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About Stephane Daury

Enjoyer of life; software developer. See https://stephdau.me and https://tekartist.org

It's Here!

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My shiny new iPhone

Turns out working from home on Friday was the worst idea I had all week… My iPhone arrived at the office, and I could have had it to play with all weekend. Unfortunately, no one in my team clued in to what the mystery package was, so they didn’t tell me. To be fair, I really wasn’t expecting it to arrive during US Thanks Giving. But I guess the USPS to Canada Post handover happened before the long weekend.

And now, I’ll have to be strong (!), and ignore it all day while I get things done before I can play with it all night. I don’t see much sleep in my future. ;-)

Thanks Matt! Thanks WPhone!

Release: WPhone 1.4.2: “Thanks!” Edition

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Release early, release often being the FOSS motto, here we are again with a new version of our WPhone mobile WordPress Admin plugin.

Version 1.4.2 is all about thanking our community, because the main changes are the inclusion of new language packs, which were all gracefully provided by our very much vibrant community of WPhone users all over the World. This now brings us to a total of six languages (English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Russian), with a few more on the way. Not bad for a software that was only released a month and a half ago. :-)

So in the spirit of my teammates’ current holiday: Thanks a million to all of you out there who continually help us making this project better and better. Hoping we’ll keep living up to your expectations!

And on another note, watch for the upcoming 1.5 version. I’m thinking it’ll be a big one on the feature front, especially once we’ll have received our prizes and can develop natively.

Predicting Technology Innovation through 2025

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From the source article, via Slashdot:

What will likely be the most important scientific and technological breakthroughs with significant commercial value and impacts on the lives of consumers out to 2025?

To begin to answer that question, S)T’s Technology Foresight program conducted a virtual, global focus group of experts in technology, innovation, and business strategy. The group included experts from the Association of Professional Futurists, Tekes, Duke University, Hasbro, Worldwatch, General Motors, Shell, Johnson Controls, and Oxford University, among others.

I wonder if the Paleo-Future blog will still be around by then, so we can look back on this around 2026.

PopSci's Best of What's New 2007

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From this year’s Best of What’s New:

Innovation begets innovation. Efficient thin-film solar technology leads to panels so inexpensive, they could blanket city skylines. GM atones for killing the all electric EV1 with the plug-in Chevy Volt Hybrid. The iPod begets the iPhone. Click around to see these and 97 more of PosSci’s picks of the latest revolutionary technologies that will drive the next 20 years of innovation.

I agree with PopSci‘s 1st place choice, but I also really like the Infinitely Geared Bike.