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About debit cards in the Netherlands - EmporteUneVache

EmporteUneVache — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:50:16 +0200

By the way, the same applies in Germany... Very few people have VISA and I found it quite hard to find an ATM that supports it (to find an ATM at all...).

And you also have to use the magnetic band, with your ultra-secure (very) uncheap chip-shipped paiment card, and to sign a nice receipt... SURE I didn't sign the back of my card, I don't need to use a pen (a what ? In which century are you living, Fraulein ?) to put a silly calligraphed "signature" that will last more than the ink of the receipt...

After saving me from the harsh reprimand from the cashier (ACHTUNG-PAPIER-ACH-AUSWEIS-****LOCH) she said that people don't really remember their PIN code :-).

Oh I love Germany... or at least german Mädchen... or their mother... whatever

About debit cards in the Netherlands - UKNOWWHOIAM

UKNOWWHOIAM — Fri, 11 May 2007 11:34:46 +0200

Ok now I know why most shops don't take my Visa. By the way I only have to sign and I don't type my PIN. So secure....

About debit cards in the Netherlands - Nicolas

Nicolas — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:48:27 +0200

These numbers are not random. This system uses a one-time password ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-ti... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_c... ), which is a very very secure system.
You can find the algorithm but you have no way of reversing the hash function. If you're interested, the report I wrote during the third year's internship is precisely on this subject.

Back to this bookmarks thing .. - Etienne

Etienne — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:29:26 +0200

I lost myself around here so i'll not disturb you any longer. But I find really funny that 4 french speak to each other in English ^^

(quite interesting discussion though)

Back to this bookmarks thing .. - Kototama

Kototama — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:33:52 +0100

"I don't really understand why anyone would want to use tags instead of, say, nested folder such as (oh!) the bookmarks in a web browser."

Perhaps because all concepts can't be organized into a hierarchy. If you take a hard drive would you classify it in the folder "data storage" or "part of my PC" ? probably both.

Back to this bookmarks thing .. - Nicolas

Nicolas — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:34:36 +0100

Kototama, I think we agree on the imperfection, and you gave a good example of different tags describing roughly the same concept.

A finite list is indeed painful, but an extensible list can be used along with auto-completing fields. This way the user is guided when tagging his items, and can make less mistakes (hopefully).

I don't really understand why anyone would want to use tags instead of, say, nested folder such as (oh!) the bookmarks in a web browser. Tags can be useful when communicating with machines, but as a human being they can be confusing.

I would think the best solution might be to have nested folder as the browser bookmarks, with - why not - tags attached to the folders and links. Also, one could imagine using the del.icio.us API to retrieve them, for example: that would make the search easier and more accurate. Clicking on a folder would display the links, as well as a tag cloud representing the most frequently used tags in this folder. Now that'd be fancy.

Back to this bookmarks thing .. - Kototama

Kototama — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:42:35 +0100

"and will very often use different keywords for the same page/concept, thus having trouble organizing data efficiently using this method.".

Sure but even if the classification is imperfect it is valuable.

If you work in a constraint domain, say IT or medicine, one solution to simplify the problem is to impose a finite set of tags to users. For instance (in IT domain) if a user want to tag the concepts "reverse engineering", "disassembling" or "retro engineering", the only tag provided by the system would be "reverse engineering". Problem : maintaining this list of tag is painful.

Back to this bookmarks thing .. - Guillaume Mouron

Guillaume Mouron — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:56:15 +0100

Nicolas, I know the xml solution is not the best one around here, but I really want to play with those xml technologies, so I think I'll stick to that. I don't have in mind another project where I could use them (well actually I have one but I think it's even less a good idea to use xml with it ...) and using xml is not completely crazy here ...

Concerning tags, that was a mistake I made with the dotclear interface ... So first the interface is appearantly not good enough (or at least for me), but, as we discussed, you pointed out a real problem with tags and how we use or misuse them ...

Olivier, I also use google a lot and thus, don't bookmarks a lot of things, but when you found something not straight away from google, and you know that you might have difficulties to find it again, it's always convenient to bookmark them ...

Back to this bookmarks thing .. - Nicolas

Nicolas — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:03:05 +0100

It seems to me that you could try to hack something quickly (in Python or PHP), and try to see if it fits your needs. You should be able to get a very simple system in a few hours, in order to experience it before it is even finished, and see what should be changed and what is to stay. Try a very simple page with an AJAX field to search, and a tree using ul & lis.

About XML: I wouldn't think this is a good idea unless you have to share data among applications or services ("Write Once, Read Everywhere"). Using XML for storage kind of misses the point of having a easily-shareable format, even though RelaxNG might be cool to play with.

I guess a few SQL tables should do the trick, as an index is considerably more efficient than looking for info "by hand" in the whole XML document. The del.icio.us extension might have some useful info on how to sync the bookmarks.html file with a web server.

Oh and about tags... This post has only one tag with 3 words. That is exactly what I despise about tags: human beings don't really think with keywords, they have concepts that can be organized (in folders, say), and will very often use different keywords for the same page/concept, thus having trouble organizing data efficiently using this method.

Back to this bookmarks thing .. - Olivier Issaly

Olivier Issaly — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:59:08 +0100

I would opt for the second solution, even if I wonder if there is really an optimal solution. As you mention, I also forget to read what i don't read immediatly. My best bookmark tool, it's probably Google : I don't waste time organize them, and I find them quite quickly

Note that "Script as a glue" concept with xml/xslt is exactly what Éric Daspet explained during the FIIFO PHP Forum

Web Bookmarks Manager - Fat Fingers

Fat Fingers — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:11:39 +0100

There's already a system out that allows you to do exactly what you want. It's called SiteBar (http://sitebar.org/downloads.php) and can either be hosted on their servers or you can download the code yourself and install it on your own PHP/MySQL equipped server.

I've been using a very early version for ages now and it's extremely useful.

Building a "web application" without a single line of html/javascript code ? - Emporteunevache

Emporteunevache — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:16:06 +0200

En même temps qu'est-ce que tu fais à chercher des images jenna jameson... Une virée tisane ou carrément POTAGE ? (ogm qui plus est ?)

Building a "web application" without a single line of html/javascript code ? - yogi

yogi — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:58:57 +0200

haha je cherche des photos de jenna jameson et je tombe sur ton blog Vive le spam par trackbacks...

Building a "web application" without a single line of html/javascript code ? - Pimbo

Pimbo — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:44:16 +0200

Mais osef. :|

Where are you in the hierarchy ? :D - Pimbo

Pimbo — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:23:59 +0200

On les a quand les japonaise là :fou: ?!

Premier billet - Pimbo

Pimbo — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:37:17 +0200

Je crois qu'après ça ... on peut mourir tranquille. Le plus tard sera le mieux mais ... on peut mourir tranquille quand même. :love:

Does Internet Explorer really progress ? - gadjo

gadjo — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:37:21 +0200

C'est quoi ces billets de pédé développeur ?

On veut de la jap à poil fdp :fou:

Does Internet Explorer really progress ? - Pimbo

Pimbo — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:34:31 +0200

Comment tu parles trop bien allemand :sweat:

Premier billet - scantlin

scantlin — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:46:48 +0200

Ayé j'ai enfin compris ton pseudo :]

Premier billet - Touist

Touist — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:56:41 +0200

WTFOMGBBQ!!!1 ça existe la Gmoorette (ou Grollumette) ?

Ben bon courage hein... je veux dire pour le blog...