Several times I have wished I had much more artistic skills. An beautiful and appealing UI can make a difference! Look for example at K3B: this is a real pleasure to use this app! But unfortunately, I can only struggle to do some basic graphics…
Luckily enough, some artists are around, e.g. in the Ubuntu art […]
Remember a few posts ago when I mentioned the cooperative bug isolation research project?
I was thrilled because it sounded like it has much potential, but still I was expecting the disappointment of discovering an empty box with buzzwords sticked all around it. So I gave a try and read some of their papers : [1] […]
While cruising randomly on the Internet during this recess week, I found an very interesting research project : the cooperative bug isolation project.
My rough summary : This is a project that aims at collecting a large amount of behavioral data from application, and extracting useful informations for debugging. To do this, the source code is […]
Have you ever been frustrated by these never-ending discussions on a simple issue in a mailing list or forum? Like this flamewar on the ubuntu-discuss-devel mailing list about whether or not put back the backspace keyboard shortcut to go back in history in Firefox? Probably often. People keep fighting over and over, repeating the same […]
I remember some time ago, when we were discussing about a potential Ideastorm-like website for FOSS, someone I don’t remember came up with the idea of cumulative bounties: I put a five-euros bounty of a idea, someone else put 10 dollars on the same idea, and so on, and we end with great prizes for […]