Signing Git commits with SSH keys
Today I learned that you could sign your Git commits not only via a gpg key but also via a ssh key. Let’s see how. GPG keys and Git signing I’ve never ha...
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tool
Taurus K320 as a mechanical keyboard
For people old enough to have used the IBM keyboards you could stop a tank with, a mechanical keyboard is an achievement in life you are striving for. Like m...
Fixing failing import of Evernote notes to another app
Importing Evernote notes into a new tool can sometimes fail mid way. This post explains how to work around it. As I explained earlier, I moved away from Eve...
Super ultra wide screen
I recently changed my desktop monitor to a super ultra wide 49” and I love it. Here is why. My venerable 27” Dell was becoming dangerously flaky, this led m...
macOS powerline and Python interpreters
tl;dr; using powerline and having it fail after a homebrew update? Read on. If you have tuned a bit your terminal in macOS, you might be using Powerline. It...
tig and add interactive
Tig is a textual GUI for git which lets you manipulate your git repo like GitX or SourceTree but without leaving your terminal. In particular, you can “graph...
Using vim and Evernote
I like Evernote because all my notes are in a single place and I can access it from everywhere (desktop, phone). I use it very much as my GTD reference mater...
Embedding Vim options in Markdown
I’ve been wrestling with an issue for quite a while: embed vim options into a Markdown file. I finally found a solution. Context You can customize the opti...
Start IntelliJ IDEA from the command line
You can start IntelliJ IDEA from the command line which is handy when you live in a terminal like me. But you need to enable that feature. Open IntelliJ IDE...
Homebrew formulae for Mutt with sidebar and trash patches
Homebrew’s Mutt formulae is in a bit of a disarray. I can’t blame them as Mutt has a bunch of not quite maintained patches not quite fully compatible with on...
Asciidoc folding for Vim
I just learned about the ability to fold in Vim. For mere mortals, it means hiding parts of the file. Here is a code to put in your .vimrc to allow folding ...
Adding color to Maven output
Maven is quite verbose. Finding the useful information when the test fails requires you to squint eyes. Unless, you bring some coloring to the massive Maven ...
Get notified when terminal commands end
Here is a tiny little tool that will speed up the multi-tasking life of terminal users: be notified when a command finishes. How many times have you started...
Split a commit in two with Git
Ever wanted a commit was actually made of two? Read on. There are several reasons why you could wish a commit was actually made of several distinct ones: ...
Fixing Page Up and Page Down in Mac OS X Terminal.app
I am currently trying to move from iTerm to Terminal.app. Terminal.app maps the Page Up/Down action to move around its buffer. This is quite annoying when y...
Encrypt your Dropbox or any folder with EncFS on Mac OS X
This entry describes how to install EncFS on Mac OS X with homebew without breaking other tools using osxfuse (like TrueCrypt). Why EncFS I have been looki...
Autocompletion is crap
I can’t believe autocompletion is still so stupid in 2013. Alright, I said it, I feel better. It’s actually not quite true and a lot of smart things are goi...
Making the best of Google Authenticator for One Time Passwords
You can’t reorder tokens on Google Authenticator nor edit the associated description? Read on. I use one time passwords everywhere I can. It’s a little hass...
Google Drive - the good and the ugly
Google Drive is a bit confusing at first but the Dropbox like feature works reasonably well. They have a desktop client that works pretty much like the Dropb...
Installing po2xml and xml2pot on Mac OS X
Hibernate documentation system uses po2xml and xml2pot to build translations. Unfortunately, Homebrew does not have a formula for it and I don’t think I have...
Unable to update git from homebrew
I have had problems on one machine to upgrade Git from Homebrew. Let me first tell you how to fix the problem and then what homebrew is about. The problem ...
I succumbed to the Cult of vi
I think I am seriously regressing as I grow older. I mentioned in the past moving from the popular, dynamic and UI based blog system Wordpress to the Ruby b...
Instacast - Podcast App for iOS
Executive summary: I went for Instacast and so far I’m happy about it. In its grandiose lack of thinking, Apple has decided that when syncing an iOS wit...
How to control VirtualBox instances from the command line
I got tired of using the graphical interface of VirtualBox to start and stop my VM. After a little googling, I have found a very neat script that lets you co...
Pro tip on git rebase -i
Here is a small tip to improve your efficiency when using dynamic rebasing in Git. I do my work on topic branches that are forked of master. Before I push m...
Setting global environment variables in IntelliJ IDEA and other test config goodies
When you run a test from IntelliJ idea, you can customize some of the settings by selecting the list of tests and click Edit Configurations. From there you c...
Bash script to expand file templates
I am working on pushing all my “dotfiles” into a Git repo. Some contains passwords or other private data. It took me longer than expected to write an expande...
Feedback on Twitter Bootstrap
Everyone and his dog is in love with Twitter Bootstrap, so I figured I would give it a try and build my website with it. What is Twitter Bootstrap Twitter ...
Customize titles of your terminal window
If you are like me, you use many many tabs in your command line terminal. By the way, iTerm2 is a very nice improvement over the vanilla OS X Terminal app. ...
Configuring VirtualBox guests to access the internet and be accessible from the host
I recently had to create a VirtualBox virtual machine hosting Fedora 16. It took me a little while to achieve both access the internet from the Fedora 16 ...
In search for a 2560x1600 display
I have been using a Samsung SyncMaster 305T+ 30" monitor for 4.5 years now and have been very very happy with the screen real estate. Yes two monitors are ni...
What to do when Gradle raises unexpected NoClassDefFoundException
I have just lost an hour thanks to some obscure bug in Gradle caching mechanism. If all of the sudden, Gradle raises Frankenstein errors at you like $ grad...
Packt Open Source Awards and some reflections on CMSes
Packt Publishing, a fairly known technical book publisher is organizing an Open Source Awards contest. Some of the categories are interesting like mobile too...
Awestruct: building dynamic static web sites
I've been wanting to update my personal site for a while as it was done in iWeb and Apple is basically killing the product. Through discussions at Red Hat, I...
Mac OS X and IntelliJ crashes
I've struggled in the past several weeks with repeated crashes from IntelliJ IDEA on Mac OS X. I suspect it started right after the upgrade to 1.6.5 and the ...
To Tor or à Tort
Last night, I read some articles about Tor. Tor is an anonymous network that redirects your communications securely and anonymously across the Tor network be...
IntelliJ's Live Template
If you remember, I like to write my getters this way (long story here) public String getName() { return this.name; } public void setName(String name) { this...
Git: how my life has improved since last month when I used SVN
I've switched from SVN to Git (more git-svn actually) close to a month ago and that had to be a leap of faith. Rationally convincing someone that a DVCS is b...
SVN: false promises
I've had to do a massive project refactoring. To be more specific, I had to split Hibernate Annotations in several pieces and make Hibernate Validator and Hi...
java
Java LTS - perspective of a library author
I have had intuitively mixed feelings with the proposed 2 years Long Term Support plan of OpenJDK (from 3 today) so I wanted to write down what was causing i...
53 Java libraries to solve your problems
Max Andersen asked something interesting over the week-end on Twitter. What is an example of a java library that solved your problem just nicely ? Can be...
jbang – scripting for Java
Ever had a small task to script? Ever felt Java was not up to the task despite being your primary language? JBang is coming to the rescue. Use case When ...
Start IntelliJ IDEA from the command line
You can start IntelliJ IDEA from the command line which is handy when you live in a terminal like me. But you need to enable that feature. Open IntelliJ IDE...
Notes sur les garbage collectors de la JVM
Lors d’une discussion sur les différents garbage collectors disponibles sur la JVM, Rémi Forax est sorti de sa tanière et nous a fait un résumé que je trouve...
Autocompletion is crap
I can’t believe autocompletion is still so stupid in 2013. Alright, I said it, I feel better. It’s actually not quite true and a lot of smart things are goi...
Une tasse de thé podcast
Eric Lefevre-Ardand vient de lancer un nouveau podcast sur la programmation et en Français: Une tasse de thé Podcast. Comme son nom l’indique, le podcast es...
What to do when Gradle raises unexpected NoClassDefFoundException
I have just lost an hour thanks to some obscure bug in Gradle caching mechanism. If all of the sudden, Gradle raises Frankenstein errors at you like $ grad...
Script to hot switch JDK versions in Mac OS X terminals
Personal note. Here is a script that lets you switch your JDK version in a terminal window. It also has auto completion. Put the script in a file and add ...
IntelliJ's Live Template
If you remember, I like to write my getters this way (long story here) public String getName() { return this.name; } public void setName(String name) { this...
Getter / Setter generation in Java
Eclipse or IntelliJ typically generate getters and setters this way: public class Month { private String name; public String getName() { r...
Book review: Dependency Injection by Dhanji Prasanna
Over the last few days, I have been reading Dependency Injection by Dhanji Prasanna published by Manning. I must admit, this is a much easier task than writi...
Lies, damned lies, and statistics: EE edition
I came across some figures regarding downloads of Glassfish and JBoss AS that really puzzled me. Basically Glassfish was downloaded 700.000 times a month (en...
Java generics end of mystery
Remember my puzzlement in front of http://blog.emmanuelbernard.com/2009/04/java-generics-mystery.html? I usually try to make sense of the unknown type by l...
Java generics mystery
Here is a puzzle for Generics gurus. Can somebody explain why Set<Address> addresses = new HashSet<Address>();Set<?> things = addresses; c...
Oracle is buying Sun: best quotes of the day
Alex Miller: "Next version of Java will be Java SE 7.0.0.0.17832" Emmanuel Bernard: "The day an Oracle swallows the Sun and in front the Business Machine. No...
Les Cast Codeurs Podcast is born
I have just started a new podcast with a few French open source activists. All about Java, all in French. If you know French, read on ; otherwise, well... le...
Podcast on Bean Validation lastest PFD
I have recently been interviewed by Kenneth Rimple for the Chariot TechCast. In this podcast, we speak to JBoss's Emmanuel Bernard on the future of validat...
DevNexus: human friendly conference March 10-11 in Atlanta
I will be speaking at DevNexus. This small conference is a spin off the Atlanta Java User Group. Here are a few things I like about the conference personally...
JarInspector on Mac OS X
There is a tiny little utility that let's you inspect JAR/WAR/EAR files on the Mac OS platform. The software is available here. Install it. To open a JAR, si...
Innovation in the Log space, yawn…
Steve and I had a discussion yesterday about loggers. I know what you're thinking: hasn't log been a solved problem for years now? Plus it's boring ;)That's ...
Google Guice: IoC revisited
Google has made public his IoC container. It's all annotations based, no more strings, no more XML.Some key concepts:Avoid string based injection which are e...
ActiveRecord pattern, so what?
The Active Record pattern has a lot of publicity recently thanks to the Ruby On Rails and Grails wave. A definition could be: an object that encapsulates bot...
jboss
What design philosophy for your projects?
We had a hotted debate recently in the Hibernate Validator team on a given feature. As a result, we started to write down our design philosophy for the libra...
Book review: JBoss AS 5 Development by Francesco Marchioni
I've been reading JBoss AS 5 Development by Francesco Marchioni published by Packt Publishing. I must say that I quite enjoyed the book because it is complem...
Hit the road Jack
Now that I am done with my what took a lot of my time recently, I will be on the road for pretty much the whole month of november all over Europe to spread t...
JBoss Community Asylum - a new podcast with bits of me in it
Remember my French podcast Les Cast Codeurs? (Doing well, thank you for asking) Well apparently, I did not have enough and started a new one. In English this...
Lies, damned lies, and statistics: EE edition
I came across some figures regarding downloads of Glassfish and JBoss AS that really puzzled me. Basically Glassfish was downloaded 700.000 times a month (en...
Les Cast Codeurs Podcast is born
I have just started a new podcast with a few French open source activists. All about Java, all in French. If you know French, read on ; otherwise, well... le...
Podcast on Bean Validation lastest PFD
I have recently been interviewed by Kenneth Rimple for the Chariot TechCast. In this podcast, we speak to JBoss's Emmanuel Bernard on the future of validat...
Go us
I am usually not the kind of person that likes patting one another on the back. I am always prompt to point out what's left to be done rather that what has b...
JBUG Munich: Java Persistence 2 and Bean Validation
Next week, I will be at the JBug in Munich presenting Java Persistence 2 and Bean Validation. If you are around Monday 2nd, come swing by. The JBug Munich we...
DevNexus: human friendly conference March 10-11 in Atlanta
I will be speaking at DevNexus. This small conference is a spin off the Atlanta Java User Group. Here are a few things I like about the conference personally...
Answering questions at JavaRanch + free books
I am doing a session on Hibernate Search all this week at JavaRanch. Manning will give away free books of Hibernate Search in Action for the occasion. If you...
JBoss AS 5 is out, Hibernate Search 3.1, Devoxx is warming up and
Great news this week: JBoss AS 5 is out. Congratulations to Dimitris and the many people in and out of JBoss who contributed to it. Hibernate Search 3.1 is...
Hibernate Search 3.1 RefCard
DZone has a nice Hibernate Search 3.1 6-pages ref card. It is packed with: The list of annotations and their descriptions Hibernate Search's main APIs Luce...
Book review and NHibernate Search
Ayende, one of the active bees behind the NHibernate portfolio, has a nice review of Hibernate Search in Action on his blog. By the way, Ayende has ported Hi...
Hibernate Search book preview final review: hitting where it hurts for the better
We just had our third review of Hibernate Search in Action. Receiving this feedback has been a humble experience. Lot's of good reviews (good) and some criti...
Remotely send and consume messages with JMS in JBoss AS 5.0
This tutorial will show you how to create a queue in JBoss AS 5 (which uses JBoss Messaging 1.4.1), send a message to a remote queue and listen to the queue ...
Why would you pay for JBoss products?
Andy posted some of the reasons why you would want to use the JBoss subscription based platforms rather than the .org projects. During this exercise, he hint...
Mac OS X
Installing Ruby on Apple Silicon
I have been struggling to install Ruby on Apple Silicon, this was due to an OpenSSL version misalignment. This entry can be useful to you in this situations....
Taurus K320 as a mechanical keyboard
For people old enough to have used the IBM keyboards you could stop a tank with, a mechanical keyboard is an achievement in life you are striving for. Like m...
macOS powerline and Python interpreters
tl;dr; using powerline and having it fail after a homebrew update? Read on. If you have tuned a bit your terminal in macOS, you might be using Powerline. It...
MacBook Pro and the SMC cure
The physical parts of your MacBook (fans, ports etc) behaves erratically? I might have a cure. A story of crashes My MacBook Pro was getting on my nerves l...
Homebrew formulae for Mutt with sidebar and trash patches
Homebrew’s Mutt formulae is in a bit of a disarray. I can’t blame them as Mutt has a bunch of not quite maintained patches not quite fully compatible with on...
Unstuck the unread count of Apple Messages app on Mac OS X
The text message synchronization between iOS and Mac OS X devices is very useful. That is until one of the unread count is stuck. There is nothing more irrit...
Fixing Page Up and Page Down in Mac OS X Terminal.app
I am currently trying to move from iTerm to Terminal.app. Terminal.app maps the Page Up/Down action to move around its buffer. This is quite annoying when y...
No more Java Preferences for you!
Java on Max OS X is a moving target to say the least since stewardship has moved from Apple to Oracle. I had a lot of trouble to make Eclipse run on my machi...
Installing po2xml and xml2pot on Mac OS X
Hibernate documentation system uses po2xml and xml2pot to build translations. Unfortunately, Homebrew does not have a formula for it and I don’t think I have...
Customize titles of your terminal window
If you are like me, you use many many tabs in your command line terminal. By the way, iTerm2 is a very nice improvement over the vanilla OS X Terminal app. ...
iTunes vs incoming connection and VPN vapors: fixes for unApple behaviors
I've just found solutions to two nagging problems I had on Mac OS X. iTunes and incoming connection requests Some times ago, iTunes has started to ask me ev...
Automatically lock your computer when you go away
If you are like me, your colleagues like to pown you when you leave your laptop unlocked. Here is a super easy solution to lock your Mac automatically when y...
JarInspector on Mac OS X
There is a tiny little utility that let's you inspect JAR/WAR/EAR files on the Mac OS platform. The software is available here. Install it. To open a JAR, si...
TimeMachine backs up too much?
I just discovered the reason why TimeMachine was backing up so much data. I forgot to exclude my Maven and Ivy repositories :o)Here is a good tip to discover...
Mac OS X Leopard and internet downloads
If Leopard asks you if "you are sure you want to open this application which was downloaded from the web" every single time, read further.I installed Mac OS ...
apple
MacBook Pro and the SMC cure
The physical parts of your MacBook (fans, ports etc) behaves erratically? I might have a cure. A story of crashes My MacBook Pro was getting on my nerves l...
Unstuck the unread count of Apple Messages app on Mac OS X
The text message synchronization between iOS and Mac OS X devices is very useful. That is until one of the unread count is stuck. There is nothing more irrit...
Change the Apple TV WiFi settings without remote
You have your Apple TV but no remote and need to change the WiFi settings? Read on. You’re on vacations and as a good geek, you’re fully autonomous and pack...
Making the best of Google Authenticator for One Time Passwords
You can’t reorder tokens on Google Authenticator nor edit the associated description? Read on. I use one time passwords everywhere I can. It’s a little hass...
Multiple email aliases in iOS
I have tons of email identities. Depending on which hat I am wearing, I use one alias or another. Most are behind my GMail address. It is easy enough to crea...
In search for a 2560x1600 display
I have been using a Samsung SyncMaster 305T+ 30" monitor for 4.5 years now and have been very very happy with the screen real estate. Yes two monitors are ni...
iTunes vs incoming connection and VPN vapors: fixes for unApple behaviors
I've just found solutions to two nagging problems I had on Mac OS X. iTunes and incoming connection requests Some times ago, iTunes has started to ask me ev...
How to install an Apple Keynote theme
It is surprisingly hard to find on da internet how to install an Apple Keynote theme (and make it work). Follow this procedure: retrieve the .kth file (t...
Script to hot switch JDK versions in Mac OS X terminals
Personal note. Here is a script that lets you switch your JDK version in a terminal window. It also has auto completion. Put the script in a file and add ...
Mac OS X and IntelliJ crashes
I've struggled in the past several weeks with repeated crashes from IntelliJ IDEA on Mac OS X. I suspect it started right after the upgrade to 1.6.5 and the ...
Automatically lock your computer when you go away
If you are like me, your colleagues like to pown you when you leave your laptop unlocked. Here is a super easy solution to lock your Mac automatically when y...
Got a MacBook (Pro), better consider this upgrade
Last night my battery and my MacBook Pro decided not to talk to each other anymore. The battery was full but as soon as I unplugged the AC, the laptop shut d...
book
I love what my Kindle did to my life
I have been a rather early adopter of ebook readers. The Sony PRS-505. But I gave it to my wife and moved on to read on my iPad instead: The whole buying boo...
Dedicace des auteurs Français ce samedi au Monde En Tique (Paris)
Le samedi 23 octobre à partir de 15h et jusqu'à 18h, Antonio Goncalves, Arnaud Héritier et moi allons faire une après-midi dédicace au Monde En Tique à Paris...
Book review: JBoss AS 5 Development by Francesco Marchioni
I've been reading JBoss AS 5 Development by Francesco Marchioni published by Packt Publishing. I must say that I quite enjoyed the book because it is complem...
Book review: Dependency Injection by Dhanji Prasanna
Over the last few days, I have been reading Dependency Injection by Dhanji Prasanna published by Manning. I must admit, this is a much easier task than writi...
Answering questions at JavaRanch + free books
I am doing a session on Hibernate Search all this week at JavaRanch. Manning will give away free books of Hibernate Search in Action for the occasion. If you...
JBoss AS 5 is out, Hibernate Search 3.1, Devoxx is warming up and
Great news this week: JBoss AS 5 is out. Congratulations to Dimitris and the many people in and out of JBoss who contributed to it. Hibernate Search 3.1 is...
Hibernate Search 3.1 RefCard
DZone has a nice Hibernate Search 3.1 6-pages ref card. It is packed with: The list of annotations and their descriptions Hibernate Search's main APIs Luce...
Book review and NHibernate Search
Ayende, one of the active bees behind the NHibernate portfolio, has a nice review of Hibernate Search in Action on his blog. By the way, Ayende has ported Hi...
Hibernate Search book preview final review: hitting where it hurts for the better
We just had our third review of Hibernate Search in Action. Receiving this feedback has been a humble experience. Lot's of good reviews (good) and some criti...
Hibernate Search in Action: all chapters written
That's now official, I handed over the last chapter to the publisher yesterday. All chapters will be available to the early access program in the next few da...
Two third of Hibernate Search in Action out!
We have just pushed another set of chapters for Hibernate Search in Action and reached the symbolic limit of 2/3. Yoohoo! We have also enhanced some of the e...
Hibernate Search in Action book
I am very please to announce that a book on Hibernate Search is on its way. John Griffin and I are co-authoring Hibernate Search in Action from Manning.The g...
hibernate search
Answering questions at JavaRanch + free books
I am doing a session on Hibernate Search all this week at JavaRanch. Manning will give away free books of Hibernate Search in Action for the occasion. If you...
JBoss AS 5 is out, Hibernate Search 3.1, Devoxx is warming up and
Great news this week: JBoss AS 5 is out. Congratulations to Dimitris and the many people in and out of JBoss who contributed to it. Hibernate Search 3.1 is...
Hibernate Search 3.1 RefCard
DZone has a nice Hibernate Search 3.1 6-pages ref card. It is packed with: The list of annotations and their descriptions Hibernate Search's main APIs Luce...
Book review and NHibernate Search
Ayende, one of the active bees behind the NHibernate portfolio, has a nice review of Hibernate Search in Action on his blog. By the way, Ayende has ported Hi...
Hibernate Search book preview final review: hitting where it hurts for the better
We just had our third review of Hibernate Search in Action. Receiving this feedback has been a humble experience. Lot's of good reviews (good) and some criti...
Hibernate Search in Action: all chapters written
That's now official, I handed over the last chapter to the publisher yesterday. All chapters will be available to the early access program in the next few da...
Two third of Hibernate Search in Action out!
We have just pushed another set of chapters for Hibernate Search in Action and reached the symbolic limit of 2/3. Yoohoo! We have also enhanced some of the e...
Hibernate Search - cool, but is it the right approach? Year baby!
Sanjiv Jivan wrote a blog entry questioning the "point" of Hibernate Search. He missed some critical steps in his argumentation, that I am willing to correct...
Hibernate Search freshly baked features
I had to release Hibernate Search Beta3 early after we discovered a fairly severe bug in Beta2. But I had time to inject some new features. After those intro...
Demo of JBoss Seam DVD Store powered by Hibernate Search
Many asked me if the DVD Store demo powered by Hibernate Search that I ran at JavaOne was available online.The answer is not yet, but it will. My plan is to ...
Hibernate Search talk at JAX '07
One feature request for Hibernate Search has been surprisingly pretty popular: support for indexed embedded collections and hence correlated queries involvin...
conference
Course on inverted index
I gave a three hours course on inverted index to students from Telecom SudParis an engineering school here in… Paris :) It was fun to refresh my knowledge on...
Devoxx CfP - the art of tricking yourself
I noticed that the Devoxx France call for paper (CfP) application was influencing my votes. Sneaky one! Jeff Atwood’s tweet made me rethink about something ...
Une place à gagner pour Devoxx France
Devoxx France m’a offert une place suite au travail que j’ai fait dans le comité de sélection. Comme je suis speaker, je n’en ai pas besoin. Donc elle est po...
OpenWorldForum et OSDC à Paris
If you are in Paris Sept 22th-24th, don't miss the OpenWorldForum and the Open Source Developer Conference. This is one of the too few big events in Paris ar...
Universite du SI 2011 - des places a prix (plus) sympa pour certains geeks
Vous m'avez déjà entendu parler de cette conférence en France qui est un TED à la française pour les Geeks et les Boss (pour vous rafraichir la mémoire, cliq...
Retour sur l'Universite du SI 2010: geek et boss une equipe qui gagne
J'ai eu la chance d'aller à l'université du SI où Guillaume, Vincent et moi avons animé la session live du podcast Les Cast Codeurs (ça devrait arriver bient...
JSF Days 2010 Tomorrow and Wednesday
If the gods of French and German strikes allow me, I will be speaking at the JSF Days conference organized by Irian. I will first talk about Hibernate Searc...
Hit the road Jack
Now that I am done with my what took a lot of my time recently, I will be on the road for pretty much the whole month of november all over Europe to spread t...
DevNexus: human friendly conference March 10-11 in Atlanta
I will be speaking at DevNexus. This small conference is a spin off the Atlanta Java User Group. Here are a few things I like about the conference personally...
JBoss AS 5 is out, Hibernate Search 3.1, Devoxx is warming up and
Great news this week: JBoss AS 5 is out. Congratulations to Dimitris and the many people in and out of JBoss who contributed to it. Hibernate Search 3.1 is...
Hibernate at Jazoon'07
I will be at Jazoon (Zurich) to talk about Hibernate Search on Tuesday. I'll hang around Monday and Tuesday, so feel free to pass by the JBoss booth for a ch...
productivity
Selecting a note taking application
I am on the market for a new notes application, I have been asking around for advice. Here is the list of apps and a short analysis I did for each. My use c...
Scheduled emails in GMail and other mail clients
There is a really neat feature in GMail that you should make more use of: scheduled emails. Here are two use cases I’ve used it for so far. The first use ...
Super ultra wide screen
I recently changed my desktop monitor to a super ultra wide 49” and I love it. Here is why. My venerable 27” Dell was becoming dangerously flaky, this led m...
Simplifying your double (calendar) life
If like me you live a double life (pro and personal) and like me you want to share your availability via calendars, you probably have created clones of the s...
I love what my Kindle did to my life
I have been a rather early adopter of ebook readers. The Sony PRS-505. But I gave it to my wife and moved on to read on my iPad instead: The whole buying boo...
Multiple email aliases in iOS
I have tons of email identities. Depending on which hat I am wearing, I use one alias or another. Most are behind my GMail address. It is easy enough to crea...
In search for a 2560x1600 display
I have been using a Samsung SyncMaster 305T+ 30" monitor for 4.5 years now and have been very very happy with the screen real estate. Yes two monitors are ni...
How to install an Apple Keynote theme
It is surprisingly hard to find on da internet how to install an Apple Keynote theme (and make it work). Follow this procedure: retrieve the .kth file (t...
"No meeting" always beats "Meeting"
I was chatting with a colleague on a feature that is loooooooong overdue and proposed to kill a meeting and use the time saved to write the damn thing. He r...
Having problems with Adium and Yahoo IM?
Yahoo has changed its login protocol, breaking a number of third party IM clients including Adium. The Adium team has released 1.3.5.rc1 which solves the iss...
Productivity tools
With my regular job(s), the Hibernate Search book and a life going on at the same time, I had to find ways to boost my productivity.Here is a list of some to...
git
Signing Git commits with SSH keys
Today I learned that you could sign your Git commits not only via a gpg key but also via a ssh key. Let’s see how. GPG keys and Git signing I’ve never ha...
tig and add interactive
Tig is a textual GUI for git which lets you manipulate your git repo like GitX or SourceTree but without leaving your terminal. In particular, you can “graph...
Split a commit in two with Git
Ever wanted a commit was actually made of two? Read on. There are several reasons why you could wish a commit was actually made of several distinct ones: ...
Unable to update git from homebrew
I have had problems on one machine to upgrade Git from Homebrew. Let me first tell you how to fix the problem and then what homebrew is about. The problem ...
Pro tip on git rebase -i
Here is a small tip to improve your efficiency when using dynamic rebasing in Git. I do my work on topic branches that are forked of master. Before I push m...
Awestruct: building dynamic static web sites
I've been wanting to update my personal site for a while as it was done in iWeb and Apple is basically killing the product. Through discussions at Red Hat, I...
Git: how my life has improved since last month when I used SVN
I've switched from SVN to Git (more git-svn actually) close to a month ago and that had to be a leap of faith. Rationally convincing someone that a DVCS is b...
How to install Git and git-svn on Mac OS X
It's hard to find good Google links for installing git-svn on Mac OS X. Here is my piece. Install port: download it at http://darwinports.com and run the i...
francais
Revenu universel via Sans Emploi de Raphaël Liogier
On m’a recommandé de lire le livre Sans Emploi - Condition de l’homme postindustriel de Raphaël Liogier pour comprendre la notion de revenu universel. De pen...
Retraite, baby boomers et pyramide des ages
Je n’avais jamais bien compris pourquoi les baby boomers étaient un tel problème pour les retraites des plus jeunes. Mon hypothèse était que la retraite des ...
Fiscalité globale en France
J’ai toujours été intéressé par la répartition de la fiscalité en fonction des revenus en France. Et là vous me dîtes : Hum quoi?! Si l’économie et la ...
L’initiative codeforfrance.org
J’ai eu la chance d’interviewer Tariq Krim pour les cast codeurs et j’ai attrapé un peu de son virus / engouement pour changer les choses. Je suis très conte...
Notes sur les garbage collectors de la JVM
Lors d’une discussion sur les différents garbage collectors disponibles sur la JVM, Rémi Forax est sorti de sa tanière et nous a fait un résumé que je trouve...
Une tasse de thé podcast
Eric Lefevre-Ardand vient de lancer un nouveau podcast sur la programmation et en Français: Une tasse de thé Podcast. Comme son nom l’indique, le podcast es...
Flash Gordon et le permis à points
C’est l’histoire de Flash Gordon qui allait tranquillement chez des amis et qui rencontre un radar fixe : clic-clac Kodak, 1 point et 68 €, circuler, y a rie...
Dedicace des auteurs Français ce samedi au Monde En Tique (Paris)
Le samedi 23 octobre à partir de 15h et jusqu'à 18h, Antonio Goncalves, Arnaud Héritier et moi allons faire une après-midi dédicace au Monde En Tique à Paris...
podcast
Embracing Uncharted
Econtalk is a good podcast where interviews bring you to ideas you have not thought of or crystallized before. Uncharted with Margaret Heffernan is one of th...
Une tasse de thé podcast
Eric Lefevre-Ardand vient de lancer un nouveau podcast sur la programmation et en Français: Une tasse de thé Podcast. Comme son nom l’indique, le podcast es...
Universite du SI 2011 - des places a prix (plus) sympa pour certains geeks
Vous m'avez déjà entendu parler de cette conférence en France qui est un TED à la française pour les Geeks et les Boss (pour vous rafraichir la mémoire, cliq...
Retour sur l'Universite du SI 2010: geek et boss une equipe qui gagne
J'ai eu la chance d'aller à l'université du SI où Guillaume, Vincent et moi avons animé la session live du podcast Les Cast Codeurs (ça devrait arriver bient...
Podcast part I: recording
I have been producing podcasts for almost a year now, primarily at Les Cast Codeurs (a French podcast on Java) but also helped a bit on JBoss Community Asylu...
JBoss Community Asylum - a new podcast with bits of me in it
Remember my French podcast Les Cast Codeurs? (Doing well, thank you for asking) Well apparently, I did not have enough and started a new one. In English this...
Les Cast Codeurs Podcast is born
I have just started a new podcast with a few French open source activists. All about Java, all in French. If you know French, read on ; otherwise, well... le...
ide
Start IntelliJ IDEA from the command line
You can start IntelliJ IDEA from the command line which is handy when you live in a terminal like me. But you need to enable that feature. Open IntelliJ IDE...
Autocompletion is crap
I can’t believe autocompletion is still so stupid in 2013. Alright, I said it, I feel better. It’s actually not quite true and a lot of smart things are goi...
Setting global environment variables in IntelliJ IDEA and other test config goodies
When you run a test from IntelliJ idea, you can customize some of the settings by selecting the list of tests and click Edit Configurations. From there you c...
Mac OS X and IntelliJ crashes
I've struggled in the past several weeks with repeated crashes from IntelliJ IDEA on Mac OS X. I suspect it started right after the upgrade to 1.6.5 and the ...
IntelliJ's Live Template
If you remember, I like to write my getters this way (long story here) public String getName() { return this.name; } public void setName(String name) { this...
website
Jekyll – A new blog infrastructure
After 8 and a half venerable years of service, I’ve retired my Awestruct based blog and migrated it to Jekyll. Read on for some feedback. The blog virus has...
Migrating a Wordpress blog to Awestruct
As I said earlier, I moved my blog from a Wordpress instance to Awestruct, a framework for creating static HTML sites and blogs. The process is roughly made...
Feedback on Twitter Bootstrap
Everyone and his dog is in love with Twitter Bootstrap, so I figured I would give it a try and build my website with it. What is Twitter Bootstrap Twitter ...
The perfect storm creates new website and blog
I have been fed up with Wordpress for a while now. Having to upgrade the core plus an average of 4 plugins every time I went to blog was too much. And I am ...
Awestruct: building dynamic static web sites
I've been wanting to update my personal site for a while as it was done in iWeb and Apple is basically killing the product. Through discussions at Red Hat, I...
infrastructure
BTRFS vs Ext4 for a NAS
Assuming you have a new NAS for your backups and personal files hosting. Which file system should you use: BTRFS or Ext4? This is a surprisingly unsettled qu...
Jekyll – A new blog infrastructure
After 8 and a half venerable years of service, I’ve retired my Awestruct based blog and migrated it to Jekyll. Read on for some feedback. The blog virus has...
Synology rsync and non standard ports
Recently running rsync to my Synology diskstation stopped working. I had just changed my default SSH port to a non standard one. Learn how to fix it. Synolo...
Moving to HTTPS
I have decided to move this website to HTTPS. Let me know if you see anything fishy, cannot access it or if the RSS feed no longer updates. Why? With my coun...
SPF for dummies - how to fight spams
In this post, you will learn everything you need about SPF (Sender Policy Framework), what it means for your emails and how / if to set it up for your domain...
oss
What design philosophy for your projects?
We had a hotted debate recently in the Hibernate Validator team on a given feature. As a result, we started to write down our design philosophy for the libra...
Packt Open Source Awards and some reflections on CMSes
Packt Publishing, a fairly known technical book publisher is organizing an Open Source Awards contest. Some of the categories are interesting like mobile too...
From a Bug blooms a thousand Features
When a severe bug hits a product, you have to fix and release quickly (at least I feel I have to). But, especially in the beta phase, it's fairly humiliating...
Licensing and trademark
There has been lots of turmoils last week on two not so related subjects. Let's clarify them a bit.LGPL rights and dutyLot's have been said about this licens...
writing
Fixing failing import of Evernote notes to another app
Importing Evernote notes into a new tool can sometimes fail mid way. This post explains how to work around it. As I explained earlier, I moved away from Eve...
Selecting a note taking application
I am on the market for a new notes application, I have been asking around for advice. Here is the list of apps and a short analysis I did for each. My use c...
One line per idea - the feedback
I wrote a bit more than a year ago on how to wrap lines for markup languages. I promised to give feedback on this experiment and specifically the use of one ...
One line per idea
Now that most of my writing is done in a markup language like Markdown or Asciidoc, and now that I do version my writing in an SCM (Git to be specific), I ha...
economy
Revenu universel via Sans Emploi de Raphaël Liogier
On m’a recommandé de lire le livre Sans Emploi - Condition de l’homme postindustriel de Raphaël Liogier pour comprendre la notion de revenu universel. De pen...
Retraite, baby boomers et pyramide des ages
Je n’avais jamais bien compris pourquoi les baby boomers étaient un tel problème pour les retraites des plus jeunes. Mon hypothèse était que la retraite des ...
Why do we have corporate income tax anyways?
There is a lot being written about corporate tax optimisation/evasion these days both in Europe and in the US. This begs for a more general question, why do ...
Fiscalité globale en France
J’ai toujours été intéressé par la répartition de la fiscalité en fonction des revenus en France. Et là vous me dîtes : Hum quoi?! Si l’économie et la ...
groovy
What to do when Gradle raises unexpected NoClassDefFoundException
I have just lost an hour thanks to some obscure bug in Gradle caching mechanism. If all of the sudden, Gradle raises Frankenstein errors at you like $ grad...
Groovy Annotations
I have been hammering (nicely) Guillaume for a long time now to get Annotations support in Groovy.Thanks to Alexandru Popescu, this is now an official work i...
To copy a file in …
... Javaprivate static void copyFile(File srcFile, File destFile) throws IOException { FileInputStream is = null; FileOutputStream os = null; tr...
jug
Le ParisJUG deux ans après
For people who either don't speak French or are not in Paris tomorrow, skip this post, it's useless to you :) Le ParisJUG a maintenant deux ans. Difficile d...
Le ParisJUG deux ans après
For people who either don't speak French or are not in Paris tomorrow, skip this post, it's useless to you :) Le ParisJUG a maintenant deux ans. Difficile d...
JBUG Munich: Java Persistence 2 and Bean Validation
Next week, I will be at the JBug in Munich presenting Java Persistence 2 and Bean Validation. If you are around Monday 2nd, come swing by. The JBug Munich we...
Java
Can you spot the problem?
I am working on Hibernate Search’s ability to provide field bridge autodiscovery. I am usually pretty OK at getting a green bar on first run but I got out of...
Thou shalt be binary compatible
I learned some new tricks today thanks to Gunnar around backward compatibilities in Java. There is compatibility and compatibility In Bean Validation, we n...
No more Java Preferences for you!
Java on Max OS X is a moving target to say the least since stewardship has moved from Apple to Oracle. I had a lot of trouble to make Eclipse run on my machi...
communication
Scheduled emails in GMail and other mail clients
There is a really neat feature in GMail that you should make more use of: scheduled emails. Here are two use cases I’ve used it for so far. The first use ...
Communicating within remote teams
Communicating in a remote team has some specific challenges. Working remotely has lots of benefits but can be stressful due to the non physical lines between...
Make Google Meet less blurry
Some people complain to you that your sharing screen is blurry with Google Meet. Here is a possible help. As I mentioned in my ultra wide screen blog entry,...
svn
Git: how my life has improved since last month when I used SVN
I've switched from SVN to Git (more git-svn actually) close to a month ago and that had to be a leap of faith. Rationally convincing someone that a DVCS is b...
How to install Git and git-svn on Mac OS X
It's hard to find good Google links for installing git-svn on Mac OS X. Here is my piece. Install port: download it at http://darwinports.com and run the i...
electronics
Super ultra wide screen
I recently changed my desktop monitor to a super ultra wide 49” and I love it. Here is why. My venerable 27” Dell was becoming dangerously flaky, this led m...
Headset worth using: Klipsch Image S4i
I'm a big headset consumer. The average lifespan is around 3 months regardless of the price I pour into it. The way I wear them out is simple: I leave my iPh...
blog
Jekyll – A new blog infrastructure
After 8 and a half venerable years of service, I’ve retired my Awestruct based blog and migrated it to Jekyll. Read on for some feedback. The blog virus has...
Migrating a Wordpress blog to Awestruct
As I said earlier, I moved my blog from a Wordpress instance to Awestruct, a framework for creating static HTML sites and blogs. The process is roughly made...
computer science
Course on inverted index
I gave a three hours course on inverted index to students from Telecom SudParis an engineering school here in… Paris :) It was fun to refresh my knowledge on...
Log-Structured Merge Tree with level-based compaction
It is surprisingly hard to find a good explanation to level-based compaction of a Log-Structured Merge Tree. It turns out that it is best explained in LevelD...
grails
ActiveRecord pattern, so what?
The Active Record pattern has a lot of publicity recently thanks to the Ruby On Rails and Grails wave. A definition could be: an object that encapsulates bot...
persistence
ActiveRecord pattern, so what?
The Active Record pattern has a lot of publicity recently thanks to the Ruby On Rails and Grails wave. A definition could be: an object that encapsulates bot...
hibernate
Hibernate + Seam team meetup in San Fransisco
This is a pretty rare event, (almost) all the Hibernate + Seam team will be together in San Fransisco end of this week.We organize a meetup on Friday (March ...
ioc
Google Guice: IoC revisited
Google has made public his IoC container. It's all annotations based, no more strings, no more XML.Some key concepts:Avoid string based injection which are e...
lucene
Lucene users (2.3): migrate to Lucene 2.3.1
In some specific cases, Lucene 2.3.0 can corrupt your index. It happens in very specific cases:you use autoCommit=false on IndexWriteror multiple ...
JSR-303
Podcast on Bean Validation lastest PFD
I have recently been interviewed by Kenneth Rimple for the Chariot TechCast. In this podcast, we speak to JBoss's Emmanuel Bernard on the future of validat...
meta
Migrating from Blogger (esp FTP) to Wordpress
I am one of the "few" that have been let down by Blogger. They no longer support FTP export which makes it a no go for me. I've decided to move over to a se...
photo
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, Belgiu...
community
On the value of informal votes on the internet: my biais is bigger than yours
Have you ever seen someone working on project (or company) A asking to vote for A in an internet driven vote? It always makes me feel awkward when someone do...
css
Feedback on Twitter Bootstrap
Everyone and his dog is in love with Twitter Bootstrap, so I figured I would give it a try and build my website with it. What is Twitter Bootstrap Twitter ...
fun
Dog vs Cat diary
This is not new by any means but I recently saw this joke. As a recent dog owner I must admit I found it too true to not laugh. Excerpts from a dog’s diary ...
vie réelle
Flash Gordon et le permis à points
C’est l’histoire de Flash Gordon qui allait tranquillement chez des amis et qui rencontre un radar fixe : clic-clac Kodak, 1 point et 68 €, circuler, y a rie...
awestruct
Migrating a Wordpress blog to Awestruct
As I said earlier, I moved my blog from a Wordpress instance to Awestruct, a framework for creating static HTML sites and blogs. The process is roughly made...
real life
Why did you start programming
While discussing with a mom whose boy wants a computer for Christmas, the said “I suppose he wants to play games, what for otherwise?”. To this I obviously r...
change
L’initiative codeforfrance.org
J’ai eu la chance d’interviewer Tariq Krim pour les cast codeurs et j’ai attrapé un peu de son virus / engouement pour changer les choses. Je suis très conte...
history
Why oh why two spaces after a period?
For the longest time, I was just plainly annoyed at people that were putting two spaces after a period. I thought it was one of those English thing. Being Fr...
coaching
Embracing Uncharted
Econtalk is a good podcast where interviews bring you to ideas you have not thought of or crystallized before. Uncharted with Margaret Heffernan is one of th...
command-line
Which shell to use? bash, zsh, fish, something else?
I have been using bash as a shell for as long as I remember and added prompt customization for almost as long as I remember. I felt the urge to revisit this ...
language
Installing Ruby on Apple Silicon
I have been struggling to install Ruby on Apple Silicon, this was due to an OpenSSL version misalignment. This entry can be useful to you in this situations....