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…
Where is my servlet? javax or javax.javax?
Lately, as I wanted to get back into pure servlet programming, I wanted to double check where to get the right “Servlet API” from Maven. I was pretty surprised to…
Installing PostgreSQL on a Mac
In this walkthrough tutorial, I will install PostgreSQL on a Mac. Sometimes I may sound old school, but I insist on calling “things” by their name so PostgreSQL is PostgreSQL, not Postgre, not Postgres,…