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Winter tire
November 4, 2008 18:57Just bought a brand new studded tire for my bike.
My home is 7 kilometers from school and I went to school in bike all the summer. I know guys who do it for all the winter, so I’m gonna try…
Wish me good luck ! 
Qualité des données
November 1, 2008 15:10Cette session, je suis inscris à un cours sur la qualité des données spatiales.
Jusqu’à maintenant, les lectures de ce cours ont été assez ardues. J’ai entre autres lu le livre “Qualité de l’information géographique” de Rodolphe Devillers et Robert Jeansoulin, et “Elements of Spatial Data Quality” de Guptill.
L’aspect pratique de ce cours consiste à analyser et évaluer le travail d’étudiants d’un autre cours portant sur l’intégration des données spatiales. C’est à partir de maintenant que ça devient intéressant, j’ai toujours été plus motivé par la mise en pratique que par les grandes théories. D’ailleurs, j’apprends/retiens beaucoup en mettant en pratique plutôt qu’en écoutant ou lisant.
J’ai longtemps hésité à poster n’importe quoi sur ce blog. Mais finalement, j’ai décidé d’en faire justement n’importe quoi… J’ai vu à quelques reprises des blogueurs très populaires émettre des commentaires tels que: “Pour attirer des lecteurs, respecter un thème spécifique”. Après quelques mois à essayer de suivre ce conseil, force est d’admettre que soit je n’ai pas de matière pour respecter un thème spécifique, soit je n’ai pas le goût de suivre ce conseil… J’opterais plutôt pour la deuxième option.
Donc, nouvelle tentative et grande annonce: je vais bloguer maintenant sur n’importe quoi !
Je vais quand même tenter de respecter quelques thèmes:
- Géomatique
- Génie logiciel
- Le génie logiciel en géomatique
- Utilitaires logiciels intéressants (ex: Firefox 3.1 beta)
- La recherche du point de vue d’un étudiant (yet another blog on academia research !
- L’environnement
- Le vélo
- La marche en montagne
Mes intérêts quoi…
UML for the geeks: MetaUML
July 4, 2008 19:10Fell on MetaUML today. (Well, I had the link on my todo list since a couple of month…)
It is a very interesting tool for two things:
- enable you to describe UML diagrams in a textual notation.
- enable you to include UML diagrams in latex document.
Last year, in a talk with one of my co-director, I formulated the idea that when drawing diagrams in a CASE tool, it could be sometime useful to start the skeleton in a textual notation, and then switch to the graphical notation to arrange the visual representation. I remembered also saying that it could be useful to switch back to uml textual notation to add attributes/operations/more details, since it is faster to search/edit a textual notation than class contained in a huge class diagram. I already said that the textual language should far simpler than an xmi file or some other storing text-based file.
MetaUML is not far from my idea. The major problem with MetaUML is that you have to “compile” the textual file in order to get an image of the diagram. Would it not cool to write a uml graphic and see a canvas updating itself automaticaly as you “type” uml ?
Anyway, I’m pretty sure that MetaUML and its textual notation could be reuse in another software to make my idea reality. But for now, let’s enjoy UML in latex document (for those of you who use latex) !
Arpanet
May 29, 2008 19:55I fell on this blog today about arpanet.
It remembered me trying to explain to my friends at high school what was the origin of Internet.
Quote of the day (from this same article):
The Internet started as ARPAnet, and it was designed to fight a nuclear war, not to download porn or upload movies.
Is this good or bad ?
My First Post
May 19, 2008 10:07Hello !
This is my first post on this blog, a kind of “hello world” to the blogosphere !
My goal in setting up this blog is not to make money, attract an audience or anything like that. I just want a way to keep track of my research in a pleasant way. Also, because english is not my primary language, it’s a good opportunity to improve it (I’m not really practicing here in Quebec City).
My plan is to blog on various subject related to my research (I’m a PhD student at Université Laval). These subjects would certainly include spatial data, multidimensional database, database tools and engine, geomatics, models, models transformation, development in eclipse environment with framework such as EMF, GMF and GEF, conferences. I’ll also probably blog on technology, life and trees a few times… 
By the way, if you feel that I’m wrong on a certain subject, don’t hesitate to correct me in the comment section. I’m not god (and would not like to be him) and therefore, I’m doing errors in a proportion of around 10% of everything I’m doing.
Enjoy and share !
