Colas Nahaboo

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I am Colas Nahaboo, Senior Project Manager and currently leader of the Koala Team, a new R&D project of the French software company ILOG. We are hosted at INRIA , French state research institute, in its Sophia-Antipolis center, near Nice in the French Riviera.

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Coordinates How to join me
Projects What I do
Hobbies What are my hobbies

Projects

Present

We design and develop "real-world" prototypes of tools to enhance workstation usage. My current work is done mainly on XML and Java, as I drive most projects that you can see on the Koala Project page.

Past

I worked before a lot on embedded interpreters, the X window system, and message buses. We notably invented a lot of the core technologies of the OpenMaster Network Management Platform (formerly ISM) of Evidian (formerly BullSoft).
I designed and implemented:

GWM - the Extensible X11 Window Manager
browser-history - a global history logger for X web browsers
WOOL - an embeddable lisp-like interpreter for C applications
KLONE - an experimental OO language

I contributed to:

XPM - the de facto X icon format
Koalabus - a flexible and efficient message bus
Koalatalk - a more flexible and more efficient message bus
KLM - a rapid prototyping environment for Motif

Small Hacks

I (pathologically :-) coded tons of little hacks that I began to document in this hacks / tools page

Hobbies

Analog:

Surfing A way of life.
Windsurfing Another way of life.
Cats Another life form.

Digital: (Basically, I am a hacker: I am interested by anything bytes-related)

Linux We were one of the early adopters, switching to Linux on our workstations since 1995. (see Le système d'exploitation Linux for a description in French, or the French linux journal L'écho de Linux). See Linux International and the Linux Publicity Project for more info.
PDAs, mainly Psion Series 3 & 5 a smart, open, useful handheld computer. See also the FAQ. You can search psiidb, a database of psion ressources on the internet, or see the very comprehensive psion site 3lib or Phil Spencers collection of psion related pages, or the Psioneer Web Ring.
Specifically for the new Series 5, is 5 Alive, and in French: Psion series 5 en France
Computer games, PC / Amiga / SNES. See my friend Michel Buffa great videogame page.
the cooperative game xtrek. See the Flying Froggies home page.

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