ci est financé [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Le débat est relancé de plus belle au Québec sur l&#8217;obligation de forcer le peuple à faire une partie de ces études supérieures en français.  Rappelons qu&#8217;au Québec, il est <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charte_de_la_langue_fran%C3%A7aise">obligatoire</a> pour un francophone de naissances et les nouveaux arrivants (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allophone_%28Quebec%29">allophones</a>) de fréquenter l&#8217;école jusqu&#8217;à la fin du secondaire en français si celle-ci est financé par l&#8217;État, pour les autres (les anglophones de souche), ils peuvent fréquenter l&#8217;école de leur choix.  Cette démarche vise à éviter une assimilation du Québec vers l&#8217;anglais par &#8220;noyade&#8221; d&#8217;immigrant parlant anglais, tout en protégeant le droit des minorités existantes. Pour les Européens qui lisent ce billet, le CÉGEP est un collège qui offre des diplômes techniques ou pré-universitaires.</p>
<p>D&#8217;après les statistiques qu&#8217;on voit à gauche et à droite, seulement 4 % des citoyens francophones de souche décident d&#8217;aller étudier de plein gré dans un CÉGEP anglophone alors que cette proportion grimpe à 50 % chez les allophones.  Le débat médiatique ces jours-ci semble toujours autour de cette dernière statistiques.  Certaines gens voudraient ces 4 % et 50 % forcé de choisir un CÉGEP francophone, certains vont même jusqu&#8217;à imposer l&#8217;université en français!</p>
<p>Je suis d&#8217;avis que forcer les gens à continuer une partie ou toutes leurs études en français n&#8217;est pas la solution. Si les jeunes choisissent d&#8217;aller étudier en anglais, c&#8217;est pour connaître la langue des affaire et de voyage internationale. Après tout, ils maîtrisent certainement assez bien le français après 11 ans d&#8217;école primaire et secondaire.  Il faut protéger cette liberté pour les francophones qui désirent parfaire leur connaissances linguistiques de manière pratique en étudiant en anglais.  Si nous les forçons à aller ailleurs pour faire cela, nous contribuerons à l&#8217;<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuite_des_cerveaux">exode des cerveaux</a>.</p>
<p>Je crois qu&#8217;il serait plutôt beaucoup plus efficace d&#8217;améliorer l&#8217;offre et la qualité des cours d&#8217;anglais au CÉGEP et au secondaire.  Après tout, si ces cours menaient à une meilleure maîtrise de la langue de Shakespeare, nous ne ressentirions pas le besoin d&#8217;étudier dans cette langue.  J&#8217;ai fait toute mes études dans le réseau francophones.  De par mes résultats supérieurs en anglais, j&#8217;ai toujours été classé dans les classes avancées au secondaire comme au CÉGEP, mais je crois que ces classes avancées ne l&#8217;étaient pas encore assez!  Il faut que la barre soit remontée pour tous.</p>
<p>Je pense qu&#8217;on regarde ce problème-qui-n&#8217;en-est-pas-un du mauvais angle.  À l&#8217;observation &#8220;plusieurs gens décident de faire leur études supérieures en anglais&#8221; certains pensent &#8220;forçons-les a les faire en français&#8221;, je pense &#8220;offrons de meilleurs cours d&#8217;anglais et ils changeront d&#8217;avis&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Un greffon pour mener la voie :)</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/11/09/un-greffon-pour-mener-la-voie/fr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ces dernières semaines, j&#8217;ai travaillé sur un dépôt pour greffons (très fortement inspiré de celui d&#8217;EOG) pour les greffons de tierces parties pour Emerillon.  Il y a présentement 4 de ces greffons en cours de réalisation et ils ne devraient pas tous faire parti du paquetage d&#8217;Emerillon.  C&#8217;est pourquoi il y a maintenant emerillon-plugins.
Ce dernier [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ces dernières semaines, j&#8217;ai travaillé sur un <a href="http://git.gnome.org/cgit/emerillon-plugins/">dépôt pour greffons</a> (très fortement inspiré de celui d&#8217;<a href="http://live.gnome.org/EyeOfGnome/Plugins">EOG</a>) pour les greffons de tierces parties pour Emerillon.  Il y a présentement 4 de ces greffons en cours de réalisation et ils ne devraient pas tous faire parti du paquetage d&#8217;Emerillon.  C&#8217;est pourquoi il y a maintenant emerillon-plugins.</p>
<p>Ce dernier compte un greffon.  Ce greffon en est un qui sera très utile aux Montréalais: il affiche l&#8217;état du réseau <a href="http://www.bixi.com">Bixi</a>.  Bixi c&#8217;est le réseau de vélo en libre-service de Montréal.  Son design est si bon — le réseau de vélo, pas le greffon <img src='http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> — qu&#8217;il sera bientôt disponible à Londres (Angleterre) et Boston (États-Unis).</p>
<p>Le greffon est très simple: une liste déroulante vous donne l&#8217;option de visualiser les vélos disponibles ou les points d&#8217;ancrage libres.  La carte est immédiatement mise-à-jour pour afficher la nouvelle information.  La taille des points sur la carte change en fonction du nombre de vélo ou de points d&#8217;ancrage.  L&#8217;information est téléchargée depuis les serveurs de bixi à toutes les 5 minutes.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bixi1_fr.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1253" title="Bixi Plugin" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bixi1_fr-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bixi2_fr.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1254" title="Bixi Plugin" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bixi2_fr-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Après toutes les vérifications légales, ce greffon est maintenant librement disponible pour tous. Il sert de très bon exemple de ce que vous pouvez faire avec Emerillon et libchamplain. C&#8217;est à ma connaissance le seul code qui existe qui sous-classe ChamplainMarker afin d&#8217;implémenter un rendu unique.</p>
<p>Avis: ce greffon a été développé de manière indépendante par <a href="http://www.novopia.com">Solutions Novopia</a> et n&#8217;est pas lié, supporté ou approuvé par <a href="http://www.bixi.com">Bixi</a>, l&#8217;opérateur du système de vélo en libre-service de Montréal.  Bixi est une marque de commerce déposée de la Société de vélo en libre-service.</p>
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		<title>Looking for a tool to draw pipe networks</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/11/05/looking-for-a-tool-to-draw/en/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear knowledgeable(lazy)web,
I have a friend who&#8217;s looking for a free software application to draw pipeline networks using the Piping and Instrumentation Diagram Standard Notation such as this example:

He didn&#8217;t find any and resorted to draw each possible elements in svgs he later intend to import as symbols in Dia.  Does such a thing already exist? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear knowledgeable(lazy)web,</p>
<p>I have a friend who&#8217;s looking for a free software application to draw pipeline networks using the <a href="http://controls.engin.umich.edu/wiki/index.php/PIDStandardNotation"><em>Piping and Instrumentation Diagram Standard Notation</em></a> such as this example:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.jbii.com/OilFiltration/images/MottPLE8.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="291" /></p>
<p>He didn&#8217;t find any and resorted to draw each possible elements in svgs he later intend to import as symbols in Dia.  Does such a thing already exist? or is there another specialized tool that comes with such symbols?</p>
<p>Answer in comments to this post. Thanks!</p>
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		<title>Trying GnuCash</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/10/30/trying-gnucash/en/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I realized Gnome Bugzilla passed the 600 000th bug mark, I went to see which project got the &#8220;honours&#8221;.  Turns out GnuCash is the big winner!   I had never started GnuCash before and I though it was a good moment to try it!
First of all, the learning curve is high.  That&#8217;s to be expected, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I realized <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org">Gnome Bugzilla</a> passed the <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600000">600 000th bug</a> mark, I went to see which project got the &#8220;honours&#8221;.  Turns out <a href="http://gnucash.org">GnuCash</a> is the big winner!   I had never started GnuCash before and I though it was a good moment to try it!</p>
<p>First of all, the learning curve is high.  That&#8217;s to be expected, after all GnuCash is a complete accounting application. While the UI is quite simple and lean, there&#8217;s terminology and procedures to learn. That where the documentation comes handy.</p>
<p>The documentation covers many topics: terminology, accounting principles and howtos for many specific uses.  In about 2 hours, I was setup: I had setup my accounts (based on their very well localized presets: it even included Québec&#8217;s taxes and perceptions accounts), I had imported transactions from my bank account and credit cards.  Now if only <a href="http://www.desjardins.com">Desjardins</a> also provided retirement savings (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_Retirement_Savings_Plan">RRSP</a>) details in a computer readable format beside their brochure PDFs&#8230; I&#8217;ll have to wait &#8217;till I get my detailed printed report (once every 3 months) before I can manually enter the data in GnuCash.</p>
<p>All in all, I&#8217;d like to kudo the GnuCash contributors.  Somehow I didn&#8217;t expect so much polish on a 12 years old application (and don&#8217;t get me wrong, but sometimes apps get stuck in time).  The ledger view comes with handy keyboard shortcuts designed to speed up data entry and I like it. Custom reports? that even more awesome.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll submit some localization bugs (or request a fr_CA version) because somehow it looks like French and Québécois accountants didn&#8217;t agree on all the words (ie. conciliation).</p>
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		<title>Back from Boston with an Emerillon release</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/10/14/back-from-boston-with-an-emerillon-release/en/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So I am finally back from the Boston Summit, a unique occasion to get updates on latest developments, and I am releasing Emerillon 0.1 for distributions eager to package.
Mandatory Greyhound rant
With a 3 hour delay on departure (making a total of 5 hours of wait in Boston&#8217;s 10 ℃ station), we managed to arrive 5 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I am finally back from the Boston Summit, a unique occasion to get updates on latest developments, and I am releasing Emerillon 0.1 for distributions eager to package.</p>
<h3>Mandatory Greyhound rant</h3>
<p>With a 3 hour delay on departure (making a total of 5 hours of wait in Boston&#8217;s 10 ℃ station), we managed to arrive 5 hours late in Montréal, due to a defective heater in the bus.  Add moving everyone at 5 AM from that defective &#8217;70s bus to a freezing &#8217;90s bus with actually less seats than the previous one, and the fact that there was enough people to fill 3 buses in Boston, but only 54 managed to leave on the first one and you&#8217;ve got a complete picture of the fiasco.</p>
<p>I am not going to run in too much details but all this could have been so easily avoided.  The delays were due to the fact that the bus that was supposed to bring us had been delayed at the US border.  Fine, shit happens.  What is not fine is that they waited until our expected departure time to get a replacement driver (since he had busted his legal driving time).  See, it takes about 5 hours from the border to Boston.  Knowing he was going to be late (and therefore busting his hours), the driver should have called his manager, which should have prepared a replacement driver for the next departure in 10 hours! But none of that happened.  And, to top it all, there were no Greyhound dispatcher to be called by the Boston station employees to inform them of a missing departure bus.  Complete utter fail.</p>
<h3>Emerillon 0.1.0 release</h3>
<p>Now for the fun part.  With all that time on hands, I created 2 new plugins for Emerillon (Copy a link of the current view to online maps, and display map position in statusbar) and cooked a release including all the 5 submitted translations.  Woot! Grab the release <a href="http://www.novopia.com/emerillon/download.html">here</a>.  This is a preview release with no guaranty on plugin API stability.  See the complete announce <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/libchamplain-list/2009-October/msg00007.html">email</a>.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Screenshot of Emerillon" src="http://www.novopia.com/emerillon/screenshots/copylink.png" alt="" width="671" height="506" /></p>
<p>Before anyone asks, I am using the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gnome-colors/">gnome-colors Shiki-Wize</a> theme.</p>
<p>For those who missed the original announcement: <a href="http://www.novopia.com/emerillon/">Emerillon</a> is a map viewer. Aiming at simple user interface, Emerillon is a powerful, extensible application. It features OpenStreetMap based<br />
maps.  Use it to browse maps, search the map for places, placemark places for later quick access and more!</p>
<p>There are even packages of this release for Ubuntu Hardy from <a href="http://blog.cyphermox.net/">Mathieu Trudel</a>.  See his blog of the <a href="http://blog.cyphermox.net/2009/10/debianubuntu-package-for-emerillon.html">install instructions</a>.</p>
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		<title>Just arrived in Boston</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/10/09/just-arrived-in-boston/en/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I just arrived in Boston in time for the Boston Gnome Summit.  The trip down to Boston with Greyhound was less than wonderful, and to think I was complaining about Orléans Express&#8217; service between Montréal and Québec city!  Comparing Greyhound to German trains would be comparing chaos to order.  We only had a lunch pause [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just arrived in Boston in time for the Boston Gnome Summit.  The trip down to Boston with Greyhound was less than wonderful, and to think I was complaining about Orléans Express&#8217; service between Montréal and Québec city!  Comparing Greyhound to German trains would be comparing chaos to order.  We only had a lunch pause because we were offered one when we changed driver and we were not supposed to change driver&#8230; That would have been a very long 8 hours bus ride!</p>
<p>At least the hotel we are staying at this year is in a more lively part of the city <img src='http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> See you tomorrow!</p>
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		<title>Announcing Emerillon, the map viewer</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/10/06/announcing-emerillon-the-map-viewer/en/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Didn&#8217;t I foretell you there&#8217;d be more announcements?  Here&#8217;s one: Emerillon.  It is pronounced Ey-may-ree-yon. It is destined to be GNOME&#8217;s Map Viewer.  You will quickly recognize its sister apps: Eye of Gnome, Evince and GEdit. After all, they share a lot of design concepts.

Why another map application do you say? Simply because none of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Didn&#8217;t I foretell you there&#8217;d be more announcements?  Here&#8217;s one: <a href="http://www.novopia.com/emerillon">Emerillon</a>.  It is pronounced <em>Ey-may-ree-yon</em>. It is destined to be GNOME&#8217;s Map Viewer.  You will quickly recognize its sister apps: Eye of Gnome, Evince and GEdit. After all, they share a lot of design concepts.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.novopia.com/emerillon/screenshots/search.png" alt="" width="666" height="500" /></p>
<p>Why another map application do you say? Simply because none of them is free AND targeted at the Gnome desktop AND has ease of use in its (visible) goals.  This project should be easy to use for anyone, not only for mapping geeks.</p>
<p>Emerillon is an application designed to be extended.  There is a number of small specialized map applications that were created in the last year, I have hope this one will be the catalyst of the development efforts.  Out of the box, Emerillon comes with 2 plugins: a search and a placemark plugin.  There are numerous plugins ideas : a GPX viewer, GPS integration, Telepathy integration (both to share the app and to display your friends location), a plugin to display the position under the mouse cursor, a plugin to display personal markers and I have two special ideas that I want to keep for myself to implement <img src='http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> Other ideas are welcomed too!</p>
<p>Emerillon is a project originally started by Marco Barisione in October 2008.  Due to various reasons, it remained dormant for almost a year, until I decided to take over and push it forward.   Turns out, Marco had laid out very good UI base on which I built upon.</p>
<p>Visit <a href="http://www.novopia.com/emerillon/">http://www.novopia.com/emerillon/</a> for more screenshots and details.</p>
<h3>Kudos to be given</h3>
<p>Emerillon is built of code inspired by other projects and very cool libraries.  Early on, Marco borrowed <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/evince/">Evince</a>&#8217;s sidebar.  This sidebar is so nice and clean that it should be part of Gtk+! The problem is that this code is GPL but Gtk+ is not.</p>
<p>Another quite common widget in Gnome apps is Epiphany&#8217;s spinning throbber.  Again, it is GPL&#8217;d and the code has to be copied from apps to apps.</p>
<p>I am not going to kudo <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/libchamplain"> libchamplain</a> <img src='http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> Lets say I have found API omissions that will need to be addressed for Emerillon to work perfectly. Who needs a &#8220;selected&#8221; signal after all? <img src='http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> Still, libchamplain was quite necessary to build this app.</p>
<p>Emerillon&#8217;s plugin system was faster to implement than I expected when I got this idea.  But thanks to <a href="http://git.dronelabs.com/ethos/about/">Ethos</a>, it was a simpler task.  Ethos is a complete (Gedit/EOG alike) plugin architecture in a library.  It even provides UI widgets to manage the plugins.</p>
<p>Emerillon&#8217;s search plugin uses <a href="http://moblin.org/projects/librest">librest</a> to fetch its data from <a href="http://geonames.org">geonames.org</a>.  Rob Bradford was right: it is now fun again to parse XML.  I mean really.  This library makes fetching web service data an easy task.</p>
<p>Fetch Emerillon from Gnome&#8217;s git today and give it a try!</p>
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		<title>New beginnings</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/10/02/new-beginnings/en/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, I left Collabora in order to bring new, different challenges in my life.  Today, I am announcing publicly that I have founded Novopia Solutions, a new player in free software.  Novopia&#8217;s long term goal will be to bring free and open source solutions to market that have yet to be penetrated [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>About a month ago, I left Collabora in order to bring new, different challenges in my life.  Today, I am announcing publicly that I have founded <a href="http://www.novopia.com">Novopia Solutions</a>, a new player in free software.  Novopia&#8217;s long term goal will be to bring free and open source solutions to market that have yet to be penetrated by free software solutions.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.novopia.com"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.novopia.com/img/logo.png" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>While this is a field where there are plenty of FOSS solutions, the primary focus in the upcoming weeks will be on improving the geolocation solutions in GNOME.  Commercial support for <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/libchamplain">libchamplain</a> is of course on the list.</p>
<p>More to be announced later. <img src='http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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		<title>Ubuntu Global Jam 2009 à Montréal, Québec</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/10/01/ubuntu-global-jam-2009-a-montreal-quebec/fr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Si vous êtes à Montréal ce week-end, arrêtez dire bonjour au pavillon principal de l&#8217;École de technologie supérieure et participez au Ubuntu Global Jam 2009!  Ça m&#8217;étonne un peu que ce soit à l&#8217;ÉTS, mon ancienne université, considérant l&#8217;absence totale d&#8217;intérêt pour le logiciel libre qu&#8217;il y avait.  Je crois que c&#8217;est un bon signe [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Si vous êtes à Montréal ce week-end, arrêtez dire bonjour au pavillon principal de l&#8217;<a href="http://www.etsmtl.ca">École de technologie supérieure</a> et participez au <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuebecTeam/GlobalJam2009">Ubuntu Global Jam 2009</a>!  Ça m&#8217;étonne un peu que ce soit à l&#8217;ÉTS, mon ancienne université, considérant l&#8217;absence totale d&#8217;intérêt pour le logiciel libre qu&#8217;il y avait.  Je crois que c&#8217;est un bon signe que les choses changent!</p>
<p>Ce sera ma première conf Ubuntu ou même locale. Ça peut sembler étrange, mais je connais plus de contributeurs au logiciel libre en Europe qu&#8217;à Montréal.  Et ce n&#8217;est pas parce qu&#8217;il y en a pas, c&#8217;est seulement que j&#8217;ai eu la chance de participer à des conférences à saveur plus internationale ces dernières années.  Pour faire changement, je vais donner un tutoriel sur comment contribuer au projet OpenStreetMap avec Ubuntu (ou toute autre bonne distribution GNU/Linux hehe) vers 14h samedi le 3 octobre.</p>
<p>Au plaisir de vous y voir!</p>
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		<title>Ces plats que j&#8217;ai découvert en voyageant&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/09/14/ces-plats-que-jai-decouvert-en-voyageant/fr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ces 2 dernières années, j&#8217;ai voyagé&#8230; beaucoup! Si je me fie au nombre de petits drapeaux qui s&#8217;agglutinent sur mes bibliothèques, ça fait déjà 15 pays différents.  Pendant ces voyages j&#8217;ai découvert de nouvelles saveurs, des épices et de nouvelles méthodes de préparations.  Le plus drôle, c&#8217;est que je ne suis souvent pas revenu avec [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ces 2 dernières années, j&#8217;ai voyagé&#8230; beaucoup! Si je me fie au nombre de petits drapeaux qui s&#8217;agglutinent sur mes bibliothèques, ça fait déjà 15 pays différents.  Pendant ces voyages j&#8217;ai découvert de nouvelles saveurs, des épices et de nouvelles méthodes de préparations.  Le plus drôle, c&#8217;est que je ne suis souvent pas revenu avec le plat local d&#8217;un pays.  Laisse moi vous expliquer.</p>
<h3>Stockholm, Suède</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/53606017@N00/3751665638/"><img class="alignnone" title="Meat Balls!" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2590/3751665638_6a0d39044b.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p><em>Swedish Meat Balls, (cc) CurryPuffy</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Boulettes de viande</li>
</ul>
<p>Telles que dégustés à bord des bateaux de croisière de la compagnie Viking Lines ou à ce très bon restaurant qu&#8217;Alban, Gabriel, Daf et moi avont visité dans Gamla Stan.</p>
<h3>Sankt-Peterburg, Russie</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pierlux/3354851948/in/set-72157615193909807/"><img class="alignnone" title="Beef Strogonoff" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3135/3354851948_c8a6d0287b.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="332" /></a></p>
<p><em>Boeuf Stogranoff pour souper, (cc) pierlux.com</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Boeuf Stroganoff</li>
</ul>
<h3>Istanbul, Turkie</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pierlux/2668572737/in/set-72157606170898573/"><img class="alignnone" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3065/2668572737_0353ee6a19.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="332" /></a></p>
<p><em>Marché égyptien, (cc) pierlux.com</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Poulet sauce au Cari</li>
<li>Mets à base d&#8217;agneau</li>
</ul>
<p>Pourquoi de la sauce au cari en Turquie? Il y avait un très bon plat de riz au poulet sauce cari à la cafétéria de l&#8217;université hôte de la conférence GUADEC 2008.</p>
<h3>Berlin, Germany</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gordonflood/2183780720/"><img class="alignnone" title="58/365" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2233/2183780720_ce8aef583b.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /></a></p>
<p><em>Basil, Spinach &amp; Pesto Spaghetti with Pine nuts, (cc) gordonflood.com</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Pâtes au pesto et noix de pin grillées</li>
<li>Pâtes aux tomates fraîches</li>
</ul>
<p>Pourquoi des pâtes à Berlin, la response est simple: <a href="http://www.vapiano-international.com">Va Piano</a>. C&#8217;est une chaîne de restaurants que j&#8217;ai apprécié là-bas: on vous donne une carte à puce à l&#8217;entrée, vous commandé vos plats aux cuisiniers, vous voyez votre plats se faire préparer, vous mangez et vous payez en remettant la carte à la sortie.  J&#8217;ai tellement aimé que j&#8217;ai dû manger y manger 3 fois dans les 5 jours que j&#8217;ai passé à Berlin.</p>
<p>Ah et j&#8217;ai bien essayé la sauce au cari mais ce n&#8217;est pas mon met préféré.</p>
<h3>Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Espagne</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernandocarmona/255212758/"><img class="alignnone" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/108/255212758_3d7f2b42e2.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p id="title_div255212758"><em>Papas arrugadas con mojo, (cc) Fer..</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pierlux/3754117902/in/set-72157621816187562/"><img class="alignnone" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2638/3754117902_1138d3732f.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="332" /></a><br />
<em>Nouriture végétarienne, (cc) pierlux.com</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Patates style tapas avec sauce mojo</li>
<li> Hamburgers au riz</li>
</ul>
<p>Les hamburgers au riz viennent du très bon restaurant végé Naturalis qui était pas loin de la salle de conférence pour GCDS 2009.</p>
<h3>Cambridge, Angleterre</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/papisc/2701234377/"><img class="alignnone" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3083/2701234377_a86987aa6b.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="355" /></a></p>
<p id="title_div2701234377"><em>Penne speck e rucola, (cc) paPisc</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Pâtes aux champignon et Speck</li>
</ul>
<p>Pourquoi des pâtes à Cambridge? c&#8217;est la faute de Marco Barisione.  Lorsqu&#8217;il m&#8217;a reçu, il m&#8217;a cuisiné de très bonne pâtes à l&#8217;italienne pour moi.  Il m&#8217;a définitivement donné le goût de faire mes propres sauces pour pâtes.</p>
<h3>Helsinki, Finlande</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonx/3812499915/"><img class="alignnone" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2439/3812499915_19b12f3676.jpg" alt="" width="375" height="500" /></a></p>
<p id="title_div3812499915"><em>good pizza, (cc) tonx</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Pizza au poulet, pêche et fromage bleu</li>
<li>Pâtes à la crème fraiche et champignons</li>
<li> Mijotés</li>
<li><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassi">Lassi</a> à la mangue</li>
</ul>
<p>Marco Barisione a été mon inspiration, combiné avec l&#8217;amour qu&#8217;a Alban Crequy pour la crème fraîche, pour les pâtes que je me suis cuisiné à Helsinki.  J&#8217;y ai souvent fait des mijotés, un par semaine.  Après mes 3 mois en Finlande, ma technique s&#8217;est améliorée!</p>
<p>Les autres plats de Finlande viennent d&#8217;une cafétéria bien connue dans le quartier Ruoholahti :)  Je n&#8217;ai pas toujours été fan de leur cuisine, mais certains plats m&#8217;ont captivés!</p>
<p>De manière générale, en voyageant j&#8217;ai rencontré plusieurs végétariens.  J&#8217;en avais pas vraiment rencontré beaucoup avant de sortir du Québec.  Après en avoir discuté avec des participants à SOTM 2009, nous en sommes venu à la conclusion que ce phénomène n&#8217;est pas très commun dans les pays francophones.  Je ne suis pas très convaincu par le côté éthique du végétarisme (&#8221;l&#8217;homme est un animal, il ne devrait pas manger d&#8217;autre animal&#8221;), mais j&#8217;adope très volontier les raisons écologiques et de santé.  C&#8217;est pourquoi j&#8217;essaie maintenant de manger au moins 25% de mes repas végétarien par semaine.  C&#8217;est pas grand chose mais c&#8217;est mieux que rien!</p>
<p>J&#8217;espère que je ne vous ai pas trop ouvert l&#8217;appétit avec ces photos <img src='http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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		<title>libchamplain hits 0.4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Luc Beaudoin</dc:creator>
		
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About a month after its 1 year birthday, libchamplain hit the 0.4 mark - the first stable release of this new version.  It&#8217;s a Clutter based ClutterActor and Gtk+ widget to display street maps, cycle maps or other maps.  It comes with eye candy.
Special thanks to all contributors to this release (in chronological order of [...]]]></description>
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<p>About a month after its 1 year birthday, <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/libchamplain">libchamplain</a> hit the 0.4 mark - the first stable release of this new version.  It&#8217;s a Clutter based ClutterActor and Gtk+ widget to display street maps, cycle maps or other maps.  It comes with eye candy.</p>
<p>Special thanks to all contributors to this release (in chronological order of first contribution):<br />
Pierre-Luc Beaudoin, Jonathon Jongsma, Lorenzo Masini, Packz Enoch, Thomas Van Machelen, Anders M-Pedersen, Stephane Delcroix, Denk Padje, Mike Sheldon, Emmanuel Rodriguez, Emmanuele Bassi, Lionel Dricot, Simon Wenner, Kritarth Upadhyay, Debarshi Ray, Paulo Cabido, Sjoerd Simons, Victor Godoy Poluceno, Javier Jardón, Patryk Zawadzki, Sebastian Reichel, Tim Horton, Frederic Peters, Cosimo Cecchi, Vincent Untz, Felix Riemann</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/lubeck.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1180" title="lubeck" src="http://blog.pierlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/lubeck-300x184.png" alt="" width="300" height="184" /></a><br />
<em>Libchamplain in action in Eye of Gnome,<br />
displaying a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pierlux/3754180688/in/set-72157621691763689/">picture</a> of Lübeck, Germany.</em></p>
<h3>New in this release (since 0.2.10)</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Support for custom map sources</strong>: embedding apps can define their own map sources and provide tiles for libchamplain to display.  This includes a way to list available map sources.</li>
<li><strong>Zoom on double click is now configurable</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>View keeps centred when you resized the view.</strong></li>
<li><strong>A way to convert screen coordinates to map coordinates</strong>:  lets you interact with the map and its markers.</li>
<li><strong>Cache tiles</strong>: downloaded tiles are cached.  The cache is intelligently validated against the server every 7 days for now.</li>
<li><strong>Revamped marker API:</strong> Default markers now have a nicer look with rounded corners, nicer colors and a shadow.  The API allows easy image and label markers to be created.</li>
<li><strong>Limit visible zoom levels</strong>: you can now limit what the user can view.</li>
<li><strong>Feedback during loading</strong>: ChamplainView will emit a state change when loading resources from network providing  better feedback possibilities to the user.</li>
<li><strong>Line and polygon drawing API</strong>: You can now easily draw lines and polygon over the map.  This is useful for indicating routes or highlighting areas.</li>
<li><strong>User Agent</strong>: libchamplain now identifies itself in HTTP requests</li>
<li><strong>Marker selection support</strong>: libchamplain provides a helpful API when you want to let user select a bunch of markers (or only one).  This API has been designed with Gtk+&#8217;s selection API in mind.</li>
<li><strong>Ported to Clutter 1.0</strong>: libchamplain now depends and use Clutter 1.0.  It allowed us to add the very nice in and out for markers.</li>
<li><strong>Bindings</strong>: the API is now bindable.  Only the Python bindings works for now but that&#8217;s not because the Perl binder didn&#8217;t try hard to get some too, try having a baby close to a release! :)  C# bindings and C++ have been worked on but didn&#8217;t make it on time for the release.</li>
<li>Many bug fixes.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plans for the future</h3>
<p>Now that 0.4 is behind us, we already have a huge list of nice to have in 0.6 (due in same time as Gnome 2.30 or Gnome 3.0):</p>
<ul>
<li>Smooth zooming and animation;</li>
<li>Rotation of the map;</li>
<li>Display cached tiles while downloading new ones;</li>
<li>Add a clustering layer: a layer where markers very close on a map will be merged into one marker;</li>
<li>An MVC API for layers: use ClutterModel and support GtkTreeModel as sources of Marker data;</li>
<li>Limit the visible area on the map;</li>
<li>Have the map wrap horizontally;</li>
<li>Have a nice dragging mode for markers;</li>
<li>Add a map scale;</li>
<li>Provide better accessibility;</li>
<li>Better cache policies;</li>
<li>Better animations;</li>
</ul>
<p>And most importantly: local rendering of maps. This project is well on its way with the recent conclusion of the <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/">Google Summer of Code 2009</a>.  Simon Wenner, which you probably read the progress on <a href="http://planet.gnome.org">planet.gnome.org</a>, did a marvellous job on this.  His work should be included in the first development release of libchamplain 0.5.</p>
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