snicoll

Stéphane Nicoll's Thoughts (Java, Open source and other stuff)
Promenade à la côte Belge Ce mardi, j’ai fait 20 km de promenade avec mon père à la côte Belge. Je dois bien avouer que je n’avais plus l’habiude de faire une distance pareille à pied d’un coup et j’ai un peu souffert sur le retour! Cela dit, on a pris des forces entre-temps!
Hudson, a fresh air in the continuous integration land I am used to all kinds of continuous integration tools and I heard about Hudson a while back without actually trying. I did a couple of weeks ago and I am using it extensively (I’d even say exclusively) now. The thing with Hudson is that it just works. No fancy installation script, no cryptical user interface, no file to edit [...]
Chop Suey Reviewed This is amazing one can find on YouTube sometimes… Even more …
La technologie au fil des années Ca fait plus de 5 ans que j’ai un bon vieux Nokia 6310i. A l’époque, c’était un modèle assez cher, je ne me souviens pas du prix exactement. Très vite les téléphones ont évolués, avec l’arrivée du MMS, de technologies de première génération pour accéder à l’Internet et de jeux divers et variés. Je me [...]
Javapolis 2007 - Wrapping Up Javapolis 2007 is already over and it was too fast; I barely had the time to look to the booths this year. Regarding the conference itself, the level is still highly valuable. Technologies that draw my attention are: Adobe Flex: waiting for the final release of Flex 3 and I’ll have a look to create [...]
Javapolis 2007 Day Five Location Based Services: Latitude, Longitude and BEYOND was obviously a talk I had to attend since we use similar technologies at work. Most of the presentation was an overview of OpenLS and related concepts so it was nice to see this from another perspective. I am glad to see that a standardization exists for that [...]
Javapolis 2007 Day Four Day four’s keynote was mostly focused on Adobe Flex and related technologies. At first, I was a bit afraid because they started with exactly the same content they showed during the Thinking in Flex session. Hopefully it starts being very interesting when Bruce asked naively (yeah once again) if Flex had any problem with complex [...]
Javapolis 2007 Day Three Day three starts the conference part of Javapolis and more specifically the keynotes. That was the second time I see James Gosling live (I actually can’t remember when/where the first time was!). His part was overall funny to watch, full of very interesting quotes: “I’m very excited about NetBeans 6.0. Are you still using Emacs? Then [...]
Javapolis 2007 Day Two University day two started with the Thinking in Flex session. I actually expect Bruce Eckel to look different but I like his style, asking naive questions to the other speaker just like he didn’t knew (well at least I hope I got it right!). Most of his questions were very helpful for the overall comprehension [...]
Javapolis 2007 Day One I’m very glad to attend Javapolis; to me it’s the best conference I’ve ever attended. Lots of people this year again, met already a couple of colleagues and folks I see once a year. So far, the organization is as amazing as last year. Open Source ESBs is the session is was expecting to be [...]