IBM has just announced a strategic partnership with Twitter. What does it mean to the enterprise? Integrate the tonality and the noise of the world in analytics to help businesses…
My Sharpie Map of Chapel Hill, NC
My summer transhumance brought me to the sweet town of Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Chapel Hill is the birth city of the University of North Carolina (UNC) and a…
Connecting to a Remote Server without Password using SSH
This is definitively not the first post on the Internet about this, but I keep needing this and I think I really needed my own version of the post. You…
Speaker at TEDxAlsace, a Flashback
Back in October 2010, I was one of the speakers at TEDxAlsace, the famous conference which was held for the first time in Alsace. The venue was “La Fonderie”, an…
Five Good Reasons to Name your Fields Correctly
People will start to believe that I am starting a series on agriculture (see my previous post: Name your fields, it’s easier when you’re gonna harvest). They would be partially…
Dear Informix Enthusiast
Spanish and French translations are available under the English article. Dear Informix enthusiast, The election for directors of IIUG is closing soon (June 11th), we wanted to send you a…
Talk in Zagreb on NoSQL: Understanding why you need NoSQL
After my talk in Miami, I will speak about NoSQL, and specifically “understanding why you need NoSQL” in Zagreb, Croatia during the Adria IUG event on May 22nd 2014. In…
Name your fields, it’s easier when you’re gonna harvest
Maybe, I am a little too much  on the standardization side sometimes. However I like things to be consistent, therefore, in a project, I spend a great deal of times…
Haπ day!
March 14th, or should I say 3.14 is one of those fun days of the year where mathematicians can share private jokes. I am not categorizing myself as a mathematician,…
Quick installation guide to Maven
This is a quick installation guide to Apache Maven on a Mac, using the Terminal and the command line. Estimated duration: 15 minutes. Apache Maven is a software build, management…