Applications and tools

• S3: a Mac application to access Amazon S3 Service
• Carto: an editor for Google Sitemap files.

Snippets

I love hacking. Coding small experiments, starting applications for my own use that I never finish, playing with new languages and libs just for the fun of it.

The downside is that I'm usually not a very extravert coder: I don't like to release stuff that I don't like (yet). But quite recently, I started to be more public about these small explorations, and now when I'm coding something that might be useful to a random googling visitor, I try to write a short note about it and add a small page here.

• TinySim: example code for several aspects of the OS X graphics system.
• AB-FOAF: an AddressBook / FOAF converter I wrote as a first python program and to try the pyobjc bridge (still need to update it to 10.4)
• bbedit-dot: a small language module for BBEdit, if you're writing GraphViz Dot files
• ObjCViz: a quick hack to dump an Objective-C instances graph to GraphViz format.

Old fun

Among the more serious things I've worked on at some point or another. I once ported Lynx to the pre-X MacOS, it was interesting, on a platform without terminal services or POSIX layer (remember GUSI ?). Still on the open-source front, a long time ago, I initiated the Java/Gnome bindings.

During my Ph.D days, I implemented a multi-agent platform, MadKit, aimed at easy experimentation and integration of very different agent models. It is still developed and extended today by the community (although I'm not coding it anymore), and has been used by various research labs to build experiments, as a teaching tool in A.I. courses, and by a few companies.

I'm playing with Ruby On Rails. MindFood is the rewrite in RoR of one of my toy projects: community notetaking for movies (and books).

And finally, at Apple, I've been part of the small team that created iCal and iSync... and other things I won't talk about.