Nicolas Lehuen's Weblog

Twitter, again

Nicolas Lehuen — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:41:52 +0000

Back in 2009 I wrote an article against Twitter. Well, it’s time to admit I was wrong. OK, some of my point are still valid, but Twitter improved a lot in two years time : Retweet system integration (announced one day after my original post !) Integrated URL shortening showing original URLs on the Web [...]

What’s new in Java 1.6.0_21 ?

Nicolas Lehuen — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:34:57 +0000

Why, a new Oracle-branded Java Web Start splash screen, of course ! Before (up until 1.6.0_20) : After : It takes time to get used to it… To be fair, this update contains truly interesting things, like a new version of the Hotspot VM (17.0), a better performing VisualVM and tons of bugfixes. Check the [...]

Pure bliss with MongoDB

Nicolas Lehuen — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:23:24 +0000

I’ve been playing with MongoDB lately, and this morning I came across this blog post from Eliot Horowitz, showing how you can stream Twitter into MongoDB in a single command. How cool is that ? What’s interesting here is that you get an awesome testbed for MongoDB since you get a stream of around 30 [...]

pytst 1.18

Nicolas Lehuen — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:21:36 +0000

I’ve just released pytst 1.18 which fixes a bug reported by Keith Davidson. The bug was in the scan method and appeared in some very specific yet totally mundane circumstances : if you scanned an input string of a very specific length with regard to the content of the tree, then the first scan would [...]

A case against Twitter

Nico — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:06:00 +0000

OK, I’ve put up with enough BS about Twitter. It’s been months that this thing is growing on me, usually I can vent this off, but this time I can’t ; a tiny thread was the last straw for me. Short version of this post : Twitter basically provides a crappy infrastructure for broadcasting short messages on [...]

FriendFeed might actually benefit from Google Wave

Nico — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:38:00 +0000

With the current buzz about Google Wave, it is difficult not to feel sorry for FriendFeed. The common ground between Wave and FriendFeed is indeed pretty rich : real time communication, threaded conversations, lightweight social networking… Some people even suggest that there is some irony in seeing Google rip off good ideas from FriendFeed, the [...]

The difference between pytst and ctst

Nico — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:30:00 +0000

Putting away the difference in languages (C++ for pytst, pure C for ctst), the two projects are quite different with regards to the way data is stored in the tree. pytst implements a text-book ternary search tree with an AVL balancing algorithm. While I was working on this project, I designed a scanning algorithm that [...]

Mapping my personal web

Nico — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:55:00 +0000

Everything starts with a slice of the Web, in the guise of a bunch of RSS feeds. Currently my blog roll hover a little above 280 feeds. There are the broad blockbusters like Techcrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Techmeme, Presse-Citron (a French blog), the mainstream media (e.g. French newspapers), but there are also a lot of small, specialized, [...]

pytst 1.17

Nico — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:13:00 +0000

pytst 1.17 is out ! The source code can be fetched using git. If you prefer tarballs, head to the downloads page, where you’ll also find Win32 binaries. Included in this release : Support for 64 bits architectures (tested under Linux only) – thanks to Thomas Brox Røst for the patch. The test script (in [...]

pytst now hosted on github

Nico — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:24:00 +0000

I’ve created an account on github and ported my private SVN repository to a public git repository. Now you can fork on the project as you want and eventually ask me to pull your modifications (using the « send pull request » functionality). The wiki will be a good place to document the library. Hopefully this is [...]