About me
Hello, my name is Frank Taillandier, i'm a 37 years old french guy, living in Toulouse in the south of France. I'm spending too much time behind my computer but I have a real passion for the web, and I strongly believe that when it comes to publishing and develop on the WWW, we should rely on W3C standards.
I'm currently in charge of quality assurance and user experience at WS interactive. I'm also a community manager for Automne CMS.
Automne : advanced content management system
Automne is the CMS we use to build our websites. It's open-source and LAMP powered. Automne 4 is written in PHP5 an the interface heavily use the extJS library. As an open source software, Automne's source code is hosted on Launchpad and use Bazaar. Feel free to try the demo
Here's the presentation Sébastien and I gave at the Libre Software Meeting 2010 :
Features
- powered by Zend Framwork ;
- AJAX user interface built with ExtJS library ;
- XML templating ;
- Application generator named Polymod that allows you to develop current web applications without PHP coding. If you're a PHP developer, you can also develop your modules with Automne API ;
- Groups and user rights management based on RBAC ;
- and a lot more like advanced validation workflow, multi-site management , LDAP connectivity, HTTPS and SSO support, etc.
Download Automne from sourceforge.net. You need to have some skills in XHTML and CSS and PHP in order to build the templates. Free Automne templates will come soon.
If you have questions, suggestions or wanna give some feedback, you can join us on the forum, add your comments on Automne's blog.
Paris Web
Every year I go to the best french web conference : Paris Web.
In 2009 Sébastien Pauchet, Automne CMS lead developer and I made a workshop on webapps's security.
Please, don't hurt the web
I'm constantly following the evolution of some of the web standards like HTML5, CSS3 and DOM. These tools allows you to separate structure, style and behavior. They should be the essentials components of every well-formed website in order to ease maintenance and improve SEO, performance and accessibility, i.e ensuring your content is accessible to everyone, no matter what device or software they use.
Photography
I like to take pictures, even if I'm not a big traveler. I usually take street, candid shots and portraits. You can see my pictures on my Flickr stream :
Continue elsewhere
Why do maintain a website who will only link to better websites and articles on the standards topic ? They're plenty of good technical resources on the web. Even here in France, the standards community is very active : either by translating best experts articles or by promoting web standards and accessibility.
Uniform motion
Uniform Motion is Andrew Richards, my fellow english mate and talented graphic designer Reuno. I strongly invite you to listen and watch to their songs. Their second album Life is out now.