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Until end 2011, I have been a software engineer at Capgemini, which I joined in 2000. I’ve worked ever since on space ground segment and air traffic control systems, mainly designing, developing, migrating and supporting software. Today, I’m a project manager and software engineer at SCISYS Deutschland.

You can find my latest résumé here: bit.ly/201111-berthon-jc-en (PDF preview, 2011.11)

Outside of work, I enjoy travelling, bicycling, learning about History and Astronomy, reading Bande Dessinée (a special form of comics), watching films (especially those European small budget types), having fun with friends and hacking with a computer.

The views expressed on this site are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.

Flash Player “Square” is out on preview for Linux

Posted on September 16, 2010 by jcberthon

Adobe Flash Player 64bit

Adobe released yesterday a preview of Flash Player “Square”. It includes native 64bit support and IE9 hardware acceleration enhancement. Yes, you’ve got it! Adobe is again supporting a 64bit release of their plug-in and for all 3 platforms: Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

I have updated my previous article on surfing the web in 64bit with the new details.

To get more information, jump to Adobe Labs.

Note: there is a free (libre) alternative to Adobe Flash product called Gnash, however it is still far from being stable enough on all web sites to be widely use. But anyway, it is a highly interesting project which have made recent huge improvements towards reliability and speed. You should try Gnash first and if it doesn’t work for you, then go for Adobe.

Update: Flash Player “Square” is now Flash Player 11, and there is a second beta released this August 2011.

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