The first day of a conference is always fun: keynote announcing exciting new things, the joy of retrieving old friends, and discovering some new, finally putting a face on some…
IDUG Europe 2006 – Live from Vienna – Monday
Every conference starts with a keynote. Bob Picciano, IBM VP of Sales explained us where and what IBM is doing with its data servers. He spoke about the two most…
IDUG Europe 2006 – Live from Vienna – Sunday
For those of you that thought it was fun traveling around and attending conferences, here’s the first drawback: attend an 8+ hour business meeting on a Sunday. Both Board of…
IDUG Europe 2006 – Live from Vienna – Saturday
It’s not 10 AM and I am in my second plane, that’s the beauty of hubbing. To go to Vienna, I fly from Strasbourg through Paris… But I am not…
Cheetah as a World Premiere
Cheetah is the code named for next version of IBM Informix Dynamic Server. For quite a while now, the latest version outperforms its predecessors. The cheetah (“guépard” in French) is…
Software Engineering Trends
Last Tuesday (2006-09-19), I went to the “Software Trends” organized by IBM in Paris. I discovered a few products that I really think can change the way software engineering works….
Rendez-vous le 19 septembre
La semaine prochaine (le 19 septembre 2006) aura lieu une rencontre plutôt importante dans la communauté Informix française. IBM organise les « tendances logicielles » à Paris, au Tapis Rouge….
Working for Digora
I started working for Digora. Digora is a very high level company focusing on precise expertise in databases and software engineering. It’s a very exciting company, as projects are of…
Using PHP Data Objects (PDO) with Informix Dynamic Server (IDS)
The popular Web-development language provides a powerful and easy way to access Informix data. PHP (a recursive acronym for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”) has been around since 1995, but is often…