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1. Using JPype to bridge python and Java

   Java provides some interesting libraries that have no exact equivalent in python. In my case, the awesome boilerpipe library allows me to remove uninteresting parts of HTML pages, like menus, footers and other "boilerplate" contents.

   Boilerpipe is written in Java. Two solutions then: using java from python or reimplement boilerpipe ...

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2. Un coup de main pour mon mémoire!

   Ça y est, bientôt la fin. LA FIN. La fin des études, et le début du reste. En attendant je bosse sur mon mémoire de fin d'études et j'aurais besoin d'un petit coup de main.

   Mon mémoire porte sur les systèmes de recommandation. Pour ceux qui connaissent ...

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3. Analyse users' browsing context to build up a web recommender

   No, this is not an april's fool ;)

   Wow, it's been a long time. My year in Oxford is going really well. I realized few days ago that the end of the year is approaching really quickly. Exams are coming in one month or such and then I'll ...

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4. Wrap up of the distutils2 paris' sprint

   Finally, thanks to a bunch of people that helped me to pay my train and bus tickets, I've made it to paris for the distutils2 sprint.

   They have been a bit more than 10 people to come during the sprint, and it was very productive. Here's a taste ...

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5. PyPI on CouchDB

   By now, there are two ways to retrieve data from PyPI (the Python Package Index). You can both rely on xml/rpc or on the "simple" API. The simple API is not so simple to use as the name suggest, and have several existing drawbacks.

   Basically, if you want to ...

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6. Help me to go to the distutils2 paris' sprint

   Edit: Thanks to logilab and some amazing people, I can make it to paris for the sprint. Many thanks to them for the support!

   There will be a distutils2 sprint from the 27th to the 30th of january, thanks to logilab which will host the event.

   You can find more ...

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7. How to reboot your bebox using the CLI

   I've an internet connection which, for some obscure reasons, tend to be very slow from time to time. After rebooting the box (yes, that's a hard solution), all the things seems to go fine again.

   EDIT : Using grep

   After a bit of reflexion, that's also really easy ...

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8. Dynamically change your gnome desktop wallpaper

   In gnome, you can can use a XML file to have a dynamic wallpaper. It's not so easy, and you can't just tell: use the pictures in this folder to do so.

   You can have a look to the git repository if you want: http://github.com/ametaireau ...

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9. Pelican, a simple static blog generator in python

   Those days, I've wrote a little python application to fit my blogging needs. I'm an occasional blogger, a vim lover, I like restructured text and DVCSes, so I've made a little tool that makes good use of all that.

   Pelican (for calepin) is just a simple tool ...

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10. An amazing summer of code working on distutils2

    The Google Summer of Code I've spent working on distutils2 is over. It was a really amazing experience, for many reasons.

    First of all, we had a very good team, we were 5 students working on distutils2: Zubin, Éric, Josip, Konrad and me. In addition, Mouad have worked on ...

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11. Introducing the distutils2 index crawlers

    I'm working for about a month for distutils2, even if I was being a bit busy (as I had some class courses and exams to work on)

    I'll try do sum-up my general feelings here, and the work I've made so far. You can also find, if ...

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12. Sprinting on distutils2 in Tours

    Yesterday, as I was traveling to Tours, I've took some time to visit Éric, another student who's working on distutils2 this summer, as a part of the GSoC. Basically, it was to take a drink, discuss a bit about distutils2, our respective tasks and general feelings, and to ...

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13. Use Restructured Text (ReST) to power your presentations

    Wednesday, we give a presentation, with some friends, about the CouchDB Database, to the Toulouse local LUG. Thanks a lot to all the presents for being there, it was a pleasure to talk about this topic with you. Too bad the season is over now an I quit Toulouse next ...

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14. first week working on distutils2

    As I've been working on Distutils2 during the past week, taking part of the GSOC program, here is a short summary of what I've done so far.

    As my courses are not over yet, I've not worked as much as I wanted, and this will continues until ...

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15. A Distutils2 GSoC

    WOW. I've been accepted to be a part of the Google Summer Of Code program, and will work on python distutils2, with a lot of (intersting!) people.

    So, it's about building the successor of Distutils2, ie. "the python package manager". Today, there is too many ways to package ...

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16. Python ? go !

    Cela fait maintenant un peu plus d'un mois que je travaille sur un projet en django, et que, nécessairement, je me forme à Python. Je prends un plaisir non dissimulé à découvrir ce langage (et à l'utiliser), qui ne cesse de me surprendre. Les premiers mots qui me ...

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