Hello, my name is Bastien Labelle. I'm a rockstar* developer.

I like pretty and simple things, and my job consists in making the web a better place.

Curious? Read more about me, read my blog or drop me a line.

I am the developer of MyCleenr, and one of the developers of Water Falcon, and I work at Hellocoton as a web developer. I'm a Web & social media addict. I network on Twitter, Facebook, and Linked In, and I also was a Pownce featured user. I share some content on Delicious, Digg or Ffffound!, and you can find some of my slideshows on Slideshare. You can follow me on BrightKite or Dopplr if you want to know where I am or where I plan to go. Then you can find pictures of places I visit on Flickr. You can also track almost all the webapps I'm using via Google.

I'm a twenty-something year old French guy who graduated a Master 2 in Information Systems (Degree +5) from Toulouse 1 University. I currently live in Toulouse Area, in South of France, but my dream is to work in the SFO Bay Area or in NYC.

I have skills in (X)HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript (I've worked with YUI, ExtJS & jQuery). I program in PHP (I currently work with Jelix), but I'm also working with Python for pico projects (with Tornado, Web.py, Django & App Engine). I know the basics of Java servlets, JSP, C, C++, C#, VB.NET. I'm good at data design, and I know how to use PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, MS Access (WTF?), and I'm currently learning a lot about key/value storage systems and document-oriented databases like CouchDB, MongoDB or Redis.

I have 1+ year of professional experience, but as a passionate person, I can objectively say that I have kind of more than 1+ year of experience: I play with PHP since I'm 15, and my curiosity has driven me to give a try to Python. By the way, passion is my main motivation. Also, I've been giving classes about Web applications and Blogging at Toulouse Business School, and I've done some Influencer Marketing at X-PRIME ID.

I'm a Mac addict, I own a Macbook Pro Unibody and a black iPhone. I love programming on Mac OS X, on TextMate.

I blog about tech stuff in French, on my tech blog Exotech.biz, but I've also been a guest writer for famous french blogs like Alpha Geek, Monetiweb, Aysoon or even Mashable.

Oh, and this website is standard compliant, which means it is XHTML valid, CSS valid, but also XFN & hCard friendly! And it is also used as an OpenID proxy (my provider is LiquidID).

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*: Our rock stars aren't like your rock stars.