Hello World!

Here is my brand new blog... one more among the 10 other million of blogs that pollute the "WWW".
I will (when time allows) post remarks/discoveries/whatever_interesting on software when I'll stumble upon it!

Why is that? several reasons:
- I've been developing in PHP language (among others) for more than 5 years
- As many of the developers out there, sometimes I loose hours on coding problems: sometimes complicated, sometimes just because I should have gone to bed earlier and sleep on it instead of insisting...
- When I find something interesting, a "wow" factor, I'm glad, I use it, and after a few days... I don't remember anymore! This blog will (hopefully) help me keeping track of these issues/fixes and will (hopefully) help some of you.

Just to set the stage, here is what I'm doing:
- I'm working in a small bioinformatics company located in France (Rueil-Malmaison) and in the States (Westboro, MA), called GenomeQuest Inc. (previously known as Gene-IT)
- I'm working on a software called GenomeQuest (yes, as the name of the company!): in France for 4.5 years and at Westboro's office for more than 1 year. To sum up a little bit, it's like Google for DNA/Protein sequences search
- My day to day work is (for now) to develop GenomeQuest and introduce, when useful, new technologies such as *please insert here all the web2.0 buzzwords: AJAX, Javascript, JSON, templates, Star Trek, Matrix,...*
- Among the technologies I use: LAMP architecture (Linux, Apache, MySQL/SQLite, PHP), Smarty templates, Javascript (among the libraries I've used and evaluated, I particularly like: Prototype, Scriptaculous, Dojo Toolkit, Yahoo! UI library), XML.
- A while ago, I coded a little bit in C (yes, I'm a bit masochistic sometimes ;-) ),
- One day, I'd like to use Ruby on Rails, a killer web development framework developed by the 37signals buddies for Basecamp and other apps (these guys definitely rock!)

See ya!