More than once in my—no-so-long—career, I’ve had to work on machines that were not appropriate to my development needs. These were most often the result of company policies designed to reduce the cost of machines to a reasonable level, but that doesn’t take the specific case of developers into account. In the (not-so-)long run, it’s actually often money sent down the drain nonetheless.
Many people I know have abandonned RSS and Atom feeds and prefer to use social network to keep up-to-date. For those who haven’t, I know no system is perfect but I can think of at least one frequent irritation I don’t want to reproduce on this site.
I always wished I had an artistic talent of some sort. Some friends once diagnosed me to be a “latent artist.” The truth however is that I’ve never found myself any sort of skill, but maybe that’s because skill comes from hard work.
This website has been dormant for a few years, now—3.5 years, actually. Today, I wish to resuscitate it, and hopefully see it a bit more alive than in the past.
This first post is the occasion to introduce Keyboard Playing and what I hope it’ll become in the coming weeks. It may also explain why you haven’t found the post your search engine pointed you to.