Interesting enough linkedin.com has adopted this microformat. If you got a public profile, you may not know but this profile is using hresume microformat - just look at the source code for your public profile page.

The good thing about hresume is that you write your résumé directly in html marking tags with specific classes defined by hresume microformat. Then you just have to write a stylesheet to make your résumé look good. You’ll find several examples of people who have published their résumé with hresume format. There is even a Wordpress plugin.

If you’re still wondering how to present your résumé on your website, I encourage you to move to hresume, it’s simple enough to maintain - it’s just html - and even if it does not really take up in the long term at least you did not bind you to some proprietary/binary format.

So here on the left is the new look of my résumé looks today - I still need to review it a bit but the CSS is final (I think). If you get to use hresume, feel free to reuse the css I’m using.

JTable has 5 resize policies, I do not like any of them, the one I like does not exist, but is the one you find in Windows Explorer. Let see how they compare:

As I prefer the Windows Explorer behavior and look, I tried to replicate it. This leads to this result:

See how the table look after the last column, it’s like the table header has been painted after the table. It’s almost the case. In fact there is another table header there to paint this last filler column. And here is the source code for 6th resize policy, the TableHeaderFiller, I let the reader understand it:

TableHeaderFiller.java

To use it, just call new TableHeaderFiller(table), make sure the table resize mode is AUTO_RESIZE_OFF and make sure the table has already been added to its scrollpane.

The story is easy, book a flight from Nice to Paris, leaving on August 29th, returning on September 1st. Well a lot can go wrong but that one went wrong pretty fast.

When I first look I was looking for the text boxes where I could enter my departure and destination. I had looked at other websites during the day so I had no time looking at the all. So here I go entering “Nice” in Depart and “Paris” in Arrivée. There is no completion in these fields, other websites quickly suggest as I type, that one did not. The calendar to pick the date worked - well I had to scroll the window a bit to get it display correctly (I was using IE7).

But there I noticed the checkboxes at the top. I did not see them in the beginning. I guess I was too focused on the text boxes and the color choices for the checkbox labels or the step 1 “Que souhaitez-vous reserver ?” did not really help.

By default, “Train” is selected (SNCF is France national train company…) so I’m just going to check “Vol” (flight).

And I did.

I should not have.

I had no other choice.

How could you!

They just cleared all my selections! How could it be, I mean train/plane, there is a starting point, a destination, and dates. It should not be too complicated to keep these choices between checkbox click. Sure the option for train and plane are a bit different.

Actually it’s even worse… why checkboxes? In fact it looks you can reserve multiple “products” at the same time, a train + a flight + a car.

Next time I’ll be more careful… hum… no… I’ll just pick another website!

Others (Expedia and Opodo below) do it differently (better?)

The integration with Facebook is very simple so far, once logged, heardontv will post to your Facebook Mini-Feed when you add tv shows to your list of favorite tv shows.

More to come…

Bryant Park webcam

A short detour by Central Park to enjoy the last sun shines and…

Cry Baby, Cry!

That one was on Broadway at the Marquis theatre. The show will officially start on May 4th (5.4.08), 54 years after the first Cry Baby, made in 1954. During the preview, the seat price is only $54, row F, seat 102, very very close from the stage.

3 days left in New York, is there time for a last show? Mamma mia, time will tell…