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Name: Frédéric Gobry
Member since: 2003-07-29 14:48:39
Last Login: 2008-07-24 10:02:12

Notes: I'm a software engineer with interests in many areas of computing (knowledge management, data replication, embbeded systems, security and cryptography,...)

I enjoy working on and with open-source software and am a happy Debian GNU/Linux user.

You can find my resume here. The short version is:

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Projects

Lead Developer on Pybliographer
Contributor on Valgrind
Contributor on PicoGUI

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7 Apr 2008 »

Just did something painful: decided to potentially kill an open-source project I've been working on for some years now. Not enough time and the fact that I'm not a user of my own project anymore: I've been trying to introduce new features from time to time, mostly things I fancied. But the fact is: if you don't scratch your own itches, it's hard to put in enough efforts to turn a proof of concept into a product.

4 Oct 2007 »

gdvieira: it makes sense to me to have c+' = ć and c+, = ç (which is what I get from the apps I've tested 1 minute ago)

4 Nov 2006 »

Just started reading the D Programming Language website. Looks too good to be true: efficient language with high level constructs, native support for unittests and design by contracts, direct access to native C APIs... Has anybody here used it for something larger than a toy project, and would like to share his experience?

11 Oct 2006 (updated 11 Oct 2006 at 21:51 UTC) »

gilbou: it looks like whois is doing a wildcard search, which returns these legitimate but dumb entries....

24 Sep 2006 (updated 24 Sep 2006 at 22:12 UTC) »

Pfewww, I really pushed hard to get a new version of Pybliographer out of the door. I'm still amazed at how much one can do alone when using the proper tools. In this case, the proper tool is Python.

Context: my pet project is a bibliography management tool. Its purpose is to help you organise references, search for new material on external databases, help you cite these references in documents,... I've been able to integrate my code with OpenOffice (thanks PyUNO), with LyX (I won't thanks unix pipes on this one), define a proper citation mini-language, put a GUI around part of it (thanks PyGTK) and test some parts of it (thanks, dogtail), send queries to PubMed, Web of Science, CrossRef (thanks Twisted), parse their results (thanks ElementTree), and even package the whole easily (thanks setuptools)!

A while ago, I said that the purpose of pyblio was not to replace tools like EndNote and the like. Maybe I should revise this. Areas where I'd like to push involve reference sharing and fulltext management. I've already a few ideas, but I need to see if the recent features help the project get more traction.

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