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openID is going wild

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Orange (aka France Telecom) has decided to use openID as their unique authentication solution for more than 40 millions of their users. This is a big news for mainly 2 reasons:

  • they are the first world wide company to announce the use of openID publicly (ok AOL use it too, as well as Plaxo), although it is only for their own customers, it is still a good start.
  • a year ago or so, France Telecom announced a huge technological partnership with Microsoft. Now, I wonder why they choose openID and what is going to be MS reaction with their Passport and co.

There are some interesting and more-experts-than-me comments on the planet openID. So now, what about Google, Facebook and co? It would be great to have them using this solution too. By the way, you can easily find wordpress plugins to integrate openID and wordpress.

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CS-4U: a bit of history

Monday, September 17th, 2007

I thought it would be interesting to give a bit of background (both technical and historical) on this very specific application: CS-4U, a billing system for utilities.
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preparing for gWidgets 1.0

Friday, September 14th, 2007

I am finally back from all my trips (personal and business) and I am trying to re-organize my time and priority…and of course one of the item on my list is gwidgets. I am going back to gwidgets dev in order to be able to release asap a 1.0 version. I started by listing the minimum mandatory changes I have to do for this first version, here is my list: (more…)

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webapp in Timor

Friday, June 29th, 2007

I am currently in East-Timor, again….that’s about the 10th times I come on 2 years!
I have been re-writing from scratch the customer and billing system for the electricity and water companies (actually government bodies).

This time I decided to go with Symfony PHP5-MVC framework. It was my first experience with this framework but I can tell you it is pretty amazing! It took me 1 month to learn and rewrite my app. Not only it is very fast to code due to a lot of automatisation, keep you using best practices and help you to do re-usable code but on top of this the application is less buggy than before (and by far!) and with features that were not yet in the previous version (plain PHP4 with very basic MVC) that took me about 4 to 6 months!
This should motivate any of you for Symfony…unless you are not a programmer!

I post here 2 very basic screenshots. I will put a live demo as soon as I am back from Timor, this is not really possible from here due to the terrible internet connection.

Customer Information for UtilitiesCS4U list view

 

I know there are people waiting on the forum for some answers about ical4WP or gWidgets. Sorry guys, as long as I am here in Timor I will not have time to do much on these apps but I promise I will try to catch up as soon as I am back.

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