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“Gestion Documentaire Agile” Telemis TTT 18/06/2009

Voici une présentation sur la gestion documentaire agile donnée lors des TTT chez Telemis

PFL

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Paperless Office using the Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 on OS X

I have been using the Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M at home for about 6 month now and it has given very good results. We are now scanning everything and it already saved my life a couple of times (i might be exagerating a bit  To get good results, the scanner is not enough. I use [...]

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Quote of the day #1

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from
a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch
never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start
over, beginning with a working simple system.
—John Gall
seen on Signal vs. Noise

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The switch

After a first unsuccessful trial, I finally dumped my dell laptop and started working on a Macbook Pro 15”.
And I must say that I am still amazed at how things just work. Here is my setup :
Hardware :

Macbook Pro 15” 4Gb Ram, 320Gb HD 7200 rpm

Software installed :

PathFinder as file browser
IntelliJ as Java IDE
Skitch
Things [...]

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WTF/min

Just bought the “Clean Code” book from Amazon and while browsing through it, I came across this picture.
This can’t be closer from the truth :

Pierre

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Not so far from the (future) truth …

The jobpar trescourt

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Let’s put Hibernate to sleep ?

Don’t get me wrong, Hibernate is a great tool written by very smart people, but I keep wondering how this technology has become so popular.
Maybe it’s just me, but for the past 3 years now I have not come across one single developer that grasps half of the concepts needed to understand how Hibernate works. [...]

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What do they learn in school ?

In the past year we hired two junior java developers and I am starting to wonder what they really learn in school. Don’t get me wrong, we are more than happy with our new collegues but since I am starting to get to know them very well by now I am entitled to raise this [...]

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Getting the file owner in Java using JNI

Since i needed this for a project, I thought it was worth a post.
Basically I needed to watch a directory for incoming files and perform a given action based on the owner of the file, in Java.
For the polling part, no problem, but how can I get the owner of a file in Java ? [...]

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Goodbye Thunderbird :-(

After a few month hesitation, we finally moved all our email to Google Apps for your Domain, so I won’t be using Thunderbird anymore (although I could of course )
The migration to Google Apps for your domain went without problems and everything seems to be functional. We are basically using google calendar and google [...]

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