It’s flattering Google but I’m not that smart

Google grossly overestimates my knowledge in linguistic. [...]

Autumn Photo in Bruges

I’ve spent my Sunday working on the backlog of my pictures. I’m far from done but this one really stroke me. I took the picture last month in Bruges, Belgium with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 (more metadata information here for the curious). I don’t think the camera made a big difference as the light was easy … [...]

Top 5 reasons why Out Of Office messages are wrong

I have always been annoyed quite a bit by automatic Out of Office messages. This summer was no exception. So here are my top reasons for not doing it. Nobody cares about your trip is Egypt really! If I am sending you an email, I am not on vacations. Do you really want … [...]

*Breaking* news: Apple Inc acquires Twitter…

… and uses it as their iTunes Store infrastructure. Now it’s broke!I updated my iPhone firmware this morning *as requested by Apple* and the process is hung because the iTunes Store is down. I now have a totally bricked legit iPhone: no call, no text. Great!Apple, I am very angry at you. Why are … [...]

JSR 303 interviews

I have been talking, writing, preaching Bean Validation in the past six months.A few interesting links came up recently:The list of blog entries I wrote. Probably the most palatable content but long.An interview with Dick Wall and Carl Quinn from the Javaposse I did at Javapolis 07 (newly renamed Javoxx) . I hated to … [...]

Philly’s search

I will be at the Philadelphia’s Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference speaking about Hibernate Search on March 27th (Thursday).The conference has some interesting talks around the new wave of development frameworks (Seam, Rails and so on). There is even a Battle of the frameworks! a Rountable Debate which sounds very promising. I will … [...]

Hibernate Annotations and EntityManager fix-athlon

Hibernate Annotations 3.3.1.CR1 and Hibernate EntityManager 3.3.2.CR1 are available for download here. I have done a fix-athlon in the last few days to ready them for JBoss AS 5.There is a ton of bug fixes especially in the Java Persistence scanning area and in edge mapping supports.Some minor new features have been added as … [...]

SpringSource’s strategy

It has been interesting to follow the recent communications made by Rod Johnson as you can transparently read SpringSource’s strategy. I wanted to blog about it during the last vacations but never fully finished the entry (they were vacations after all). Some elements are outdated now (including SpringSource acquiring covalent) but here it goes … [...]

Paris JUG

For the fellows based in Paris or nearby, a new Java User Group has been formed. I expect lots of good content from this user group thanks to some cross-pollination with the OSSGTP group and the industry knowledge of the two founders.The first meeting is planned for February 12th, check out the announcement here. [...]

Candid 10,000 feet thoughts about Android

Android is the new mobile platform developed by Google. They released the SDK yesterday. Basically a Linux kernel, a mobile optimized virtual machine running Java, and a set of API to play with the phone.First of all, the usual disclaimer. I am not a mobile developer, I am not much of a UI developer, … [...]