I tested to install Debian as I love it more than Mac OS X for work on my new MacBook Pro 13 retina. Most of the hardware works out of the box on a Debian Jessie (because of the kernel version > 3.8) but is not really optimal. That’s why I’m going to explain how I did to make it better. First of all, you need an EFI manager. I discovered that Refit is not maintained anymore and let place to rEFInd instead.

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Yes I did it ! I finally switched from my fantastic Lenovo to the latest MacBook Pro 13. Some of you won’t understand why I did it, but in fact you’ll see this is an evidence. What was the problem with the Lenovo ? Just the weight ! I’m usually transporting it from work to home and vice versa. I now have a backache and it couldn’t continue like that. Hopefully eNovance is a comprehensive company and allowed me to switch to another laptop of my choice.

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I finally found a tiling window manager for OS X and it’s free ! It’s called Xnomad and could be found on GiHub. Easy to install, it gives the major features of a standard tiling window manager. This is a must have for me now on OS X. Hope you’ll like it as I !

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Once again Mozilla made a future hit ! TogetherJS is a service you add to an existing website to add real-time collaboration features. Using the tool two or more visitors on a website or web application can see each other’s mouse/cursor position, clicks, track each other’s browsing, edit forms together, watch videos together, and chat via audio and WebRTC. Plugins already exist for WordPress and it’s easy to integrate in any website :-).

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As you may know FOSDEM 2014 is arriving in February and I’ll be there :-). I’m not ready yet to do a lightning talk but I hope I will in 2015. In 2013, FOSDEM was awesome, I hope the coming one will be too. I’ll be happy to see my readers there and more than that if we couldn’t met this year. So save the date :-)

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Hi all, This time, I’m asking help to find a good load testing tool. The one I know is Tsung but it’s not able to speak to some social API. I would like to know what kind of solution you are using and your feedback on it. I already played with Jmeter and I do not remind that it’s able to do better. Any help is appreciated :-) Thanks

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Pierre Mavro / Deimosfr


Qovery Co-Founder and CTO

Paris - France