Some more stuff :

• My PhD (keywords : CORBA, distributed computing, C++, Java)
• My resume.

Cédric

Scuba Diving in Grand Cayman

• Grand Cayman trip report.

Why Ruby on Rails will never become mainstream

• Ruby on Rails is a fantastic framework, and I explain in this article why despite all its qualities, it will never become mainstream. This article was dugg and therefore, contains more than 150 comments.

Belize trip report

• A diving vacation in Belize.

Outlook 2003 versus Thunderbird

• How the two emails clients compare.

Aspect-Oriented Programming challenge

• What started as an innocent weblog entry ended up in a very interesting thread on Aspect-Oriented Programming, caller pointcuts and quite a few other interesting ideas, contributed by Rickard Oberg, Jon Tirsen, etc...  This page is an attempt to keep the thread scattered throughout the blogsphere in one convenient place.

Rubik's cube solution (February 2003)

• I wrote down a Rubik's cube solution so that I can solve it again easily when nostalgia hits me again in twenty years.

Scuba diving in Cozumel (January 2003)

• I went scuba diving in Cozumel, short summary.

I have a Weblog (October 2002)

• It had to happen... it's simply more convenient for me to write random stuff in a Weblog than here. Follow the link above...

J2EE / .Net Smackdown (November 2002)

• Sun and Microsoft on a ring to duke it out.

My CD list is finally online (September 2002)

• If you can't find the words to say how not interesting this news is to you, feel free to express your absence of interest by not letting me know.

The Go Game (September 2002)

• A high-tech scavenger hunt that will make you discover North Beach and Chinatown in... interesting ways never seen before.

Trip to Japan (May 2002)

• I spent a ten-day vacation in Japan, pictures and impressions.

JavaOne 2002 (March 2002)

• The geek fest is back in town, but this time, there's some real partying to be had.

A fabulous prank (February 2002)

• You think you've seen it all with birthday parties and pranks? Think again.

My book is out! (November 2001)

• Check it out. Buy it. I hear that if you go to a bookstore, you can take it and leave (they might ask you to give some money, though).

Utilities

TestNG

A testing framework for Java.

Small report on JavaOne 2001 (June 2001)

• Impressions on Javaone's Keynotes, and some rants. Again.

Small report on JavaOne 2000 (June 2000)

• Impressions on Javaone's Keynotes, and some rants.

Small report on JavaOne 99 (June 1999)

• A few impressions and summary of what was going on in this year's biggest Java event.

Report on XTech 99 : The XML Technical conference (March 1999)

• A brief summary of all the sessions I attended at the XTech conference which took place in San Jose in March 1999.

Thoughts on Java and C++ naming conventions (July 1998)

• I compare some of C++ and Java conventions and see what knowledge from C++ could be reused in Java.

A proposal to add delegation to Java (March 1998)

• How Java could easily support delegation.

Foundations for native C++ styles, Bjarne Stroustrup  (March 1998)

• The inventor of C++ made a general presentation on the STL and generic programming.

 

Stallman : the computer Hippie  (December 97)

• Summary of a lecture made by Richard Stallman in Sophia Antipolis

 

Multithreading the GUI : is it worth it ?

• Published in the March 1998 issue of the Visual Systems Journal

Communication between C++ and Java  (November 97)

• Slides from a presentation I made at Java Expo'97 in Paris.

 

Treading Threadland   (September 97)

• What you should know if you intend to switch from single-threaded to multi-threaded programming.

 

Technical report on COOTS '95 (July 95, French)

• Summary of what I heard in Monterey during the COOTS conference.

 

• C++ Programming with CORBA
• Advanced CORBA Programming with C++
• Understanding DCOM
• ATL COM
• Palm Programming

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