Malgré les faibles mises à jour sur ce blog, il y a encore quelques visites, et parfois de gens plutôt calés. Je me propose donc de publier les questions sans réponse explicite (avec tests, code qui le prouve) que j’ai en stock.

Si vous avez de l’aide à apporter pour répondre à ces données, manifestez vous, via les commentaires ou en me contactant  : sarah (point) haim (at) anaska (point) com.

PHP

• Pourquoi avoir choisi __construct() et ne pas avoir gardé la manière PHP4 ?
• Vaut-il mieux utiliser __FILE__ ou la variable d’environnemet ($_SERVER) ?
• Désactiver var_dump pour gérer des contextes
• Est-ce que je devrais ré-écrire tous mes scripts pour passer à PHP6 ?
• Puis-je utiliser une classe abstraite, pour des méthodes statiques ?
• Flux et sockets : dois-je refaire mon wrapper pour utiliser les sockets ?

Talend

• Faire un diff sur des fichiers
• Transformer des fichiers : plusieurs lignes à partir d’une seule

Javascript

• Est-ce que continue sert dans les boucles labellisées ?
• Peut-on utiliser AND au lieu de && et OR au lieu de || en Javascript ?
• Eclipse existe-t-il en français ?

OpenOffice

• Comment paramétrer OpenOffice pour qu’il ressemble à MS Word ?
• Comment voir le contrôle de repérage dans OpenOffice ?
• Comment organiser ses modèles dans OpenOffice ?

We've made it!

For some it has been a four year labour of love, for others, less. In any case, an important step has just been taken by the team, of whom I am ever more proud: our Cloud Infrastructure is now operational. Yes, we are pleased to announce the grand opening of our Gandi Hosting service!

This wild dream is fuelled behind the scenes by the desire of a team to create something truly different, that will provide a unique combination of flexibility and transparency - two crucial elements often missing in the market. The desire to see people only consume what they really need, to provide them with the ability to migrate their resources from one location to another when needed, to move about freely...in short, everything that we dreamt about as customers ourselves.

The entire industry, all the players in this market, know very well that this technology will replace shared hosting, and possibly even dedicated hosting. The advantages for customers are too great to be ignored, which is why the traditional players, having down played this new type of hosting, are using buzzwords around virtualization in order to continue to sell to customers who are insufficiently informed.

It is our mission: to explain, again and again, why everyone needs flexible and dedicated resources, and those that accept this are turning to these solutions. Today we are talking about web hosting, but the infrastructure is really based on and can be used for "Cloud Computing". In other words, the rental of 'super computer' processing power which can be accessed from anywhere in the world for needs as diverse as 3D rendering, gigantic databases, etc...

To get back to hosting, our choice has been to offer a product with the following components:

- a technology that allows a degree of flexibility and security that is unrivalled among current web hosts/discounters,

- a price that is within reach of the largest number of people, maintaining one of the the core values of Gandi,

- a service that is worthy of being called such, or even more! Our mission is to serve you individually as best we possibly can, not to create an enormous mass of faceless customers.

I sincerely believe that, every day that has gone by and is yet to come, every effort is being made to meet our objectives, whether they are technical or personal.

Of course, the miracle solution, the one with the biggest pipes, the most massive machines etc.. that many players in the market are bragging about, does not exist. No technology will ever be flawless and we would not be providing you with an honest service if we made that claim.

But we do believe that:

Our role as a partner in your online presence (which is far more than simply hosting of your website), includes knowing that we need to help you see that you must use common sense in all situations, for example, the prominent mention in our hosting contract of the necessity to perform regular backups of your data.

We have months, or even years ahead of us to adapt our service to meet your needs, to perfect it so that it increasingly becomes one that cannot be ignored.

We are asking for the thing that is most important in our eyes, your confidence, to show you the way to go, not to hide from you all that we are doing, and to ensure that the service is as good as it can be. In our mind, this is achieved by proving the quality of our products to you.

When you entrust your online presence with us, we must be responsive if things go wrong (and this, even if I obviously do not want it to occur, does happen), be transparent with regards to what is taking place, and to do everything in our power to fix it, and of course to back this up with a commercial gesture.

All of this is clearly mentioned in our contract with you.

I do not know what you, our customers, will do with this service. Judging from the thousands of you that have joined us, even before the grand opening, it has already been a huge success, and one that all of us here wish to continue!

Despite the length of this entry, please allow me to warmly thank all the beta testers that have been with us these last nine months, without whom we would not have been able to make the right choices. I hope that by keeping the current rates for a few more months, and that the various rate schemes will encourage you to stay with us. As a side note, our American customers find that our offer is quite inexpensive for this type of service, compared to other offers of the same type.

As a conclusion, I just wanted, before totally delivering this service, to say to my team that they did a simply fabulous job, and that this can never be taken away from them. Simply put, we have suffered, but this is one of those things that can be remembered for ever with pride.Thanks to all that have contributed to this project!.

If I have been smiling in recent weeks - while I should have been more "stressed" due to the accumulated "delays" - it has been for this very reason: we are doing something long-term, and I am very proud of this, given all that we have achieved.

PS: The hardest part is just beginning, hang in there!

Stephan

Hello. We are currently experiencing technical difficulties on several machines hosting your servers, The situation will be back to normal rapidly.

12:46 The problem impacts about 15% of the servers in production, we suspect a Kernel bug 12:52 Servers are going to be moved on other machines within a few minutes.
13:02 Problem pending resolution (5% of the servers remaining), kernels of impacted servers will be updated shorlty. Gandi Technical Team

Well, a new chapter in the Crazy Promotions series is out : beware the .MOBI !

As you know, we are in the habit of sharing the promotions offered to us by the Registries with our customers. And in this domain (no pun intended), the .MOBI is extremely active.

On March 17th, the Registry decided to lower the price for new registrations, which allowed us to reduce our rates from 18€/£13/$24 to 12€/£8.30/$15 (excl.VAT) for new one year registrations. And just before the summer we were able to offer an additional 25% discount on new registrations, lowering the price from 12€/£8.30/$15 to 9€/£6.2/$13 (excl. VAT) for new one year registrations. This offer was available until July 31st.

Today, we are able to offer the same discount under the same conditions and this time, until October 1st 2008.

To sum up :  : - from 12/09/08 to 01/10/08, a new .MOBI domain registration will cost 9€/£6.2/$13 (excl.VAT) for one year (see the price list).

It's time to buy obi-wan-ken.mobi !

Yes, I know... sorry...

Hello,

Following an abnormal charge on our mail servers, some users will experience difficulties to access their mail box. The problem started this morning around 11 AM, and was solved around 1.30 PM. It has arisen again however, and our technical team is currently working on a permanent fix. Please accept our apologies for this interruption.