Jean-Christophe Martin's blog - tech tag

Open Source Virtualization solution for OSX

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:47:22 GMT

Today, VirtualBox announced the release of their product in the open source, using the GPL:

Jan 15, 2007. InnoTek today released VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), marking an important milestone in the development of PC virtualization software. VirtualBox OSE is the first professional PC virtualization solution released as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL). With VirtualBox, customers get the most versatile virtualization product on the market, both for enterprise and individual use. VirtualBox' open source license allows everyone to contribute to the development of the product and customize it to suit individual needs. Backed by Europe's largest team of virtualization experts, VirtualBox continues to be developed and supported.

Going through the screenshots, you can see that they have an alpha version of VirtualBox for OSX :

Technorati Tags: mac, virtualization

Killer app for Palm : Google Map

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:37:51 GMT

I have been using my treo 650 for a couple of years now, and I must say that the early days were really bumpy. Lots of reset, freeze, and so on. However, recently, it has been really reliable (after exchanging it 3 times). Few months ago, Google released a Palm version of google map for mobiles. I use it daily since then. I get the traffic every morning on my way to work, and it has proven very reliable.

In this picture, you can see for example a congestion on the southbound 101, around San Bruno.

Or, I use it to find a restaurant or other business, I even get their phone number, and can call them from the same screen.

And you can even get turn by turn directions

If only it could tell me where I am right now ...
Anyway, it really justifies the cost of the unlimited internet connection I have to pay Cingular every month.

Technorati Tags: palm, google map, treo

Hat off to Bryce, the king of concept maps

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:53:22 GMT

If you want to see an excellent way to represent complex concepts graphically, look at the work of Bryce on flickr .This diagram represent, after heavy Gobbledy Gook, the concepts introduced during a project I was leading. I must say that this work really helped communicate all the different objects and concepts.

You can read here Bryce's version of Flickr user model, even better.

I've really appreciated working with you Bryce.

Technorati Tags: concept map