About Marc-Antoine Ross
I am a Web Developer / Senior Project Lead. I work here.
This is precise enough for now ;).
Upcoming and past trips
2008
- June 2nd - June 8th - Paris
- May 1st - May 5th - Denver
- April 22nd - April 26th - San Francisco - Web 2.0 Expo
- March 5th - March 10th - Calgary - Piria Workshop
- March 2rd - March 5th - San Diego - Graphing Social Patterns
- January 23rd - February 16th - Piriápolis, Uruguay
- January 15th - January 20th - Paris
2007
- September 25th - September 26th - Toronto - on AIR Bus Tour
- September 18th - September 25th - Denver - effectiveUI Flex Training
- May 30th - June 10th - Spain
- May 9th - May 30th - France
- April 21st - April 28th - Mexico - Riviera Maya
- April 14th - April 18th - San Francisco - Web 2.0 Expo
- March 4th - March 22nd - Denver
- January 19th - January 24th - Las Vegas - Affiliate Summit
- January 16th - January 19th - Denver
- January 1st - January 8th - Panama
2006
- November 6th - November 22th - Denver
- October 24th - October 26th - Seattle
- October 23rd - October 24th - Vancouver
- October 11th - October 19th - Denver
- September 12th - September 15th - Los Angeles - CTIA
- September 7th - September 12th - Denver
- August 14th - August 17th - San Francisco
- August 8th - August 14th - Denver
- June 21st - June 28th - Paris
- June 10th - June 19th - Denver
- April 08th - April 14th - Paris
- March 15th - March 24th - Denver
- March 10th - March 15th - San Francisco
- January 25th - February 16th - Denver
- January 16th - January 23rd - Cuba
- December 28th - January 12th - Paris
2005
- November 14th - December 2nd - Denver
- October 8th - October 16th - Cuba
- September 10th - September 18th - Paris
- March 27th - April 2nd - Denver
I am in Montreal when current date is not in any range above.
If you want me to bring you something back from a trip, please use this post and leave a comment.
Marc-Antoine Ross
April 24th, 2008
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Read the rambla article and test drive our product!
Marc-Antoine Ross
March 21st, 2008
Here’s a good resource: Go2web20. Now what makes a logo Web 2.0 style in your opinion?
Marc-Antoine Ross
March 18th, 2008
Every time I play indoor virtual golf I wonder when they’ll come up with a new game with better graphics than those currently running on Windows 98 boxes. But when I see an online game, in Flash, with better graphics than what I pay 25$ an hour for, there is a serious problem. Hey, game producers, there is a market here… hello? Anyway, check this game: PGA Charity Challenge.
Marc-Antoine Ross
February 25th, 2008
In September, back at the Air Bus Tour in Toronto, I met Grant Skinner who presented his Spelling Plus Library. I recently found this new Spell Checker Component. While Bruce Deen doesn’t mention any performance data, there is a great feature I couldn’t find in SPL: a local dictionary. This component is a donation ware, don’t forget to help Bruce.
Marc-Antoine Ross
February 20th, 2008
It’s very hard to explain the subtilty of richness and usability sometimes, but life is good to me today as I stumbled upon a great example: Lovely Charts. Check how the application understands your actions to create new elements in the chart. Simple, effective, well done. Chapeau!
Marc-Antoine Ross
January 16th, 2008
As a few of you already know, I lived in France for a few years, when I was around 10. Since then, I’ve been going back to France several times for holidays or for business. I’m here, in Paris, once again and just realized that every single time I get here, there is one thing that I can’t miss: the grocery. Here’s my Survival Grocery List:
- Foie Gras
- Rillettes d’oie
- Saucissons
- Cornichons
- Baguette
- Sauternes
- Cheese
- Perrier
- Apple Cider
- Mousse au chocolat
Just got back from the grocery and I’m typing in between the bites, hence the end of this post.
Ok… I ear you, I’ll do a few more push ups tomorrow 
Marc-Antoine Ross
December 18th, 2007
Tonight, I went for the first time the monthly meeting of the Montreal Adobe User Group and must admit it was very interesting. Lee Anthony Sutton, LordAlex and Martin Arvisais managed to present different topics in a fresh and dynamic way; thumbs up.
Marc-Antoine Ross
November 15th, 2007
You’ll edit a system file, be careful.
If the file or folder doesn’t already exist, you need to create it. Here’s the easy way to do it in Terminal (easier, because Finder doesn’t let you see hidden files easily).
Open Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal) and type the following commands:
cd ~/Library
If the KeyBindings folder doesn’t exist in that folder, create it:
mkdir KeyBindings
Make or edit the DefaultKeyBinding.dict file:
vi KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict
Paste the following lines:
{
/* home */
"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";
"$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";
/* end */
"\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:";
"$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";
/* page up/down */
"\UF72C" = "pageUp:";
"\UF72D" = "pageDown:";
}
Save the file. Now when you re-launch your applications, they should use the new Bindings.
Eclipse doesn’t follow anyone’s default key layout, it is standard based on the version you download… so basically to get this to work do this:
Eclipse -> Preferences -> General -> Keys
You will be able to remove the Binding for Text Start, Text End and respectively replace them for Line Start, Line End. I will let you understand that part by yourself, as you will find interesting shortcuts at the same time. Do the same with for the Shift-Home and Shift-End keys.
You should now have the home and end keys going to the beginning and end of the line.
Firefox still seems to have an issue…
Marc-Antoine Ross
August 21st, 2007
Here’s a good benchmark that compares several methods to load data into your RIA. It’s very interesting to see how Flex performs compared to Laszlo.
Marc-Antoine Ross
August 10th, 2007
While I was at the Web 2.0 Expo, I attented a Yahoo! session where they presented a Firebug extension called YSlow. Obviously, you won’t be able to get an A right away, but it’s a very good tool to improve the performance of your sites.
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