Interview Étoilé

Me and Quentin were interviewed a few weeks ago by a french linux magazine (Linux Pratique Essentiel), about Étoilé. The magazine is out this month, and the magazine preview shows the article, starting page 24 to page 28...

(note: the title can be translated as "Étoilé, an innovative desktop environment")

Atari

Great stories about the creation of the Atari ST: part 1 and part 2. I still remember fondly the ST, TT030 and Falcons... (The TT030 my dad had still works, afaik). I also remember the huge Megafile 30 on top of the MegaST -- an incredible thirty megabytes of disk space ! Why is it that I am now always short on space :)

...and snow in london

After the south of France, it's now London's turn...

It apparently did not snow as much in 18 years -- London is very quiet today!

update:

update2, going to work:

Snow in Provence

A friend just sent me this picture:

...taken from her window, near Marseilles, south of France. Impressive isn't it ? highway closed, etc.

Usually happens every ten years or so :)

edit: another friend took the following pics:

edit 2: check that video...

A Modern Objective-C Runtime

David just got his paper describing his new Objective-C runtime for etoile published in the Journal of Object Technology. Congrats :)

Mona Lisa video

Here is a small video demonstrating the polygons evolution:

(better results should be doable with more time and/or more parameters tweakings)
For this example, I used 50 polygons of at most 16 points, starting with 10 polygons.