Some updates here and there…
Some updates on my personal page and my blog.
Updates on my blog
On my blog now you can find two new links :
- subscribe to my newsletter : it will be sent everytime there is an update on this blog
- subscribe to my RSS feed
Both are using feedburner (soon a blog post about our growing dependency on Google 
)
I have been trying to add some commercial ads (via Adsense) but so far i cannot make it work … (i’m not planning to make money out of this blog, like this girl, not with my 10 daily readers, but this is a first experimentation for my future Web developments)
Updates on my personal website
Concerning my website, i added a Word version of my CV for each language. I am still working on the PHP upgrade, well on the admin interface in the backoffice, and i’m slowly getting to an end. During my holidays, i worked on implementing the complete create-read-update-delete cycle for the news (in the home page), and tried to follow MVC standards applied to PHP. The core is working but i still have to improve all the MVC-related code, cause MVC with PHP is somehow different from the MVC i did under Java and Flex.
With Christmas and New Years’ Eve, i dont have time right now to finish the first major update of my website, but i hope to get it done soon. (Im already thinking of a second major update, but it concerns more the content than the backend – i want to highlight my profesional profile and my IT skills).
Anyway, stay tuned (subscribe to the newsletter or the RSS feed )
Google Chrome for Mac
Yesterday was (finally!) released Google Chrome for Mac.
I had heard about Chrome for some time now, but well, i have a Mac, and at work we are behind lots of security rules that prevent us to install anything. So i never really put my hands onto it. But finally, yesterday it came out.
Another Google tool to try out… and add to my collection of everyday Web apps? (GMail, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Analytics, …). Nothing sure yet.
Chrome
Let’s see.
Installation, all good. First launch, all good, all my bookmars and form entries are retrieved from Firefox, i connect to my Gmail, it seems to go a little bit faster. I try Twitter… and surprise, it cannot be accessed. But neither is it possible with Firefox, so…
I run some basic tests: counting the time to fully download a page, Chrome looks slightly faster. It is also less prone to failure and crashes: each tab runs in its own process, meaning that if one tab is blocked, you can just close the tab / kill the process. The other tabs won’t be affected. (so far, with IE or FF, if you have one problem on one tab, its the whole browser you have to close).
Google Chrome for Mac is still in beta. Extensions (plugins) are not available yet, althought i already saw plugins for del.icio.us, IETab, … Apparently, the bookmarks manager is not yet accessible, so you can’t really manage your bookmarks. But all in all, even though i’m missing my favorite plugins, i prefer Chrome.
The main reason is probably that i’m getting more and more Google-addicted… but soon enough we’ll talk about Google dependency.
