Julian `flngr` Bilcke

dear readers,

I’m back after a long break, since I finally joined my new job at the ISC-PIF on the TINA project.

I will be able to work on the Gephi opensource project, since our TINA project will use some parts of Gephi for data visualization and graph processing. This is an interesting opportunity to work on open-source software during day-time.

I will first complete my Timeline Module for the next release of Gephi 0.7, which is due to November.

In addition to the timeline, I will begin as soon a possible the work on other enhancements that will be both useful for all gephi users, but also for our specific needs at TINA.

Ideally, I would like to publish beta releases of my modules through online update (the Netbeans platform offer some ways of doing this), since it is crucial to get new features feedbacks from early users and not only developers.

No I’m not dead, yet.

Here some news about my work in the gephi team:

CPAN-Explorer

- CPAN Explorer is online : http://cpan-explorer.org (see the website for more informations)

- My next blog post will be a tutorial on how publish a map generated from gephi (in SVG file format) to the web, like the ones used on http://cpan-explorer.org

- I’m not satisfied yet with the authors map, and of course the packages map, which is unreadable from the embedded javascript map. I will discuss the reasons and alternatives in my next blog post

Gephi Timeline Component

- I made some GUI mockups (created a Timeline with Gimp, pixel by pixel)that provide some guidance

- I’m just thinking about how to divide the GUI into the corresponding layers and Java components..

- … by looking at other GUI modules in the gephi 0.7 branch

GUI:

• a menu to select the metric (data used for the chart)
• An upper viewport containing the timeline overview, with mouse-selectable zone
• An optional bottom viewport containing a zoom on the selection
• A button switch for the optional bottom viewport

API:

• Control over the current position of the timeline : setPositionTo()
• Control over the player: play(), pause(), setSpeed()

Bonjour tout le monde !

Voilà, j’abandonne Blogger et http://flngr.blogspot.com pour passer à du wordpress / free.fr
C’est temporaire, en attendant que je m’héberge sur un de mes nombreuuuuuuuux noms de domaines :)
J’ai choisi wordpress car je pourrais le bidouiller un peu plus que blogger quand même… enfin je l’espère.

Il faut dire que ça me gave vraiment de faire du php/css pour raconter la life de mon poisson rouge, et après tout
il parait qu’un bon programmeur est un programmeur paresseux ! pour l’instant ça va, je m’en sors avec 0 ligne(s) de code :D

Mais ça se comprend, vu tout ce que j’ai à coder pour mon projet number one (kaola, j’en reparlerais, mais sinon, j’en parlais là : flngr.blogspot)

C U !