http://www.oberle.org The Weblog of Vincent Oberle - Thoughts and opinions about technology and business Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:36:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not much blogging lately. Since joining the Core team 3 months ago, I've been getting more and more busy, working hard on the next version of Skype (there is cool stuff coming...). So my thoughts are all on Skype internal stuff, which is unfortunately not blogging material. In Skype news, one ... http://www.oberle.org/blog/2008/04/17/slow-blogging-busy-at-work/ Following my posts about scripting Skype (which also appeared on Skype Journal), I wrote a little article for the Skype Developer program newsletter of January, which I also post here. In the "Skype 3.X discussion" public chat, there was a discussion about having a plugin that could extract all your information ... http://www.oberle.org/blog/2008/02/10/extract-your-chat-history-with-skype4py/ 2.5 years ago, I was the first engineer of the embedded team at Skype. Since then, we built a team and did great things: Released many devices, worked with many partners, fixed lots of bugs, ported Skype to many platforms... But as with any job, there comes a time where ... http://www.oberle.org/blog/2008/01/23/joining-the-skype-core-library-team/ Having done the list of food things I miss in Estonia, I thought I should also do the list of things I like the most in Estonia (I have written more generally about Estonian cuisine in the past). These are things I didn't know before coming to Estonia, or that ... http://www.oberle.org/blog/2008/01/20/my-five-favorite-food-things-in-estonia/ Making such a list is actually not that easy, because I do find most of the things I like here (and of course I also have many things I didn't have in France). Yet there are a few things I miss, in no particular order: Artichokes: Hearts can be found in cans, ... http://www.oberle.org/blog/2008/01/13/five-food-things-i-miss-in-estonia/ In my childhood, I always wanted LEGO for toys, so it's no big surprise that Henri is getting some too. Of course he's too young for standard LEGO so he's getting Duplo. And with Ingrid we got quickly convinced it's the best way to use the toy money. Duplo have great ... http://www.oberle.org/blog/2008/01/12/best-toy-for-children-lego/ I have blogged before about how using the Skype4Py library makes it very easy to script Skype and add little features to it, in a portable way. I have written two such little scripts recently. Their code is short and simple, and while I only tested them under Linux they ... http://www.oberle.org/blog/2007/12/20/more-scripting-skype-moods-to-twitter-and-command-line-file-transfer/ In the recent weeks, Skype launched High Quality Video on Windows: 640x480 (4 times more pixels) and 30 fps (double as standard Skype video). I got last week one of the camera that can support it and I tried it with my mother. Her feedback was excellent (others agree). It's ... http://www.oberle.org/blog/2007/12/19/high-quality-video-skype-calls/ I've been using Python as my main scripting language for a while now. The Skype Linux tools I wrote a little while ago were already in Python. They used a custom wrapper for the API that Skype exposes for 3rd party applications. There is however a much better Python ... http://www.oberle.org/blog/2007/12/11/scripting-skype/ Since a couple of months, I have been using an iPhone. In one of the first posts of this blog, in mid 2004, I wondered why we didn't have an iPod phone yet. It took a long time, but it was worth the wait. The iPhone is an amazing device. There ... http://www.oberle.org/blog/2007/12/10/iphone-love/