IPv6 – Training needs and offer for the Future Internet Protocol
Mar 18th
The Directorate-General for information Society and Media has launched a study aimed at evaluating the current landscape (needs and offer) in the field of Internet Technologies training. The study team is more or less the same than the one which delivered the previous study on IPv6 impacts on vertical sectors.
An essential part of this study is based on an online survey which consists of a set of questions concerning your positioning toward trainings in the field of Internet Technology (IT), either as a provider or a potential user of such trainings. The results of the survey will be analysed to provide recommendations to the European Commission and relevant stakeholders on the way to improve the IT training landscape in Europe. Intermediate results of the analysis will be made publicly available online but individual answers to the survey will be kept strictly confidential.
If you or your company is either involved in the supply of IT related trainings or if your organisation makes use of IT related trainings, please participate in the survey.
For further details or information, please contact the team in charge of the survey by using the following form.
IPv6 needs to be delivered with the same quality than IPv4
Feb 19th
I already covered that in a previous post, I would like now to share what happened to one of the webapp managed by Zaltana. That application is available through IPv4 and IPv6, and in despite of my intial thoughs, is accessed by a few people in IPv6 (this explains the need of this post). Moreover, these users are not aware of IPv6, they are not geeks, they are regular subscribers of the French Free ISP which provides IPv6 connectivity to its customers (without being aware of it, they are early-adopters of this new version of the IP protocol).
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Rails webapp and IPv4/IPv6 requests count
Feb 18th
The context: you have deployed IPv6 on your server, your Ruby on Rails webapp is running fine and is accessed both in IPv4 and IPv6. Nice. Now you want now to get a little report to know the proportion of IPv4/IPv6 requests. OK. I have the same need. When thinking about it, I dediced to fork the excellent request-log-analyser and update it. Then I realized that it could be achieved much more easily with a couple of awk lines.
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Impact of IPv6 on vertical sectors (released back in 2007)
Feb 16th
A few years ago, Zaltana was involved in a study coordinated by inno group for the European Commission. The study objectives were to analyze impacts of IPv6 deployment on vertical sectors (automotive industry, telecom, bank…). As being involved in that study was quite interesting, I though it could be useful to post here final reports of this work.
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Zaltana website is down for maintenance
Feb 16th
Zaltana website (e.g. http://www.zaltana.fr) was old and unmaintained. That the reason why I decided to shut it down for a little while. We need time to think about it and rebuild it from scratch. In the meantime, all requests send to its URL are redirected to this blog.
Postfix queue management
Feb 7th
Never been in a situation where your primary mail server is being delivering a newsletter (for instance), which could be a very long process, and you are sitting in front of your mail client waiting for an urgent mail, which won’t be delivered until the mail server queue is empty?
There is very useful tool provided with Postfix which could save us in those kind of situations (at least, it saved me multiple times) : postsuser. postsuser helps in the management of the mail queue.
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Acteur Fête goes IPv6
Feb 3rd
Since today, Acteur Fête is available through IPv6. I take that as an opportunity to say that we all need to move our infrastructures to IPv6 as the shortage our IPv4 addresses has never been so close.
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Recursively delete .svn directories
Jan 6th
Sometimes it is good to remember simple tips. To recursively delete .svn directories:
rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`
Another blog on the web
Jan 4th
This is the very first post of this new blog. After 10 years of writing notes on little pieces of paper, it’s now time to jump into that kind of so useful tools. The birth of this blog is driven by two objectives:
- share with the world technical tips, ideas, projects…
- give back to the open source community feedbacks and hopefully new collaboration projects.
Main topics to be covered will be around software development (mainly Ruby on Rails and Java), IPv6, Linux and innovation in the IT world.
Happy reading 
Fabrice.
