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About Stephane Daury

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

Might as well shut down my computer…

See attached pict. Caption reads: Hey, your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Down for maintenance.

If the current trend continues, a couple of years from now, Facebook going down will be the equivalent of having your router die on you… ;)

But for now, I guess I’ll just have to drown my sorrow in code, since the kids are off to the movies. Or who knows, I might even go… outside… Imagine that!

Release: wpRedirect 1.0

Since I’m getting wpDirAuth peer reviewed before releasing the first version, due to its security implications, I have released another project as my first official WordPress plugin instead.

You can find more information on wpRedirect, a handy WordPress post and page redirection plugin I developed for my site, on the related project page.

Testers needed for new WordPress Directory Authentication plugin

After getting in touch with and having gotten “approval” from its author, I’m attempting to fork off and revive wpLDAP and would like the upgraded code to be peer reviewed by other developers before I release anything into the wild.

The current development version is in my SVN repo at:
http://labs.tekartist.org/wordpress/svn/branches/dev/plugins/wpDirAuth/

If you decide to try and/or review it, please add your constructive criticism and test reports to the related WordPress Forum entry.

Thanks for any help I can get. :)

New MooTools-related section and repository

Since we’ve committed to MooTools for our RIA and AJAX development needs in the McGill WPS, I’ve been using it on my recently released personal site as well, so I can experiment outside of work but still try to gain from it professionally.

Therefore, I just opened a new section and repository under tekartist.org to feature little projects I plan to release publicly, as FOSS, for people to download, use, comment on and modify as they please.

You can currently only find more information about my source repository, but I will release a little project I’ve been toying with shortly, after I document it properly.

Now, that is losing track of time!

From the source article, via Digg:

“One finds that time just disappears from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation,” says Carlo Rovelli, a physicist at the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille, France. “It is an issue that many theorists have puzzled about. It may be that the best way to think about quantum reality is to give up the notion of time—that the fundamental description of the universe must be timeless.”

Isn’t it amazing how things you have absolutely nothing to contribute to can titillate your interest to no end? The above article, and countless related references, are perfect examples of a subject I’m going to get lost into for the next few hours, just clicking away until it all sinks in. Simply fascinating.