Entendu hier soir sur France4 dans "Oui mais..." avec G?rard Jugnot et Emilie Dequenne.
"C'est pas parcequ'il fait nuit qu'il n'y aura plus jamais de soleil"
En fait ce film raconte comment on peut r??quilibrer sa relation ? l'autre, aimer quelqu'un sans jouer dans ses petits jeux de chantages affectifs et autre gentillesses inconscientes.
"The American Dream is called "Dream" because it only happens when you sleep"
(The Guru of Sex -
Ramu Gupta, un jeune professeur de danse, d?barque ? New York ? la recherche de la c?l?brit?. Sa premi?re perc?e n?a pas lieu ? Broadway mais sur le plateau d?un film pour adultes. Malheureusement, il est trop timide pour cet exercice et finit par ?tre serveur dans un restaurant indien. Un soir qu?il travaille dans une soir?e New Age hupp?e, un nouveau r?le lui est donn? quand le gourou employ? pour la soir?e s?effondre ivre mort. Ramu est alors surnomm? the Guru of Sex.)
Since communication is key in an MBA programme, some of us try to achieve efficient email communication by the use of a virtual community.
Therefore we have a Yahoo! Group : vlerickleuvengentmba
The interesting discussion around Big SOA leads me to write about what I describe as Lego Vs Playmobil SOA.
Do you prefer Playmobil or Lego ?
When I was a litle boy, I used to prefer Playmobil against Lego (even if I had both). It was because I was not interested in buidling something; iI was interested in playing directly a story out of my imagination. If with Lego you wanted to invent some scenario, chances were high that you had to build the context (a car, a house, a truck) before you could start to play because Lego's ready to play items always tend to be disassembled with time (Probably another proof of the entropy law...).
Both Playmobil and Lego parts are interoperable. Lego's can be assembled because they have standard connections. Playmobil are also interoperable but at another level : the characters are all compatible with the tools, vehicules and houses.
Here is a small table to express my feelings around the difference between Playmobil Vs Lego SOA
Concept
Playmobil
Lego
Functionality
Catalog Based, Simple
Catalog based but can be extended, damaged, extended, disassembled and... recomposed into genius or rubbish
Complexity
Understandable, Simple and functional
Complex to very complex
Plug&Play
Yes
No (needs to be assembled)
Playmobil Vs Lego SOA
Playing with IT sometimes has the same taste to me. Little Vs Big SOA ressembles Lego Vs Playmobil to me.
My feeling is that as IT techies, we think about how we are going to assemble the small SOA Lego parts into a functionality for the customer. But what the Customer's Business wants is just to play immediately, Playmobil like.
Translated into SOA, Playmobil SOA services are :
Simple and understandable by the business
Rapidly put in place
Standard, not easilly adapted
Lego SOA Services are:
Complex to understand
not rapid to put in place (development required)
Standard to extremely exotic
Where to buy Lego/Playmobil Services ?
Playmobil SOA can be achieved by purchasing standard software (ECM, ERP, CRM) and assembling them with an ESB. Your playground is the Portal.
Lego SOA can be built with development tools : Web Services, J2EE, .Net, Open Source...
When to use Playmobil/Lego SOA ?
In relation to the types of Business processes (see BPTypes), Playmobil SOA services are more suited for Non-Diffentiating Services in all types of Business Processes, while you will use Lego SOA services for Differentiating Services within Differntiating Business Processes.
Lego allows you to build a completely different and unique experience. While playmobil's experience only relies on the story that you will play with standard services and the way you will assemble them.
Whether an organisation produces goods or services, there is always an operational department, which is responsible for the production of those goods and services. This course deals with the management of this department. There are several decision-making domains that can be divided into two categories: choosing and developing the production systems, and managing the production system.
The purpose of this course is to gain an insight into the principal methods used to analyse and develop production systems, to solve operational management problems and to study the interaction with other functional domains.
Today I'm working on the Integration of IBM's Cryptography solutions for long term archiving in Content Management Solutions like FileNet Image Services.
What if the person who encrypted the file forgot the password ?
In that case, there are two main possibilities: 1. Use a Password Store
or
2. Allow for password recovery. An Administration Interface allows to recover the password. This requires, in addition to the technology, a strong real life procedure such that the password recovery tool isn't misused.
In SFED, the Security Domain of the documents determines if password recovery is possible or not.
What garantees that one can decrypt the document within 10 years from now ?
The combination of the use of encryption standard like Encryption AES, HMAC-SHA-512 or PKCS#12 and IBM's promises to stay in Business...
How to avoid that people use the same password for unrelated files ?
(If this password would be revealed for a file, all the other files would be at risk)
This is an organizational and security governance issue... You need to learn your end users not to put their passwords on a post-it on the workstation's desk. Security is not only technology...
?What will you do next year ?? is the main question I have to answer these days. Last Tuesday (Nov 17th 2009) I got the approval from IBM that my sabbatical leave has been approved. Therefore, in 2010, I will not go to work as usual.
So, this week I met many people who have heard that I'm having a year off. Their main concern is ?What will you do ?? but also ?Will you be back in 2011 ?? .
As the Black Eye Peas would sing, I have a feeling that 2010 is gonna be a good year.
What will I do ?
I will have 3 main objectives in 2010:
1. Business
I will work on the opportunity of starting a business in the field of ePaper. Concretely, there are many activities I want to undertake around ePaper
Play with the eReaders technology (the IREX S1000, the Sony eReader or some Hanlin models for example): programming , integrating Content Management platforms like Alfresco, configuring for Personal Productivity, displaying Medical Information, downloading eBanking information or Marketing Material, Testing Notes Taking, Automatically producing content from RSS feeds...
Blog on ePaper related technologies. I will launch 2 blogs on ePaper (one in French, the other in English). I already have created 2 associated websites : http://appepaper.com and http://appe.biz/.
Determine an ePaper Reference Architecture that will be useful for documenting ePaper applications. Publish white papers on the subject.
Gradually participate in ePaper projects, software, hardware and consulting as an independent consultant.
Re-Write and start to execute my business plan for ePaper
Participate to (or Organize) ePaper events
Build a network of ePaper enthousiasts around the world who can achieve together great ePaper projects
2. Sport
Together with my friend Laurent Saublens, we decided to get to the top of the Mont Ventoux by bike. I hope he didn't forget it because I want to take up the challenge.
3. Free Time
For the first time in my life, for one year, I will have no agenda, no obligation. It will be an interesting experience. It might sound crazy but I want to truly understand what I will choose to do of my free time when facing an empty agenda. Here is what I believe I will do:
Cleaning ? I have many things to tidy up at home
Spend more time with my family, especially Thomas (my son)
Painting, Drawing
Reading, Writing
Gardening (not 100% sure)
Local Tourism: watching busy people in the street, drink coffee with my eReader.
...
And I'have just been told there is an additional objective:
4. Spoil my wife who deserves it (which was actually proposed by... my wife who was reading over my shoulder. But ok. Fair enough).
So, Will I come back (to IBM) ?
It will mainly depend on the successful execution of my business plan. If I'm happy being an independent entrepreneur, I will probably not come back to IBM. If on the contrary I'm not happy with the experience, I could come back to work for the Large Company. I don't know yet today.
Today most technological companies are faced wihth the same problem : the explosion of technologies.
In the past there were maybe only 2 or 3 possible technologies for solving a specific problem. Today you have 10.
For example, in the 80s most of programmers in large companies would work on the IBM Mainframe. Today, there are several populations : J2EE, Oracle, Microsoft, open source, Web... You only have to look at the agenda of next week's devoxx conference to get an idea of some recent technologies which didn't exist 10 years from now.
As a result of this explosion, IT skills have to evolve. IT people have to deal with going out of their comfort zone. Here is what I identify as key skills for the future IT professionals:
Capable of Abstraction : You should be able to design a solution even if you don't know about all the details. For example, If you don't exactly how does the Spring Framework works you still know what it does and where it fits because it's a "Model View Controller" System.
Fast Learner - If you don't know at all what it is, than Google and Wikipedia are your friends. You can find out, learn, use new things very fast.
Critic : a technology might be the best on the short term but never become a market standard on the mid to long term. Learn to find out what will stay and what will disappear. It's not about technology... IT Profiles must now be aware of the pro and cons of the new technology that is constantly proposed.
Strong Communicator : Solutions become complex and being paid for implementing them requires to give trust to your customer that it will indeed work as designed. To receive and give trust, communication skills are essential.
Customer Orientation : Don't use technology because it is cool (or just do it for yourself like me ;-)), use technology because it solves your customer's pain.
Can Do Attitude : Finally, to get competitive advantage, you'll need to dare to innovate, to make new assemblies, to make new combination of the technology. The specialization of businesses makes that the designing a new solution or the winning of a new customer is a matter of pushing the limits further. Too often I see IT Professionals going back to their comfort zone and saying 'This is not a problem for me'. I believe they are wrong because IT comfort zones will tend to disappear : they can be automated (ex: DB Administration) or outsourced at a lower cost (ex: Off Shore Software Factories).
"Le Digital Native d?borde d'id?es, il est ambitieux, imaginatif et multit?ches. Il aime travailler en ?quipe, tout en ressentant un fort besoin d'autonomie et d'ind?pendance. Il a tendance ? rejeter l'autorit?, mais accepte la comp?tition."
Maybe you will be interested to know that I'll start an MBA at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in september.
Indeed, on the April 10th 2002 I passed the admission test of the International MBA (Part-time).
The test is composed of 3 parts :
1. Written Test : A young lady reads a text of some financial newspaper (I think this time it was from BusinessWeek). In english, You have to write a one page summary and give your opinion on an another page.
2. Group Discussion test : In a group of 7 people we had to discuss the following problem : "Your company is looking for a new sales manager for Carnival products in Spain. You have to give a list of 7 quality criterias for the required person. 5 criterias are already given. Your group must identify 2 more criterias and sort the 7 criterias in 20 minutes.". This test is just about checking if you can integrate and act positively in a group discussion.
3. Interview with a jury. Very general questions are asked about your motivations, your career plans, the choice of the school. Additional questions on the business context are also discussed, for example the Andersen/Enron case or the advantages/disadvantages of the EURO.
Only one advice can be given before taking the exam : read the press (finacial times, businessweek,l'echo...)
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I was today at a big Microsoft event where we could have a keynote by Bill Gates himself.
After Bill Gate's keynote, an interesting debate was planned with Innovative Project or IT Managers who had innovated in their companies (Belgacom, Fortis, Borealis, FEDICT, De Lijn, Banque De Luxembourg) by applying to a Microsoft Early Adopter program.
I was shocked to see ? of the attendance (about 2000 people among which a lot of IT Professionals) leaving the room as the debate was just starting.
I consider this as an enormous lack or respect from those people against the top Belgian IT professionals who were present and who had a concrete and sound business case to defend.
Also the Microsoft organization was really great. Respecting the speakers would have been a great return to Microsoft from those who profited from the free lunch?
Dans ce livre, Axel Kahn explique ce que l'homme ? de sp?cifique par rapport aux animaux et philosophe sur les diff?rences entre l'animal et l'humain dans les domaines suivants :
la relation ? l'autre
la passion de la v?rit?
le sentiment esth?tique
l'int?r?t ?conomique
la libert?
le sens du sacr?
le bonheur
Le bonheur
J'ai particuli?rement appr?ci? le chapitre sur le bonheur, qu?te constante chez moi.
"La vision Spinozienne selon laquelle la joie et le bonheur exigent la libre possibilit? de pers?verer dans son ?tre, d'exprimer pleinement sa nature, peut s'appliquer au monde animal dans son ensemble, l'homme constituant un cas particulier d'une singuli?re complexit? en rapport avec la richesse de l'?tre en question et son potentiel d'auto?dification."
...
"Homo Sapiens a la capacit? ?l?ctive d'?chafauder mille sortes de projets d?sirables, d'avoir l'ambition de les r?aliser, d'?tre frustr? - et donc malheureux - de ne pas y parvenir, et de toute fa?on, de n'?tre en pratique jamais combl?. "
...
"La question est bien s?r celle du niveau de la barre d'acc?s au bonheur. La placer trop haut interdit sans doute de la franchir, mais manifeste aussi la puissance de l'esprit humain. La baisser semble peu digne de ce dernier. Que faire alors ?
Etre homme, conscient ? la fois de notre animalit? et de ses trais sp?cifiques fondant notre humanit?, oser vouloir en r?aliser pleinement les potentialit?s en communion avec autrui, s'en donner les moyens.
Puis, parfois se retourner sur son chemin et pouvoir se dire que, si'l n'est pas parfait, il n'est pourtant pas insignifiant. En ressentir quelque satisfaction, tenter d'?tre heureux, en somme..."
"La philosophie, entendue au sens de philosophie occidentale, du grec "philos" aimer et "sophia" sagesse, le savoir, c'est-?-dire litt?ralement ? l'amour de la sagesse ?) est une discipline intellectuelle, pouvoir avoir ou non lieu dans un cadre acad?mique et n'ayant pas de domaines propres ? la diff?rence des sciences humaines, sciences naturelles ou des sciences formelles auxquelles elle est ou a ?t? intimement li?e. Sa d?finition est assez ardue, on peut la d?finir comme un savoir totalisant, une r?flexion visant une interpr?tation globale du monde et de l'existence humaine aussi bien que comme un questionnement. "
Read the complete case and build a table of all numbers present in the text and their signification. This will give you quick access to data as arguments in the discussion.
Example : Cisco was successfull with their acquisition strategy because they acquired more than 50 companies between 1993 and 2000. 70% of these companie's owners stayed at Cisco as managers.
If you know any good method to find cases solutions, please let me know... jef@lowas.be
With Time I hope to find out a kind of case preparation template.
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Yesterday I saw a movie where the conclusion was : "the best recipes are the ones that you invent yourself".
I guess a lot of theory like ITSM or ITIL will help you to shape your organization. Today the most critical question for an IT organization is "what do I want to keep internal and what do I want to outsource ?"
To answer that question, there is no standard recipe. You'll need to align your IT Plan to your Business Plan. The strategic pieces have to be remain under control.
If I were an IT manager I would build a Diamond Structure. I would focus my IT on 3 layers : 1/4 management (Project managers, Support managers...), 1/2 Architects and Analysts (the gatekeepers of your IT) and 1/4 some developers. The developers allowing to control the work that is produced by sub-contractors. (They would not be the rowers of the rowing boat race story ;-)) It would be a diamond because it's a hierarchical pyramid without a bottom base.
This structure is very agile because you can source the bottom of the pyramid while keeping your managers and architects (they are not bound to a specific technology). Only the developers need to be recycled. I have seen that organization is new entrants companies in Telco (not the incumbants).
I see you are a SAP manager so I guess you don't want big changes in your architecture. SAP should cover as much as possible of your IT... But even than, you're maybe not obliged to have the army of Netweaver or ABAP guys. It depends on what's around your SAP and how does SAP will support your business in the future...
I just finished Financial Accounting course of my MBA.
This is just-in-time as Software AG has recently developped solutions for Financial Accounting. By supporting the XBRL standard, we allow you to echange your Financial Statements over the Internet in a reusable format (not PDF or MS Word or HTML). This reusable format is XML. XBRL allows you to inject Financial Data (expressed in XML) right into your risk or financial management Software.
Our Software allows the secure and reliable exchange and aggregation of those XML financial reports over the Internet.
Le titre du livre de Patrick Artus - le capitalisme est en train de s'auto d?truire - me plait ?nom?ment.
J'ai le sentiment que quelquechose ne va pas dans le mod?le capitalistique am?ricain mondial d'aujourd'hui.
Les entreprises doivent montrer une croissance de 15% par an.
Comment est-il possible de toujours cro?tre ?
Croissance continue
Pour moi, Ing?nieur, le "bilan mati?re" me semble bien diffcile. D'ou viennent ces 15% ?
Ils ne peuvent venir de la croissance... Le march?s ?tant de plus en plus comp?titifs, les prix baissent et les marges s'?rodent (en Telecom par exemple, la comp?tition fait rage obligeant Belgacom ? faire... de la t?l?vision).
Mon sentiment est que ces 15% viennet de l'exploitation d'autres resources : les salari?s moins productifs sont licenci?s et ceux qui restent press?s et stress?s, les co?ts sont "cutt?s", toutes les activit?s sont outsourc?es vers les "low costs". M?me la nature n'est pas respect?e; la Syllicon Valley est l'endroit le plus pollu? du monde.
Pendant que les resources sont exploit?es, les investisseurs en profitent. Jamais les entreprises n'ont montr? une telle efficacit?. Comment expliquer les licenciements alors que l'entreprise accro?t ses b?n?fices ? Certains investisseurs misent m?me sur la guerre pour augmenter leur return... Quelle bonne id?e d'investir sur les producteurs de p?troles au d?but de la guerre en Iraq...
Dans le monde actuel de l'information et de la m?diatisation, la conscientisation de l'exploitation des riches par les pauvres (ou des resources par les puissants) est croissante...
R?volution ?
Combien de temps cela va-t'il durer ? Combien de temps les riches vont-ils pouvoir exploiter les pauvres dans ce mod?le capitalistique ?
Je n'en sais rien. Mais je pense qu'un jour il y aura une (r)?volution et que ce monde permettra de revenir a une vie plus simple ou d'autres valeurs pourront s'imposer.
Et la politique ?
Est-ce que les partis socialistes sont les visionnaires de demain. Peut-?tre oui. En tout cas j'esp?re que l'europe sera toujours plus humaniste que les autres continents. Ceci permettra aux Europ?ens d'?tre plus heureux. Et oui : aggandissons l'europe...
Quel dommage que la constitution europ?enne ne soit pas encore une r?alit?...
Le livre de Patrick Artus
Apparement, le livre de Patrik Artus si j'en crois la description trouv?e ici dans un extrait de lib?ration
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Le festival des profits continue. Apr?s Total, BNP Paribas, Soci?t? g?n?rale, L'Or?al, qui ont atteint des sommets, Bouygues a annonc? hier un b?n?fice plus que confortable...
Cette vague de profits sans pr?c?dent provoque un d?bat sur leur utilisation, les entreprises favorisant les actionnaires au d?triment de l'investissement ou des salari?s.
La mondialisation g?n?re ?a, avec les d?localisations, la mont?e du ch?mage industriel. Elle affaiblit le pouvoir de n?gociation des salari?s et fait dispara?tre les besoins d'investissement. Les entreprises n'ont pas besoin de capacit?s suppl?mentaires sur leur territoire, elles pr?f?rent les transf?rer dans les pays ? bas salaires, o? le co?t des investissements est plus faible.
Le fond du probl?me, c'est le niveau de rendement, au moins 15 %, demand? aux entreprises par les actionnaires. Avec de telles exigences, les grands groupes cot?s n'ont plus la possibilit? de faire des investissements normaux. C'est l'arr?t de la recherche, la renonciation ? des projets ? horizon long. La mondialisation fait croire un temps que ce type de rendement peut ?tre obtenu. C'est un leurre.
I have the idea since many weeks to develop a new kind of Web Application.
I wish to develeop what I would call a "freedom DB". Freedom because there would be no schema. Instead of creating information from a structure (like a table of an XML schema), the purpose would be to capture information in a structured way but the structure would not be pre-defined. Even it could change over time.
It's only afterwards, when the information is there that we could export it to structured formats : HTML, RDF, XML, SQL...
How ?
Basically, we need to have an object/attributes/links database...
The following functions would be available to the enduser via web pages
Create Object(Object Name,Object Type) -> New Object and New Object Type
Create Object From Type(Object Name) -> New object with all Object Type Attributes pre-created with default values
Hello, Pour la 2i?me ann?e,
nous ne participeront pas ? la finale du championnat InterUnif de
Belgique. Les Li?geois, nous accompagnent ?galement. Courage
les gars, la guerre n'est pas finie... Ce n'est pas tr?s grave car on va
s'organiser quelques matchs amicaux, le prochain est pr?vu pour le lundi
4 d?cembre ? Li?ge (19h30 - 21h30). Equipe fille et
?quipe gar?on joueront. R?sultats du Championnat
InterUnif de ce Lundi 6 Novembre 2000 1/2 finale : ULg -
H.E. L?onardo de Vinci (Parnasse) : 6 - 3 H.E.C.F. Hainaut - UCL : 8
- 2 Petite finale : UCL - ULg : 3 - 1 Finale :
Il ?tait une fois, une Fourmi heureuse et productive qui tous les jours arrivait de bonne heure ? son travail. Elle passait toute sa journ?e ? travailler dans la joie et la bonne humeur, poussant m?me la chansonnette.
Elle ?tait heureuse de travailler et son rendement ?tait excellent mais, malheur !, elle n'?tait pas pilot?e par un manager ...Le Frelon, PDG de l'entreprise, consid?rant qu'il n'?tait pas possible que la situation puisse perdurer,cr?a un poste de manager pour lequel il recruta une Coccinelle avec beaucoup d'exp?rience. La premi?re pr?occupation de la Coccinelle futd'organiser les horaires d'entr?e et de sortie de la fourmi. Elle cr?a ?galement un syst?me de compte-rendu et de fiches navettes. Tr?s vite, il fallut engager une secr?taire pour l'aider ? pr?parer les dossiers et le reporting, si bien qu'elle recruta une Araign?e qui mit sur pied un syst?me de classement et qui fut charg?e de r?pondre au t?l?phone.
Pendant ce temps l?, la fourmi heureuse et productive continuait de travailler, travailler, travailler. Le Frelon, PDG de l'entreprise, ?tait ravi de recevoir les rapports de laCoccinelle, si bien qu'il lui demanda des ?tudes comparatives avec graphiques, indicateurs et analyse de tendance. Il fallut donc embaucher un Cafard pour assister le manager et il fallut acheter un nouvel ordinateur avec une imprimante
Assez vite, la Fourmi heureuse et productive commen?a ? baisser de rythme et ? se plaindre de toute la paperasserie qui lui est dor?navant impos?e.Le Frelon, PDG de l'entreprise, consid?ra qu'il ?tait temps de prendre des mesures. Il cr?a donc le poste de chef de service pour superviser la Fourmi heureuse et productive.
Le poste fut pourvu par une Cigale qui changea tous le mobilier de son bureau et qui demanda un nouveau fauteuil ergonomique ainsi qu'un nouvel ordinateur avec ?cran plat. Seulement, avec plusieurs ordinateurs, il fallut aussi installer un serveur r?seau. Le nouveau chef de service ressenti rapidement le besoin de recruter un adjoint (qui ?tait son assistant dans son ancienne entreprise) afin de pr?parer un plan strat?gique de pilotage ainsi que le budget de son nouveau service. Pendant ce temps-l?, la Fourmi ?tait de moins en moins heureuse et de moins en moins productive. "Il va nous falloir bient?t commander une ?tude sur le climat social", ditla Cigale. Mais, un jour, le Frelon, PDG de l'entreprise, en examinant les chiffres,se rendit compte que le service dans lequel la Fourmi heureuse et productive travaille n'?tait plus aussi rentable qu'avant. Il eut donc recours auxservices d'un prestigieux consultant, M. Hibou, afin qu'il fasse undiagnostic et qu'il apporte des solutions.
Le Hibou fit une mission de trois mois dans l'entreprise ? l'issue de laquelle il rendit son rapport : "il y a trop de personnel dans ce service". Le Frelon, PDG de l'entreprise, suivit ses recommandations et ... licencia la Fourmi !
Moralit? :
Ne t'avise jamais d'?tre une Fourmi heureuse et productive. Il vaut mieux ?tre incomp?tent et ne servir ? rien.Les incomp?tents n'ont pas besoin de superviseur, ? quoi cela servirait puisque tout le monde le sait ! Si malgr? tout, tu es productif, ne montre pas que tu es heureux au travail, on ne te le pardonnerait pas. Si tu t'obstines ? ?tre une Fourmi heureuse et productive, monte ta propre entreprise : au moins tu n'auras pas ? faire vivre les Frelon, Coccinelle, Araign?e, Cigale, Hibou et autre Cafard.
The two books are very complementary. The first one expains how you can become a gread leader by developing your skills in a positive way.
The second one is a very cynical one. It tries to explain the ugly strategies that you should apply if you want to climb the social ladder of your company. An overview of the chapter contents is self explanatory :
DEVENIR CHEF - BECOME THE BOSS
Tisser sa toile - Build your Network
Cloner son chef - Clone your boss
Eliminer les concurrents - eliminate competitors
RESTER CHEF - Remain the boss
Prendre les attributs du chef - Take the boss attributes
Ma?triser son temps et celui des autres - Master your time and other's
Organiser sa cour - Organise your court
D?l?guer pour mieux r?gner - Divide and Conquer
Ecouter pour mieux manipuler - Listen to better manipulate
Prendre la parole pour pouvoir prendre le pouvoir - Talk to take power
Se servir de son chef pour devenir chef - Use your boss to become the boss
After reading the two books (only 120 + 125 pages !!!), I think have learned a lot about leadership : I recognise the good and the bad things of leadership and how people have become leaders.
Now, will it make of me a leader ?
I have my point of view but I'm not going to publish it here...
Une firme japonaise et une société française décident de faire une course d'aviron. Les deux équipes s'entraînent dur. Les japonais gagnent avec plus d'un km d'avance. Les français sont très affectés. Leur management se réunit pour chercher la cause de l'échec. Une équipe d'audit constituée de senior managers est désignée. Après enquête, ils concluent que l'équipe japonaise est constituée de huit rameurs et d'un barreur, alors que l'équipe française a huit barreur pour un rameur.
A la lecture de l'audit, le management décide de louer les services de consultants. Après avoir perdu d'énormes honoraires, ils rendent leur avis : l'équipe française doit avoir plus de rameurs et moins de barreurs.
La structure de l'équipe française est donc réorganisée. Mais, comme personne ne veut devenir rameur, il est décidé de créer quatre postes de barreurs superviseurs, trois de barreurs superintendants et un de barreur superintendant assistant manager. Les français mettent aussi en oeuvre un système de stimulation pour encourager le seul rameur de l'équipe à travailler plus. Baptisé "La qualité et le zéro défaut", il repose sur des réunions, des diners et une prime sur objectif pour le rameur.
La course a lieu, et, cette fois, les japonais gagnent avec 2 km d'avance. Humiliée, la direction française licencie le rameur, stoppe la mise en chantier d'un nouvel aviron, vend le bateau et annule tout investissement. Puis elle récompense les barreurs managers de leurs efforts en leur donnant le prix de la Performance. Enfin, elle distribue l'argent économisé par ces mesures de restriction à tous les directeurs seniors.
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Last night I attended the concert of Natalia in Overijse, in the context of the Druiven Feesten.
It's the second time that I see Natalia in action and I have to say I'm still not convinced.
Natalia has a lot of energy and has great songs : it's a good show. But I just can't get into it because she doesn't sing : she shouts. I believe Natalia is a much better potential but she must learn that an interpretation is maybe more than to sweat on the stage. The singer must have priority on the music, her voice should bring us through a story. Emotions should be above the show. When the emotion is at the highest, a respectfull silence can be present which would let the show breathe before the next firework.
If she wants me to become a fan, Natalia will have to work against her nature and sometimes slow down a little bit to give a message. On the opposite, when the message is explosive, it should be loud and clear.
J'ai achet? un costume qui ?tait anormalement us? aux coudes apr?s 3 mois. Milord a ?t? tr?s commercial : j'ai pu choisir un nouveau costume en remplacement de l'autre. De plus ils m'ont conseill? un costume plus adapt? a mon utilisation...
Je suis ?videment tr?s satisfait.
Milord Wavre, Place Bosh 8, 1300 Wavre
Tel : 010 23 78 71
Ils n'ont pas de site web ? :-(
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Even if the Internet looks like a set of decentralized interconnected nodes, IP and DNS make today's internet centralized.?
In this paper (http://freenetproject.org/freenet.pdf), the author -Ian Clarke - discusses an algorithm wich if executed by a group of interconnected nodes will provide a robust key-indexed information storage and retrieval system with no element of central control or administration.
Freenet is a large-scale peer-to-peer network which pools the power of member computers around the world to create a massive virtual information store open to anyone to freely publish or view information of all kinds.
Once upon a time we worked with a Wiki Wiki Web. If you want to know what is a Wiki Web, you will have to read a OneMinuteWiki that has not been written by me !
The WikiWiki Web is now available in PHP : PHPWiki. That's cool !
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Here are the lessons for life that I take out of this video :
You should not be scared : those guys manage to do it because they are not scared. They have trust they can do it.
Don't exagerate your effort : if you look at the guy at the front, what I notice is that he doesn't need to do much to go down the road. The jumps do not require special impulse. He doesn't brake too hard and doesn't have to accelerate especially. The normal speed is always the correct speed.
Know where you are going : those guys make it only because they drive well. They know where to place their wheels. If you have no idea where you are going, it's much more risky to start. (Of course some people love risk but that's another story...)
Symphony is IBM's alternative to Microsoft Office. Lotus Symphony ha been crowned Office Productivity Software Product of the Year by Datamation Magazine for 2008.
Globally 2006 has been a good year for me, both professionally and in my private life. I highlight here the major topics.
Work
As Solution Architect at HP Consulting & Integration, I continued to develop the architecture of one of our largest project at an Insurance Company. I did that in collaboration with senior architect colleagues and it has been very interesting for me. However, working on the same design for one year was a bit difficult for me. I need much more scope and context changes than that. In the mean time, we also won and delivered interesting missions in the SOA space where I believe I have continued to progress. Good thing: I received an award (a bottle of Champaign) for ?Excellence in Business Development?.
Gradually, around July, I was getting bored with my job function. Also I had had phone calls from other companies wanting to know if I would be interested by some other opportunities. I started to think about it and I talked about it with my manager at HP. He proposed me another challenge. (I have to say that this manager, Herman Van Beirendonck is the best manager I have ever had until now).
In November I became Client Principal for Fortis. My responsibility is to develop HP?s Consulting & Integration Business at Fortis.
This change is a big change for me: I?m moving from the technical field to the sales field. I feel this is important because one day I wish to be more in control of some business - as a manager, or as owner ? and businesses have revenues and have costs. It?s probably more difficult to drive revenue than to make costs, so I believe in developing my selling skills, even if it?s not always where my heart is. I keep on reading the article ?Why decision-makers need to understand the technology? because it hurts my Engineer?s heart to see how people don?t care about how it (IT) works. It?s my MBA which tells me to look at the money side of things if I want to get where I want to get (higher). Only the future will tell me if this move was good for me or not. In anyway, it?s important to me to ?walk the talk?. I?ll be able to make a point on this career move at the end of 2007. (See also ?What?s Next?)
Today, my priority is to be integrated into the Fortis/HP business and move from a backoffice function to a leading commercial position.
Travel
Discovering the world is and will stay important to me. Of all the 5 senses, the vision is the best to me. I don?t need to talk or listen. It?s important to me to see.
So we took the time and money to travel and see the world.
We started with some very relaxing holidays in the Caribbean: the Dominican Republic. It?s all about Rest, Sun, Beach, Catamaran, Blue Ocean and all the other Rhum Coktails, Swimming Pool? All Inclusive.
During the summer, we went to the sea side in Belgium. This is an excellent place for Thomas and he keeps asking when we will go back. 2006 was very warm year, so we had excellent weather conditions (even too hot some days).
In September, we visited Rome. It was a very romantic trip and we had a good overview of the city in 3 days. I believe we will have to go back to complete the visit and, of course, for the shopping.
In November, we had a small weekend in the north of France in Montreuil-sur-mer. We had a walk on the beach of Le Touquet and the weather was great: a good and relaxing moment also.
In December, we had booked a Travel to Egypt (Cruise on the Nile) but we had to cancel it. It will be for next year?
Leisure
I have decided that Cycling is my primary sport (because I always want to try something else) and even if I?m not able to do as much as I would like, I think we didn?t do too bad.
Montain Bike : 580 Km
Road : 740 Km
Spinning : 40 RPM Sessions
We also had a Salsa course on Thursday evening for several weeks (10, I believe). It?s not so easy to learn Salsa after work because you need some concentration. But we could learn some nice combinations : Dile Que No, Enchufla, Enchufla double, Carnavale?
Maybe it?s less than before but I still spend time watching TV and ? Belgacom TV has arrived to us! I?m very happy about that because I can learn with the new channels on History, Travel and Science and Thomas is quiet with Baby TV.
All the year, I listened to Europe1. I love Europe1.
Internet
As you may know, Internet is an important thing to me. I spend many hours writing my website and reading what?s on the web.
2006 was for me the year of RSS. I started to use RSS aggregators like RSS Bandit or Netvibes.com to make my own selection of the web. I have selected some blogs I like to read and I monitor them. These are mainly general, local and IT news sites. I complemented by some google Alerts on companies I watch like HP, Belgacom, Fortis, BEA, Microsoft, Documentum. I also have alerts on my favourite buzzwords like ECM, SOA, Int?lligence Economique (Competitive Intelligence) and MBA.
At the beginning of the year I stopped using my PostNuke because I had been hacked (I had pornographic comments on my posts?). But I recently complemented by a Picture Blog and the use of Del.icio.us to build a personalize RSS stream. My favourite site is for the moment scoopeo.be.
As a ?webmaster? I continued the development of Paul Leroy?s website. This year was the year of the L?gende Dor?e de St Geroges. So we advertised on the home page and than published pictures and even mp3 on eSnips.com.
My feeling is that the Internet has found a second life these last months, with Web2.0. The Times magazine has elected YOU (the million of people who contribute to the WWW) as the Person of the year. So to some extend I must be 1/1000.000 of a person of the year.
My main question about the coming back of the web, is that it?s maybe a second bubble. Free services are popping up again : for some time I could not find a place to upload files but now YouTube even encourages to post videos. Who pays for this ?
I believe, this is only payable if Television over the Internet becomes a reality (think about France24), otherwise it might well be a second bubble. Let?s hope not because I like the web when it?s like that. Missing on the web2.0 : Big Companies. Most large companies don?t push content to the web (IBM is an exception). Even a good description of their products is often missing. Would more information and transparency kill their business model? Maybe, but consumers are now directly blogging on their products in real time so they?d better inform well using the same kind of communication means. Competitive Intelligence using the web is all about that.
Conclusion
To summarize here is the 2006 score:
Work
6/10
Travel
8/10
Leisures
9/10
Internet
9/10
With a mean of 8/10, we can say it has been a good year, can?t we?
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Winston Churchill : "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
Celeste Cooper: "My favorite word is 'grace' -- whether it's amazing grace, saving grace, grace under fire, Grace Kelly. How we live contributes to beauty -- whether it's how we treat other people or the environment."
We than went to the BOZAR for a second Europalia exposition called "Encompassing the Globe - Portugal and the World in the 16th and the 17th Centuries" which shows how the Portuguese have travelled the world : Africa, Asia, America.
Visiting museums like this is also another way to enjoy Brussels.
Doit-on permettre aux commerces d'ouvrir le dimanche ?
La premi?re id?e qui me vient en t?te est de dire oui : chacun doit avoir le droit de travailler quand il l'entend et donc aussi le dimanche. D'ailleurs dans des secteurs comme l'HORECA, la question ne se pose pas : on mange et on boit aussi le dimanche... (Il s'agirait donc de savoir ou se trouve le shopping dans la pyramide de Maslow.)
Cependant, une autre id?e vient en arri?re plan : pourquoi suis-je en faveur de faire mes courses le dimanche ? Aime-je autant de faire les courses au point d'y consacrer mon jour de repos ?
A la question pos?e comme ?a, ma r?ponse est non. En r?alit?, ca m'int?resse de faire les courses le dimanche parceque je n'ai pas le temps de les faire un autre jour.
La vraie solution n'est donc pas d'ouvrir les magazins un jour en plus mais bien de travailler un jour en moins ! Mais ca, bien peu de gens peuvent se le permettre.
Je suis donc finalement contre l'ouverture des commerces le dimanche. L'ouverture du dimanche est un signe d'ali?nation capitaliste qui, tout en augmentant libert? de l'?tre humain non fortun? (et c'est la qu'est la subtilit? du capitalisme, l'illusion de la libert? qui permettra d'acc?der ? la Fortune) , l'exploite toujour plus et l'?carte de ses vrais besoins. Or on est foule sentimental...
Much of the body of software engineering knowledge consists of a set of recurring concepts that software professionals learn through trial, error and skillful mentoring : (Read More)
Abstraction
Distinction between specification and implementation
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is the technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM tools and strategies allow the management of an organization's unstructured information, wherever that information exists.
Greg Allan a.k.a. Adam_Baum, the lead core developer and one of the four
founding members of the PostNuke CMS Development Project passed away from
injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. The accident occurred June 16,
2002 near his home in Meaford, Ontario in Canada.
Greg Allan was a humble and personable man who always downplayed his
considerable skills. He was a self-taught coder who contributed to every
aspect of development from cleaning up other people's code to writing new and
innovative software.
Greg was an invaluable asset to the PostNuke development team, and a dear and
trusted friend and co-worker to people on every continent. Through this first
year of PostNuke's existence, Greg's personable and giving nature has been a
guiding light and inspiration to many people and projects that have shaped the
development landscape and social personality of the PostNuke project.
Surviving Greg are his parents, Bob and Leone Allan, his brother Brian, his
girlfriend Kim along with her two children Kristin and Kassandra, his dog
Chevy, and trusted friends Dean and Natasha.
In memory of Greg and out of respect for all those mourning his passing, all
PostNuke development and official support activity has been suspended for one
week. We urge all those using PostNuke to post a copy of this article on each
of your PostNuke-Powered sites to commemorate the memory and accomplishments
of Adam_Baum. Please refer your condolences and comments to the memorial
article on postnuke.com.
For funeral arrangements, flower delivery information and memorial
contributions, please email steve@grape.dyndns.org.
On behalf of the PostNuke Development Team,
Steve MacGregor (grape)
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Les 10% les plus riches poss?dent 49,6% des richesses soit (40.000 milliards * 49,6% / 400.000 m?nages =) 50 mio de francs belges par M?nage... Environ 1.25 millions d'euros.
10% des belges ont 41 mio de francs belges... Environ 1 millions ?.
70% des m?nages se contentent d?environ 3 millions de francs belges par famille (75.000?).
En Belgique (?tude Vuchelen, Rademakers VUB, 1998) , le patrimoine total (richesse des belges) s??l?ve ? environ 40.000 milliards de francs belges. Il augmente de 500 ? 600 milliards par an, soit pratiquement du poids de la dette. En 1983, il ?tait ? 12.000 milliards de francs.
Mais le patrimoine est tr?s in?galement r?parti, beaucoup plus encore que les revenus.
En 1997, 1% de la population dispose de 25% de la richesse nationale, les 10% les plus riches (400.000 m?nages) poss?dent 49,6% de toutes les richesses du pays contre 46,8% en 1984 , soit pr?s de la moiti? du patrimoine priv? des belges. Durant la m?me p?riode, les 50% les moins riches ont perdu 1,7% de leur part de richesse qui est tomb?e ? 13,4%.
Toujours entre 84 et 94, le d?cile (dixi?me) le plus riche a vu sa fortune augmenter de 185%, atteignant en moyenne 41,2 millions. Le d?cile le moins fortun? poss?de un patrimoine de 811.989 francs et a augment? de 76% entre 84 et 94.
70% des m?nages se contentent d?environ 3 millions par famille.
Quant ? la r?forme fiscale des ann?es 88-89, elle s?est r?v?l?e sans effet pour les 20% les moins nantis qui pratiquement ne versent pas d?imp?t ; pour les 70% les moins nantis, ils ont d? payer 20.000fr suppl?mentaires ; quant aux 10% les plus nantis, ils ont re?u en moyenne une r?duction d?imp?t de 3,5 millions en moyenne, alors que le 1% le plus riche b?n?ficiait d?un gain de 15 millions en moyenne?2
En conclusion : la r?alit? peut se d?cliner sur tous les tons. ? Nos soci?t?s savent produire des richesses, mais pas les redistribuer ? (R.Petrella) - ou encore plus r?cemment ? Il manque une pi?ce essentielle pour remettre ? l?emploi ceux qui en sont exclus : la redistribution des revenus. Sans elle, l??tape suivante remettra en cause les syst?mes de protection sociale. ? (P.Defeyt)?3.
Les m?canismes de redistribution ne fonctionnent plus...
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Just created a Wikia Profile in order to test. Wikia The alpha release still has ot of bugs today. Only the future will tell if this integrated social networking + wiki + google will be a success.
There are a lot of open source projects on the internet. If you have alook at http://www.sourceforge.org you will see that this open sourcerepository counts 35,241 hosted projects and 369,695 registered users. The biggest open source projects include Operating systems (Linux, freeBSD,openBSD, freeBSD), programming languages (C, C++, php, Perl, Python...), WebBrowsers (Netscape 6), Office Open Suites (OpenOffice) and servers (Apache -63% of webservers worldwide !! , MySQL, PostgreSQL...).
I personnally use a lot of open source on my machine for my everyday use:
Parsers and Transformers (JDOM, Xalan, Xerces, ... ) into a lot of tools (Passthru servlet, X-Plorer,...)
Perl as a scripting language (Load utilities)
The SOAP Toolkits of Apache (XApplication WebServices)
4. Conclusions
Why Would I buy Commercial Sofware if I can have all this for free ? Intheory it?s ok, what about the practice ?
We can find a lot of usefull software (for XML as well)
If we search
If we can understand what it does
We must always evaluate the open source; is it :
Maintained (Who are the people behind it ?) ?
Reliable, Performant ?
Easy to use or learn ?
Compatible with other open source products ?
Open, Standard based ?
So, Time is money. If you have the time to find and evaluate the opensource you will earn the money of not purchasing the software.
My feeling is that it's ok to use Open Source if
1. you respect the Open-ClosedPrinciple = Don't change the source (unless you participate to theproject) !!
2. You have the feeling that you will be able to support your application-built with open source - for a long time (the complete software lifecycle). This is probably reasonable for big projects like Linux, but maybe not for smaller projects. Be aware of the people behind the scenes of the open source communities.
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I had been a while since I had visited my MyBlogLog account. I'm quiet impressed by the improvements : you can now link all your web accounts into MyBlogLog and it makes a kind of summary. Excellent.
It continues to be a question for me: why maintain a website while all of the programming that I do (php, mySQL, Wiki...) is now available for free (Yahoo! Pipes, Mashing up my content in Netvibes or MyBlogLog...) ?
Entendu hier soir sur France4 dans "Oui mais..." avec G?rard Jugnot et Emilie Dequenne.
"C'est pas parcequ'il fait nuit qu'il n'y aura plus jamais de soleil"
En fait ce film raconte comment on peut r??quilibrer sa relation ? l'autre, aimer quelqu'un sans jouer dans ses petits jeux de chantages affectifs et autre gentillesses inconscientes.
For securing Web Services, Software AG works in partnership with Vordel.
But what is security? One of the best sources that I know defining security is the CORBA Spec of the Security Service. According to CORBA, security means:
Identification and Authentication
Authorisation and Access Control
Security Auditing
Security of Communication
Non Repudiation
Administration of Security (definition of policies)
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2030: Victoire de l'hyperd?mocratie ? - Les jours du capitalisme triomphant sont compt?s. Jacques Attali parie sur la victoire de l'hyperd?mocratie - (samedi 30 12 2006 12:15)
Economics dicovers its feelings - Summary of an interesting article of The Economist : Capitalism can make a society rich and keep it free. Don't ask it to make you happy as well - (samedi 30 12 2006 11:09)
The Holiday - Official Site - I have seen this excellent movie tonight and I recommend it to you. - (vendredi 29 12 2006 23:13)
MyBlogLog - I have created a profile on MyBlogLog so you can join my community and post messages or comments. - (vendredi 29 12 2006 11:52)
Des syst?mes d'exploitations au fil du temps - Des chouettes images ? revoir pour ceux qui ont fait de l'informatique: des sceenshots des OS au fil du temps... - (jeudi 28 12 2006 21:03)
Year 2006 Review - My personal review on 2006. Was 2006 a good year for me ? - (2006-12-22T08:22:21Z)
Design SOA services with Objectiver - Objectiver is a Requirements Engineering tool which could be used to specify new services of an SOA - (2006-12-21T13:04:34Z)
Le Pot F?l? - Chacun de nous, avons nos propres manques, nos propres f?lures - (2006-12-19T10:33:43Z)
Druivenstreek.2link.be - A good starting point to find things in the region where I live... - (2006-12-18T09:35:44Z)
L?gende Dor?e : eSnips Folder - J'ai upload? les extraits mp3 de la l?gende dor?e sur ce site. - (2006-12-18T09:24:55Z)
Belgacom XMass party - I was at that party last week... - (2006-12-17T15:57:28Z)
Why decision-makers need to understand the technology - I re-posted this article once again because I continue to meet people who work in IT and who think they don't have to know how it works.... - (2006-12-14T08:58:10Z)
Wikio Live! - J'en ai r?v?, ils l'ont fait !! Wikio fournit des flux syndiqu?s en real life !! Excellent. J'adore... Mais je vous pr?viens c'est un truc de ouf ! - (2006-12-12T17:17:47Z)
Scoopeo - La une - Mon site pr?f?rr? pour l'instant... - (2006-12-12T16:46:04Z)
The Lego? Model of SOA - Any attempt to explain Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to a business audience typically elicits one of two standard responses: "this is techie stuff; you should talk to my IT people" or even worse, "I don't see the business value." Lego does the trick - (2006-12-12T13:04:39Z)
5 Business Reasons to Service-Orient - Service orientation offers real business benefits in five key areas: reduced integration costs, automated business-to-business interaction, easier regulatory compliance, user empowerment, and the ability to react to change more quickly. - (2006-12-11T14:02:43Z)
Is AJAX new ? - Rasmus' 30 second AJAX Tutorial confirms me that AJAX is just the use of the XMLHTTP object... Nothing new... - (2006-12-11T13:58:48Z)
LE WEB 3 - J'ai pas encore fini de faire le tour du Web2.0, que voila d?j? le Web3 !!! Il y a une conf?rence ? Paris... - (2006-12-11T07:45:34Z)
Art De Vivre - Une belle phrase ? m?diter - (2006-12-08T11:48:42Z)
Digimind - Digimind est un des leaders en Competitive Intelligence Software - (2006-12-08T11:07:58Z)
Be the perfect BoyFriend - Tips to be the perfect boyfriend. In line with Mars&Venus... - (2006-12-08T10:51:52Z)
Dessine moi le web 2.0 - Le web2.0, c'est quoi ? Voir sur ce site... - (2006-12-08T10:34:44Z)
Zeknowledge.com - Je m'int?resse un peu ? l'intelligence ?conomique et au Knwoledge Management. Voici un site int?ressant dans ce domaine... - (2006-12-08T10:18:48Z)
:: MARS - VENUS :: - j'ai vu ce spectacle (Mars & Venus) la semaine pass?e. Excellent spectacle, ? remcommander ? tous les couples qui s'aiment et qui s'engueulent ou ne se parlent plus... - (2006-12-07T16:02:18Z)
jfdeclercq.com - Welcome - There is a new start page. I use now http://del.icio.us/ to make it better and more living. We will see what it gives in 2007. - (2006-12-06T18:08:09Z)
Visual Modeler, SOA Enterprise Patterns - The visual modeler is a modeler from IBM that I have been looking for for a while. However I believe it would be possible to make a web based visual modeler that would be much more open to new specifications... (20061206)
Php Favorites - I publish here a php script I wrote and I use to search in the Internet Explorer favorites (Apache + php required on your pc of course) (20061206)
My Rss Feeds - The RSS feeds you can get from Jean-Fran?ois Declercq (20061206)
We assign great value to the precision and completeness that come from committing proposals to writing. There seems to be nothing like translating an idea or analysis to writing to expose weaknesses or incomplete aspects of the thinking. It accentuates the importance of facts and logic rather than the position or personal persuasion of an individual.
I have heard people say that some companies are "faster on their feet" than (COMPANY NAME) because they rely more on verbal presentations than written proposals for decision- making. I only wish that all of our competitors would rely more heavily on verbal presentations for their decision-making. It is a clear second best approach.
The KAOS ((Knowledge Acquisition in autOmated Specification) approach consists of a formal framework based on temporal logic and AI refinement techniques where all terms such as goal and state are consistently and rigorously defined. The main emphasis of KAOS is on the formal proof that the requirements match the goals that were defined for the envisioned system.
KAOS is a way to implement "Goal Oriented Requirements Engineering". In that kind of software engineering, the desing is derived from the end user goals for using the software.
This allows to make high quality design for which we are sure that they match the end user requirements "by construction".
Objectiver represents the very first of a brand new type of requirements engineering tools. Based on a goal-oriented methodology, it aims at building high-grade requirement specifications
Until recently, I have never been allergic to anything.
But since I have several years of experience and I better understand what managing a company or a task is all about, over the years, I believe I have developped a kind of very specific allergy : Allergy to Superficiality.
The situation is the following : you start talking with someone about his projects and you want to know more : you will than dig with the 7W questions 7W (Why, What, How, Who, Where, When, Which).
From that point there are 2 possibilities :
The person understands you have interest in his projects and tries to establish a dialogue. You have a plaisant conversation.
The person stays superficial and the conversation becomes sterile or even turns into a battle because you feel a tension, the responses are not "intellectually honnest", it's unplaisant.
Why/When are people superficial ?
People have multiple reasons for being superficial. I see at least 2:
they are incompetent but they are not honnest enough to tell you and they try to hide it, so they stay at a superficial level and talk with "buzzwords". After some time you will suddenly realize that they don't understand the discussion. I already experienced this when giving math courses to bad students : they can't solve equations because at the basis they don't understand that (something/something) = 1, whatever the something. So when you figure out the real level of your student, you can adapt and re-start the course at the right level.
they don't want to talk to you : they hide you things because they don't want to disclose you information. So by challenging you on vague requirements they hope you will get you lost. But if like me you are rational, you go to a clash...
In both cases, superficial people are not "intellectually honnest" and I really don't like it. In both cases I feel this as a lack of respect.
Example
The extreme case of superficality is to talk about the weather. Immediately after the weather episode, you will see if the discussion reflects a superficial relationship or not. If you can't identify a common subject to go on (familly, holidays, work...) the discussion is over : a common competence area couldn't be found. Alternatively, if the person doesn't want to talk to you. The only discussion will be over the weather. If you ask more questions, answers will stay superficial until you get bored and go talk to someone else...
Why have I become allergic to that kind of superficiality?
I'm from the worst generation since years : Energy problems, Employment problems, Nature problems, Health problems (AIDS). All at the same time... People of my generation have become capitalistic fighters : If you want to do well you need to start well-off, work hard, be smart, make good studies, talk multiple languages, be open, be commercial while knowing a large portfolio of "solutions", be flexible, achieve measured objectives, manage your manager... When after having achieved all this, when I meet someone who doesn't respect my competences and doesn't even want to talk about "the real stuff" with me, I feel ofended. Just like when I hear IT managers who don't like to talk about the T of IT (see Why decision makers need to understand the technology). But what would IT managers manage if there was no T in IT ?
Superficiality Vaccine
Not being superficial is being able to say :
"I don't want to talk about this topic with you, it's not a relevant discussion between you and me". (Which is not nice to you but has the advantage to be "intellectually honnest").
"I will not tell you, it is confidential".
"I don't know"
My allergy will get better !
Since I'm allergic to superficiality, I will look for people who aren't superficial. The good news is that I think I'm going to encounter less and less superficial people with time.
My belief is that, in the professional world, superficial people are not to stay anymore. They know it and if I were them I would be worried. (They are really worried and that's why they will never say "I don't know". They prefer to say "You don't understand what I really discuss,you are too "technical" - (or whatever adjective that says "different from me")". But it's not because you know how it works that you don't know why it's needed. The real objective is to exclude you from a conversation where you could be perceived as more competent or more important).
The increasing pressure on profitability will decrease the number of employees. The employees who will stay will be multi-task : they will produce and manage at the same time, they will be empowered to take decisions, they will have no time to have superficial meetings and discussions.
Problems will more and more have to be solved ASAP. Therefore the approach and the strategy will be transparent and will be subject for optimization at the right time at the right moment. Instead of structured armies with several levels of commandment,companies departments will become flat like specialized commandos. Instead of reporting to a manager, work will be monitored automatically allowing to be benchmarked in real time against colleagues and competitors. Roles & responsibilities will no more be applied on superficial criterias but on established track records and direct performance.
People of my age are ready for that and are waiting for it. And it won't take long. The Papy Boom will care for bringing up people who can communicate and work in a non superficial way where everything is formalized, measured and subject to openess and a strong professionalism.
When all superficial managers will be out, it will be the era of the Operational Manager. All the trust will be put on the people who actually know how it works and are able to actually run the business. It will be the era of the factual ! Facts are not superficial.
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I have not been blogging much these 3 last weeks. I was one week in Madrid for work (you can see some pictures on Robin's Blog) and than 2 weeks in Italy (Italian's Riviera, San Remo, Genova, Lucca, Pisa, San Gimignano, Firenze, Bologna and Como).
I will blog more about it end of june because too much work now...
I have met this kind of management in the past and I have really suffered from it.
According to Bizz, Micro management can be caused by :
lack of self-confidence resulting in lack of confidence in others ( = do you know what you are doing ?)
under-estimation of the other capabilities (do you know what others know ? (= do you know your team ? If 1 is not there, than 2 can't be there as you will never be able to evaluate others)
Excessive control and pressure from top management cascading down to the bottom levels of the hierarchy (do you have guts ? Probably if you don't have self-confidence you will not have the guts to say NO to the top management)
What can we deduce from this on the competences that do you need to be the manager ?
My belief is that a company's added value is related to its technology. By technology I mean the foundations of the business: know-how, products, knowledge, technology, experience... A manager that doesn't master that "technology" (and works in a vertical business unit) is in a bad position: he doesn't know what needs to be done, where, how and why. In order to control the activities that he doesn't understand he needs more and more reporting and explanations. Its management style will probably become a micro management style.
Of course a manager must be able to delegate and is not supposed to know all details on HOW tasks will be done. But in order to delegate you first need to know WHAT you delegate. This is where some basic techical competences are required.
Therefore, from the micro-management definition, I can push my idea that a good manager must first of all be competent in the "technicality of the business". Micro-Managers are gangsters who managed to reach high positions by being political, opportunistic or by seducing the top management with buzzwords (ROI, Capitalize, Alignement, BLA BLA BLA with a nice smile).
What about the so-called non-techical competences ? (By the way, is there any comptence that is not "technical" ?)
Sales Management ? if your engineer can show your customer the company is very good for what they want to buy, they will buy. Communication and negociation skills are "technical" competences of the sales rep, not of the manager.
People Management ? I believe many people manage their personal relationships much better than a lot of top managers.
My belief is that the best managers know their industry and their technologies very well. Some examples ? Bill Gates (Microsoft), Larry Ellison (Oracle), Hasso Plattner (SAP). If you know counter examples send them to me by email (See Contact Information ). Send along a proof that they are successfull and why it's non-technical, of course. I'll put them on this page.
There is only one clever way for a non-technical manager to be a good manager : empower his team and drive competences forward. Put the right people at the right place to drive revenue. This is what good CEOs do. They have the luxury that they don't need any business specific technical competences. It's a nice to have. Their only required technical competence is Business Portfolio Management (Show me the money!). They have to grow what's good for the company and cut what's dead. For the rest, they need a big EGO, a lot of political support and to negociate a golden parachute...
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Trouv? ici : http://keeg.ca/?p=176 : "...un petit questionnaire ... qui pourrait r?pondre ? vos questions sur moi. Selon lui, on peut conna?tre quelqu?un avec 10 questions."
1. Qui sont vos parents, que faisaient-ils comme travail ?
2. Quel est votre emploi et combien gagnez-vous par an ?
3. Avez-vous , ou vos proches, ?t? atteints d?un probl?me de sant? s?rieux ces derni?res ann?es ?
4. Vous ?tes mari?, union de fait, c?libataire, h?t?ro, homo ?
5. Quel type de formation professionnelle avez-vous ?
6. Quelle ville habitez-vous ?
7. Nommez vos trois principaux loisirs.
8. Avez-vous voyag? ? l?ext?rieur du pays ?
9. Comment vous d?placez-vous dans la vie de tous les jours ( v?lo, transport en commun, voiture ( quelle marque, ann?e) )
10. Quelles sont vos ?missions t?l? et station radio favorites.
Natalia Meets En Vogue Shaggy Sportpaleis Antwerpen
We have seen the show this Saturday. Last time I was not convinced by Natalia but this time she managed to provide a great show by wearing nice blue and brown dresses and by sharing the scene with En Vogue and Shaggy.
In this technical article I analyse a phpGroupware application : the Notepad application.
**************************************** **************************************** * Analysing a phpGroupware Application * **************************************** ****************************************
This text was written on the basis of the NotePad application of phpGroupware version 0.9.12 by Jean-Fran?ois Declercq. Everything I write about phpGroupware we be published under http://www.jfdeclercq.com/.
In order to understand phpGroupware and be able to write a new application for it, I will analyse one of its applications : the Notes application.
I will analyse these aspects : * the database : What is the db schema of the Notes application ? * the business logic : What are the objects that are involved ? How is the composition, editing, deleting, search and browse of Notes implemented (As of TODAY!!) ? How is it related to the phpGroupware framework * the presentation layer : How are the templates ? Themes ? * the framework integration aspects : what is the required application structure and files (Administration, Setup, About,...)
************ The database ************
Using phpMyAdmin I browsed the phpgroupware database. One good news is that the database looks simple.
The Notes application uses only one table : the phpgw_notes table. The fields of this table are the following :
We can see that a value exists to link the note to a note_owner. This represents a relationship with phpgw_accounts.
So, 2 relationships can be identified : - note_owner to phpgw_accounts - note_category to phpgw_categories
And that's what we have to know for the Notes... Maybe we will have to identify later the other standard phpGroupware tables.
****************** The Business Logic ****************** Now we will analyse how the application functions have been implemented in the Notepad application.
Here are the functions I identified : * Add a new note * Delete a note * Modify a note * Search for notes * Browsing notes
--------------------------- Browing and Searching Notes ---------------------------
The main page of the phpGroupware Notepad allows to browse the user's notes. To do this, the page makes use of the note class (/notes/index.php, Line 67) :
This method basically fetches the notes (/notes/inc/class.notes.inc.php, Line 85) :
$sql = "SELECT * FROM phpgw_notes WHERE $filtermethod $searchmethod ORDER BY note_date DESC";
Note 1 : Unfortunately This is the only function actually implemented in the Notes class. If you have a look at some other classes (like 'bookmarks' or 'todo' or 'contacts') you will see that the add, delete and update methods are available at the class level meaning that these functionalities would be easier to reuse (adding a Note from an other phpGroupware application requires to find the INSERT statement in the code).
------------ Adding Notes ------------
The logic of adding a Note is in the add.php web page. This part of the code performs the insert in the Notes table (/notes/add.php, Line 78):
$phpgw->db->query("INSERT INTO phpgw_notes (note_owner,note_access,note_date,note_content,note_category) VALUES ('$accountid','$access','$time','$note','$cat_id')");
Note 2 : In order to have the logic reusable, the content of the 'if($addnote)' could just be $notes->add($accountid,$access,$time,$note,$cat_id); and the method would be implemented by cut&paste. I know I'm a bit criticizing but It's because I'd like to be able to reuse the Notes application completely for my own application.
---------------------------- Deleting and Modifying Notes ----------------------------
The logic of deleting and modifying Notes are respectively in /notes/delete.php and /notes/edit.php. These use exactly the same programming structure as for adding notes.
---------------------- Treating incoming data ----------------------. The first part of the presentation Logic concerns the management of incoming data. This is not complex with PHP as the incoming parameters can be treated directly as php variables. The tretment of this incoming data defines the action(s) to perform.
---------------- Use of templates ----------------. The second part of the Presentation Logic is to display information. The Notes application uses multiple templates. You will find these under /notes/inc/templates/default/*.tpl. If you want to see how a template looks like, you can htmlize these (On Win2000, just copy a template and rename it with a .html extension and IE5 will display it...) The main template is the list.tpl template.
The first step is to create a template (/notes/index.php, Lines 21-24 ) :
***************************** Framework integration aspects ***************************** TBD. (I would need to find an overview of the phpgwAPI).
*********** Conclusions ***********
The notes application is a simple application that can be used to help understand how to write an application for phpGroupware.
One can identify the classical pattern of building web based applications. A phpGroupware application page can be written using this structure :
1. INPUT : Treat incoming parameters and values and decide next action(s) 2. ACTION : Use objects to execute action(s) (computing or DB actions) and get return values and results 3. REACTION : Based on return values, instanciate and fill in the right templates 4. OUTPUT = Parse all templates, send the page
In the actual code of Notes, the parts 1,2 and 3 are often mixed.
In the ACTION part, objects are called in order to execute the database or the computing parts of the job. Sometimes this logic is well encapsulated in a class (Notes browsing), sometimes not (adding Notes).
Some phpGroupware Invariants are used in the Notepad scripts : - header.inc.php - link() - templates - ACLs - nextmatch (browsing pattern) - categories - preferences hook - admin hook
********* Follow Up ********* - Continue Hello with a phpgw_hello table. - Add browing capablilities to hello. - Add lang() to hello. - Add admin and prefs hooks for hello. - Apply structue 1-4 to hello - Add Setup hooks to hello (create tables statements) -
********* Questions ********* - What is a block ? - set of standard phpGroupware tables ? - multi-lines templates ? How does it work ? - there is JavaDoc --> is there a phpDoc ?? - checkPerms ?
"Knowledge management is often seen as a problem of capturing, organizing, and retrieving information, evoking notions of data mining, text clustering, databases, and documents. We believe that this view is too simple. Knowledge is inextricably bound up with human cognition, and the management of knowledge occurs within an intricately structured social context. We argue that it is essential for those designing knowledge management systems to consider the human and social factors at play in the production and use of knowledge. We review work?ranging from basic research to applied techniques?that mphasizes cognitive and social factors in knowledge management. We then describe two approaches to designing socially informed knowledge management systems, social computing and knowledge socialization."
Un berger faisait pa?tre son troupeau au fin fond d'une campagne quand, d'un nuage de poussi?re, surgit une rutilante Range Rover venant dans sa direction.
Le chauffeur, un jeune homme dans un complet Armani, chaussures Gucci, verres fum?s Ray Ban et cravate Hermes, se penche par la fen?tre et demande au berger :
- Si je peux vous dire exactement combien de moutons il y a dans votre troupeau, m'en donnerez-vous un ?
Le berger regarde le jeune homme, puis son troupeau broutant paisiblement et r?pond simplement :
- Certainement...
L'homme gare sa voiture, ouvre son ordinateur portable, le branche ? son t?l?phone cellulaire, navigue sur Internet vers la page de la NASA, communique avec un syst?me de navigation par satellite, balaie la r?gion, ouvre une base de donn?es et quelque trente fichiers Excel aux formules complexes et finalement, il sort un rapport d?taill? d'une dizaine de pages de son imprimante miniaturis?e et s'adresse au berger en disant :
- Vous avez exactement 1 586 moutons dans votre troupeau.
- C'est exact... Et comme nous l'avions convenu, prenez-en un...
Il regarde le jeune homme faire son choix et exp?dier sa prise ? l'arri?re de son v?hicule, puis il ajoute :
- Si je devine avec pr?cision ce que vous faites comme m?tier, me rendrez-vous mon mouton ?
- Pourquoi pas ?
- Vous ?tes consultant.
- Vous avez parfaitement raison, comment avez-vous devin? ?
- C'est facile. Vous d?barquez ici alors que personne ne vous l'a demand?, vous voulez ?tre pay? pour avoir r?pondu ? une question dont je connais la r?ponse et, manifestement, vous ne connaissez absolument rien ? mon m?tier... Maintenant, rendez-moi mon chien.
C'est Chuck Norris qui d?cide de ce que Jacques a dit.
Chuck Norris peut diviser par z?ro.
J?sus Christ est n? en 1940 avant Chuck Norris.
Avant de rencontrer Chuck Norris, Mika avait la voix de Barry White.
Si J?sus n'est pas descendu sur terre depuis 2000 ans, c'est parce qu'il doit du fric ? Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris a d?j? compt? jusqu'? l'infini. Deux fois.
La seule chose qui arrive ? la cheville de Chuck Norris... c'est sa chaussette.
Ma libert? s'arr?te l? o? commence celle de Chuck Norris.
Quand Google ne trouve pas quelque chose, il demande ? Chuck Norris.
Les suisses ne sont pas neutres, ils attendent de savoir de quel cot? Chuck Norris se situe.
Il n'y a pas de th?orie de l'?volution. Juste une liste d'esp?ces que Chuck Norris autorise ? survivre.
Chuck Norris a un jour aval? un paquet entier de somnif?res. Il a clign? des yeux.
Le dernier homme ? avoir serr? la main de Chuck est Jamel Debouzze.
Chuck Norris n'a pas peur d'une attaque cardiaque, en effet son c?ur n'est pas assez fou pour l'attaquer.
Chuck Norris est la raison pour laquelle Charlie se cache.
Quand Chuck Norris utilise Windows, il ne plante pas.
Certaines personnes portent un pyjama Superman. Superman porte un pyjama Chuck Norris.
A un moment, Chuck Norris a tellement tu? de terroristes que le 5e fugitif le plus recherch? par la CIA ?tait un adolescent de 18 ans en Malaisie qui venait de t?l?charger "les Choristes" !
Chuck Norris donne fr?quemment du sang ? la Croix-Rouge. Mais jamais le sien.
Chuck Norris peut gagner une partie de puissance 4 en trois coups.
Chuck Norris comprend Jean-Claude Van Damme
Chuck Norris et Superman on fait un bras de fer, le perdant devait mettre son slip par dessus son pantalon.
Quand la tartine de Chuck Norris tombe, la confiture change de c?t?.
Les amn?siques se souviennent quand m?me de Chuck Norris.
Pour qu'une loi s'applique ? Chuck Norris, il doit ?tre explicitement cit? dans celle-ci.
Le nombre Pi s'arr?tera quand Chuck Norris l'aura d?cid?.
Chuck Norris n'appelle pas les hotlines. Les hotlines appellent Chuck Norris pour savoir si tout va bien.
Dieu a dit: que la lumi?re soit! et Chuck Norris r?pondit : On dit s'il vous plait.
Dieu a dit: que la lumi?re soit! et Chuck Norris r?pondit : On dit s'il vous plait.
Chuck Norris a r?ussi ? placer "Anticonstitutionnellement" en mot compte triple dans une grille de sudoku.
Chuck Norris peut faire des tacles au babyfoot.
Si ?a a le go?t du poulet, l'odeur du poulet et ?a ressemble ? du poulet, mais que Chuck Norris te dit que c'est du mouton, alors cherche pas, c'est du mouton.
Il n'y a pas de g?n?rique de fin apr?s une ?pisode de "Walker Texas Ranger". Il s'agit en fait d'une liste de d?c?s ayant survenu durant le tournage de l'?pisode.
Chuck Norris peut monter en bas.
Chuck Norris peut trouver du foin dans une aiguille.
Chuck Norris a pirat? la CIA avec un convertisseur euro.
Chuck a wizz? son pote sur MSN , la maison du mec s'est ?croul?e.
En r?alit?, c'est Chuck Norris qui met le chocolat dans le papier d'alu.
On n'ach?te pas Chuck Norris. Pour tout le reste, il y a Eurocard Mastercard.
Chuck Norris a dit "La maro va fermer"
Chuck Norris soutenait Sebastien Tellier pour l'eurovision
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L'arbre des possibles de Bernard Werber (http://arbredespossibles2.free.fr/), c'est le rêve que fait tout informaticien qui a un jour étudié l'Intelligence Artificielle : représenter sa connaissance sur le monde, en faire un modèle et en tirer des conclusions.
Je me souviens que lorsque j'étais étudiant, avec quelques amis, nous avions entamé de représenter le monde sous forme de règles Prolog. Ce que nous avions fait était plutôt humoristique.
(Je vais les retrouver et en copier quelque unes ici. A suivre...)
Cependant, assez rapidement, on se rend compte des limites d'un modèle dont l'objectif est finalement assez flou. Que veux-ton savoir avec ce modèle ?
Le problème du monde qui nous entoure est qu'il est tellement complexe que des règles simples ne permettent pas de le représenter. Il suffit de voir comment les lois et les régulations se complexifient au cours des années. Il y a toujours une parade à la parade... Chaque règle a son contre exemple.
L'approche de Bertrand Weber semble plus intéressante. Elle propose de générer toutes les possibilités au lieu de les contraindre. Mais que veux-t'on savoir ?
Déterminer nos possible futurs nécéssite de privilégier des branches de l'arbre, soit le contraindre, l'élaguer. Et quelles sont les règles qui permettent de dire qu'une branche est plus probable qu'une autre ?
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if you have access to phpMyAdmin, you can use the following procedure: - Access phpMyAdmin, and select the database you wish to 'dump' (backup). - Scroll down and you will see a bulleted point saying: "View dump (schema) of database" along
with some radio and check boxes. Choose 'Structure and data', then click on 'Add Drop
Table'and 'Send' and click 'Go'. This will save the 'dump' to your hard drive.
MIGRATION =========
Perform the migration steps in the README :
>>UPGRADE FROM PHP-NUKE 5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 -- ML-NUKE 5.0 >>----------------------------------------------------- >>Upload the files to your >>website root, overwriting your current PHP-Nuke 5.0 files.
that's easy.
>>CHMOD config.php 666
>>Point your browser to install.php (ie: http://www.yoursite.com/install.php) and >>follow instructions for upgrading from PHP-Nuke 5.0. All upgrading can be done >>from this file.
You should have this in mind : db host db username db password db name Table Prefix DB Type
Then just follow the wizzard from install.php. It's extremely well done !!
It seems to work already.
Don't forget the following steps, otherwise you will have a strange behavior...:
>>REMOVE meta.php and javascript.php from your includes folder.
>>Open your config.php and enter the proper database settings.
>>In your admin preferences select your default language for your site.
>>Please see FINALIZING INSTALLATION, below.
>>That should be it.
>>FINALIZING INSTALLATION ======================= In every case, you will need to >>delete the following: >>install.php install directory
Everything seemed to be fine once, but just after: --> I had problems with the blocks The Home link was bad, I couldn't click on it anymore, there was some ugly html in the link... ---> I had messages like "User Block blabla" check your include/blocks directory... ---> I even had a php.exe application error from Windows
OTHER INSTALL TECHNIQUE ======================= Do not override the PHPNuke Stuff, create a new postnuke directory...
- The main menu is corrupted. For example if I click on Home, the link is like this, quiet wrong indeed - Topics,Sections, Reviews... until Recommend Us give me an internal error message - After 'Top 10' I have a string that appears : "title - At the bottom I have this message : Block Type modules Not Found The block type modules doesn't seem to exisit. Please check your includes/blocks/ directory. - at the right I have this message : "Block Type userbox Not Found The block type userbox doesn't seem to exisit. Please check your includes/blocks/ directory. "
Checking my Themes ==================
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Checking the WYSIWIG Editor ===========================
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Checking the modules ==================== My main concern is for the modules.? Here are the modules that I use accross all my
websites... - AvantGo - Downloads - FAQ - Feedback - Kalender - Member List - NukeSearch - PhotoAlbum (PiXfr Photo Module 1.1.1) - Web Links
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I found here something that I would qualify as "the phone of the future". It's a PDA and a Phone with games and instant messaging over GPRS. It's also a kind of computer with wich you can read emails and browse the web.
There is an integrated keyboard and it's not too expensive (199$).
I'm really looking forward to have such a tool. Be sure that I will some day...
The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of having data on the Web defined and linked in such a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications."
From the Semantic Web activity statement.
The World Wide Web has become a vastly powerful tool for communication, research and commerce. However, its power is limited by the ability of human users to navigate the disparate sources for the information they require. The Semantic Web vision is to make the Web machine-readable, allowing computers to integrate information from disparate sources to achieve the goals of end users (see Semantic Web Roadmap). By augmenting web pages with descriptions of the content they hold it becomes possible to reason about that content. The potential impact is huge, representing a reinvention of the world's computing infrastructure on at least the scale of the original web. Enough of the technology is available to build limited exploratory and demonstration applications now. If successful, there is no reason why a popular application could not grow with exponential speed.
Le prochain rendez-vous [SparklingPoint] du mardi 30 mars 2010 de 18h45 ? 20h30 accueillera, pour sa quarante-neuvi?me ?dition, Jean-Fran?ois Declercq, AppePaper.com, autour du th?me :
"Quel avenir pour l'ePaper ?"
Cette ann?e (2010) le march? des eReaders conna?t une ?volution importante :
On voit les premiers lecteurs ePaper en vente ? la FNAC
Le Kindle d'Amazon atteint une certaine vitesse (3 millions d'exemplaires)
l'iPad pourra ?tre pr?-command? le 3 avril
Google s'appr?te ? lancer Google Editions
Les solutions de lecture sur t?l?phone se d?veloppent ? toute vitesse (ex: Issuu.com sur Android)
Ceci cr?e un march? technologique complexe pour les lecteurs, les ?diteurs, les ?crivains.
Dans cette jungle, on peut se poser deux questions :
1. Y a-t-il encore un avenir pour le papier ?lectronique ?
En effet, la plupart des liseuses utilisent des technologies ?crans plats (LED, OLED) combin?es ? un ?cran "touch" (iPad, Google Tablet, t?l?phones...), ce qui permet une meilleure ergonomie gr?ce ? une meilleure r?activit? de l'?cran et le support de la couleur. Cependant, l'encre ?lectronique ?volue et a quelques atouts. Quelques cas d'utilisation seront d?crits. (plus de 30 cas d'utilisation du papier ?lectronique identifi?s).
2. Quel livre ?lectronique choisir ?
Que je sois lecteur, ?crivain, ?diteur, face aux poids lourds que sont Apple, Google, Amazon, lequel choisir ? iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, Bookeen ? Existe-t-il une alternative ? Comment faire du livre "durable" ? Une approche "architecturale" permet de d?couper le probl?me et faire des choix strat?giques. Quelques sc?narios seront pr?sent?s pour illustrer :
Pourquoi Amazon ?crit des applications pour l'iPad ?
Quelle est l'importance des standards comme ePUB ?
It has been more than 2 months now that I'have been looking at eReaders. After the iPad, it's now the turn of Microsoft to show off a model called the Courier. if we want to maximize the usefulness of an eReader like a Tablet, it needs to support the largest number of applications. Let's have a look at the major options :
The iPAD can reuse all the iPhone/iPod applications. If there are a lot of those applications, let's note that they need to be developer specifically to run on Apple's products.
The Google Tablet will support any web development (web sites) thanks to ChromeOS which has a strong web focus. If one wants to work offline, those web applications will probably have to be ported to ChromeOS, for using its asynchronous services. There is also the possibility for Google to leverage the Android market and allow those (Java) applications to run on ChromeOS.
The Kindle has its own (Java based) Software Development Kit (SDK). Again, one needs to develop specifically for the Kindle.
Some Other readers, mainly those with ePaper screens, use Linux as Operating System. You than need to make sure your application will run with the distribution and ePaper screen (GTK+?) constraints.
Now let's look at a "Windows based" eReader as -I suppose- Microsoft Courier. From an application point of view, such a device might well be one of the best platform for the "applications of ePaper":
It could run everything that runs under windows, and that's a lot
It could than also run a browser (google chrome for instance)
It could leverage Microsoft Office, which I believe still has a large market share
Would a windows based Tablet have the lowest barrier on entry for eReader applications ? Probably yes. On the same line, there would be Linux based Tablets, but they don't have so many ready to go applications. For instance OpenOffice is still lagging a bit behind MS Office (personal opinion, of course).
MS Windows based tablets would nevertheless still to face some challenges:
Boot time : You don't want to wait 30 seconds for you ebook to 'boot' before reading
Security Management : You don't want your eReader to freeze while working because some Anti-Virus needs to start now...
Je pense que je vais acheter ce livre : Plus Encore - Fran?ois De Closets.
Je vous dirai ensuite ce que j'en pense...
"Le ch?mage, la pr?carit?, les dettes ? rembourser, les retraites ? payer, les soins ? assurer, c'est l'h?ritage que les baby-boomers transmettent ? leurs enfants. Apr?s avoir re?u en partage une France prosp?re et championne de la croissance, notre g?n?ration laisse une France d?faite. Comment en est-on arriv? l? ?
...
L'?cart est devenu effarant entre les gagnants et les perdants. Les premiers ont prosp?r? ? l'abri de la crise, les seconds sont pris dans la tourmente de l'ins?curit? mondiale. Plus grave : les privil?ges des uns ne sont maintenus qu'au d?triment de la s?curit? des autres. Et d'abord celle de la jeunesse, ce nouveau prol?tariat. Cette analyse implacable, nourrie d'informations foisonnantes, fera grincer bien des dents, et notamment du c?t? des grands patrons salari?s, premiers b?n?ficiaires des nouvelles privil?giatures. Mais il apportera aussi un souffle d'espoir ? tous ceux qui, au-del? des guerres id?ologiques, veulent se mettre au travail pour rendre ? nos enfants l'avenir qu'on leur a vol?.
"
Fran?ois de Closets est journaliste et ?crivain. Il est producteur et animateur des Grandes ?nigmes de la science sur France 2. Il est notamment l'auteur de Toujours plus ! (1982), Le Compte ? rebours (1998), La Derni?re Libert? (2001) et Ne dites pas ? Dieu ce qu'il doit faire (2004).
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JDOM is, quite simply, a Java representation of an XML document. JDOM
provides a way to represent that document for easy and efficient reading,
manipulation, and writing. It has a straightforward API, is a lightweight
and fast, and is optimized for the Java programmer. It's an alternative
to DOM and SAX, although it integrates well with both DOM and SAX. You will find very good explanations on JDOM on the XML-Journal
Website.? (If you don't want to register for the archive, try the
password : "xmlj").
You can also read more about JDOM on the JDOM.ORG
Website.
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In this paper, the focus is on different aspects of the deregulation of the European electricity sector. First, we explore the broader context of our subject, we sketch a brief outline of the history of deregulation in the EU. The strive towards deregulation started off in the eighties, and accelerated in the mid-nineties; by the end of the nineties attention shifted towards the actual implementation and enforcements of the Directives of the EC.
We list the basic reasons why the EC wanted & wants to deregulate : so as to sustain economic growth, so as to improve competitiveness (market efficiency) and so as to achieve greater cohesiveness within the EU.
The electricity sector belongs to the so-called ?network industries?, and we compare the sector to the transport sector, to the postal services sector and to the telecom sector. Sectors such as the air transport sector and the telecom sector have advanced much quicker on the road to liberalisation. Within the EU, certain countries have progressed much faster than others, eg the UK is generally speaking ahead of the other EU member states.
We look into the main aspects the EC has dealt with in the electricity sector, one of the most important being is the division between the vertical economies : generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity. This division can be implelemented accounting-wise or through complete split ups. The directive requires countries to have an independent system operator for the transport of electricity, and an independent authority for overlooking the regulation and arbitrating in disputes.
It is clear that this approach poses problems in terms of capacity needs : if newcomers can access the market, then the system operator has to be able to forecast the future demand as accurate as possible. If they do not manage to do so, they will either over-invest (unused capacity) or under-invest (then being unable to meet market demand).
Newcomers have a number of disadvantages (?barriers?) that prevent them from fairly competing with incumbents, and oppositely, newcomers have the advantage that they can start with new and efficient technology, contrary to the incumbents that are faced with ?stranded assets? and ?stranded contracts Deregulation is linked to privatisation. We deal with the question whether or not privatisation improves efficiency of the company. Intuitively, one would think that private ownership (presence of shareholders) is the strongest drive behind efficiency. However, we bring to the fore that the presence of competition is a much stronger factor. So, even state-owned can grow strongly towards efficiency if there is enough competition in the market. Another phenomenon that leads to increased efficiency is the tendency to mergers and take-overs in deregulated markets.
We argue that privatisation can have many disadvantages, but that thorough and well-thought regulation can prevent and or minimize many of them.
After a market has been opened for competition (deregulation), a re-regulation is necessary to avoid excesses and distortions in the functioning of the supply and demand. We look into the California debacle, with the question in mind if reregulation was a failure in the US electricity market.
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The Activities of SAF (Spammed Architecture Framework) include
Stakeholders -identify the stakeholders - Anyone with vested interest in the project (end users, clients, project manager, developers etc.) These are the people you will have to explain you architecture to. These are the people that have concerns that the architecture will have to satisfy (or most likely balance). Thus, the fist step is to identify and rank them.
Principles ? list Principles, Goals and Constrains. These are the properties you wish your architecture to have (or lack) based on your previous experience. Constrains can also come from your stakeholders (e.g. management decided that all project should be .NET, a deadline etc.)
Attributes ? discover quality attributes, the non-functional reqeirements, that (once prioritized) serve as the guide for the overall goodness of the system (Performace, Availability, scalability etc.)
Model ? model (and document if needed) the architecture as seen from different viewpoints (list of viewpoints is stakeholder driven). Example for viewpoints include package diagrams, deployment diagrams, DB Schema etc. etc.
Map ? Technology mapping, buy vs. make decisions etc.
Evaluate ? Since architecture is the set of decision that are hardest to change it is worthwhile to spend some time trying to evaluate if they are indeed correct before commencing on
Deploy ? Software architectures are not a fire and forget thing. As an architect you still have to make sure that the guidelines set are indeed followed and even more importantly that the architecture chosen indeed match the project?s needs and doesn?t have to be reworked.
JFDeclercq - "If, within 25 years, Petrol reserves are empty, what could be the impact on globalization?"
My logic is that if transport becomes too expensive: if planes can't fly with something else than kerozen, if boats can't navigate without Petrol, if trucks can't go through Europe... Won't the production facilities revert to local ? Will we still have Ananas and Kiwis at Carrefour ?
But I had no time to explain. I had my answer :
Dirk Beeuwsaert : "It's not true" (Oil reserves are not finished within 25 years).
I was first surprised by a quiet aggresive answer. Maybe this question always keeps coming back and it's getting on his nerves or maybe it's in its nature, or this question is indeed very touchy for SUEZ. Anyway, I have learned in my negociation course at Vlerick that "You should always be nice". A principle that is not always known... Probably, as Mr Beeusaert is a VP, he needs to show his dominance. Leaders and ego...
Nevertheless, I continued :
jfdeclercq : "Why do I hear on the radio that oil reserves are going down and Petrol would be too expensive 25 years from now ?"
Dirk Beeuwsaert : "The radio is not informing you well : they don't know what they are talking about."
According to Mr Beeuwsaert, new technologies will be there to allow to produce oil for many more years (I don't remember the number).
It's true that I also heard on the radio that some people expect the barrel price to go down.With the current oil price, oil companies have more money to innovate and find petrol sources that were unavailable some years ago. Because of that, the price would go down from $75 (today) to to $40/barrel. (See "BP boss says oil prices will fall" - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5069294.stm)
But...
But...
I find other information on the web around the petrol reserves:
"What they don't want you to know about the coming oil crisis"
"Soaring fuel prices, rumours of winter power cuts, panic over the gas supply from Russia, abrupt changes to forecasts of crude output... Is something sinister going on? Yes, says former oil man Jeremy Leggett, and it's time to face the fact that the supplies we so depend on are going to run out"
What should I think now ? We will see. I wrote this article so I can check within 25 years...
My feeling is that there are BIG CHANGES TO COME in the energy sector but some prefer we'd better not think about it. Others think about it for us, we should not worry...
During this course, various relevant aspects of industrial and organisational psychology within the organisation will be discussed. Some of the important themes are motivation, communication, teamwork and group dynamics.
By means of practical cases, participants will learn to detect these psychological processes within their own organisation.
Extroversion - Introversion (E/I)
The first criterion defines the source and direction of energy expression for a person. The extrovert has a source and direction of energy expression mainly in the external world while the introvert has a source of energy mainly in the internal world.
Sensing - Intuition (S/N)
The second criterion defines the method of information perception by a person. Sensing means that a person believes mainly information he receives directly from the external world. Intuition means that a person believes mainly information he receives from the internal or imaginative world.
Thinking - Feeling (T/F)
The third criterion defines how the person processes information. Thinking means that a person makes a decision mainly through logic. Feeling means that, as a rule, he makes a decision based on emotion.
Judging - Perceiving (J/P)
The fourth criterion defines how a person implements the information he has processed. Judging means that a person organizes all his life events and acts strictly according to his plans. Perceiving means that he is inclined to improvise and seek alternatives.
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I'm very interested in the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School MBA programmes.? The part-time would allow me to work while doing an MBA.? Also Louvain/Leuven is only at 15Km from my home and is on the way between my home and my work.
This school has been ranked by the Financial Times: "For the first time the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School took part in the the FT ranking survey for executive education, and immediately succeeded in getting in the top 40! The school is obviously in good company: other prominent newcomers in the FT ranking are Babson College, Henley Management College and SDA Bocconi."
There is a high probability that I will?participate at the Vlerick School admission tests in April 2002.
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Recently I had a problem on my home computers. We couldn't connect to www.google.com anymore. A ping didn't work, a nslookup didn't work, a tracert didn't work. All other sites were ok.
I searched the Internet (using google.be ;-)) and many people had the same problem. It seems to be a strange DNS problem.
For those people, here is a temporary solution. Edit your Windows Hosts file (in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc) and add this line at the end:
216.239.59.147 www.google.com
This way you tell your computer directly where to find Google.com. Note this solution will no longer work if Google.com changes its IP Address.
After that I could again read my gmail, my Google Calendar, my Google Notebook and Blogger.
I could not blog for several days because I couldn't connect to www.google.com due to very stange dns problems. Whatever, I would like to wish you the best for this end of the year.
I hope your holydays are filled with happiness and good cheer !
Very soon I will send you my Best Wishes with my Best Shots 2008.
Last week (Dec 8-12 2008), there was Devoxx (formely known as JavaPolis) in the Metropolis in Antwerp.
The fair usually welcomes 2000 developers for technical conferences on Java, PHP, JavaFX, Scala, Ruby on Rails...
IBM invests on this event and this year Robin Mulkers proposed to demonstrate IBM's technology leadership with a real use case of one of the hottest technologies: RFID.
The project was exlained in the keynote (see some photos here below)
Furthermore, it's a usefull use case for the Devoxx Organization : All participants receivedan RFID badge. Those badges were tracked so that one could for example see which sessions were the most popular. Or participants could leave their name at the booths by letting the hostess scan their badge to participate to games or request for more information.
At IBM, we call this innovation that matters !
PS : Devoxx is one of the best events that I know. The organization is really great. You have free WiFi, you can take drinks directly from the fridge, speackers are accessible, topics are cool... Everything is in place to have a great Developer experience !
This weekend I took some time to have a look at Ubuntu. I find Windows Vista is very slow and I wanted to know how Linux would run on my machine (Acer Aspire 5315, Intel Celeron 1.7 Ghz).
I downloaded a CDRom from Ubuntu's website. You can boot from that CDRom and run Linux without making any changes to your machine.
Directly, I was convinced by the performance : Linux is much more reactive. When applications are slow, the OS isn't and that makes all the difference.
There are however some things that make me realize it would cost me time if I would completely switch to Ubuntu :
My wireless didn't work. I should locate the windows driver and install it on Ubuntu.
My Graphical palette didn't work. Linux doesn't seem to understand how it works
I could not read my MP3 immediately. I should install a special codec over the Internet but as my wireless didn't work...
How to synch with Windows based phone like my Samsung SGH I600 ?
So I guess I will have to go for dual boot. Unfortunately I'm short on disk space... So I'll need to buy some storage first.
This Sunday (Nov 30, 2008) we were at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp for the last concert of Natalia's Glamorous Tour.
It's the 4th time I see Natalia in concert. The first time was ok. The second time I was disappointed. The third time was ok but I still found she was shouting instead of singing.
This time was ... exceptional :
1. She was singing and not shouting: real emotions could flow instead of a mass of decibels.
2. There was a real dance floor : Natalia and the dancers provided a superior experience.
3. There were nice surprises like singing Prince and the appearance of Stam van Samang.
Exam Assignment Interaction and Communication Skills
Herman Van den Broeck
BEYOND LEADERSHIP
Answer the question: Why is it that leadership is "stupid" today?
Deadline: 31 January 2003
Maximum 15 pages without minimum, handed over to Radka in a hard copy
The following topics can be treated:
Leadership today is directive, control driven, based upon old-fashioned ideas about organizing. It destroys entrepreneurship.
Describe how the old control-style is different from 'servant leadership'. Why is this concept relevant in modern organizations?
What are the consequences of the question: 'How can I, as a leader, contribute to the moments of truth of my subordinates?'
What does it mean for a leader that 'Races are not won by increasing one's speed at the end, but rather by not slowing down'. = managing "the links between" is more important than managing entities.
Apply some concepts learned during the seminar.
You may also strictly follow the course outline (ideas and concept seen during the seminar) but you should try to surprise me with an innovative point of view!
You can use theories not seen during the course. If you do so, it is not necessary to detail them.
Avoid elaborating on existing concepts and models
=> give your own opinion, include practical examples
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Un investisseur americain se promene au bord de l'eau, dans un petit village c?tier mexicain.
Un bateau rentre au port, contenant plusieurs thons. L'americain complimente le pecheur mexicain sur la qualite de ses poissons, et lui demande :
- Combien de temps ca a pris pour pecher ces poissons ?
- Pas tres longtemps, repond le mexicain.
- Mais pourquoi n'?tes-vous pas rest? plus longtemps pour en capturer plus ?, demande le banquier.
- Parce que ces quelques poissons suffiront a subvenir aux besoins de ma famille.
- Et vous faites quoi le reste du temps ?
- Je fais la grasse matinee, je peche un peu, je joue avec mes enfants, je fais la sieste avec ma femme... Le soir, je vais au village, voir mes amis, boire du vin, jouer de la guitarre... Une vie bien remplie, quoi !
L'americain l'interromp :
- J'ai un M.B.A. (master of business administration) de l'universite Harvard, et je peux vous aider. Vous devriez commencer par pecher plus longtemps, et avec les benefices degages, vous pourriez vous acheter un plus gros bateau. Avec l'argent que vous rapporterait ce bateau, vous pourriez en acheter un second, et ainsi de suite jusqu'a ce que vous possediez une flotte de chalutier. Au lieu de vendre vos poissons a un intermediaire, vous pourriez negocier directement avec l'usine, et meme ouvrir votre propre usine. Vous pourriez alors quitter votre petit village pour Mexico City, Los Angeles, puis peut-etre New York, d'ou vous dirigeriez vos affaires...
Le Mexicain demande alors :
- Combien de temps ca prendra ?
- Quinze a vingt ans, repond le banquier.
- Et apres ?
- Apres, c'est la que ca deviendrait interessant, repond l'americain en souriant. Quand le moment sera venu, vous pourriez introduire votre societe en bourse, et vous gagnerez des millions !
- Des millions ? Mais apres ?
- Apres, vous pourrez prendre votre retraite, habiter dans un petit village c?tier, faire la grasse matinee, jouer avec vos enfants, pecher un peu, faire la sieste avec votre femme et passer vos soirees a boire et a jouer de la guitare avec vos amis...
So why does the Digg story sell so well? Here?s a look at 9 elements that make a good story - one that people embrace and propagate through their networks - and how Digg has taken those principles to heart:
In 2000, my employer -Software AG Belgium- was ranked 74 among Belgian IT Services and Software companies in the Trends Top 100.000.
Software AG Belgium had a turnover of 13.283.000 ?, with a profit of 870.000?.
Our workforce was 68 people. Read the source information here
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"The future of BPM is really bright - arguably it will give the biggest return on investment of any technology deployed to date! There is no single organization that will be unaffected by the unstoppable deployment of ubiquitous process technology.
And we as Software AG are in the center of this exciting marketplace."
Tobias Rother
Vice President BPM
Software AG
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Au nom du ciel, n'essayes pas de faire le bien. Continue ? montrer les choses telles qu'elles sont. Si tu r?ussis ? les montrer telles qu'elles sont r?ellement, tu feras le bien. Si tu essayes de faire du bien, tu ne feras pas le moindre bien, pas plus que tu ne montreras ce qui est bien.
Extrait de Odeur du temps - Jean d'Ormesson.
A m?diter pour les experts comme moi... Ou se trouve notre valeur ajout?e en terme de conseils aux clients ?
The postings on this site are my own and don?t necessarily represent IBM?s positions, strategies or opinions
EGL as a simple alternative for building your SOA
Everybody dreams about having a nice SOA in order to be flexible and agile and have e good architecture.
It's a bit like the sultants who wanted to have the nicest palaces. But how much does such a palace cost ? Can't you have a nice architecture for a lower cost ?
I recentlty attended an IBM Rational EGL presentation at a Common (http://www.common.be/) event in Belgium given by Linda Cole and I realized that there might be a cheaper and simpler way to build an SOA, by using EGL.
Traditionnally, when you look at the SOA lasagne, you tend to assemble your SOA stack with many products : BPM, ESB, UDDI Registries, Portal...
This SOA stack is big. For SMB companies (currently my focus as IBM SWITA), this stack migh be too big. EGL could, I believe provide an alternative. If you accept to code your Business Processes in a 4GL language like EGL, and as EGL has a focus on generating SOA services automatically, you can develop your SOA that way. This EGL stack is much simpler and as EGL generates COBOL or simpler Java, you can still deploy it on your midrange servers (iSeries or pSeries for instance) but of course also on your blades or your mainframe.
IBM Rational Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) - Copied from http://www.common.be/
A core component of the comprehensive Application Life Cycle and Management solution from IBM Rational. EGL is a highly productive, flexible language that offers a development model familiar to business oriented developers allowing them to quickly build modern business solutions without having to learn and master Java, Web technologies or Service Oriented Architecture, thus eliminating the need to re-staff in order to create the next generation of IT systems. Knowing how crucial your investment in existing legacy systems is, Enterprise Application Transformation tools help migrate your business-critical applications to EGL to fully leverage their business value. Specifically, through code migrations of VAGen, I4GL, Natural, RPG, COBOL, CA Cool:Gen, CA Cool Enterprise, CA Ideal, CA Synon, Maestro and other 3GL and 4GL applications, IT can leverage their existing investment in proven, reliable, production-ready code, preserving this logic while moving rapidly onto a modern software development platform. This is made possible through highly automated conversion utilities designed to migrate the specific legacy environment to EGL in a cost-effective, efficient manner, greatly reducing risk while shortening the migration process.
Accelerating Modernization of System i Applications with EGL Studies have shown that converting legacy developers into Java/.NET developers is both expensive and time consuming and has a remarkably high probability of failure. EGL, available through the Rational Business Developer Extension (RBDe) greatly accelerates modernization by providing an environment and language that is familiar for these same developers to quickly learn and begin building enterprise caliber, modern, web and SOA applications.
I don't know if you can feel it as I can feel it but during my numerous meetings at work, I have had a lot of very positive remarks about the coming Microsoft .NET.
Some people tell me that's it's really very nice and different from what Microsoft did in the past (it would really be based on and support standards ...)
You will find here (WEBSERVICE COMPARE) a "study" comparing websphere and Visual .Net for building a webservice. I don't know if it's really fair. Give me your feeling!
After reading this Presentation of .NET in PDF, you will probably think ".NET and C# ressemble too much like Java".
Yes you have a JIT, a class library, a support for XML and the CLR - Cmmon Language Runtine - is like a JVM...
keep watching this beta...
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Comme le disait si bien Einstein : "Imagination is more important than knowledge"
La preuve...
La question suivante a(urait) reellement ete posee en ces termes a l'universite de chimie de Washington :
L'Enfer est-il exothermique (degage-t-il de la chaleur) ou endothermique (absorbe-t-il de la chaleur) ? Appuyez votre reponse avec une preuve.
La plupart des etudiants ecrivirent comme preuve de leurs theories la loi de Boyle (Les gaz se rechauffent quand ils sont comprimes et se refroidissent quand ils se decompriment) ou une variante.
Un etudiant, toutefois, a ecrit ce qui suit :
Premierement nous avons besoin de savoir comment la masse de l'enfer evolue dans le temps.
Ce qui signifie aussi que nous avons besoin de connaitre le rythme auquel les ames vont en Enfer et le rythme auquel elles en sortent.
Je pense que nous pouvons sans crainte affirmer qu'une fois qu'une ame est en Enfer, elle n'en sortira plus. Par consequent, aucune ame ne sort des enfers.
Pour ce qui est des nombreuses ames qui vont en Enfer, examinons les differentes religions qui existent de par le monde aujourd'hui. Certaines d'entre elles decretent que si vous n'etes pas membre de leur religion, vous irez en Enfer. Depuis qu'il y a plus d'une religion de cette sorte et depuis que les gens ne pratiquent qu'une seule religion, nous pouvons en deduire que tout le monde et toutes les ames vont en Enfer.
Avec le rythme des naissances et des morts qui sont ce qu'ils sont, nous pouvons nous attendre a ce que le nombre des ames en Enfer augmente de facon exponentielle.
Maintenant occupons nous du rythme d'evolution du volume de l'Enfer, parce que la loi de Boyle predit que pour que la temperature et la pression restent les memes, le volume de l'Enfer doit s'agrandir proportionnellement aux ames qui s'ajoutent. Ceci nous donne deux possibilites :
1) Si l'Enfer croit a un rythme plus lent que celui des ames qui arrivent en Enfer, alors la temperature et la pression s'accroissent jusqu'a ce que l'Enfer craque de partout.
2) Bien sur, si l'Enfer s'agrandit a un rythme plus rapide que le nombre d'ames en Enfer s'accroit, alors la pression et la temperature baissent jusqu'a ce que l'Enfer gele tout entier.
Alors qu'en est-il ? Si nous acceptons le postulat qui m'a ete donne par Mlle Therese Banyan pendant ma premiere annee d'universite :
"Il y aura une nuit froide en Enfer avant que je couche avec toi !",
et prenant en compte le fait que je n'ai toujours pas reussi a avoir des relations sexuelles avec elle, alors, et jusqu'a preuve du contraire, l'Enfer est exothermique.
The lack of understanding of the relationship between process and platform is a key contributor to the extreme spending on information management systems and technology in organizations today. Many managers are quick to adopt a technology to solve their organizational needs without clearly understanding the underlying business process beforehand. It is often seen that these systems are installed and cannot accomodate the current workflow. For example, they can create new processes, but not faciliate existing ones.
What advice can you offer on the alignment of information systems and process to achieve business performance?
My Answer
There are many ways to go in the direction of Process improvement and Process/Platform alignment, I have recently blogged about this. (See http://bit.ly/33sHTf ). The point is that you can only align platforms and processes in certain conditions:
you must have the budget : Quality has a cost. The trend is to outsource non-core business processes to save costs. But even for core business processes, companies tend to choose for Application Packages because for the same budget, the project risk seems lower.
the platform must give trust and some advantages. A very flexible and generic platform is not what people want to see. They want just something that is easy to use and that optimize their own activities : "What's in it for me to care about the process ?"
people must be ready for change. Some leaders don't want to have too much transparency about how they conduct business. Some others are just no ready to change: " why change ? we have always done it like that"
business departments must be ready to collaborate with each other. Silos first exist between people and than between systems. Trying to resolve it at the platform first is a difficult bypass.
To me the best advise for aligning process and platform is to create an open company culture which rewards efficiency and effectiveness changes to better meet business goals. It has to be an decentralized approach otherwise the enterprise architects will become the bottlenecks.
To enable the advantages of technology usage, one must create a governance that is clear for everybody and provide the adequate process tools (Requirements Analysis, BPM, Business Intelligence, Business Rules, Business Activity Monitoring) which will allow to design and measure Process improvements KPIs.
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I'm now connected on the Internet with ADSL. It was quiet long to get it working from Wanadoo and Belgacom.
But now it works.
This will boost my presence on the web. I will publish my plans soon...
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This paper has a twofold purpose : on the one hand the GE/Honeywell case is being looked into : from a US Antitrust Authorities point of view, we look into the reasons why the EU decided to block the proposed Merger. On the other hand, we investigate what kind of major Competition Policies are in place, and how we evaluate them (advantages, disadvantages).
First, we brieflly outline the “history” of the case. GE announced its proposition on October 22, 2000, prompting an investigation in the US and the EU. Throughout the investigation, US and EU authorities worked together. On May 2, 2001, it was announced that an agreement had been reached, but further proceedings did not work out, and on July 3, 2001, the European Commission decised to block the deal.
In the market of large jet engines, the EU claim that GE’s position is dominant, is rejected, because most of the market share is due to one single customer, and because the competition is very strong anyway. In the avionics and non-avionics market, the US authorities oppose the EU’s view that GE Capital distorts fair compition in this capex-sensitive market on a number of grounds, one of the most important being that GE Capital has to provide capex to a lot of other GE subsidiaries, imposing opportunity costs, and hence has a WACC that should be similar to the open market rates. Even if GE has an advantage in the financial funding area, it is viewed by the US as a regular method, an allowed competitive advantage. Regarding the avionics and non-avionics market, the US authorities consider it to be a market with very strong competitors, hence, the merger (as a causal factor on its own) would not drive these strong competitors out of the market.
In the final section on the GE/Honeywell case, we look into the underlying cause of the difference between the EU and US view on it. The US authorities focus less intense on the “competition”, which they do not see as an end in itself, but as a promotor of efficiency. Therefore, they are less prone to accept the reason of “threat to the competition intensity” than the EU.
In the second part of this paper, we define and evaluate different kinds of Competition Policies. The first one is Unilateralism (undertaken by a single state, having an impact on other state(s)). This policy is considered to be sub-optimal, there is no agreement from all affected stakeholders, and usually they react with (similar) counter-measures, hence dragging all parties into a loose/loose situation.
Regarding Bilateralism (involving two states reaching trade agreements), we sketch the history of this kind of trade agreements, and we look into the most important kinds of bilateral agreements, such as the FTA’s (Free Trade Agreements), the BIT’s (Bilateral Investment Treaties), and the MRA’s (Mutual Recognition Agreements). We describe the advantages of Bilateralism (stimulating investments, reducing trade barriers, etc.) and the disadvantages (eg adjustment pressures regarding mature industries).
Finally, we discuss the major principles of multilateralism (eg. the “most favourite nation” principle and the “national treatment” principle). We then provide an overview of the main advantages of this Policy (stimulating peace, constructive handling of conlficts, the easiness of set rules that are well-known to all members, etc.). The US and EU positions in this respect are briefly touched upon.
We conclude that Multilateralism is superior to other Policies, but that its implementation is difficult. Frequently, nations block the process and reverse to unilateral actions. This weakens the multilateral framework and confidence and delays the process. Lobbies, cartels, public and private interests can hinder the process, arguing to their stakeholders that the nation’s sovereignty is in danger.
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Voici quelques sites de cartes du monde que j'aime consulter.
- Le monde diplomatique - cartographie : Ce site reprend les cartes de l'eau, du p?trole,
de la d?forestation, de la pauvret?, les in?galit?s,...
I was just browsing sourceforge.net?tonight. (Because I intend to -maybe if I have the time- launch an opensource project soon.)
Check these two sourceforge projects :
jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java?: http://www.jedit.org/. It supports a lot of languages and has plug-ins for code completion, wizzards... Check it your self, the list is too long.
phpGroupWare is a multi-user web-based groupware suite written in PHP. It also provides an API for developing additional applications.??- http://www.phpgroupware.org. It's a kind of Office written in PHP. The demo is cool, try it? here.
Entreprise SOAs : Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices - D.Krafzig, Karl Banke, Dirk Slama.
I'm a bit surprised : although those 3 guys are German they didn't realise that Software AG is a highly qualitative player in supplying tools for an SOA. EntireX and Tamino have won awards at the Web Services Journal as best platform for web services (see here Software AG sweeps the board for Web services at the ?Oscars of the Software Industry )...
I understand that US books don't speack about German software, but what about the German ones ?
I downloaded the 0.9.14RC3 version of phpGroupware this weekend and I saw that my hello World application was not working anymore.
So I had to update it.
Here are the changes I had to make :
1. Use $GLOBALS['phpgw_info'] instead of $phpgw_info
2. $phpgw->link("/hello/index.php") had to be changed to $GLOBALS['phpgw']->link("/hello/index.php")
3. Correct a bug in my application (In one of the templates) !!
In my form it was written instead of .
So please download here the latest zip of HellophpGroupWare. hello.zip
Last week I was invited to a meeting organised by CompTIA in Brussels.
I was there as a "representant" of Software AG. Among other invited companies were Microsoft, IBM, Unysis, Siemens, SAS.
The purpose of the meeting :
"How to take actions in order to avoid that governments or public administrations impose arbitrary rules for software procurement.
An example of arbitrary rule is California's DSSA (Digital Software Security Act).
SoftwareChoice is an organisation aiming at opposing Governement policies that restrict Software Choice The DSSA requires that all software developed for use or used by California or its agencies "shall have:
(a) Unrestricted use of the program for any purpose;
(b) Unrestricted access to the respective source code;
(c) Exhaustive inspection of the working mechanisms of the program;
(d) Use of the internal mechanisms and arbitrary portions of the software, to adapt them to the needs of the user;
(e) Freedom to make and distribute copies of the software; and
(f) Modification of the software and freedom to distribute said modifications of the new resulting software, under the same license of the original software."
The DSSA has been announced but not yet introduced as of mid-August 2002.
Such rules will are discriminatory and cause a big problem to commercial companies and Governemental organisations. Opening the sources can further lead to dis-investment of these companies as you are nearly obliged to deliver -undirectly- your latest algorithms to your competitors if you want to sell software in those administrations. eGovernement is more and more predicted to be the next big opportunity for eBusiness Software since the explosion of the Internet Bubble...
Softwarechoice.org was launched by CompTIA to establish an organisation that would watch for and act against these discriminatory rules. Software should be chosen for its its merits, not through categorical preferences. (See the other principles here)
The Policy Tracker establishes a list of such arbitrary software choice bills.
For the people who love open source, this could look like a couter-attack against open source software by the ugly big monopolistic American IT companies. But it is not !
These days, there is a big campain for opensource or free software that let people think that free software is less expensive, much more reliable and of better quality than commercial software.
An open source lobby is these days very active to convince the politics about those statements.
Our Belgian example is the recent debate on opensource at the Brussels Region (crf DataNews : D?bat sur le logiciel Libre a la r?gion Bruxelloise"). Someone must have launched the idea.
I think it is not true : Opensource software will not be better or worse than commercial software for the public sector. One of the relevant criteria to decide on the use of opensource is the Total Cost of Ownership. It is not yet proven that 1. Solutions can be 100% built with open source and 2. that the building and maintenance costs are far lower than with Commercial Software.
At the European level, such rulings are unlikely to stay in the member states. The European Commsion takes care to establish a fair competition in all the member states. However before a wrong law would be reversed by the National Courts or by the pressure of the European Commission on the member state, a lot of harm coul be caused to commercial companies that would have heavily invested in eGovernement solutions. (Imagine that the Belgian Postbox project would not be chosen because it's not built with opensource security software !)
Finally, who can predict that open software is here to stay ?
Si tu travailles avec un
marteau-piqueur pendant un
tremblement de terre,
d?synchronise-toi,
sinon tu travailles pour rien."
"Un biscuit ?a n'a pas de
spirit, c'est juste un biscuit.
Mais, avant c'?tait du lait, des
oeufs. Et, dans les oeufs, il y a
la vie potentielle"
"Selon les statistiques, il y a
une personne sur cinq qui est
d?s?quilibr?e.
S'il y a 4 personnes autour de
toi et qu'elles te semblent
normales, c'est pas bon."
JC Van Damme
"Mon mod?le, c'est moi-m?me ! Je
suis mon meilleur mod?le parce que
je connais mes erreurs, mes
qualit?s, mes victoires et mes
d?faites.
Si je passe mon temps ? prendre
un autre mod?le comme mod?le,
comment veux-tu que ce mod?le
puisse modeler dans la bonne ligne
?"
JC Van Damme
"Si tu t?l?phones ? une voyante
et qu'elle ne d?croche pas avant
que ?a sonne, raccroche."
JC Van Damme
"Je suis fascin? par l'air. Si
on enlevait l'air du ciel, tous les
oiseaux tomberaient par terre
.
Et les avions aussi ... En m?me
temps l'air tu peux pas le toucher
. Ca existe et ?a existe pas .
Ca nourrit l'homme sans qu'il
ait faim ... It's magic !
L'air c'est beau en m?me temps
tu peux pas le voir, c'est doux et
peux pas le toucher ...
L'air c'est un peu comme mon
cerveau"
JC Van Damme
"Je crois au moment. S'il n'y a
pas le moment, ? ce moment-l?,
il faut arriver ? ce moment-l?, au
moment qu'on veut "
"T'as pas besoin d'un flash
quand tu photographies un lapin qui
a d?j? les yeux rouges."
"Si tu invites des gens qui ont
tous le m?me groupe sanguin a une
f?te, mais que tu le leur dis
pas, ils vont parler d'autre
chose."
"Si tu dors et que tu r?ves que
tu dors, il faut que tu te
r?veilles deux fois pour te
lever."
"Si t'es perdu dans la for?t et
que tu restes immobile pendant deux
ans, il va pousser de la mousse
sur un cote de tes jambes. C'est le
Nord."
"Si tu parles a ton eau de javel
pendant que tu fais la lessive,
elle est moins concentr?e."
"Si tu attends le mois d'octobre
pour faire des poissons d'avril, tu
attrapes plus de gens."
"Tu as le droit de changer de
signe du zodiaque, mais il faut
que ta m?re le sache vraiment
d'avance."
"Dans les magasins de lingerie,
on ne voit pas de calendriers avec
des photos de garage."
"Un bon truc pour para?tre dix
ans plus jeune, c'est de vieillir
de dix ans quand tu dis ton
?ge."
"Si tu dis couic-couic quand tu
marches, les gens pensent que t'as
des chaussures neuves."
AH AH !! IT pas "Business Oriented" ? : Six des dix meilleurs chefs d'entreprise viennent du secteur IT - Data News http://bit.ly/8gGmpS
(from Twitter)
Un beau matin, un enfant demande ? son p?re : Papa, comment suis-je n? ?
Tr?s bien, mon fils, il fallait bien que l'on en parle un jour. Les abeilles, les fleurs, les choux, les petites graines...
Tout cela est compl?tement d?pass? !
Soyons modernes : Voici donc ce qu'il faut que tu saches :
Papa et Maman se sont connect?s sur Facebook. Papa a envoy? un e-mail ? Maman,
afin de lui fixer rendez-vous dans un cybercaf?. Ils ont d?couvert qu'ils ?taient compatibles,
en ayant beaucoup de choses en commun.
Papa et Maman ont alors d?cid? de faire un partage de fichiers. Ils se sont dissimul?s dans les toilettes,
et Papa a introduit son disque dur dans le port USB de Maman. Lorsque Papa fut pr?t pour le t?l?chargement, Papa et Maman r?alis?rent qu'ils n'avaient pas mis de coupe-feu [Firewall]. H?las, il ?tait trop tard pour annuler le transfert
et il ?tait impossible d'effacer les donn?es. C'est ainsi que, neuf mois plus tard,
Software IT Architect at IBM is great , this month I was again involved in customer business processes design for making a Smarter Planet.
(from Twitter)
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Biases emanating from the availability heuristic
1. ease of recall
2. retrievability
3. presumed associations
Biases emanating from the representativeness heuristic
4. insensitivity to base rates
5. insensitivity to sample size
6. misconceptions of chance
7. regression to the mean
8. the conjunction fallacy
Biases emanating from anchoring and adjustment
9. insufficient anchor adjustment
10. conjunctive and disjunctive events bias
11. overconfidence
Two more general biases
12. the confirmation trap
13. hindsight
Imagine you want to go to the restaurant and then go to the theater.
But you don't want to go only to the theater or only to the restaurant. You want to do both or nothing.
What are you going to do ?
Pick up your phone and call the restaurant, first. You will check that you can reserve one table.
Call the theater, then. You will check that you can reserve the places.
If both answers are yes, you will decide to go. You will have to call them to confirm the reservations. Otherwise you forget it.
Doing this with databases (transactions) is called 2-phase commit.
I'm using phpNuke for my website. I love phpNuke. Nevertheless there has been a fight concerning phpNuke in the open source community.
PHPNuke is opensource, but there is only one author (the phpNuke author says it's open source but not open development...) and that's a problem for a lot of open source lovers.
Some of them decided to have a new fork of phpNuke. It's called PostNuke. It's the same but it's maintained by a community rather than by a single guy. Normally postnuke portal software should be much more reliable (more developers would maintain it).
So this is why I will maybe one day migrate to postnuke.
I was today in a "Personal Improvement" course. During the course we learned about the JoHari window. It's a model that allows you to become more open by better stating your expectations towards someone else (openess) and by requesting feedback (self-knowledge).
Lately I have hesitated to buy a new kind of device : an Internet Radio. It connects on your WiFi router and plays thousands of radios streams that you can catch on the web.
Today I just plug my portable PC into my HiFi system using a mini-jack, but I find the quality is not so good. Therefore I have been looking for better options. Here are some products I find interesting :
I have visited several shops (Padeg, TDH... ) in Brussels, LLN and Overijse to try to see those products in real but they have not yet arrived in the shops. So for now, the only option seems to be to buy online. We probably need to wait until Christmass.
C’est l’équation de Dirac, et c’est la plus belle de toute la physique. Elle décrit le phénomène de l’entrelacement quantique, qui affirme que
“Si deux systèmes interagissent entre eux pendant une certaine période de temps puis se séparent, nous pouvons les décrire comme deux systèmes différents, mais d’une manière subtile, ils deviennent un système unique. Ce qui arrive à l’un continue à affecter l’autre, même à distance de kilomètres ou d’années lumière “.
C’est l’entrelacement quantique ou la connexion quantique. Deux particules qui, à un moment ou à un autre, ont été unies, sont toujours en quelque sorte liées. Peu importe la distance entre les deux, même s’ils se trouvent à des extrêmes opposés de l’univers. La connexion entre elles est instantanée.
C’est la même chose qui se passe entre deux personnes, un lien que seuls les êtres vivants peuvent expérimenter.
C’est la façon dont fonctionne cette relation que nous appelons l’Amour.…
I integrated two Blogs into the start page. I can now publish complete stories on the start page instead of just links. The start page is now composed of the two blogs + the delicious links having startpage as tag. I just need to archive the feed in the wiki from time to time to have the full-text search integrated.
I changed the magpie system that reads delicious to an xml_parser php script that loads a table. ToDo I should publish it.
Postnuke is dead : removed from ftp, removed from mysql
---
22 Dec 2006 - The postnuke has been migrated to the wiki beginning of January. End of December I have restructured the HomePage, the jfdeclercq.com page and the SiteMap.
There will be a new way to publish pictures. ?PhpGraphy doesn't behave very well anymore so I'll rather generate the thumbnails on my PC before uploading it. To do that I use Galleroo (http://www.xyster.net/galleroo/). I customized the XSL to have my own look and feel. The result can be seen under http://www.lowas.be/photos/Mexico/.
01 Nov 2004
I'm back on my website - after my mba- and I finally could integrate my Wiki with my postnuke. I also did the fusion of the mba and the lowas wiki.
04 Jan 2003
I added all my bookmarks in my website Weblinks section. Therefore I wrote a java class to generate the right SQL statements (see ?IeToNukeBookmarks).
16 Dec 2002
I changed the theme (dark blue, white, black, grey). Same colors as jfdeclercq.com
On Monday January 13th 2020, I attended an event organized by Cyberwayfinder. The event thema was about the different types of architecture required to take care of business strategy, data, technology, security and risk in order to design a Digital Enterprise in a structured way.
The inspection process
At some point one of the presenters talked about an important process for Enterprise/Business/IT/Application Architects : the inspection of the delivery.
This is a well-known problem in IT projects: the target architecture is very often not respected for many good and bad reasons.
This raises the question of “inspection”. When do we inspect the work in progress as Enterprise Architects ? Do we have a mandate for inspection ?
Continuous or punctual inspection ?
We could imagine two types of inspection: continuous or punctual. The continuous inspection requires much more time but is maybe the only way in the context of agile projects…
What to do with deviations ?
At the end of an inspection, deviations could be identified. What can we do with such deviations ?
We accept the deviation and re-integrate it in the “AS-BUILT” architecture
We can ask an immediate rework because the deviation is not acceptable (e.g. bad implementation of security constraints)
We don’t accept the deviation but we don’t force the immediate rework : we register a “technical debt”.
…
Vous connaissez le sens secret et fiscal de ces trois lettres : T.V.A. ?
Si vous prenez les deux premières lettres, T.V., cela veut dire, en clair : – As-tu payé la taxe sur la T.V. ?
Les lettres V.A. veulent dire : Va ! Va payer la taxe sur la T.V. !
Puis T.A. : Ta. Traduire : T’as payé la taxe sur la TV ? … Ah … Alors VA la payer !
C’est un rappel à l’ordre constant. Même si vous lisez les lettres à l’envers, elles vous rappellent encore quelque chose :
A.V : « Avez-vous payé … ?«
A.T : « Hâtez-vous de payer ! …«
V.T : « Vêtez-vous et hâtez-vous de payer la taxe sur la T.V. !«
Li&Fung is TODAY one of the premier GLOBAL consumer products export trading companies managing the supply chain for high volume, time-sensitive consumer goods.
Li&Fung mission is to deliver the RIGHT product at the RIGHT time at the RIGHT price.
Sunday February 18th. Mountain bike
club championship.
Work
I worked with a company in Utrecht called Savvion Europe. An
American Company, targeting the European market from the
Netherlands and having its products developped in
India... I worked with an Indian from Bombay :
Rushi.
MBA
I'm still thinking about doing an MBA. I will maybe
participate to an information day at INSEAD in april
(Fontainebleau, FRANCE). http://www.insead.edu/mba
Last edited on Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 13:32:23 pm.
Je vous ?cris pour vous remercier d'avoir refus? le ch?que qui m'aurait
permis de payer le plombier le mois dernier.
Selon mes calculs, trois nanosecondes se sont ?coul?es entre la pr?sentation
du ch?que et l'arriv?e sur mon compte des fonds n?cessaires ? son paiement.
Je fais r?f?rence, ?videmment, au d?p?t mensuel automatique de ma pension,
une proc?dure qui, je dois l'admettre, n'a cours que depuis huit ans. Il
faut d'ailleurs vous f?liciter d'avoir saisi cette fugace occasion et d?bit?
mon compte des 30$ de frais pour le d?sagr?ment caus? ? votre banque. Ma
gratitude est d'autant plus grande que cet incident m'a incit? ? revoir la
gestion de mes finances.
J'ai remarqu? qu'alors que je r?ponds personnellement ? vos appels
t?l?phoniques et vos lettres, je suis en retour confront?e ? l'entit?
impersonnelle, exigeante, programm?e, qu'est devenue votre banque. A partir
d'aujourd'hui, je d?cide de ne n?gocier qu'avec une personne de chair et d
os.
Les mensualit?s du pr?t hypoth?caire ne seront dor?navant plus automatiques
mais arriveront ? votre banque par ch?ques adress?s personnellement et
confidentiellement ? un(e) employ?(e) de votre banque que je devrai donc
s?lectionner.
Soyez averti que toute autre personne ouvrant un tel pli consiste en une
infraction au r?glement postal.
Vous trouverez ci-joint un formulaire de candidature que je demanderai ? l
employ?(e) d?sign?(e) de remplir. Il comporte huit pages, j'en suis d?sol?e,
mais pour que j'en sache autant sur cet employ?(e) que votre banque en sait
sur moi, il n'y a pas d'alternative. Veuillez noter que toutes les pages de
son dossier m?dical doivent ?tre contresign?es par un notaire, et que les
d?tails obligatoires sur sa situation financi?re (revenus, dettes, capitaux,
obligations) doivent s'accompagner des documents concern?s. Ensuite, ? MA
convenance, je fournirai ? votre employ?(e) un code PIN qu'il/elle devra
r?v?ler ? chaque rendez- vous. Il est regrettable que ce code ne puisse
comporter moins de 28 chiffres mais, encore une fois, j'ai pris exemple sur
le nombre de touches que je dois presser pour avoir acc?s aux services
t?l?phoniques de votre banque. Comme on dit : l'imitation est une flatterie
des plus sinc?res.
Laissez-moi d?velopper cette proc?dure. Lorsque vous me t?l?phonez, pressez
les touches comme suit :
Imm?diatement apr?s avoir compos? le num?ro, veuillez presser l'?toile (*)
pour s?lectionner votre langue
Ensuite le 1 pour prendre rendez-vous avec moi
Le 2 pour toute question concernant un retard de paiement
Le 3 pour transf?rer l'appel au salon au cas o? j'y serais
Le 4 pour transf?rer l'appel ? la chambre ? coucher au cas o? je dormirais
Le 5 pour transf?rer l'appel aux toilettes au cas o? je coulerais un bronze
Le 6 pour transf?rer l'appel ? mon GSM si je ne suis pas ? la maison
Le 7 pour laisser un message sur mon PC. Un mot de passe est n?cessaire.
Ce mot de passe sera communiqu? ? une date ult?rieure ? la personne de
contact autoris?e mentionn?e plus t?t.
Le 8 pour retourner au menu principal et ?couter ? nouveau les options de 1
? 7
Le 9 pour toute question ou plainte d'aspect g?n?ral. Le contact sera alors
mis en attente, au bon soin de mon r?pondeur automatique.
Le 10, ? nouveau pour s?lectionner la langue. Ceci peut augmenter l'attente
mais une musique inspirante sera jou?e durant ce laps de temps.
Malheureusement, mais toujours suivant votre exemple, je devrai infliger le
pr?l?vement de frais pour couvrir l'installation du mat?riel utile ? ce
nouvel arrangement.
Puis-je n?anmoins vous souhaiter une heureuse, bien que tr?s l?g?rement
moins prosp?re, nouvelle ann?e ?
Respectueusement,
Votre humble cliente.
Last edited on Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 20:51:08 pm.
On Monday January 13th 2020, I attended an event organized by Cyberwayfinder. The event thema was about the different types of architecture required to take care of business strategy, data, technology, security and risk in order to design a Digital Enterprise in a structured way.
The inspection process
At some point one of the presenters talked about an important process for Enterprise/Business/IT/Application Architects : the inspection of the delivery.
This is a well-known problem in IT projects: the target architecture is very often not respected for many good and bad reasons.
This raises the question of “inspection”. When do we inspect the work in progress as Enterprise Architects ? Do we have a mandate for inspection ?
Continuous or punctual inspection ?
We could imagine two types of inspection: continuous or punctual. The continuous inspection requires much more time but is maybe the only way in the context of agile projects…
What to do with deviations ?
At the end of an inspection, deviations could be identified. What can we do with such deviations ?
We accept the deviation and re-integrate it in the “AS-BUILT” architecture
We can ask an immediate rework because the deviation is not acceptable (e.g. bad implementation of security constraints)
We don’t accept the deviation but we don’t force the immediate rework : we register a “technical debt”.
…
Vous connaissez le sens secret et fiscal de ces trois lettres : T.V.A. ?
Si vous prenez les deux premières lettres, T.V., cela veut dire, en clair : – As-tu payé la taxe sur la T.V. ?
Les lettres V.A. veulent dire : Va ! Va payer la taxe sur la T.V. !
Puis T.A. : Ta. Traduire : T’as payé la taxe sur la TV ? … Ah … Alors VA la payer !
C’est un rappel à l’ordre constant. Même si vous lisez les lettres à l’envers, elles vous rappellent encore quelque chose :
A.V : « Avez-vous payé … ?«
A.T : « Hâtez-vous de payer ! …«
V.T : « Vêtez-vous et hâtez-vous de payer la taxe sur la T.V. !«
C’est l’équation de Dirac, et c’est la plus belle de toute la physique. Elle décrit le phénomène de l’entrelacement quantique, qui affirme que
“Si deux systèmes interagissent entre eux pendant une certaine période de temps puis se séparent, nous pouvons les décrire comme deux systèmes différents, mais d’une manière subtile, ils deviennent un système unique. Ce qui arrive à l’un continue à affecter l’autre, même à distance de kilomètres ou d’années lumière “.
C’est l’entrelacement quantique ou la connexion quantique. Deux particules qui, à un moment ou à un autre, ont été unies, sont toujours en quelque sorte liées. Peu importe la distance entre les deux, même s’ils se trouvent à des extrêmes opposés de l’univers. La connexion entre elles est instantanée.
C’est la même chose qui se passe entre deux personnes, un lien que seuls les êtres vivants peuvent expérimenter.
C’est la façon dont fonctionne cette relation que nous appelons l’Amour.…
This week I completed a TOGAF 8.1 Certifcation course. This means that I should be TOGAF Certified in the coming days. This is the second Certification I pass this year after the ITIL Certification (Thank you IBM!). TOGAF is about Entreprise Architecture and it's a fascinating topic. I'll blog about the highlights of this TOGAF course soon.
This week I completed a TOGAF 8.1 Certifcation course. This means that I should be TOGAF Certified in the coming days. This is the second Certification I pass this year after the ITIL Certification (Thank you IBM!). TOGAF is about Entreprise Architecture and it's a fascinating topic. I'll blog about the highlights of this TOGAF course soon.
This week I completed a TOGAF 8.1 Certifcation course. This means that I should be TOGAF Certified in the coming days. This is the second Certification I pass this year after the ITIL Certification (Thank you IBM!). TOGAF is about Entreprise Architecture and it's a fascinating topic. I'll blog about the highlights of this TOGAF course soon.
Foot sur la plage de De Haan, ce 28 septembre 2008
J'ai upload? sur Youtube une vid?o d'une partie de foot film?e sur la plage de De Haan ce 28 septembre 2008. Je joue avec avec Thomas et Jonas (rencontr? sur place).
J'essaye de ne pas dire de b?tises sur le cas Fortis mais je n'ai pas su me retenir de commenter le post suivant sur le blog "Je suis Belge mais je me soigne":
Reading Playmobil books on the Web with the FSI-Viewevr
I just received an Information Letter from PlayMobil where they propose me to have a look at a book about Egypt : "D?couvre l'Egypte".
This book is rendered using a technology that I have seen for the second time and that I find very interesting : FSI-Viewer.
Those guys found a way to put flyers in a browser. It's much better than the traditional pdf (which is never in Landscape and always in Portrait, obliging you to scroll).
Two days ago, with a colleague, we had an interesting discussion around the future of Entreprise Portals.
Today in a SOA, Services are consumed by consumers like Fat Clients (Lotus Notes for instance) or Thin Clients (via a Portal).
The arrival of Web2.0 technologies like Rich Internet Applications (RIA) like Google Calendar, Google Docs ect will puzzle this architecture.
At IBM we already have two examples with Project Zero and Websphere Business Spaces. A Portal product is than no more necessary for consuming and exposing services in a browser.
What becomes than the role of a Portal in the SOA ? Probably it becomes a provisionning and security platform for RIAs and Mashups. At the security level, it means offering an Identity and Access Management platform. At the provisionning level it becomes a place where you can search for a mashup, configure it and use it immediately.
If you start using Netvibes you will understand how you can mix content on your own page using Widgets. Those widgets contain their own application logic (Gmail, Google Notes, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook....). Netvibes doesn't own the widget's code like a traditional Websphere Portal would.
Therefore the future of Traditional Portals like Websphere Portal is to provision those kind of Widgets in a secure way.
Last week we (Mireille and I) went to the Vlerick Marketing Alumni Event : How Social are you ?
The evening was about a marketing approach on the Social Networks and Online Communities.
Robin Wauters started with an Introduction on Social Networks. I didn't learn much on that introduction (maybe I know already too much) except that the groups that exist on different networks like Facebook are a target for Marketeers.
So creating or using social networks is now the objective of good marketeers. Pieter Goiris (CEO Boondoggle) showed us how the Heineken Music site to illustrate how brands try to engage in a give & take relationship with online communities. By the way this website is a wonderful Mashup (Stoemp) ! Web2.0 is also about involving the users to make the content. It's the case of Sensoa, a Flemish website where people can ask all questions about Sex.
Luc Colson of 4C Consulting explained us that in a Social Network, three kind of people are very interesting for the Marketeer : the people with most connections within a group (Let's call them "Leaders"), the people linking independant groups to each other ("Connectors") and people on the path between the two profiles ("Relays"). The "Leaders" would allow to influence the group. If the Leader has an excellent experience with your brand, others will know it. "Connectors" allow to transfer the brand experience from communities to communities. "Relays" are a way to accelerate the transfer from Community to Community (they connect the Leaders to the Connectors). Those concepts are for instance exploited in the Telecom sector to enforce operator loyalty and reduce the risk of churn.
Steven Van Belleghem (Insites Consulting) gave me the best impression. He explained that Marketeers have to understand how the new technologies can impact the way branding works. Marketeers have an important challenge to learn surfing on the web2.0 advertsing wave led by FaceBook, Google... There is a change of paradigm going on. Before the Marketing equation was the following :
Advertising ... Brand ... Sales
Today the chain is the following :
Brand ... Advertising ... Conversations.
The goal of the marketeer is to land in the conversation zone. Consumers need to talk about the product, advertsing is not enough anymore...This session gave me a better idea on how marketeers think about Web2.0. I see it as a great way to discuss with people and a great technology at the same time. I see the promise of the semantic web. They see segments, focus groups, communities, conversations, advertising...
Note 1 : For the Vlerick Alumni people, that kind of event is the best rather than just have a beer, let's also have some content.
Note 2 : From web experts websites, I'm not always impressed : 1) I hate the Boondoggle's website (try searching Heineken in it...), and 2) how is it possible to have an URL like http://www.4cconsulting.com/Templates/home.aspx?id=32&langType=1033 when you know the following principle : "Good URLs never Change"
On Sept 11th 2008, we attended the Samsung Omnia night.
The party was not as good as the last one but there was more content : the presentation of the new Samsung Omnia.
The Samsung Omnia is a great MulltiMedia device (Music, Video, 5 MegaPixel Camera, GPS, MS Office Integration, Push Email...).
It also has a touchscreen like the iPhone. If I had to choose between the iPhone and the Omnia, I think I would choose the Omnia because it's more compact and Windows Mobile 6 would allow me to install more custom applications.
However I still have a phone with a keyboard (Samsung SGH I600) and I'm not convinced about the Touch screen yet.
Yesterday when watching the Champion's league, I found very funny that when eventually the best french players are performant, they score against a French club. Malouda and Anelka have killed... Bordeaux.
This weekend we did De Gordel, a bicycle tour around Brussels.
Our goal wasn't political but rather sportive. We did 120 Km. The tour of 100 Km makes in reality 106Km. As we left and went home by bike we did another 7Km. Also, I had a flat tire in Meise and the assistance truck brought us back to Wemmel, it added 7Km to the trip.
The organization of the Gordel is excellent. If you have a mechanical problem, a truck brings you to a repair centre. The people of VAB repaired my bike, I had nothing to do do except pay the inner tube.
The weather was horrible in the morning : rain, rain and rain. Only in the afternoon after more than 60 Km it stopped and we could enjoy the tour a bit more.
The parcours is not very difficult. I expected more climbs. In fact, the most difficult part is between Zaventem and Overijse (Vossem, Duisburg) and that was the last part for us. Or was it the most difficult because it was the last ? Perception is reality...
De Gordel was our main bicycle objective this year and we are quiet happy we did it ! We will do it again.
PS : Is it politically correct to blog about De Gordel in English when you are a native Walloon and and live in Flanders ?
This weekend we did De Gordel, a bicycle tour around Brussels.
Our goal wasn't political but rather sportive. We did 120 Km. The tour of 100 Km makes in reality 106Km. As we left and went home by bike we did another 7Km. Also, I had a flat tire in Meise and the assistance truck brought us back to Wemmel, it added 7Km to the trip.
The organization of the Gordel is excellent. If you have a mechanical problem, a truck brings you to a repair centre. The people of VAB repaired my bike, I had nothing to do do except pay the inner tube.
The weather was horrible in the morning : rain, rain and rain. Only in the afternoon after more than 60 Km it stopped and we could enjoy the tour a bit more.
The parcours is not very difficult. I expected more climbs. In fact, the most difficult part is between Zaventem and Overijse (Vossem, Duisburg) and that was the last part for us. Or was it the most difficult because it was the last ? Perception is reality...
De Gordel was our main bicycle objective this year and we are quiet happy we did it ! We will do it again.
PS : Is it politically correct to blog about De Gordel in English when you are a native Walloon and and live in Flanders ?
Obama : How to seduce America using sales techniques ?
How to seduce people so they vote for you : address their concerns.
Obama addresses several key concerns of 2008 :
"I do want three things," "I want to end the war. I want to get everybody a health care system that is sensible and common sense and saves money. And the energy policy. But, if I had to just choose one thing, that would be it."?
And I believe indeed Americans are concerned by those
war
health
energy
If you add that he wants to decrease taxes for the middle class, I believe you have enough broad subjects that can gather many votes.
So to be successful, just address your client's pain points. A well known sales technique applied at a large scale.
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Lately I have hesitated to buy a new kind of device : an Internet Radio. It connects on your WiFi router and plays thousands of radios streams that you can catch on the web.
Today I just plug my portable PC into my HiFi system using a mini-jack, but I find the quality is not so good. Therefore I have been looking for better options. Here are some products I find interesting :
I have visited several shops (Padeg, TDH... ) in Brussels, LLN and Overijse to try to see those products in real but they have not yet arrived in the shops. So for now, the only option seems to be to buy online. We probably need to wait until Christmass.
I don't know if you have ever had a look at my long CV but it's quiet a long one. I have read in a article (in Bizz I believe) that a good CV should be at the most 3 pages. Therefore I have tried to rewrite my CV in a much shorter format . I have organized it along 5 aspects of my work that I like and that I want to continue to develop during my career:
Strategic Thinking
Leadership
Management & Team Work
Creative Solution Design
Marketing & Sales
The result is here : Quick CV and I have published in PDF and MS Word formats also here
I have successfully passed my ITIL V3 Foundations Certification !
ITIL is a framework which allows IT Managers to standardize the IT processes which aim at satisfying the demand of their system's customers and/or end-users.
In order to meet customer's needs, ITIL organises the lifecycle of IT Services which are delivered by IT.
The IT department can supply several types of "services", for instance :
Applications (SAP, CRM, Document Management)
Purchasing of IT material (PCs, printers...)
Help Desk, Call Center
Internet Services (Home Banking system for a bank for instance)
Hardware Installation
Printing
...
ITIL gives guidelines on how to organize the professional delivery of those "IT services".
ITIL V3' service life cycle defines 5 "steps":
Service Strategy : it defines which services the IT department should provide
Service Design : it defines what the delivered services are and how they are realized
Service Transition : it determines how a designed service is put into production
Service Operation : it describes how services have to be run in production (according to their specifications and their Service Level Agreements)
Continual Improvement : a set of processes to improve the life cycle realization
Last Weekend we did quiet some cycling in Flanders.
On saturday we did the "Limburgse Rivierenland" tour in Halen. It was supposed to be 52 Km. We did 63 and we even did a shortcut at the end.
On sunday we went to Herentals and we followed what is called the "EcoCyclo". There the KM were correct and it was 46 Km. We started from Herenthout and we used the following "KnoopPunten " :
Herenthout - 45 - 46 - 47 - 9 - 10 - 8 - 15 (Let op: we rijden niet volledig tot aan 15. Neem een kijkje aan de watermolen. Het is een waardevol monument. Daarna keer je terug naar 8.) - 19 - 18 - 14 - Hidrodoe - Van Hidrodoe rijd je terug naar de knooppuntenroute. Sla echter niet af naar links richting knooppunt 14, maar blijf rechtdoor rijden. Volg de pijltjes richting Centrum. - 12 - 60 - 62 - 65 - 66 - 43 - 44 - 45
Le site Internet pour Paul Leroy se trouve sous mon nom de domaine. Nous y travaillons de temps en temps en buvant un bonne bi?re. Nous l'avons mis ? jour cette semaine:
Il y a un nouveau menu pour faciliter la navigation.
Paul a ?galement mis des nouveaux tableaux en ligne sur PicasaWeb.
Moi j'aimais bien skynet pour la m?t?o facile a trouver et facile a lire pour les pr?visions ? dix jours. Il y avait une colonne bleue ? gauche avec toutes les possibilit?s skynet dont la m?t?o. C'?tait facile et efficace.
Evidement il y a quelqu'un qui a trouv? que c'?tait mieux de changer. Essayez maintenant d'aller sur http://www.skynet.be/ et trouvez-moi la m?t?o. Bonne chance !
Comme dirait l'autre : "Si je connaissais le con qu'a fait sauter le pont..."
Merriam Webster's dictionary defines rainmaker as "a person (such as a partner in a law firm) who brings in new business or whose influence can initiate progress or ensure success." In short, a rainmaker is someone that makes things happen, someone who initiates action that ultimately brings in new business and revenue.
Rainmakers take a 'big picture' view of their customers business. Rather than focus on specific IT projects, they look at the overall state of the client's industry, company and LOB. Some characteristics of a rainmaker include the following: pro-active, results-oriented, patient, driven, conscientious, good listener, active listener, empathetic, sympathetic, curious, knowledgeable, engaged, confident, incisive, inquiring, flexible, visionary, creative, positive, optimistic, and collaborative.
Dans cette camera cachee, Francois L embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d eleve et piege un professeur d'histoire geographie. Il raconte qu il est a fond dans les jeux video et que lui et son fils jouent des heures et des heures...
Dans cette cam?ra cach?e, Fran?ois L?embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d??l?ve et pi?ge un professeur d?histoire g?ographie. Il raconte qu?il est ? fond dans les jeux vid?o et que lui et son fils jouent des heures et des heures san
Dans cette cam?ra cach?e, Fran?ois L?embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d??l?ve et pi?ge un professeur d?histoire g?ographie. Il raconte qu?il est ? fond dans les jeux vid?o et que lui et son fils jouent des heures et des heures san
Dans cette cam?ra cach?e, Fran?ois L'embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d'?l?ve et pi?ge un professeur d'histoire g?ographie. Il raconte qu'il est...
Dans cette cam?ra cach?e, Fran?ois L'embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d'?l?ve et pi?ge un professeur d'histoire g?ographie. Il raconte qu'il est...
Dans cette cam?ra cach?e, Fran?ois L'embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d'?l?ve et pi?ge un professeur d'histoire g?ographie. Il raconte qu'il est...
Dans cette cam?ra cach?e, Fran?ois L'embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d'?l?ve et pi?ge un professeur d'histoire g?ographie. Il raconte qu'il est...
Dans cette cam?ra cach?e, Fran?ois L'embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d'?l?ve et pi?ge un professeur d'histoire g?ographie. Il raconte qu'il est...
Maybe it can sound weird to you but it has been a long time I have been searching for that information and now I eventually find it : a good list of existing mountain bike routes in Belgium.
I think it's just great. If you add that you can use the Iliad as a Notepad (you can write also!), that you can upload PDF documents like reports, Presentations... It makes of it a great business tool.
According to an IBM survey SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is still in the radar of the majority of customers:
73 percent of customers indicated their CEO understands the business value of SOA; more than half say their IT staff is meeting once per month or more with business managers they support.
45 percent of customers indicated they spent between 10 percent and 29 percent of their 2007 IT budgets on SOA.
Hier je suis tomb? sur le blog de Christophe Lefevre. Il s'y trouve un article sur le m?tier de blogueur. Mon regard s'est port? sur la colonne de droite (toujours la colonne de droite) et j'y ai trouv? un badge qui m'?tait inconnu. C'est un badge de vibstars.
Vibstars
Vibstars se d?finit comme une plateforme de SocialBuzzing. Ma perception est que Vibstars prend le m
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C’est l’équation de Dirac, et c’est la plus belle de toute la physique. Elle décrit le phénomène de l’entrelacement quantique, qui affirme que
“Si deux systèmes interagissent entre eux pendant une certaine période de temps puis se séparent, nous pouvons les décrire comme deux systèmes différents, mais d’une manière subtile, ils deviennent un système unique. Ce qui arrive à l’un continue à affecter l’autre, même à distance de kilomètres ou d’années lumière “.
C’est l’entrelacement quantique ou la connexion quantique. Deux particules qui, à un moment ou à un autre, ont été unies, sont toujours en quelque sorte liées. Peu importe la distance entre les deux, même s’ils se trouvent à des extrêmes opposés de l’univers. La connexion entre elles est instantanée.
C’est la même chose qui se passe entre deux personnes, un lien que seuls les êtres vivants peuvent expérimenter.
C’est la façon dont fonctionne cette relation que nous appelons l’Amour.…
In a world without walls and fences,
who needs Windows and Gates?
- Sun Microsystems
Chaque jour est sp?cial...
Un de mes amis m'a envoy? cette petite r?flexion:
Mon ami ouvrit le tiroir de la commode de son ?pouse et en sorti un
petit paquet envelopp? de papier de soie: " Ceci, dit-il, n'est pas un simple paquet, c'est de la lingerie ".
Il jeta le papier et observa la soie et la dentelle." J'ai achet? ceci
la premi?re fois que nous sommes all?s ? New York, il y a 8 ou 9 ans.
Mais, elle ne l'a jamais utilis?. Elle voulait le conserver pour
une occasion sp?ciale. Et bien... je crois que c'est le bon moment justement".
Il s'approcha du lit et rajouta ce paquet ? d'autres choses que les pompes fun?bres emm?neraient.
Sa femme venait de mourir.
En se tournant vers moi il me dit:" Ne garde rien pour une occasion
sp?ciale, chaque jour que tu vis est une occasion sp?ciale ".
Je pense toujours ? ces paroles....elles ont chang? ma vie.
Aujourd'hui je lis beaucoup plus qu'avant et je nettoie moins.. Je
m'assied sur ma terrasse et admire le paysage sans pr?ter
attention aux mauvaises herbes du jardin. Je passe plus de temps avec
ma famille et mes amis et moins de temps au travail. J'ai compris que la
vie est un ensemble d'exp?riences ? appr?cier. D?sormais je ne
conserve rien.J'utilise mes verres en cristal tous les jours. Je mets
ma nouvelle veste pour aller au supermarch? si l'envie m'en prend. Je
ne garde plus mon meilleur parfum pour les jours de F?te, je l'utilise
d?s que j'en ai envie.
Les phrases du type " un jour... " et " un de ces jours... " sont
entrain d'?tre bannies de mon vocabulaire.
Si cela en vaut la peine, je veux voir, entendre et faire les choses
maintenant. Je ne suis pas tout ? fait s?r de ce qu'aurait fait la femme
de mon ami si elle avait su qu'elle ne serait plus l? demain (un demain
que nous prenons tous ? la l?g?re). Je crois qu'elle aurait appel? sa
famille et ses amis intimes. Peut-?tre aurait-elle appel? quelques
vieux amis pour faire la paix ou s'excuser pour une vieille querellepass?e.
Ce sont toutes ces petites choses non faites qui m'?nerveraient
beaucoup si je savais mes heures compt?es.
Je serais ?nerv? de ne plus avoir vu certains de mes amis avec lesquels
je devais me remettre en contact " un de ces jours "...
?nerv? de ne pas avoir ?crit les lettres que j'avais l'intention
d'?crire un de ces jours.
?nerv? de ne pas avoir dit assez souvent ? mes proches combien je les
aime. Maintenant, je ne retarde rien, ne repousse ou conserve rien qui
pourrait apporter de la joie et des rires ? nos vies. Je me dis que
chaque jour est sp?cial... chaque jour, chaque heure, chaque minute
est sp?ciale...
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In typical client/server computing, servers control the flow of data and information into and out of client computers. Essentially, the server runs the show. With peer-to-peer (P2P) computing, the server is removed from the equation, allowing computers -- and more specifically, their users -- to share files and other data directly, without going through a central server.
Intro to QEDWiki -This QEDWiki video shows you how "Web2.0 puts a face on SOA"... This is the portal of the future which allows to drag&drop mashups to make personalized applications on demand. - (2007-06-26 15:08:07)
My Look Alikes -Cool, I look like Ayrton Senna ! - (2007-06-25 12:00:46)
Sailing in Croatia - Some pictures -Last week I was in Croatia. We sailed in the islands located in front of Split. - (2007-06-17 11:39:22)
Toboggan -Thomas ? la pleine de jeux ? Overijse - (2007-06-01 08:21:42)
Shift Happens -Nice presentation to see - (2007-05-31 08:36:18)
zUniversity -This week is a Mainframe week... - (2007-05-21 10:38:58)
IBM in Second Life -IBM has opened a Business Center in Second Life. See a video. Shoud I join Second life while I have already a busy real life ? - (2007-05-16 09:34:29)
Chat With Sales -Today, I had a unexpected chat with a sales on a virtual booth. It was an interesting experience. - (2007-05-15 15:02:57)
When Are We Unhappy ? -On the Business Quest blog, I watched the TEC presentation on our ability so synthetize happiness. Here are some things I liked in this presentation. - (2007-05-10 14:18:18)
Lego Vs Playmobil SOA -The interesting discussion around Little Vs Big SOA leads me to write about what I describe as Lego Vs Playmobil SOA. - (2007-05-10 14:05:57)
Business Services Repository -Following a discussion with another talented architect, here are some examples of how a SOA "Business" Service should look like. My point : it should only be understandable text... - (2007-05-10 09:30:34)
How good are we at pursuing happiness? -A fascinating presentation at TED Talks about our ability to "synthesize" happiness (from Business Quests in the Information Age). - (2007-05-07 10:31:59)
Lisboa's Azulejos -I was in Lisbon last weekend and I took photos of Azulejos on houses. Here is the collage of all those Azulejos. - (2007-05-06 20:13:45)
Euthanasie -(joke) Hier soir, ma femme et moi ?tions assis ? table ? discuter de choses et d'autres. Puis, nous en sommes venus ? parler de l'euthanasie... - (2007-05-06 19:25:34)
SOA Principles -Read here the seven priciples of Service orientation - (2007-05-02 13:13:01)
After SOA, there is WOA -? The SOA with reach: Web-Oriented Architecture | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com - (2007-05-02 13:08:20)
Types of Business Processes -Which types of business processes would benefit from a Business Process Management Platform on top of a SOA ? - (2007-04-30 21:12:23)
HelpNDoc -If you want to create Windows Help files and/or HTML Help files, use HelpNDoc. It's a very simple tool for that. - (2007-04-20 08:42:59)
SoftwareTV -Here you can see all IBM Software in action !! - (2007-04-19 08:28:38)
On Demand -IBM's strategy aims at helping businesses to become "On Demand". - (2007-04-12 14:43:57)
IBM TV -IBM also has its TV channel (cfr previous post on HP TV) - (2007-04-12 13:45:00)
Anderlecht - Standard : 1 - 0 -Last friday, We were invited by Proximus in the Business Seats to attend Anderlecht Standard.
See a picture here. - (2007-04-10 12:16:00)
RESTful Web Services -You can design a web service that uses HTTP, XHTML, and URIs. You just need to understand REST, the architectural principles that drive the web - (2007-03-30 15:32:10)
I joined IBM last Friday -I have made a carreer move. I left HP and joined IBM last week. My new function : SWITA - Software IT Architect in the IBM Software Group. - (2007-03-20 16:03:24)
Pipes: Del.icio.us -I tested Yahoo! Pipes. Here is my first pipe (Yahoo! pipe). - (2007-03-14 14:15:20)
Sur Mon Velo -Si le bonheur existait, a quoi serviraient les petits bonheurs ? - (2007-03-13 14:58:42)
MIT OpenCourseWare - OCW Home -MIT OCW is a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. Is a publication of MIT course materials and it does not require any registration. - (2007-03-12 09:10:25)
SMS Organizer -I finally found a program which allows to export SMS from my iPaq. How can it be that people need to develop freeware for such functions ? They seem to be essential. Microsoft, wake up ! - (2007-02-20 09:15:57)
The world map of hapiness -Don't try to know if you are happy. It only depends on your country... - (2007-02-19 20:58:54)
Allergic To Superficiality -Until recently, I have never been allergic to anything. But since I have several years of experience and I better understand what managing a company or a task is all about, over the years, I believe I have developped a kind of very specific allergy : Alle - (2007-02-19 14:27:10)
Thomas Chevalier -Un test de Postcardviewer... - (2007-02-16 16:16:04)
Documenting Business Processes in my SOA Repository Prototype -My SOA repository prototype is an open structured database. One can also document the business processes which make use of the services or alternatively document the services which are required for a business process. - (2007-02-12 14:39:25)
2000 Bloggers -I'm one of them... - (2007-02-05 08:41:25)
How the web changes our life -See how web technology changes and can/could impact our values - (2007-02-05 08:38:53)
Some book statistics -You want to write a book ? Ok. But who will read it ? Not the Americans. 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college. 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year. 70 percent of U.S. adults have not - (2007-02-02 18:28:08)
Product Development 2.0 (Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog) -"Product Development 2.0" is a concept that embodies concepts such as harnessing collective intelligence, users as co-creators, and turning applications into platforms, 3 of the most powerful techniques of Web 2.0 - (2007-02-02 07:03:39)
Mal de t?te avec bluetooth ? Moi aussi. - (2007-01-30 16:20:12)
Entrypot -I found a name for my new development : Entrypot - (2007-01-30 12:34:19)
Google my site -God I love Internet Technology ! Just think about it, develop a php page in 3 minutes, Upload it and that's it : you can google my Website !! - (2007-01-29 20:56:14)
Two Readings On Leadership -This weekend I read two books on Leadership. Find them here + some comments. - (2007-01-29 20:34:15)
KXEN -I was told Kxen products are great to "Make sense of your data. Make better decisions. Every day!" - (2007-01-26 11:47:26)
HP StorageWorks Continuous Information Capture Solution - Overview -The next buzzword in Information Management is CIC - Continusous Information Capture. It allows capturing information in real time and revert to its state at any point in time back in the past... - (2007-01-26 08:49:30)
I release a Simple SOA repository prototype today -I have developed a simple SOA repository in php and I'm now waiting for feedback. If I have positive feedback I will develop it further and maybe release it on ?SourceForge. - (2007-01-23 17:39:34)
Mountain Bike Downhill -If you like Montain Bike like me, you have to watch this video. Then I take some philosophic conclusions (why not?) - (2007-01-18 07:38:18)
My Nerd Score -My God ! I'm a High Nerd !!! I took the test and I'm neadyer than 87% of the people... - (2007-01-17 13:02:16)
An XMLMind Map -I'm currently building a database of key slides and illustrations I have used during my carreer. Here is a mindmap I did for XML Days in 2002. - (2007-01-17 08:28:52)
The End Of Writing On The Web -A remark on the obvious trend that video posts are more and more popular these days + an example. - (2007-01-16 14:21:33)
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I think I will NEVER go to a Tiesto concert again : It was way too expensive (35?/pers) for the experience that we had. The place was too much overcrowded and it was impossible to move or to find a confortable place where you could just stand to listen to the excellent music.
With our managerial point of view, we found that Noxx could be much better managed on the operational side. A lot of machines slow down the process at the bar, at the locker room... We also had to queue 25 minutes in the rain and cold before we could get in.
Pro
On the positive side, Tiesto's music is really GREAT. We had to wait until 02:30 for Tiesto to start the concert. Even if the other DJ before Tiesto was very good, once Tiesto started we could feel that the music had jumped into a higher level, a master level.
Also as it was overcrowded in the main room, we moved away and we enjoyed dancing in the 2 other rooms where other DJs were mixing. They were excellent as well.
So we had fun but it was not optimal for enjoying Tiesto's music and therefore we have the feeling that the value for money was too low.
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On Monday January 13th 2020, I attended an event organized by Cyberwayfinder. The event thema was about the different types of architecture required to take care of business strategy, data, technology, security and risk in order to design a Digital Enterprise in a structured way.
The inspection process
At some point one of the presenters talked about an important process for Enterprise/Business/IT/Application Architects : the inspection of the delivery.
This is a well-known problem in IT projects: the target architecture is very often not respected for many good and bad reasons.
This raises the question of “inspection”. When do we inspect the work in progress as Enterprise Architects ? Do we have a mandate for inspection ?
Continuous or punctual inspection ?
We could imagine two types of inspection: continuous or punctual. The continuous inspection requires much more time but is maybe the only way in the context of agile projects…
What to do with deviations ?
At the end of an inspection, deviations could be identified. What can we do with such deviations ?
We accept the deviation and re-integrate it in the “AS-BUILT” architecture
We can ask an immediate rework because the deviation is not acceptable (e.g. bad implementation of security constraints)
We don’t accept the deviation but we don’t force the immediate rework : we register a “technical debt”.
…
Vous connaissez le sens secret et fiscal de ces trois lettres : T.V.A. ?
Si vous prenez les deux premières lettres, T.V., cela veut dire, en clair : – As-tu payé la taxe sur la T.V. ?
Les lettres V.A. veulent dire : Va ! Va payer la taxe sur la T.V. !
Puis T.A. : Ta. Traduire : T’as payé la taxe sur la TV ? … Ah … Alors VA la payer !
C’est un rappel à l’ordre constant. Même si vous lisez les lettres à l’envers, elles vous rappellent encore quelque chose :
A.V : « Avez-vous payé … ?«
A.T : « Hâtez-vous de payer ! …«
V.T : « Vêtez-vous et hâtez-vous de payer la taxe sur la T.V. !«
I was doing my daily blog reading when I landed on Slideshare. On the right column there is a list on the most downloaded slide sets. I was attracted by a presentation on Critical Thinking. This is the conclusion :
Why bother with Critical Thinking ?
"We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that haven't yet been invented, in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet"
The accumulation and control of capital by individuals and corporations is the dominant economic system. But the majority of people don't own capital, only debt.
We all know capitalism works for the wealthier minority, but does it work for the majority?
My Answer
If you read the book of Josef E. Stiglitz, The Roaring Nineties, you will understand that Capitalism will work only with the right regulations.
Regulations by the governement must allow the re-distribution of richness. If you don't tax the capital, than it tends to accumulate. If you let the situation evolve like this all the capital can go to the same people and those people will eventually become the new kings of the world. They will own everything, and everybody who has debt will be a their service. Without regulations the winner takes it all.
Too much regulation is not good as well : It's called Communism.
After you have understood this you agree to pay up to 55% taxes as I do in Belgium because you understand that it's the price to your freedom. You also understand that we should reduce debt because its the a kind of new form of slavery... Between getting all your salary free of taxes and have everything taken by the government, the Belgian Solution is the compromise...
The only problem is that only labour is taxed like this, not capital.... With the Gloabilization of the economy we run a high risk because no government has the sovereignty over the whole world to regulate the capital flows.
So capitalism works ! With right regulations !
At the university I had an Political-Economy course and the teacher told us the following story.
During WW2, a man comes in a village with a big case full of cash. He asks the owner of a restaurant to keep the money until the end of the war. After the war, the mysterious man doesn't come to get the money. After several years the owner of the restaurant decides to borrow a part of the money to extend his restaurant. By doing so he pays some people of the village for the construction, then he can attract more customers and can reimburse the borrowed money. The people in the construction sector can buy new tools and make bigger constructions, so they can go more often to the restaurant.
Eventually the mysterious man comes back to the restaurant and doesn't ask for his money. The owner tells him he still has the case but the stranger doesn't mind : "This money is false" !!
The conclusion is : money is good when it changes hands !
So go and spend all your money : you will enjoy life and do a good action.
Google faces a lot of attacks from publishers to pay money for their supposedly non-authorized reuse of information.
There is a intellectual honesty that needs to be re-established around this "copyright" question.
When a company publishes something, it's means to give (or sell) it to the public. Can the public reuse that information once they access it ? Yes : they can at least talk about it. Now : what's the difference if Google takes it and talks about it on the web by indexing it and making it searchable ? If this information is not meant to be reused for free than why is it published and exposed without any serious protection ?
This makes me think about the fishermen's crisis in France. The fishermen's real problem is not the oil price : it's the fact that their real cost of fish is not reflected in their prices. They sell at loss.
Similarly if publishers have to claim money to Google it's because they just dumped their content on the web instead of finding ways to get something out of it from the start.
Claiming money to Google shows the weakness of those companies' business models which are outdated.
Alors l?, Coup de chapeau a Yannick Noah qui n'a m?me pas essay? d'?tre politiquement correct sur RTL alors qu'il ?tait interrog? sur l'arrestation de son fils...
Yannick Noah n?en veut pas ? Joakim R?agissant sur RTL ? l?arrestation en Floride (Etats-Unis) de son fils Joakim, qui poss?dait de la drogue et buvait sur la voie publique, Yannick Noah a racont? comment il a rassur? son fils. ? Je lui ai dit que ce n??tait pas grave, a indiqu? l?ancien champion de tennis. De ne rien changer. Juste d?essayer ne pas se faire choper la prochaine fois. Je lui ai dit, regarde moi ch?ri : ?a fait vingt ans que je fais le con mais je reste populaire parce que les gens pensent que je suis un mec bien. Essaie de faire la m?me chose. ? (Mercredi 28 Mai - 11:40)
Bon, je ne dirais pas la m?me chose ? mon fils, mais au moins il n'a pas cach? ce qu'il pense. J'adore. Chapeau Bas.
Netlog is special to me because it has been created in Belgium (Gent). This make me want to use it. My first impression is really good. It could be a good alternative to Facebook if Microsoft buys it because they now support the Open Social standards.
As IT Architect, it's quiet easy to jump from IT Architecture to Business Architecture. The Service Oriented Entreprise (SOE) concepts are very close to the SOA concepts, except that instead of organizing systems and functions, it's about organizing businesses (services, products, people, processes and technology). The methodology proposed by Niels Klinkenberg results in Business Architectures which look like those of IBM's Component Business Modeling (CBM).
During the course, I liked how the Growth Phases Model of Larry Greiner was used to explain that the agile business architectures of tomorrow are a network of highly entrepreneurial Business Units (called Domains) which are specialized, higly efficient (benchmarked), have to obey the corporate "Playing Rules" and have to add value to the company. This makes of Governance (Corporate, IT, HR, Financial...) a central success factor. How to govern a large company that needs to be agile ? To answer this question, you'd better first have a good idea of its Business Architecture...
This Sunday, we took the chance to ride our bikes on the Highway (E411) and on the largest roads of Brussels (petite ceinture, De Brouck?re...) during the BicyCity. Very pleasant. Good atmosphere. We'll do it again. Note that our target this year is to complete "De Gordel" (100 Km around Brussels).
This Saturday we went to the Belgian Lesbian & Gay Pride and we had a lot of fun. We went to the Pride Party because we tought the music would be good and it was... excellent.
The DJs were great and there were two concerts : Milk Inc and Kate Ryan. These two top artists are linked to each others with the tunes of DJ Richie 4Fingers (Phenomena, Ap?ro - Leuven; Cockpit XS/XL - Cologne).
Around 20:00, Milk Inc was super as last time we say them at the DruivenFeesten in Overijse. Unfortunately for them the Ancienne Belgique was not very crowded at that time. Not bad for us : we had a kind of private concert :-)
Around 22:00, Kate Ryan was good (but not as good as Milk Inc). The tracks of her new album sounded good : promissing ? We will see.
Yesterday, Nick Donofrio gave a session on innovation at IBM Belgium.
I really had the feeling to be in front of a legend. For 44 years he has been working on the most innovative IBM projects : the transition to CMOS, the System/360, the RS6000... He has surfed all the important IT waves with style.
Mr Donofrio will retire in October this year and he mainly emphasized on what makes IBM a great company :
IBM's strenght : the combination of Systems, Software and Services which allow to create value
IBM's strategy
Focus on open technologies and high value solutions
Deliver innovation and integration to our clients
Become the premier globally integrated company
Being global is an important topic for IBM, according to Nick Donofrio. And indeed IBM has lauched many initiatives around globalization:
the global innovation outlook with global topics on the agenda like Water, Security and the society in a global world...
the global citizenship portfolio which will provide IBMers with valuable tools to enhance their expertise and careers within a globally integrating economy.
To start and to finish his speech Mr Donofrio encouraged the IBMers to anticipate change and to use change as an opportunity. Or even better : create the change. He explained how his father created change for his family. He wanted the best for Nick and created the change by setting hard work as a mean to reach a better education level. (Was it a success ? Apparently yes.) The only explanation for this move was : "If nothing changes, nothing changes". Be an actor of change.
And for IBM one of the current changes is... globalization.
Pour Arnaud Nourry PDG de Hachette Livre : Il faudra au moins deux g?n?rations? | Cluster21 : la communaut? du digital, des m?dias ? la e-d?mocratie...
J'ai comment? cet article sur le blog de Lorenzo Socclavo.
I really enjoy playing with the web and all the social tools. There is something that is quiet well advanced called Yahoo! Pipes. With Yahoo!Pipes you can reuse contents on the web and republish it in another form without programming.
Look at the following. The following Pipe allows me to collect 4 feeds (different places where you can comment my posts) and republish it as once.
To do that you drag & drop : - 4 "Fetch Feed" Sources : you have to give the URL of the rss feed - the "Union" Operator it merges the 4 feeds into 1 - the "Sort" Operator which allows to sort the new feed - by date descending for instance.
You can see the result of this Pipe here : Comments
There are much more drag&drops you can do. Check it out on Yahoo! Pipes by creating a new pipe.
After that what you want to exploit your new feed, you can burn it or obtain it as a bagde...
I personnaly use the PHP feature. The result can be streamed as a php array.
Here is the code I use to exploit my Yahoo! Pipe (download it here):
I was today in a "Personal Improvement" course. During the course we learned about the JoHari window. It's a model that allows you to become more open by better stating your expectations towards someone else (openess) and by requesting feedback (self-knowledge).
Today my ex-brother in law Olivier Mailleux (38) passed away due the consequences of his cancer. As a real Engineer, he loved the power of 2. He died on 2008 04 08...
It's a huge loss for all the people who loved him as he was... and I'm one of them. :'-(
Today I was at our restaurant and what do I see : Coca Cola Light Plus Antioxidant ! I bought it to try. It seems Coca-Cola has very well understood what drives consumers to buy such a product... Wel done Coca Cola.
Last friday (feb 29, 2008), we travelled to Switzerland to participate to an event around ePaper organized by a company called iWare and heig-vd (Haute Ecole d'Ing?nierie du Canton de Vaud).
It was a good opportunity to make a nice mini-trip in Switzerland and have a good overview of the ePaper market.
All the orators were quiet good. I also wanted to meet Mr Soccavo who is the author of the Nouvolivractu blog that I follow.
We could have a look at different eBook readers. Here : the Bookeen of Cybook.
Casse-toi, pauvre con : Sarkozy, on l'aime ou on l'aime pas.
Sarkozy, on l'aime ou on ne l'aime pas mais il ne laisse pas indiff?rent. Moins les Fran?ais l'aiment, plus je l'appr?cie.
Le Sarkozy que je n'aime pas.
Quand il ?tait candidat je n'?tais pas en faveur de Sarkozy. Tout simplement car mon coeur est plus ? gauche.
Face aux nouveaux d?fis ? globalisation, comp?titivit?, ?mergence du BRIC, d?clin des USA, d?fis ?nerg?tiques, il y a clairement deux approches. Jouer la comp?titivit? ? tout prix ou au contraire promouvoir d'autres valeurs.
Je n'aime pas l'approche de Sarkozy : jouer la comp?titivit?
La premi?re approche consiste ? surench?rir sur la comp?titivit?. Vendre plus que les autres, ?tre plus comp?titif, rafler les march?s, suivre la loi du plus fort. Ca n'est pas mon approche pr?f?r?e m?me si il ne faut pas ?tre naif par rapport ? la puissance des capitaux et de l'argent dans ce bas monde. Pour moi la comp?tition extr?me c'est la guerre et il n'est pas ?tonnant que le pays qui se veut le plus comp?titif (les US) sont en guerre aujourd'hui.
L'alternative ? Sarkozy: l'approche Humaniste
La deuxi?me approche, celle que je pr?ferre est plus humaniste que capitaliste. Elle met l'homme avant le capital, le social avant le lib?ral. Le Sarkozy que je n'aime pas c'est celui qui veut qu'on ? travaille plus pour gagner plus ?. Peut-?tre on gagne un peu plus, mais qui gagne ? le plus ? dans ce jeu : le management, les actionnaires, les employ?s ? Les traders ? Peut-?tre suis-je id?aliste mais je veux suivre ceux qui proposent autre chose que le capitalisme et ? la main invisible ? pour rendre les hommes heureux. ? Et si le luxe c'?tait l'espace ? ? : le temps libre, travailler moins, faire plus de sport, manger sainement, donner du travail et de la dignit? ? tout le monde, profiter d'une nature propre ? Et si ca coutait moins cher au final ? Combien co?te la guerre en Irak ?
C'est donc dans le domaine politique que je n'aime pas Sarkozy. Mais bon, les Fran?ais ont choisi et maintenant il est l? !
Le Sarkozy que j'adore
J'aime vraiment le personnage Sarkozy, celui qui a des probl?mes d'image aujourd'hui.
Sarkozy, on ne peut pas l'accuser de ne pas ?tre direct. Il va sur le terrain et quand il n'est pas bien accueilli, il s'explique. Il est ? l'oppos? du Politiquement correct et c'est en fait cela qui me plait. Pourquoi ne pas dire ? Casse-toi ? ? un type quand c'est tellement vrai, tout le monde le pense au moment m?me : pourquoi ce type est justement l? s'il ne veut pas voir Sarkozy ?
Combien je le comprend ! Je suis si souvent oblig? dans mon travail de ravaler mes pens?es que si un jour je devient aussi bien plac? que Sarkozy, je ne vais pas me priver de dire leurs 4 v?rit?s ? ceux qui n'ont rien ? faire l? o? ils sont. Tout comme j'appr?cierai qu'on me dise clairement quand je d?passe les limites, d'ailleurs. La communication du Futur, ca n'est pas une communication qui contient des tabous. C'est une communication directe et franche qui montre clairement ce qu'on veut. C'est une base saine pour la n?gociation.
Qu'on le veuille ou non, Sarkozy avec son style direct a su faire ?merger les vrai sujets qui posent probl?me en France: le pouvoir d'achat, l'esprit d'entreprise, la langue de bois... La commission Attali en est un superbe exemple : quel pav? dans la marre Administrative Fran?aise !
(Il nous faudrait la m?me commission en Belgique mais il y aurait alors 2100 propositions, 300 par gouvernement - F?d?ral, Wallon, Flamand, Bruxellois, Francophone, N??rlandophone, Germanophone)
J'adore : Sarkozy est sur le terrain
Il pourrait se cacher dans son agenda mais non. Il va au contact. J'aime bien ca. Parfois ca frotte un peu et il d?rape. Peu importe. Il est la. Il est pr?sent. Il y a un pilote dans l'avion.
J'adore : Sarkozy vit la vie qui lui plait
Il ?pouse une top model italienne, il va en vacances en jet priv?, il se bourre la gueule avec Poutine... Il se fout du ? Qu'en dira t'on ?. Quelle libert? ! J'adore. Comment mieux dire ? merde ? ? ceux qui savent mieux comment il faut vivre sa vie ?
J'adore : Sarkozy a un plan
Malgr? les hauts et les bas m?diatiques, Sarkozy a un plan. Contrairement ? Chirac, qui dans le film ? Dans la peau de Jacques Chirac ? semble se demander qu'est-ce qu'il va faire ? part gagner les ?lections, Sarkozy poss?de un plan essentiellement ?conomique. Pour ce faire, il est maintenant le plus gros repr?sentant commercial de la France. Il vent des avions (airbus, rafalle), des centrales nucl?aires ou des trains ? grande vitesse. Comme tout excellent commercial il utilise un jet priv?, sors avec une top-model, fait des beaux voyages et a une Rolex. Il ne lui manque que la Ferrari comme dirait l'excellent Nicolas Canteloup sur Europe1. Le plan de Sarkozy c'est de vendre la France pour qu'elle soit plus riche.
Encore une fois ca n'est pas le plan que j'aurais choisi mais j'aime quand les gens ont un plan. J'admire donc Sarkozy pour cela.
Le Bilan : Wait and See
Le jugement se fera donc dans 4 ans, ? la fin de son quinquennat. Je pense que Sarkozy aura un bon bilan. Il aura r?ussi ? fouetter la France et ? la rendre un peu plus comp?titive. Si il n'y a pas de mauvaise nouvelle majeure entre-temps (nouvelle guerre, actions terroristes, crack boursier, famine), il en sortira grandi.
Malheureusement son succ?s aura cr?? encore plus de tensions sur le plan International car la France sera de plus en plus agressive sur les march?s. Cette approche menant un peu plus vers l' ? Hyper Conflit ? de Jacques Attali (tel que d?crit dans son livre ? Une br?ve histoire de l'avenir ?).
I have tested today the GTalk/Twitter integration. By sending an instant message to Twitter you can twitt and receive your friends twitts. It's really great : Twitter becomes a kind of broadcasting chat engine.
It's a common trend that I have seen at IBM also. You can add a service - called a Bot- as one of your buddiesand ask him questions. It's the computer on the other side who talks to you.
For example, at IBM we have a number of Instant Messaging bots available on Sametime to employees, including:
Calendar, which searches the calendars of specified people to find a mutually available meeting time
Dictionary, which looks up requested words in an online dictionary
Help, which allows users to search across multiple online help systems
RemindMe, which notifies users when a time/calendar event occurs (for example an upcoming meeting or vacation)
SkillTap, which finds and connects users with others possessing one or more requested skills
Stockquote, which retrieves price data from any online stock market ticker (not that we spend a lot of time doing this during work hours, of course!)
WhatIs, which defines IBM acronyms (and is therefore very popular)
There is a technical article over here : Building your own Sametime bots. If you know some good bots for GTalk, MSN or Yahoo, please let me know.
Marrakech, malgr? la pollution, est une ville o? il fait bon vivre. Nous avons profit? de ses belles couleurs amplifi?es par le soleil : le jaune des b?timents, le vert des palmiers (c'est une oasis), les couleurs des souks, le jaune du jus d'orange, le bleu du ciel, le blanc de la neige au sommet des montagens de l'atlas...
Marrakesh c'est aussi un spectacle permanent. Notre attention est sollicit?e par le grouillement de mobylettes, de vendeurs dans les souks, d' ouvriers sur les chantiers , de cireurs de chaussures, de personnes qui demandent ce que nous cherchons dans l'espoir d'obtenir un bakchich sur une vente improbable, de taxis et de cal?ches qui veulent nous ballader, de vendeurs de cigarettes ou de cacahou?tes, de policiers qui surveillent chaque carrefour, des petites charrettes tir?es par des ?nes au milieu des bus et de gros 4x4...
Symphony is IBM's alternative to Microsoft Office. Lotus Symphony ha been crowned Office Productivity Software Product of the Year by Datamation Magazine for 2008.
Still playing with technology. I tested today the integration of CoComment with my website. If you use CoComment, let me know here so maybe I integrate it everywhere in the future.
"I really want to know what it is about programming, or computers in general, that makes people want to grow a beard, have long hair, and dress like a slob."
We than went to the BOZAR for a second Europalia exposition called "Encompassing the Globe - Portugal and the World in the 16th and the 17th Centuries" which shows how the Portuguese have travelled the world : Africa, Asia, America.
Visiting museums like this is also another way to enjoy Brussels.
En cette p?riode de soldes, il est navrant d'observer les gens dans les commerces. Combien de personnes me d?passent, me bousculent, me marchent sur les pieds, ou bloquent le passage pour arriver en premier je ne sais o?, voir un v?tement qu'ils vont jetter par terre sans l'acheter.Dans le m?tro de Bruxelles, ceux qui montent n'attendent m?me plus que ceux qui descendent soient sortis. M?me dans les avenues les plus luxueuses de Bruxelles, l'impolitesse et le "moi d'abord" priment, ? l'image des grosses BMW qui d?passent toute la file et, au bout de celle-ci, forcent le passage pour passer en premier...
Bien entendu ca n'est pas vraiment de leur faute, ils vivent simplement comme ca. On ne leur a jamais dit. Ils ne remarquent m?me pas qu'ils poussent les autres pour passer.
Cela me donne envie de retourner ? la campagne faire du VTT dans les champs et la boue mais l? aussi peut-?tre un exit? de la comp?tition va peut-?tre me crier dessus pour passer "A DROITE" ou "A GAUCHE".
Mais que dois-je dire ? mon fils ? De se laisser pousser ou de pousser aussi, comme les autres ?
Que dois-je faire le matin ? D?passer la file de l'E411 par la gauche avant de faire une queue de poisson juste avant le ring pour passer avant tous ceux qui ont attendu normalement ?
"Et si le luxe c'?tait l'Espace ?" demande le constructeur automobile Renault.
L'?ducation et la politesse sont-ils aussi un luxe auquel peu de personnes ont acc?s ?
You and I will find these statements there particularly relevant:
The point is to make the EditText form simple and the FindPage search fast.
In addition to being quick, this site also aspires to Zen ideals generally labeled WabiSabi. Zen finds beauty in the imperfect and ephemeral. When it comes down to it, that's all you need.
The Universe tends toward chaos. The Universe tends toward Wiki.
You can say hello on RecentVisitors, or read about HowToUseWiki and AddingPages. Currently this Wiki has no theme for discussion, so go ahead and play with it and have fun!!
I have a special interest in eBooks and ePaper Technology.
I believe sooner or later the eBook and ePaper technology will eventually emerge allowing to distribute content in a much wider way. It will be the same revolution as with MP3 for Music.
Ganaxa - Ganaxa, e-paper systems architect and operator, was created specifically to help companies develop, deploy and integrate this revolutionary new technology. http://www.ganaxa.com/pres
"Dieu est mort, Marx est mort et moi-m?me, je ne me sens pas tr?s bien?"
"Si Dieu existe, j'esp?re qu'il a une bonne excuse."
"Si seulement Dieu me donnait une preuve = r?elle de son existence !
Comme par exemple d?poser une grosse somme ? mon nom dans une banque suisse."
"L'Homme a ?t? fait ? l'image de Dieu. Mais pensez-vous vraiment que Dieu soit roux et porte des lunettes ?"
"Un bon ?l?ve, c'est celui qui reste ? la biblioth?que m?me quand il n'y a plus de fille s?duisante dans la pi?ce."
"Un petit mot sur la contraception orale. J'ai demand? ? une fille de coucher avec moi et elle a dit "non"."
"La derni?re fois que j'ai p?n?tr? une femme, c'?tait en visitant la statue de la Libert?."
"Cette montre, j'y tiens beaucoup. Elle me vient de mon grand-p?re. Il me l'a vendue sur son lit de mort."
"Tout ce qui est bon selon les parents, ne l'est pas. Le soleil, le lait, la viande rouge, le coll?ge?"
"Mes parents ont v?cu quarante ans ensemble, mais par pure animosit?."
"L'avantage d'?tre intelligent, c'est qu'on peut toujours faire l'imb?cile, alors que l'inverse est totalement impossible."
"L'intelligence artificielle se d?finit comme le contraire de la b?tise naturelle."
"Je suis si intelligent que mon cerveau est mon deuxi?me organe favori !"
"On n'a jamais vu un aveugle dans un camp de nudistes."
"Une auto-stoppeuse est une jeune femme, g?n?ralement jolie et court v?tue,
qui se trouve sur votre route quand vous ?tes avec votre femme."
"Une horloge cass?e a raison au moins deux fois dans la journ?e."
"Les ennuis, c'est comme le papier hygi?nique, on en tire un, il en vient dix."
Ma mort ne m'inqui?te pas. J'aimerais simplement ne pas ?tre l? lorsque ?a se produira."
"Je pr?f?re l'incin?ration ? l'enterrement, et les deux ? un week-end avec ma famille."
"Tant que l'homme sera mortel, il ne sera jamais d?contract?."
"Des erreurs, j'en ai fait. D'abord, je suis n?. Premi?re erreur !"
"L'?ternit? c'est long, surtout vers la fin."
"La premi?re fois que j'ai vu une dame nue, j'ai cru qu'il s'agissait d'une erreur."
"Le sexe all?ge les tensions, tandis que l'amour les provoque."
"Quand on m'a demand? si je trouvais que l'amour physique ?tait sale,
j'ai r?pondu : "Ca l'est, si on le pratique correctement".
"Pour ma part, je suis h?t?rosexuel. Mais il faut le reconna?tre, le bisexuel a deux fois plus de chances le samedi soir."
"L'argent est pr?f?rable ? la pauvret?, ne serait-ce que pour des raisons financi?res."
"Dans votre ascension professionnelle, soyez toujours tr?s gentil envers ceux que vous d?passez en montant.
Vous les retrouverez au m?me endroit en redescendant."
Charles Plumb ?tait pilote de chasse dans la marine am?ricaine au Vietnam. Apr?s 75 missions de combat, son avion fut abattu par un missile sol-air. Il s'?jecta de son appareil et atterrit, sain et sauf, gr?ce ? son parachute, dans une zone contr?l?e par l'ennemi.
Il fut, par la suite, captur? par les communistes et d?tenu pendant 6 ann?es. Mais, il surv?cut ? l'?preuve et donne encore aujourd'hui des conf?rences sur les le?ons qu'il a tir?es de toutes ses exp?riences.
Un jour, Plumb et sa femme ?taient assis dans un restaurant, lorsqu'un homme se leva d'une autre table et s'approcha de lui pour lui dire :
"Vous ?tes Plumb, n'est-ce pas? Vous ?tiez pilote de chasse au Vietnam sur le porte-avions Kitty Hawk. Votre avion a ?t? abattu ! ".
"Comment donc savez-vous tout ?a ?" demanda Plumb.
"Je me suis occup? de votre parachute", r?pondit l'homme.
Plumb fut tr?s surpris de la r?ponse et lui exprima, finalement, toute sa gratitude. L'homme fit un geste de la main et dit : "L'important, c'est qu'il a bien fonctionn?, n'est-ce pas?".
Et Plumb lui assura : "Et comment! Si votre parachute n'avait pas fonctionn?, je ne serais pas de ce monde aujourd'hui".
Plumb n'arrivait pas ? dormir cette nuit-l?, car il pensait sans cesse ? cet homme. Il se demandait ? quoi il ressemblait dans un uniforme de
marine: un b?ret blanc, une bavette dans le dos et un pantalon ? pattes d'?l?phant.
Combien de fois il avait pu le voir sans m?me lui dire "Bonjour, comment ?a va ?" ou quelque chose de ce genre. Car, voyez-vous, Plumb ?tait pilote de chasse alors que cet homme ?tait marin, sur le m?me navire.
Plumb pensa ? toutes ces heures que le marin avait pass?es, au coeur du navire, ? plier soigneusement des parachutes sur une longue table de bois, ayant ? chaque instant entre les mains le destin de personnes qu'il ne connaissait probablement pas toutes.
Suite ? cette rencontre, lors de ses conf?rences, Plumb demande donc ? son auditoire : "Qui prend soin de votre parachute ? Nous avons toujours besoin de quelqu'un pour prendre soin de notre "parachute"
physique, ?motionnel, mental ou m?me spirituel. Et vous savez quoi, souvent, sans le savoir, nous avons tous quelqu'un qui nous donne ce dont nous avons besoin pour passer la journ?e, pour nous aider lors de moments difficiles, etc.
Parfois, en raison des vicissitudes de la vie quotidienne, nous oublions ce qu'il y a de vraiment important. Nous oublions de dire "Bonjour", "S'il vous pla?t", "Merci", ou de f?liciter une personne qui vient de vivre un ?v?nement important pour elle. Nous oublions de faire tout simplement un compliment ou une gentillesse, uniquement pour le plaisir de le faire.
Au cours des prochains jours, de ce mois-ci ou de cette ann?e, reconnaissez les gens qui "prennent soin de votre parachute". Moi, je vous ai adress? ce message pour vous remercier ? ma fa?on de m'aider ? "prendre soin de mon parachute" !!!
Et, j'esp?re que vous l'enverrez ? tous ceux et celles qui ont "pris soin du v?tre"!
Parfois, on se demande pourquoi certaines personnes continuent ? nous ?crire, ? nous envoyer des histoires dr?les sans nous ?crire un seul ou peu de mots? Peut-?tre parce qu'on a tout simplement envie, malgr? tout, d'entretenir la relation!
C'est aussi, sans doute, une fa?on de montrer qu'on pense ? vous, que vous ?tes une personne importante ? nos yeux, qu'on vous aime bien, tout simplement!
La prochaine fois, donc, que vous recevrez une histoire dr?le, un message ou autre, sachez que cela signifie qu'on a pens? ? vous aujourd'hui et que votre ami(e) ? l'autre bout de son ordinateur voulait juste vous envoyer
un sourire et un clin d'oeil.
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Already a long time ago I developped a php script to search my own IE favorites.
This week, I have improved it with a second script in order to export the search into RSS.
In order to run it you need to have a apache + php configured on your pc.
Edit the script and change the path to your favorites folder. Search for this line.
$favorites_folder="C:/Documents and Settings/declercj/Favorites";
It's possible I'll use Del.icio.us more and more, which will make the favorite search obsolete. Also the search in favorites should be integrated directly in the brower (like in Mozilla for instance).
www.Lowas.be - This page is the list of all sites I have... It is also the wiki which is integrated into www.jfdeclercq.com. Look here to find out what it means.
www.jfdeclercq.com is my personal web site. Go there to have my latest news.
mba.Lowas.be - Some follow up on my MBA and links to MBA related stuff. My MBA is now finished so it's not moving anymore. I would route you to MBAPedia instead.
This website (http://www.internetactu.net/?p=6458) has listed some of the most popular mashups.
Making Information reusable with web services or RSS finally allows making innovative Composite applications.
(Well now I work for IBM, I'll start to feed you with IBM related information. Maybe I should read the blog rules firts but ok... I don't think I'll have problems with what I'm goin to write here...)
IBM's strategy aims at helping businesses to become "On Demand".
IBM CEO Sam Palmisano defines an on demand business as:
An enterprise whose business processes - integrated end-to end across the company and with key partners, suppliers and customers - can respond with speed to any customer demand, market opportunity or external threat.
The IBM Software and especially IBM's middelware can help companies to become "on demand".
It's not easy but it's achieveable thanks to SOA and ILM.
(Before telling more I'll ask how much I can talk about IBM on my website...)
The postings on this site are my own and don?t necessarily represent IBM?s positions, strategies or opinions
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securities : Paper certificates (definitive securities) or electronic records (book-entry securities) evidencing ownership of equity (stocks) or debt obligations (bonds). See http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/glossary.htm
Yesterday I attended the Vlerick Winter Reunion and we had an excellent presentation by Bertrand Piccard. Bertrand Piccard is one of the two pilots of the first ever non-stop balloon flight around the world.
It's difficult to summarize all the concepts that were explained yesterday. Here are the topics I have written down. In fact I agree with most of the ideas of Bertrand Piccard and I believe I have already applied them more than once.
Don't fight against the winds, just choose the most favorable one Bertrand Piccard explained that during this air balloon experience, he learned that trying to control everything (an air balloon, your life, your career...) does not automatically lead to success. You also need to stop and feel the possible winds, change your plans and follow the most favorable winds.
Pro-act To be able to adapt to most favorable winds, there is a necessary mind shift which doesn't match our education. We have been trained to eliminate the unknown in order to come back in speed, control and power and work as a bulldozer to reach our goal. We have been trained to react and not to pro-act.
Communication Decision taking when facing the unknown is a difficult task. If you take decisions alone, you face the risk of having too little objectivity. In the balloon decision taking was than the result of a discussion between the two pilots. The problem is that two people sharing ideas are not productive : or they have the same ideas and 1+1=1 or they disagree and 1+1=0. The trick is to avoid expressing ideas but rather sharing experiences. Those experiences being the necessary information for a common decision taking. It's a positive common bottom-up argumentation rather that a destructive top-down opposition of ideas.
In summary "I wish I have the strength to change what I can change,
that I have the courage to accept what I can't change, and that I have the wisdom to be able to make the difference between what I can change and what I can't change"
« les entreprises les plus matures travaillent sur les talents, les process et les business models, là où les autres ont davantage tendance à s’éparpiller, à multiplier les initiatives incohérentes et vouloir aller trop vite sur la technologie. »
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Marrakech, malgr? la pollution, est une ville o? il fait bon vivre. Nous avons profit? de ses belles couleurs amplifi?es par le soleil : le jaune des b?timents, le vert des palmiers (c'est une oasis), les couleurs des souks, le jaune du jus d'orange, le bleu du ciel, le blanc de la neige au sommet des montagens de l'atlas...
Marrakesh c'est aussi un spectacle permanent. Notre attention est sollicit?e par le grouillement de mobylettes, de vendeurs dans les souks, d' ouvriers sur les chantiers , de cireurs de chaussures, de personnes qui demandent ce que nous cherchons dans l'espoir d'obtenir un bakchich sur une vente improbable, de taxis et de cal?ches qui veulent nous ballader, de vendeurs de cigarettes ou de cacahou?tes, de policiers qui surveillent chaque carrefour, des petites charrettes tir?es par des ?nes au milieu des bus et de gros 4x4...
Today, the web is still a human communication media. In the future, the web will be more and more used by machines (for example : web robots that look for the best prices on the market, fridges that help you to compose your virtual shopping basket at your preferred shopping mall,...).
XML is said to be the technology that will help machines to talk with each other on the web. However this is not enough.
For a machine, Information 1 and 2 are equivalent. While for you Information 2 is more relevant to your business.
This week I'm following a SOA Software Training at IBM. IBM's technology is great, but still I realize how Software AG was innovative at the time I worked there back in 2000.
In particular, Bolero, a product which has been stopped did contain many of the importat aspects linked to Business Development leading to an SOA Architecture.
BPM could have been implemented easilly with the Long Running Transactions
Services Business Logic could be written using the Bolero Language (look at IBM's EGL)
In combination with an ongoing Tamino and EntireX integration, Bolero would be, from a technical point of view, very competitive.
This shows me that we sometimes need to believe more in what we are doing and keep on with a strategy. My feeling today is that there was vision and innovation at Software AG at that time, and it could have become a big hit right now...
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Eventually an IT session - in addition to IBM's Proof Of Technology - where people are not afraid of showing the bits and bytes of IT. They are even proud of it.
For many years now, I have been told to "Talk Business", ROI, "Business Value", "Business Drivers", "talk the language of the business"... IT Bullshit level > 50%.
If the business wants to do IT without bits/bytes, I wish them good luck.
Yesterday I was very happy to see 400 people listening carefully to a Netbeans/Ruby/Rails demo! I was fascinating for me to see someone doing something real. THE REAL STUFF...
Last Weekend we did quiet some cycling in Flanders.
On saturday we did the "Limburgse Rivierenland" tour in Halen. It was supposed to be 52 Km. We did 63 and we even did a shortcut at the end.
On sunday we went to Herentals and we followed what is called the "EcoCyclo". There the KM were correct and it was 46 Km. We started from Herenthout and we used the following "KnoopPunten " :
Herenthout - 45 - 46 - 47 - 9 - 10 - 8 - 15 (Let op: we rijden niet volledig tot aan 15. Neem een kijkje aan de watermolen. Het is een waardevol monument. Daarna keer je terug naar 8.) - 19 - 18 - 14 - Hidrodoe - Van Hidrodoe rijd je terug naar de knooppuntenroute. Sla echter niet af naar links richting knooppunt 14, maar blijf rechtdoor rijden. Volg de pijltjes richting Centrum. - 12 - 60 - 62 - 65 - 66 - 43 - 44 - 45
Today (October 18th 2007) for the first time I took the bus at the stop in front of my house (OVERIJSE KERKSTRAAT). Taking the bus to go to work is an unknown feeling. I'm not used to wait 10 minutes before leaving! The travel was nice to the garage where i couldn't get my car : electronics problem. (I write this text from the garage with my phone).
Coming back to the bus story, I believe that one day I'll leave the car for public transportation. It's much more social. You see the people. Also it's I believe cheaper than to own a car. The only problem is flexibility. It doesn't go exactly where you want to go and doesn't start exactly when you want it.
Somehow it obliges to take the time for transport and I like it. Transport than becomes a social experience rather than a car race.
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Hier soir, ma femme et moi ?tions assis ? table ? discuter de choses
et d'autres. Puis, nous en sommes venus ? parler de l'euthanasie.
Sur le sujet d?licat du choix entre la vie et la mort, je lui ai dit :
? Ne me laisse jamais vivre dans un ?tat v?g?tatif, d?pendant d'une
machine et aliment? par le liquide d'une bouteille. Si tu me vois
dans cet ?tat, d?branche les appareils qui me relient ? la vie. ?
Elle s'est lev?e, a d?branch? la t?l?, a ?teint l'ordinateur et a jet?
ma bi?re.
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My course notes are no more available (on lycos)...
Lycos/Multimania has kicked me out ! Because I had too much file trafic (pdf).
I was very upset because the reason they gave me is : "Violation
des droits d'auteur" ?
My notes are my property, right ?
You will not find scans of my course notes here anymore ... http://membres.lycos.fr/jfdeclercq/mmm/.
If you want to have access to my notes or summaries, I will burn a CDROM that I can give you.
Un investisseur am?ricain se prom?ne au bord de l'eau, dans un petit village c?tier mexicain.
Un b?teau rentre au port, contenant plusieurs thons. L'am?ricain complimente le p?cheur mexicain sur la qualit? de ses poissons, et lui demande :
Combien de temps ?a a pris pour p?cher ces poissons ?
Pas tr?s longtemps, r?pond le mexicain.
Mais pourquoi n'?tes-vous pas rest? plus longtemps pour en capturer plus ?, demande le banquier.
Parce que ces quelques poissons suffiront ? subvenir aux besoins de ma famille.
Et vous faites quoi le reste du temps ?
Je fais la grasse matin?e, je p?che un peu, je joue avec mes enfants, je fais la sieste avec ma femme... Le soir, je vais au village, voir mes amis, boire du vin, jouer de la guitare... Une vie bien remplie, quoi !
L'am?ricain l'interrompt :
J'ai un M.B.A. (master of business administration) de l'universit? Harvard, et je peux vous aider. Vous devriez commencer par p?cher plus longtemps, et avec les b?n?fices d?gag?s, vous pourriez vous acheter un plus gros b?teau. Avec l'argent que vous rapporterait ce bateau, vous pourriez en acheter un second, et ainsi de suite jusqu'? ce que vous poss?diez une flotte de chalutier. Au lieu de vendre vos poissons ? un interm?diaire, vous pourriez n?gocier directement avec l'usine, et m?me ouvrir votre propre usine. Vous pourriez alors quitter votre petit village pour Mexico City, Los Angeles, puis peut-?tre New York, d'o? vous dirigeriez vos affaires...
Le Mexicain demande alors :
Combien de temps ?a prendra ?
Quinze ? vingt ans, r?pond le banquier.
Et apr?s ?
Apr?s, c'est l? que ?a deviendrait int?ressant, r?pond l'am?ricain en souriant. Quand le moment sera venu, vous pourriez introduire votre soci?t? en bourse, et vous gagnerez des millions !
Des millions ? Mais apr?s ?
Apr?s, vous pourrez prendre votre retraite, habiter dans un petit village c?tier, faire la grasse matin?e, jouer avec vos enfants, p?cher un peu, faire la sieste avec votre femme et passer vos soir?es ? boire et ? jouer de la guitare avec vos amis...
I came to the same conclusions as the author when thinking about about a technical infrastructure for writing an open source application for myself. The only difference is that I'd prefer php for reusing complete applications like www.postnuke.com or www.phpgroupware.org
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On Monday January 13th 2020, I attended an event organized by Cyberwayfinder. The event thema was about the different types of architecture required to take care of business strategy, data, technology, security and risk in order to design a Digital Enterprise in a structured way.
The inspection process
At some point one of the presenters talked about an important process for Enterprise/Business/IT/Application Architects : the inspection of the delivery.
This is a well-known problem in IT projects: the target architecture is very often not respected for many good and bad reasons.
This raises the question of “inspection”. When do we inspect the work in progress as Enterprise Architects ? Do we have a mandate for inspection ?
Continuous or punctual inspection ?
We could imagine two types of inspection: continuous or punctual. The continuous inspection requires much more time but is maybe the only way in the context of agile projects…
What to do with deviations ?
At the end of an inspection, deviations could be identified. What can we do with such deviations ?
We accept the deviation and re-integrate it in the “AS-BUILT” architecture
We can ask an immediate rework because the deviation is not acceptable (e.g. bad implementation of security constraints)
We don’t accept the deviation but we don’t force the immediate rework : we register a “technical debt”.
…
Vous connaissez le sens secret et fiscal de ces trois lettres : T.V.A. ?
Si vous prenez les deux premières lettres, T.V., cela veut dire, en clair : – As-tu payé la taxe sur la T.V. ?
Les lettres V.A. veulent dire : Va ! Va payer la taxe sur la T.V. !
Puis T.A. : Ta. Traduire : T’as payé la taxe sur la TV ? … Ah … Alors VA la payer !
C’est un rappel à l’ordre constant. Même si vous lisez les lettres à l’envers, elles vous rappellent encore quelque chose :
A.V : « Avez-vous payé … ?«
A.T : « Hâtez-vous de payer ! …«
V.T : « Vêtez-vous et hâtez-vous de payer la taxe sur la T.V. !«
Last week I was in Greece for my holidays. I went to Chios.
Chios is one of the Northeastern Aegean Islands. It is just a few miles off the coast of Asia Minor and about midway between the islands of Samos and Lesvos (see a map here).
We also took the boat for a one day visit in Cesme - Turkey. It was the day of Turkey/Korea (Fifa WorldCup).
During the excursion, we had the "opportunity" to visit a Carpet and Kilims shop.
The weather was excellent. The Island is not too touristic and the very good food and activities are cheap.
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Students in an advanced Biology class were taking their mid-term exam. The last question was, "Name seven advantages of Mothers Milk," worth 70 points or none at all.
One student who had also partied the night before, was hard put to think of seven advantages.
He wrote
1. It is perfect formula for the child.
2. It provides immunity against several diseases.
3. It is always the right temperature.
4. It is inexpensive.
5. It bonds the child to mother, and vice versa.
6. It is always available as needed.
And then, the student was stuck.
Finally, in desperation, just before the bell indicating the end of the test rang, he wrote
Still playing with technology. I tested today the integration of CoComment with my website. If you use CoComment, let me know here so maybe I integrate it everywhere in the future.
La légende raconte qu’un jour la vérité et le Mensonge se sont croisés.
Bonjour, a dit le Mensonge.
Bonjour, a dit la Vérité.
Belle journée, a continué le Mensonge.
Alors la Vérité est allée voir si c’était vrai. Ça l’était.
Belle journée, a alors répondu la vérité.
Le lac est encore plus beau, a dit le mensonge avec un joli sourire.
Alors la Vérité a regardé vers le lac et a vu que le mensonge disait la vérité et a hoché la tête.
Le Mensonge a couru vers l’eau et a lancé …
L’eau est encore plus belle et tiède. Allons nager !
La vérité a touché l’eau avec ses doigts et elle était vraiment belle et tiède. Alors la Vérité a fait confiance au mensonge. Les deux ont enlevé leurs vêtements et ont nagé tranquillement.
Un peu plus tard, le mensonge est sorti, il s’est habillé avec les vêtements de la vérité et il est parti.
La vérité, incapable de porter les habits du mensonge a commencé à marcher sans vêtements et tout le monde s’est éloigné en la voyant nue. Attristée, abandonnée, la Vérité se réfugia au fond d’un puits. C’est ainsi que depuis lors les gens préfèrent accepter le Mensonge déguisé en vérité que la Vérité nue.” – La vérité sortant du puits – Jean-Léon Gérôme 1896 .…
The Americans and the Japanese decided to engage in a competitive boat race. Both teams practiced hard and long to reach their peak performance. On the big day they felt ready. The Japanese won by a mile. Afterward, the American team was discouraged by the loss. Morale sagged.
Corporate management decided that the reason for the crushing defeat had to be found, so a consulting firm was hired to investigate the problem and recommended corrective action.
The consultant's finding: The Japanese team had eight people rowing and one person steering; the American team had one person rowing and eight people steering.
After a year of study and millions spent analyzing the problem, the consultant firm concluded that too many people were steering and not enough were rowing on the American team.
So as race day neared the following year, the American team's management structure was completely reorganized. The new structure: four steering managers, three area steering managers and a new performance review system for the person rowing the boat to provide work incentive.
The next year the Japanese won by two miles. Humiliated, the American Corporation laid off the rower for poor performance and gave the managers a bonus for discovering the problem.
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Chacun de nous en sa prime jeunesse, sait quelle est sa L?gende Personnelle.
A cette ?poque de la vie, tout est clair, tout est possible, et l'on a pas peur de r?ver et de souhaiter tout ce qu'on aimerait faire de sa vie. Cependant, ? mesure que le temps s'?coule, une force myst?rieuse commence ? essayer de prouver qu'il est impossible de r?aliser sa L?gende Personnelle".
In 2001, Citibank's Cash and Trade Group division transformed itself into an e-business, with the strategic intent of converting money management business into an e-business framework.
This case analyses how Citibank is using its traditional assets and integrating Internet activities into its e-business strategy to create sustainable competitive advantages.
1) Define on basis of case text and browsing through the Citigroup-website (http://www.citigroup.comhttp://www.citibank.com) which major core processes and services are involved in this story on e-Business strategy .
2) What opportunities and threats does Citibank face ? Is Citibank able to cope with this opportunity in an e-business framework? What is your opinion on the "Internet-Ability" of the products and services offered ? (see also urf : http://www.GTNews.com/)
3) One of Citibank's challenges is managing vendors and suppliers of technology without allowing them to exploit its clients. Surf, navigate and "google" through url's like the ones mentioned below to find out about the different types of potential partners, competitors, new entrants, substitutes, other business mode1s like BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) or similar .
4) Citibank is serving two distinctly different market segments - MNCs and SMEs. How should Citibank manage the discrepant needs of the two market segments ? What should Citibank do to encourage clients to move their transactions on-line?
5) What is your opinion on the organizational processes related with the conversion of its traditional money management business into an e-businessframework ? How does Citibank transform its
traditional assets into digital assets ? What issues, if any, do you envision that Citibank must overcome in order for the implementation to be successful ?
"In the future, it won't be what your company can do, but what the network of companies you work with can provide."
Software AG has established partnerships to have Tamino XML Server
working with the main J2EE Application Servers : IBM Webspere, HP Bluestone,
BEA Weblogic and Sun iPlanet. In this article I put some considerations
about those appservers complexity. I once got the question from a friend:
"Why is it so complex ? Is it needed ?" Is it the price to pay
for robustness and scalability of applications ?
Battling Complexity
This week I have been testing Tamino
with one of these products (Websphere). You can not imagine how I found it
hard to have some Tamino EJB up and running. I'm not an EJB specialist but
I have been reading about EJB infrastructures for a long time. Also I have been
busy with Java for more than four years since I left the University. I worked
on JavaBeans, OrbixWeb, Visigenic, JBuilder, Visual Café, Silverstream,
TogetherJ, Bolero,... I never had such a feeling of complexity. You need to
go back to your "Java Enterprise in a Nutshell" to understand your first "Hello
World" Deployment Descriptor.
It eventually worked very well but I
wonder how people that don't know XML, Java, IIOP and the rest will ever cope
with those infrastructures... I can tell you I meet a lot of people that can't
write a XSL stylesheet and that are very good in IT.
I have met
colleagues at Software AG that don't like OTMs as Corba or EJB. They prefer to
perform stateless Synchonous calls through a series of Message brokers that
integrate complex applications. Why would we duplicate the complexity of
applications into statefull objects ?
Yesterday, in a presentation in
La Hulpe, Arthur Andersen explained how they implemented a WebSphere
infrastructure with Delta Loyds. At the end of the presentation they outlined
that concern : the productivity of the EJB Developments !! They hope that
better development environments will support the infrastructure they adopted.
Scalability ? On a an other side, I have also been chatting
with some J2EE application server freacks. They claim that appservers are very
scalable, you can implement clusters, components are reusable,... They don't
see the problem in implementing EJBs, "that's easy, after a good training"
(pre-requesites: HTTP, Java, CORBA, RMI, JNDI, JMS, JTA, JSPs,...). The
message is the following : You will have your business runnning on the internet
24/24 and 7/7, so you will have a lot of connections, a lot more of data. You
need fail-over and load-balancing. So, you need an Application Server.
Complexity Vs Scalability, Security, High
availability
Again, that is the question about the J2EE appservers
story: Are we obliged to use complex Distributed Component Models to
have reliable software ?
I would not be surprised if someone
would propose an open source infrastructure that would allow to code regular
Perl, PHP or Java code on top of any database and then deploy the applications
on some Scalable, Reliable, Sercure, Highly Available, Managable Linux Cluster.
But will it be really simpler than J2EE ?
Flag for follow up
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Le d?velopement durable c'est "Une mani?re d'inciter citoyens, collectivit?s et entreprises ? changer leurs habitudes pour m?nager la plan?te et le climat. Le concept, issu du Sommet de la Terre ? Rio en 1992, semble mieux connu du grand public: il s'agit de combiner croissance ?conomique, progr?s social et pr?servation de l'environnement. " See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_development
Sustainable Development will be at the heart of the leader's issues of this century. Therefore I believe it's important to think about it. Many other think so, by the way. Today in l'Echo there was an article on special houses wich work like a "thermos" and which allow substantial energy cost savings in Germany.
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The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional graduate degree programme. It's purpose is to provide theoretical and practical training in general or senior functional management.
The content of MBA courses is wide-ranging and is focused at the knowledge and skills that are essential for managers in today's global marketplace. They provide an understanding of the operation of businesses, including the use of people and capital, effective internal processes, the impact of external forces and, very recently for an increasing number of courses, the role of the Internet and electronic commerce.
MBA degrees are either awarded by universities or by specialised business schools. There are a growing number of business schools that developed as a result of business initiatives. Several groups of companies in Europe have founded excellent schools at which MBA education is specially designed to their own specifications.
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"Dans la vie, il y a deux types d'?chelles : l'?chelle sociale et l'?chelle de Jacob. Moi j'ai choisi d'escalader l'?chelle de Jacob. Je ne suis pas certaine que tous ceux qui ont grimp? tr?s haut sur l'?chelle sociale, sont toujours tr?s haut sur l'?chelle de Jacob..."
(Rappelons que dans la bible, patriarche et fils d'Isaac, Jacob tenta de construire une ?chelle gigantesque pour atteindre les cieux, pour rejoindre Dieu).
"There has been a lot of buzz lately about Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), a new way to integrate information systems using Web Services and other open standards. To understand how SOA works, I like to use an analogy from the natural world called successive levels of aggregation. Complex organisms such as the human body are microcosms that roll up into large scale collaborative systems. For example, the circulatory system is comprised of many discrete systems- the heart, blood cells, arteries and so forth- all of which work together to keep the body alive and support other critical processes such as respiration, speech, and movement. So it is with the information systems that run a business. Macro systems - such as the application responsible for processing purchase orders and cutting pay checks- collaborate with related business applications to produce gloabl systems like Payroll and HR."
Gross Domestic Product. The total market value of all final goods and services produced in a country in a given year, equal to total consumer, investment and government spending, plus the value of exports, minus the value of imports. The GDP report is released at 8:30 am EST on the last day of each quarter and reflects the previous quarter. Growth in GDP is what matters, and the U.S. GDP growth has historically averaged about 2.5-3% per year but with substantial deviations. Each initial GDP report will be revised twice before the final figure is settled upon: the "advance" report is followed by the "preliminary" report about a month later and a final report a month after that. Significant revisions to the advance number can cause additional ripples through the markets. The GDP numbers are reported in two forms: current dollar and constant dollar. Current dollar GDP is calculated using today's dollars and makes comparisons between time periods difficult because of the effects of inflation. Constant dollar GDP solves this problem by converting the current information into some standard era dollar, such as 1997 dollars. This process factors out the effects of inflation and allows easy comparisons between periods. It is important to differentiate Gross Domestic Product from Gross National Product (GNP). GDP includes only goods and services produced within the geographic boundaries of the U.S., regardless of the producer's nationality. GNP doesn't include goods and services produced by foreign producers, but does include goods and services produced by U.S. firms operating in foreign countries.
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"Principles of Marketing" KOTLER Philip, Gary ARMSTRONG, John SAUNDERS & Veronica WONG-Third European Edition. Financial Times - Prentice Hall Europe, Pearson Education Limited, 2001.
Lever 02h10 pour partir en taxi ? l'a?roport.
Dur dur... D?coll?ge 6h00. Arrivee hotel Barcelo Marina Palace ? Varadero (Cuba) vers 11h30 heure locale (19h30 heure belge)
. Notre chambre est tr?s belle et spacieuse. L' hotel est loin d'?tre plein. l'infrastructure est magnifique (Piscine) et le personnel est impeccable. Nous avons une tr?s bonne impression.
Apr?s un diner au buffet tr?s agr?able nous allons dans la chambre pour faire un sieste. Nous nous reveillons pass? 21h!
Comme nous avons faim nous allons prendre un snack. Il y ? un orage. Nous nous refugions dans la discoth?que. Fruit punch, screw driver, margarita, daikiri. Nous sommes heureux. Il est minuit. Nous visitons l'hotel d?sert, notament le jacuzzi puis nous allons dormir.
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Our system is a capitalist system. Based on money.
As described in "Albert Jacquard - J'accuse l'?conomie triomphante", Capitalims can indeed be seen as the cause of many problems for a lot of people on earth (those who have no money).
If Markets are efficient however, why does the system make the rich richer ?
My belief is that Education is key for solving that issue.
Companies make money on the basis of their customers. But customers are... the people at the end of the day (at the end of the value chain).
If people would fully undestand the consequence of their choices they would understand that they make themselves the slaves of the system.
Our values makes us want more and more things that we don't need (as described by Alain Souchon in Foule Sentimentale - http://www.paroles.net/chansons/15218.htm). We have learned to consume.
We need to educate ourselves that our happiness or the meaning of our live is not in HAVING things.
Therefore I believe Education Is Key. because what we want depends on what we have learned to want...
When you a complex task, it's always important to be able to separate what you have to do from how you will achieve the tasks. It allows you to have more options for solving the problem by separating concerns.
When you know exactly what you need to do you are more likely to find out how you can make it and what the possible options are...
Problem:
Context:
Forces:
Solution:
Examples:
Discussion:
Related Patterns:
DivideAndConquer : split a complex architecture or projectr in different components or tasks for which you give a very precise what. Let the how be defined by the delegate (just control the price ;-))
Known Uses:
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1: Tu es ? une soir?e et tu vois une nana tr?s attirante.
Tu t'approches d'elle et tu lui dis : "Je suis un tr?s bon coup".
=> Ca c'est du Marketing Direct.
2: Tu es ? une soir?e avec un groupe de copains et vous voyez une nana tr?s
attirante.
Un de tes amis s'approche d'elle et lui dit : "Tu vois ce gar?on l?-bas,
c'est un tr?s bon coup".
=> Ca c'est de la Publicit?.
3: Tu es ? une soir?e et tu vois une nana tr?s attirante.
Tu lui demandes son num?ro de t?l?phone. Le lendemain, tu l'appelles et tu
lui dis : "Je suis un tr?s bon coup".
=> Ca c'est du T?l?marketing.
4: Tu es ? une soir?e et tu vois une nana tr?s attirante.
Tu la reconnais. Tut'approches d'elle, tu lui rafra?chis la m?moire et tu
lui dis : "Tu te souviens que je suis un tr?s bon coup."
=> Ca c'est du Customer Relationship Management.
5: Tu es ? une soir?e et tu vois une nana tr?s attirante.
Tu te l?ves, tu arranges un peu tes v?tements, tu t'approches d'elle et tu
lui sers un verre. Tu lui ouvres la porte lorsqu'elle part, tu ramasses son
sac lorsqu'il tombe. Tu lui offres une cigarette et tu lui dis : "Je suis un
tr?s bon coup".
=> Ca c'est des Relations Publiques.
6: Tu es ? une soir?e et tu vois une nana tr?s attirante.
Elle s'approche de toi et te dit: "J'ai entendu dire que tu es un tr?s bon
coup".
=> Ca c'est du Branding, le pouvoir de la marque.
7: Tu es ? une soir?e et tu vois une super belle nana.
Tu la mates avec des potes, tu fais des r?flexions tr?s fines, tu te bourres
la gueule, tu ne fais rien du tout et tu rentres bredouille.
Si vous n'avez pas encore lu la fabuleuse interview du boss de Microsoft par
deux journalistes de libé qui pour une fois arrêtent les courbettes et
posent les vraies questions:
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Immédiatement, votre chef, un collegue, un rabat-joie s'est mis a rire. Votre idée est selon eux completement impossible.
J'aime alors répliquer par la phrase de Mark Twain: "Ils ne savaient pas que c'était impossible, alors ils l'ont fait".
Dans Intermediar de ce mois, on explique une technique dite "Technique des 6 chapeaux". Cette technique a pour but de
ne pas tuer la créativité et/ou les idées avec des réponses pseudo/logique du style : "Quel manque de réalisme"...
No pain, no gain. Si une idée est bonne ne l'écartons pas parceque elle sera difficile a réaliser a priori.
Quel est l'effort ? quel est le gain ? Quels sont les riques ? Quels sont les avantages ?
C'est ce que la technique des 6 chapeux de Edward Bono vous aidera a déterminer.
Face a une idée, coiffez-vous de ces 6 chapeaux
:
chapeau blanc : l'information. Quelles informations sont disponibles, lesquelles
sont nécessaires et lesquelles font défaut? Comment combler
les lacunes?
chapeau rouge : les sentiments et l'intuition
chapeau noir : la prudence et la circonspection, l'esprit critique
chapeau jaune : la facette logique et positive, les avantages et la valeur
chapeau vert : la créativité
chapeau bleu : la métaconnaissance, l'organisation de la pensée
et de contrôle des processus
"La véritable créativité commence lorsqu'on parvient à briser les cases"
La pensée occidentale fut longtemps axée sur l'analyse. La pensée créative, qui s'exprime de manière fort chaotique par nature, s'en est trouvée négligée. Edward de Bono cherche à structurer ce processus par le biais de sa méthode des Six Chapeaux. Il nous propose également une série de techniques permettant d'atteindre en principe la véritable créativité.
Lisez l'article sur le site de IMEDIAIR.BE?>
La légende raconte qu’un jour la vérité et le Mensonge se sont croisés.
Bonjour, a dit le Mensonge.
Bonjour, a dit la Vérité.
Belle journée, a continué le Mensonge.
Alors la Vérité est allée voir si c’était vrai. Ça l’était.
Belle journée, a alors répondu la vérité.
Le lac est encore plus beau, a dit le mensonge avec un joli sourire.
Alors la Vérité a regardé vers le lac et a vu que le mensonge disait la vérité et a hoché la tête.
Le Mensonge a couru vers l’eau et a lancé …
L’eau est encore plus belle et tiède. Allons nager !
La vérité a touché l’eau avec ses doigts et elle était vraiment belle et tiède. Alors la Vérité a fait confiance au mensonge. Les deux ont enlevé leurs vêtements et ont nagé tranquillement.
Un peu plus tard, le mensonge est sorti, il s’est habillé avec les vêtements de la vérité et il est parti.
La vérité, incapable de porter les habits du mensonge a commencé à marcher sans vêtements et tout le monde s’est éloigné en la voyant nue. Attristée, abandonnée, la Vérité se réfugia au fond d’un puits. C’est ainsi que depuis lors les gens préfèrent accepter le Mensonge déguisé en vérité que la Vérité nue.” – La vérité sortant du puits – Jean-Léon Gérôme 1896 .…
Here are some pictures of the Balloon trip we did in August this summer above the "Vlaamse Ardennen".
It was our first time in an Air Balloon.
After helping to fill the balloon with ambient air, warm air was blown for take off.
Take off is quiet quick and at that moment you think "My god, what am I doing here ?". But after 2 minutes you figure out it's perfectly working and also very quiet : there is no apparent wind. You can than start to enjoy.
The pilot of Balloon Heli did - I think -a very good landing, we had only two chocs to stop.
Once again Thank You to Maggie, Dimi and Julie who offered us this trip as a wedding gift.
It's very easy to ride. If you do it stop at the nice caf? in the forest : li ptit Bambou.
On Saturday, it was time for some real Mountain Bike.
At the V?lodrome in Rochefort (Jemelle) you can follow 6 Mountain Bike routes. We decided to take the route nb 4 which is 35Km. The routes were quiet well indicated and when we lost our way it was always our fault. When you get lost the map you can buy at the Tourism Office is useful.
The MTB route brought us to Han sur Lesse where we had lunch.
The weather was great and we enjoyed it a lot. For sure, we will do it again.
But wait a minute, if I search for anything in Google, it seems to know what I mean : "Did you mean ?" But apparently not in the case of an hazardeous Google Maps URL on their own site...
They could maybe reroute the 404 page to "I'm feeling lucky" with the url as parameter ?
I have started at IBM as Software IT Architect (SWITA) on March 16th, 2007.
SWITA
The Software IT Architect (SWITA) has the following role within the IBM Software Group organization :
Solution Designer : analyis of a customer's business and IT challenges and design a comprehensive solution that integrates smoothly into the customer's environment and which leverages the entire IBM software portfolio in order to increase IBM Software market share.
Technology Advisor : leads the IBM team in promoting the IBM technology, seeking to create new opportunities as well as advance existing sales efforts.
Methodologist : leads customers and the IBM team in selecting, employing and influencing the use of appropriate methodologies and design tools to achieve the desired business and technical results.
Facilitator : he is a leader in facilitating communication among customer, partner and IBM teams.
Project Advisor : makes sure that the business vision has been satisfied through the design, adapting to non-functional requirements, suggesting solutions to customer skill gaps, correcting architectural errors, and observing the deployed system to harvest lessons for future projects.
IBM Software Group
IBM Software Group is almost a company in its own right, the second largest software business in the world. It has around 37.000 employees, the word's largest direct software sales force of 10.000, 30 software labs, 24 on demand software centers and 14.000 employees dedicated to open software technologies.
The mission of IBM Software Group is the development of cutting-edge software solutions that realise the potential of the e-business revolution. The next generation of e-business will require better software to build and support the killer applications of tomorrow. Stable, secure and robust e-infrastructures and the successful integration of data and applications are the foundations of next generation e-business - concepts that lie at the heart of IBM's software business.
We are focusing on business software in the middleware solutions area. - it delivers critical services to applications such as transaction management, messaging, systems management or data management.
IBM Software Group in Belgium sells and distributes software to customers located in Belgium and Luxembourg. These software solutions are part of the middleware infrastrucure and the development environment of the customer. The software solutions are developed in the IBM labs and belong to the Websphere, Lotus, DB2, Tivoli and Rational suites.
By the way I found the expression in this interesting article about Web Services (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI). Stephen Hawking in A Brief History Of Time starts with the anecdote.
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?"
"You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down."
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Well, it isn't turtles all the way down.
In a phrase, "A people acquire and retain well being in proportion to the knowledge they possess ? and the use to which they put it."
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I wonder after SOA, what's next ? I think the next buzzword for the moment is IT-Business Alignemnt.
On this page Measure your IT-Business Alignment, I found a kind of Business Alignemnt assessment technique.
I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality. .. I wanted to quit my life.
I went to the woods to have one last talk with God.
'God', I said. 'Can you give me one good reason not to quit?'
His answer surprised me...
'Look around', He said. 'Do you see the fern and the bamboo?'
'Yes', I replied.
When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them water. The fern quickly grew from the earth.. Its brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo.
In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful. And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. He said.
'In the third year, there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit. In the fourth year, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed.. 'I would not quit.' He said.
'Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant. .. But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle.'
He said to me. 'Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots.'
'I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you. 'Don't compare yourself to others..' He said. ?The bamboo had a different purpose than the fern ... Yet, they both make the forest beautiful.'
Le principe des imp?ts semble pouvoir s?expliquer par une logique assez simple. Mais beaucoup pourtant ne le saisissent toujours pas.
Comme c?est la saison des taxes, laissez-moi vous l?expliquer en des termes simples que tout le monde peut comprendre.
Imaginons que tous les jours, 10 amis se retrouvent pour boire une bi?re et que l?addition totale se monte ? 100 euros. (Normalement, cela ferait 10 euros par personne).
Mais nos dix amis d?cid?rent de payer cette facture selon une r?partition qui s?inspire du calcul de l?imp?t sur le revenu, ce
qui donna ? peu pr?s ceci :
Les 4 premiers (les plus pauvres !?), ne payeraient rien.
Le cinqui?me paierait 1 euros
Le sixi?me paierait 3 euros
Le septi?me paierait 7 euros
Le huiti?me paierait 12 euros
Le neuvi?me paierait 18 euros
Le dernier (le plus riche ?!) devrait payer 59 euros.
Les dix hommes se retrouv?rent chaque jour pour boire leur bi?re et semblaient assez contents de leur arrangement.
Jusqu?au jour o? le tenancier les pla?a devant un dilemme
? Comme vous ?tes de bons clients, dit-il, j?ai d?cid? de vous faire une remise de 20 euros sur la facture totale. Vous ne payerez donc d?sormais vos 10 bi?res que 80 euros. ?
Le groupe d?cida de continuer ? payer la nouvelle somme de la m?me fa?on qu?ils auraient pay? leurs taxes. Les quatre premiers continu?rent ? boire gratuitement. Mais comment les six autres, (les clients payants), allaient diviser les 20 euros de remise de fa?on ?quitable ? Ils r?alis?rent que 20 euros divis? par 6 faisaient 3.33 euros.
Mais s?ils soustrayaient cette somme de leur partage alors le 5?me et 6?me homme devraient ?tre pay?s pour boire leur bi?re.
Le tenancier du bar sugg?ra qu?il serait plus ?quitable de r?duire l?addition de chacun d?un pourcentage du m?me ordre, il fit donc les calculs.
Ce qui donna ? peu pr?s ceci :
Le 5?me homme, comme les quatre premiers ne paya plus rien. (un pauvre de plus ? Ndt)
Le 6?me paya 2 euros au lieu de 3 (33% r?duction) ?
Le 7?me paya 5 euros au lieu de 7 (28% de r?duction)
Le 8?me paya 9 euros au lieu de 12 (25% de r?duction)
Le 9?me paya 14 euros au lieu de 18 (22% de r?duction)
Le 10?me paya 50 euros au lieu de 59 euros (16% de r?duction)
Chacun des six ? payants ? paya moins qu?avant et les 4 premiers continu?rent ? boire gratuitement.
Mais une fois hors du bar, chacun compara son ?conomie :
? J?ai seulement eu 1 euros sur les 20 euros de remise ?, dit le 6?me, il d?signa le 10?me ? lui, il a eu 9 euros ?.
? Ouais ! dit le 5?me, j?ai seulement eu 1 euros d??conomie ?
? C?est vrai ! ? s?exclama le 7?me, ? pourquoi aurait- il 9 euros alors que je n?en ai eu que 2 ? Le plus riche a eu le plus gros de la r?duction ?
? Attendez une minute ? cria le 1er homme, ? nous quatre n?avons rien eu du tout nous. Le syst?me exploite les pauvres ?.
Les 9 hommes cern?rent le 10?me et l?insult?rent.
La nuit suivante le 10?me homme (le plus riche ?!) ne vint pas.
Les neuf autres s?assirent et burent leur bi?re sans lui. Mais quant vint le moment de payer leur note ils d?couvrirent quelque chose d?important : ils n?avaient pas assez d?argent pour payer ne serait-ce que la moiti? de l?addition
Et cela, mes chers amis, est le strict reflet de notre syst?me d?imposition.
Les gens qui payent le plus de taxes tirent le plus de b?n?fice d?une r?duction de taxe.
Taxez les plus fort, accusez-les d??tre riches et ils risquent de ne plus se montrer d?sormais. En fait ils pourraient commencer ? aller boire ? l??tranger?,
Pour ceux qui ont compris, aucune explication n?est n?cessaire.
Pour ceux qui n?ont pas compris, aucune explication n?est possible.
Sign?
David R. Kamerschen, Ph. D.
Professeur d??conomie
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The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a post-graduate and post-experience qualification designed for people with work experience, looking to develop as professional managers or progress in their management roles. It is also a considered a 'must have' among ambitious business consultants and investment bankers.
MBA students are often looking to acquire the relevant skills, and broaden their business and commercial knowledge. Some are sponsored by their companies, others prefer to do the course independently, affording them more freedom to increase their salary afterward. Many go on to launch their own business or run successful companies, but in all cases the earning potential of graduates leaps up significantly.
People study MBAs for a variety of reasons and the difference between a top-ranking business school, and a non-accredited programme can be vast. The name that comes after the title is almost more important than the MBA itself, but MBA students unanimously agree that whichever course you eventually chose it widens horizons and delivers an understanding of all the major functions of a business. The networking opportunities gained from working with other professionals on your course is also considered to be a huge advantage.
Not everyone automatically qualifies to study an MBA. In Europe, especially, a tertiary education and a significant amount of work experience are a pre-requisite. You can study part-time, by correspondence, over the Internet, or full time over one or two years, but not all schools are accredited by the Association of MBAs. The length and quality of your experience, together with your personal motivation are extremely relevant in securing admission to a good business school.
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On Sept 11th 2008, we attended the Samsung Omnia night.
The party was not as good as the last one but there was more content : the presentation of the new Samsung Omnia.
The Samsung Omnia is a great MulltiMedia device (Music, Video, 5 MegaPixel Camera, GPS, MS Office Integration, Push Email...).
It also has a touchscreen like the iPhone. If I had to choose between the iPhone and the Omnia, I think I would choose the Omnia because it's more compact and Windows Mobile 6 would allow me to install more custom applications.
However I still have a phone with a keyboard (Samsung SGH I600) and I'm not convinced about the Touch screen yet.
Merriam Webster?s dictionary defines rainmaker as ?a person (such as a partner in a law firm) who brings in new business or whose influence can initiate progress or ensure success.? In short, a rainmaker is someone that makes things happen ? someone who initiates action that ultimately brings in new business and revenue.
Rainmakers take a ?big picture? view of their customers business. Rather than focus on specific IT projects, they look at the overall state of the client?s industry, company and LOB. Some characteristics of a rainmaker include the following: pro-active, results-oriented, patient, driven, conscientious, good listener, active listener, empathetic, sympathetic, curious, knowledgeable, engaged, confident, incisive, inquiring, flexible, visionary, creative, positive, optimistic, and collaborative.
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On Monday January 13th 2020, I attended an event organized by Cyberwayfinder. The event thema was about the different types of architecture required to take care of business strategy, data, technology, security and risk in order to design a Digital Enterprise in a structured way.
The inspection process
At some point one of the presenters talked about an important process for Enterprise/Business/IT/Application Architects : the inspection of the delivery.
This is a well-known problem in IT projects: the target architecture is very often not respected for many good and bad reasons.
This raises the question of “inspection”. When do we inspect the work in progress as Enterprise Architects ? Do we have a mandate for inspection ?
Continuous or punctual inspection ?
We could imagine two types of inspection: continuous or punctual. The continuous inspection requires much more time but is maybe the only way in the context of agile projects…
What to do with deviations ?
At the end of an inspection, deviations could be identified. What can we do with such deviations ?
We accept the deviation and re-integrate it in the “AS-BUILT” architecture
We can ask an immediate rework because the deviation is not acceptable (e.g. bad implementation of security constraints)
We don’t accept the deviation but we don’t force the immediate rework : we register a “technical debt”.
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Vous connaissez le sens secret et fiscal de ces trois lettres : T.V.A. ?
Si vous prenez les deux premières lettres, T.V., cela veut dire, en clair : – As-tu payé la taxe sur la T.V. ?
Les lettres V.A. veulent dire : Va ! Va payer la taxe sur la T.V. !
Puis T.A. : Ta. Traduire : T’as payé la taxe sur la TV ? … Ah … Alors VA la payer !
C’est un rappel à l’ordre constant. Même si vous lisez les lettres à l’envers, elles vous rappellent encore quelque chose :
A.V : « Avez-vous payé … ?«
A.T : « Hâtez-vous de payer ! …«
V.T : « Vêtez-vous et hâtez-vous de payer la taxe sur la T.V. !«
La légende raconte qu’un jour la vérité et le Mensonge se sont croisés.
Bonjour, a dit le Mensonge.
Bonjour, a dit la Vérité.
Belle journée, a continué le Mensonge.
Alors la Vérité est allée voir si c’était vrai. Ça l’était.
Belle journée, a alors répondu la vérité.
Le lac est encore plus beau, a dit le mensonge avec un joli sourire.
Alors la Vérité a regardé vers le lac et a vu que le mensonge disait la vérité et a hoché la tête.
Le Mensonge a couru vers l’eau et a lancé …
L’eau est encore plus belle et tiède. Allons nager !
La vérité a touché l’eau avec ses doigts et elle était vraiment belle et tiède. Alors la Vérité a fait confiance au mensonge. Les deux ont enlevé leurs vêtements et ont nagé tranquillement.
Un peu plus tard, le mensonge est sorti, il s’est habillé avec les vêtements de la vérité et il est parti.
La vérité, incapable de porter les habits du mensonge a commencé à marcher sans vêtements et tout le monde s’est éloigné en la voyant nue. Attristée, abandonnée, la Vérité se réfugia au fond d’un puits. C’est ainsi que depuis lors les gens préfèrent accepter le Mensonge déguisé en vérité que la Vérité nue.” – La vérité sortant du puits – Jean-Léon Gérôme 1896 .…
As IT Architect, it's quiet easy to jump from IT Architecture to Business Architecture. The Service Oriented Entreprise (SOE) concepts are very close to the SOA concepts, except that instead of organizing systems and functions, it's about organizing businesses (services, products, people, processes and technology). The methodology proposed by Niels Klinkenberg results in Business Architectures which look like those of IBM's Component Business Modeling (CBM).
During the course, I liked how the Growth Phases Model of Larry Greiner was used to explain that the agile business architectures of tomorrow are a network of highly entrepreneurial Business Units (called Domains) which are specialized, higly efficient (benchmarked), have to obey the corporate "Playing Rules" and have to add value to the company. This makes of Governance (Corporate, IT, HR, Financial...) a central success factor. How to govern a large company that needs to be agile ? To answer this question, you'd better first have a good idea of its Business Architecture...
"...in business terms a contract establishes expectations, responsibilites, outcomes and in some cases consequences. And when I say expectations, contracts are very explicit when it comes to who is responsible to whom and what they will get."
"One of the most interesting case studies deals with a war game of the Pentagon which took an unexpected turn as the bad guy was able to inflict severe losses to US forces in the simulation simply by organizing his side as a loose system instead of trying to capture huge amounts of data to make decisions in the heat of the battle. In a way it reminded me of modern management where there is a drive in many companies to capture all sorts of data about a business in a futile attempt to control the future, whereas it is often far more productive to hire the right people and give them the freedom to perform."
"Quand le dernier arbre sera abattu, la derni?re rivi?re ass?ch?e, le dernier poisson p?ch? l'homme va s'apercevoir que l'argent n'est pas comestible". source. lien.
Notre terre...
Unique plan?te du syst?me solaire sur laquelle a ?t? d?tect?e la vie, notre Terre vient de f?ter ses 4,5 milliards d?ann?es? De 1 milliard d?humains en 1800, nous sommes pass?s ? 6,5 milliards aujourd?hui et nous serons certainement entre 9 et 10 milliards ? l?horizon 2050. Au total, sur 100 terriens, 61 vivent en Asie, 14 en Afrique, 11 en Europe, 9 en Am?rique latine, 5 en Am?rique du nord et moins d'une personne en Oc?anie. Autour du globe, quelques 200 pays se partagent in?quitablement les richesses. Parmi les 100 plus grandes entit?s ?conomiques du monde, on d?nombre 51 soci?t?s et seulement 49 pays. L'entreprise ?WalMart d?passe 161 pays, dont Isra?l, la Pologne et la Gr?ce alors que le chiffre d'affaires de General Motors est sup?rieur au PNB du Danemark. Tous les ?tats sont entra?n?s dans la dynamique de la mondialisation. Sur le plan g?opolitique, les ?tats-Unis dominent le monde et exercent une ?crasante supr?matie dans les domaines politique, ?conomique, militaire, technologique et culturel. Vous l'aurez compris, cette rubrique baptis?e ? Monde ? est d?di?e ? l'actualit? internationale
What we've come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One, people are not wearing enough hats. Two, Matter is energy. In the universe, there are many energy fields, which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source, which act upon a person's soul. However, this soul does not exist automatically, as orthodox Christianity teaches, but has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved due to mankind's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.
"Sometimes, you have to wonder whether Silicon Valley's MBA elite paid attention when their professors lectured about why it's a good idea to put customers first. Then again, maybe that was an elective course they skipped. "
"The great managers are the ones who challenge the existing complacency and who are prepared to
lead their teams forward towards a personal vision. They are the ones who recognise problems, seize
opportunities, and create their own future. Ultimately, they are the ones who stop to think where they
want to go and then have the shameless audacity to set out."
CAS is a new category of automated networked storage established to store large volumes of fixed content over extended periods of time. Unlike NAS that is designed to facilitate collaboration and file sharing or SAN that focuses on performance, CAS is specifically designed for fixed content which might have a significantly extended life-cycle compared to transactional data
"For these last 31 years, I've had the best job in the world. I've worked with some of the brightest and most passionate people in the world. Together, we've built a great company whose products have empowered people around the world. "
Copy/paste of an extract on a very severe point of view on Bill gates. Is this guy (Charles Cooper) jaleous ? Make your own opinion....
"Today's Microsoft is more of a plodder. With nearly 70,000 employees and some $50 billion in annual revenue, Microsoft no longer resembles the entrepreneurial dynamo Gates co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. So it is that the company is now working feverishly just to keep from falling farther behind Google while fighting off the potentially deadly threat posed by open-source software. "
"How much will Microsoft really miss Gates? Ballmer got a little misty when he took the podium to praise his old partner. But frankly, the company was not a fount of brilliant technologies during the six years Gates was Microsoft's chief software architect. It's still too soon to render history's verdict, but the record will undeniably be mixed."
"Ubuntu" est un ancien mot africain qui signifie "humanit? aux autres". Ubuntu signifie ?galement "Je suis ce que je suis gr?ce ? ce que nous sommes tous". La distribution Ubuntu Linux apporte l'esprit Ubuntu au monde logiciel.
"This site was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any site here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs."
State of the ECM Industry: Moving from Why? To How?: The Maturing of ECM Users
The study found that over the past five years end users have moved from a passing and largely tactical interest in the management of documents to considering this a strategic priority.
The ECM industry has spent a great deal of time and marketing money over the past decade trying to convince end users about the importance of more effectively managing their documents and content. The good news is that the data in this year's survey reinforces the conclusions of previous Industry Watch surveys: "End users get it."
"Anyways, seems that portlets are picking up as preferred platform for integration." - http://portlets.blogspot.com/
March? de l'informatique en Belgique
BRUXELLES A l?heure actuelle, la Belgique compte 13.260 postes disponibles pour les professionnels des TIC (technologies de l?information et de la communication).
...
Agoria a dress? cinq profils d?informaticiens particuli?rement recherch?s par les entreprises. Sont ainsi demand?s 2.500 architectes TIC; 1.900 consultants business; 1.600 d?veloppeurs de syst?mes; 1.600 sp?cialistes de gestion et de maintenance des infrastructures informatiques et enfin, 1.200 concepteurs de logiciels.
« les entreprises les plus matures travaillent sur les talents, les process et les business models, là où les autres ont davantage tendance à s’éparpiller, à multiplier les initiatives incohérentes et vouloir aller trop vite sur la technologie. »
Read more at Frenchweb…
La légende raconte qu’un jour la vérité et le Mensonge se sont croisés.
Bonjour, a dit le Mensonge.
Bonjour, a dit la Vérité.
Belle journée, a continué le Mensonge.
Alors la Vérité est allée voir si c’était vrai. Ça l’était.
Belle journée, a alors répondu la vérité.
Le lac est encore plus beau, a dit le mensonge avec un joli sourire.
Alors la Vérité a regardé vers le lac et a vu que le mensonge disait la vérité et a hoché la tête.
Le Mensonge a couru vers l’eau et a lancé …
L’eau est encore plus belle et tiède. Allons nager !
La vérité a touché l’eau avec ses doigts et elle était vraiment belle et tiède. Alors la Vérité a fait confiance au mensonge. Les deux ont enlevé leurs vêtements et ont nagé tranquillement.
Un peu plus tard, le mensonge est sorti, il s’est habillé avec les vêtements de la vérité et il est parti.
La vérité, incapable de porter les habits du mensonge a commencé à marcher sans vêtements et tout le monde s’est éloigné en la voyant nue. Attristée, abandonnée, la Vérité se réfugia au fond d’un puits. C’est ainsi que depuis lors les gens préfèrent accepter le Mensonge déguisé en vérité que la Vérité nue.” – La vérité sortant du puits – Jean-Léon Gérôme 1896 .…
There are some rumours about Software AG and PeopleSoft ...
Read here ...C'est avec fiert? que Craig Conway a annonc? des chiffres flatteurs comparativement ? ses principaux concurrents SAP et Oracle lors de la derni?re conf?rence utilisateurs Europe ? Paris. La position actuelle de l'?diteur s'est aussi construite par des acquisitions, celle de l'?diteur CRM Vantive en particulier. Cette politique va certainement continuer, selon les opportunit?s du march?. L'?dition allemande du Financial Times se faisait r?cemment l'?cho d'un possible rachat des soci?t?s allemandes Software AG et Intershop....
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Aujourd'hui je lis mon email, j'ai un nouveau commentaire sur mon site. Chouette ! He ben non. C'est une insulte et ca me fait de la peine... (voir plus loin)
Peut-?tre que avec mon site web je ressemble ? une Castafiore mais c'est un hobby, cela m'amuse et je n'oblige personne ? le lire...
Joyeux Noel et Bonne ann?e quand m?me ? celui qui m'a envoy? ce commentaire:
Yesterday I attended the Vlerick Winter Reunion and we had an excellent presentation by Bertrand Piccard. Bertrand Piccard is one of the two pilots of the first ever non-stop balloon flight around the world.
It's difficult to summarize all the concepts that were explained yesterday. Here are the topics I have written down. In fact I agree with most of the ideas of Bertrand Piccard and I believe I have already applied them more than once.
Don't fight against the winds, just choose the most favorable one Bertrand Piccard explained that during this air balloon experience, he learned that trying to control everything (an air balloon, your life, your career...) does not automatically lead to success. You also need to stop and feel the possible winds, change your plans and follow the most favorable winds.
Pro-act To be able to adapt to most favorable winds, there is a necessary mind shift which doesn't match our education. We have been trained to eliminate the unknown in order to come back in speed, control and power and work as a bulldozer to reach our goal. We have been trained to react and not to pro-act.
Communication Decision taking when facing the unknown is a difficult task. If you take decisions alone, you face the risk of having too little objectivity. In the balloon decision taking was than the result of a discussion between the two pilots. The problem is that two people sharing ideas are not productive : or they have the same ideas and 1+1=1 or they disagree and 1+1=0. The trick is to avoid expressing ideas but rather sharing experiences. Those experiences being the necessary information for a common decision taking. It's a positive common bottom-up argumentation rather that a destructive top-down opposition of ideas.
In summary "I wish I have the strength to change what I can change,
that I have the courage to accept what I can't change, and that I have the wisdom to be able to make the difference between what I can change and what I can't change"
Ce jeudi 29 novembre, j'ai particip? ? un match entre les anciens et les "petits jeunes" de l'?quipe de Water-Polo UCL. J'?tais bien entendu dans l'?quipe des anciens.
Les vieux on perdu au moins 30-10 mais on s'est vraiment bien amus?s ! Et oui, on a plus la condition : l'?chauffement ?tait d?j? dur....
Ce 2 mars 2015, mancement de LIRTUEL à la foire du livre de Bruxelles. Il s’agit de prêter des livres électroniques dans les bibliothèques publiques en Wallonie-Bruxelles. Felicitations à Alexandre Lemaire.Je suis content de voir la plateforme lancée car j’ai donné un coup de main pour l’appel d’offre et l’évaluation des différentes solutions techniques.
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La légende raconte qu’un jour la vérité et le Mensonge se sont croisés.
Bonjour, a dit le Mensonge.
Bonjour, a dit la Vérité.
Belle journée, a continué le Mensonge.
Alors la Vérité est allée voir si c’était vrai. Ça l’était.
Belle journée, a alors répondu la vérité.
Le lac est encore plus beau, a dit le mensonge avec un joli sourire.
Alors la Vérité a regardé vers le lac et a vu que le mensonge disait la vérité et a hoché la tête.
Le Mensonge a couru vers l’eau et a lancé …
L’eau est encore plus belle et tiède. Allons nager !
La vérité a touché l’eau avec ses doigts et elle était vraiment belle et tiède. Alors la Vérité a fait confiance au mensonge. Les deux ont enlevé leurs vêtements et ont nagé tranquillement.
Un peu plus tard, le mensonge est sorti, il s’est habillé avec les vêtements de la vérité et il est parti.
La vérité, incapable de porter les habits du mensonge a commencé à marcher sans vêtements et tout le monde s’est éloigné en la voyant nue. Attristée, abandonnée, la Vérité se réfugia au fond d’un puits. C’est ainsi que depuis lors les gens préfèrent accepter le Mensonge déguisé en vérité que la Vérité nue.” – La vérité sortant du puits – Jean-Léon Gérôme 1896 .…
I keep here some stories or links about things I find interesting. The site is probably more suitable for IT people. But the site is changing every few days. New sections or sites have or will appear through the main entry point : www.Lowas.be. So it's worth visiting my site from time to time... (I hope)
If you have questions or remarks please email me : jf at my domain name
In this article of the Economist: Economics discovers its feelings, I found some interesting information on Economics and Happiness : Capitalism can make a society rich and keep it free. Don't ask it to make you happy as well
"In general, the economic arbiters of taste recommend ?experiences? over commodities, pastimes over knick-knacks, doing over having. Mr Frank thinks people should work shorter hours and commute shorter distances, even if that means living in smaller houses with cheaper grills."
So it seems that I'm not the only one who would like to work less, but...
"To climb up the pecking order, some people slave away nights and weekends at the office. They gain in rank at the expense of their free time. But in making that sacrifice they also hurt anyone else who shares their aspirations: they too must give up their weekends to keep up. Mr Frank reckons that many people would like to work less, if only others slackened off also. But such bargains cannot be struck unilaterally. On the contrary, people compete in costly ?arms races?, knowing that if they do not work harder, they will lose their standing to someone who does."
And why do we work so hard ? For money ?
"The rich are generally happier than the poor, but rich countries do not get happier as they get richer. The Japanese are much better off now than in 1950, but the proportion who say they are ?very happy? has not budged. Americans too have remained much as Alexis de Tocqueville found them in the 19th century: ?So many lucky men, restless in the midst of abundance.?"
ReadySET is an open source project to produce and maintain a library of reusable software engineering document templates. These templates provide a ready starting point for the documents used in software development projects. Using good templates can help developers work more quickly, but they also help to prompt discussion and avoid oversights.
New website feature : show or hide news with Javascript
You can now better control what you see on my home page.
Look at the right under my picture.
You can decide how much news you want to see : 10, 30, 50, All (Default is 30)
You can decide when a news should be displayed. When it is too long instead of having the contents, you will have a button to show/hide the news content. The default is 512 characters.
Many combinations are than possible (default is 30 news and 512 characters):
The purpose of this mindmap was to explain the explosion of technologies around XML and why people could think that XML is simple but in fact it is not.
From this spaghetti, I made a kind of lasagne, that I called XEE (XML Entreprise Edition, like J2EE is Java Entreprise Edition).
Here was my picth in 2002:
Software AG's XEE: XML Enterprise Edition
XML has now clearly evolved to the enterprise standard for application integration. If the principles of using XML are simple, its integration in a company's infrastructure can become a real software challenge. In this presentation we will present our vision of the XML software infrastructure that can solve a lot of these challenges. This infrastructure allows to:
adapt old applications to XML
create new XML compliant applications
build the required XML services (directories like UDDI, security, transactionality, routing, transformations, storage, synchronization, querying, web services...)
plug in new kind of XML applications (BPM, Content Management, Portals, XForms, Mobile Applications,...)
The solution was an XML Enabled Service Oriented Infrastructure... which I believe is still the best integration pattern today.
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"SOA is a business centric software design paradigm characterised by
the utilisation of well defined standards and protocols to create
services and compose applications from services. SOA mandates that
services are loosely coupled and communicate through the exchange of
messages thereby allowing resource sharing and reuse. Interoperability
and platform independence allow the composition of applications from
services created using heterogeneous resources and hosted on
heterogeneous technology platforms. SOA is a long term organization
wide cross functional collaborative activity whose ROI will be achieved
by service reuse and efficiencies gained by better alignment IT with
business."
To add a new page to Wiki, all you have to do is come up with a meaningful title, capitalize all the words and ?StringThemTogetherLikeThis. Wiki automagically recognizes it as a hyperlink. Alternatively, you can put anything into ?square brackets.
Then you can go ahead and ?ClickTheQuestionMark at the end of your new hyperlink, and the Wiki will give you a window for making the new page.
If you wish to add documents with complex markup to the Wiki, you might be better off providing a URL to it than trying to add the text of the document here, like so:
The Wiki does not support HTML tags (see TextFormattingRules). <tags>They will just render like text.</tags> Wiki is meant to be as simple as possible to encourage use.
Note that there is a feature that your system administrator can enable to allow embedded HTML, but there are security risks involved.
"My Certipost. C?est bien pour vous, et l?environnement en b?n?ficie.
Saviez-vous que, si tous les Belges passaient ? la facture ?lectronique, nous pourrions sauver chaque ann?e une for?t d?une superficie ?quivalent ? 1000 stades de football. De plus, nous contribuerons constructivement ? l?accord de Kyoto. Annuellement, les ?missions de CO? dans l?atmosph?re diminueraient de quelque 36 millions de kilos."
Les gens de Certipost sont des clinches ! Le bois est la seule resource naturelle que nous pouvons utiliser sans r?fl?chir. Le probl?me n'est pas la d?for?station mais de la plantation : replanter des arbres.
Car le bois est la seule source d'?nergie qui absorbe autant de CO2 qu'elle n'en d?gage dans l'atmosph?re.
Aussi, je ne suis pas sur qu'ils pensent a la pollution qui est produite par la construction des ordinateurs qui permettent la facture ?l?ctronique... cfr http://www.ercb.com/brief/brief.0058.html
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A special type of URL is available for making links to perform
administrative and other special functions in PhpWiki. Here is a
brief description of how they work.
The basic syntax of a phpwiki: URL is
phpwiki:pagename?query-args
If pagename is omitted it defaults to the current page.
Query-args should be a set of parameters in standard
HTTP GET format.
The "action=x" parameter should almost always be given. It can be one of
browse, info, diff, search, edit,
zip, dumpserial, loadserial,
remove, lock, unlock,
login, logout, setprefs or save.
The default action is browse.
Some of the actions accept other parameters.
info
Accepts showpagesource.
search
Accepts searchterm, and searchtype.
edit
Accepts version.
remove
Accepts verify.
save
Accepts editversion, minor_edit, and content.
setprefs
Accepts edit_area_width, edit_area_height.
Writing Magic Links in Wiki Pages
A magic link looks like:
[text|phpwiki-url]
The "text|" is optional but usually recommended.
If given it will provide the label for the link.
The phpwiki-url is a phpwiki: URL as described above.
Some examples
[ Edit the SandBox | phpwiki:SandBox?action=edit ]
will generate a link which will take you directly to editing the SandBox, like so:
Edit the SandBox.
Magic forms are no longer supported. They have been superceded
by <?plugin-form?>s (for text searches) and by the ?WikiFormPlugin
(for files uploads, etc.)
Pour la nouvelle ann?e j'ai mis une tonne de blagues sur
mon site web. Il s'agit des compilations de blagues de Fred
Donckels (23 fichiers qui ont pour nom Tout1, Tout2,...
jusqu'? Tout23).
Il y en a pour des heures de lecture et vous verrez que pas
mal de blagues avaient deja ?t? r?colt?es par Fred ? l'?poque
des nos ?tudes. Pour ceux qui connaissent d?ja, ils verront
qu'on oublie vite des blagues d?sopilantes.? Pour les
autres, c'est a d?couvrir. Attention, c'est de l'humour
d'informaticien ! (c'est pas p?joratif, je suis informaticien
aussi).?
A SOA business services repository contains some basic elements. The following table gives examples as I documented them in my SOA repository prototype (SOACollab).
Today I have to read a lot of documents (RFPs, white papers), therefore it would be more comfortable to print them.
But I feel ashamed to print documents just to read them and than throw them away. 75% of the people feel the same way (see the article from DataNews : "Vous imprimez et vous en avez honte").
Last year already I wanted to buy the iRex DR 1000s and as one can see the price has been the same for more than 6 months now. It is still 699 Euros.
I'm an enthusiast about ePaper but with this level of price I doubt it will become mainstream soon.
Often I say that one of my dreams is to cross a continent (like America, Central Europe or around the Mediterranean sea) by bicycle for several months.
I like the Tour de France a lot. Every night I enjoy the resume on een : Tour2009.
The main question this year is of course "Armstrong or Contador ?"
One can think that this competition within a single team is very unhealthy.
I don't think so.
First, it's excellent for the team because it's excellent for the sponsors: Astana. Every day that question comes back again and again.
Second, it's an excellent strategy for winning. If the Astana team mates can bring the 2 leaders safely at the top of the race when the real battle can begin, than you can let Armstrong and Contador challenge each other and let the fastest win... Plus : if one of the two leaders has a big problem, chances of winning are not lost for the team.
Now I'm curious to see if what I predict will become true : will Armstrong and Contador have a big fight "? la p?dale" in the mountain ? I hope so.
The hill climb will make you strong; the interval track burns huge amounts of calories and in the mountain climb the training focus shifts to strength and endurance with two phases of two minute blasts where you really work it!
Some longer work phases provide a higher top end for those athletes who want it. RPM is increasingly appealing to outdoor sports enthusiasts who are using the class in their training for events and the new class is great for this.
Musically, we?ve got a great mix of sounds starting with Jamiroquai?s funky and uplifting Little L. The beats-per-minute rate a little faster than normal to provide some great energy for the start of the class.
A fun remake of the classic You Spin Me Right Round sets the scene for the pace track, which sets the riders up for the demands of the workout.
I Like To Move It follows and this has a great driving beat that will maximize the workout experience - this is the first big challenge in the class.
Get ready for some dance rock in the interval track with Painkiller. Power is the name of the game here and the rules are simple ? the higher load you push, and the faster you do it, the more power you?re producing.
The mountain climb is another highlight , with the trancey-bongo feel in the remix of Safri Duo?s Played-A-Live. The training focus shifts to strength endurance as the music builds and makes you really want to move!
This is a massive workout guaranteed to maximize fitness gains and caloric expenditure.
HP Adaptive Infrastructure offerings are designed to move your organization from high-cost IT islands to low-cost pools of IT assets. By breaking down the rigid silos in your datacenter, you can do more with less. Adaptive Infrastructure products, services and solutions drive gains across broad areas of your datacenter?including IT systems, power and cooling, management, security, virtualization and automation
Combien de 'Declercq' ou 'Tartempion' en Belgique et ou ? Sur le site de la sopres (www.sopres.be), vous pourrez faire une recherche sur votre patronyme.
Moi j'ai fait le test, il y a 7037 'Declercq' surtout du c?t? de Courtrai et Roulers...
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What to do with a Business Process Management Platform ?
IBM's Software Portfolio contains Business Process Management Tools. When and how you should use a BPM platform such as ?WebSphere Business Process Manager depends on the type of Business Process that you want to automate.
Types of Business Processes
I classify 4 types of Business Processes in a 2 dimensional table - 1 is not enough and 3 is too much for marketing :-).
The horizontal axis is the differentiation axis:
Differentiating : You have business processes which are truly differentiating : your company is the only one to make it that way, or produces that type of products or services.
Non-Differentiating : Those business processes are just standard business processes. You do the same as the competition in that domain.
The vertical axis is the "core business" axis:
Core business processes : those business processes are core to your company. Example : Credit or Payment processes in a Bank.
Non Core business processes : those business processes aren't really linked to your company but you need to have them. Example : Payroll, Company Cars, Building Maintenance and Security...
Good Boys
For two cases, it really makes sense to master a BPM platform in house :
"Non-Differntiating" and "Core Business" Business Processes. Those business processes just belong to your industry and so you need to have them. For instance, in the Pharma industry, you need to communicate with the FDA in order to commercialize drugs. In that case, it's a good idea to try to automate the business processes in order to reduce cost to a maximise. I qualify this zone as "OPTIMIZE" business processes.
Differentiating and Core Business : those business processes is your battle field. It's the place to win new customers by being faster, smarter and offer more than the competition. Those processes are in the INNOVATE zone. It's the place where you can innovate. Working with a strong BPM and SOA platform can help you achieve your goals faster by providing IT agility.
Bad Boys
For the two other cases, it's less obvious why you'd need a BPM platform. However:
Non-Differentiatng and Non-Core Business : in this case you run business processes which are not really important for you and that will not help you to win market share. This kind of processes should be outsourced to other companies : I put them in the OUTSOURCE zone. Example : outsourcing of Company Cars Pool Management to external companies like ?LeasePlan. If you absolutely want to keep those processes in-house, you'd better manage them right in order to avoid hidden costs and benchmark them. A BPM platform is a plus in that case only.
Differentiating and Non-Core Businesses : the first question is to know WHY you are doing this. You have diversified your company with differentiating processes which are non-core. You have two options to handle this : make them core business by adapting the strategy - adding a business unit- or stop doing them by selling or outsourcing them to someone who wants to make them strategic. If they can't be dropped or promoted to the strategy, you'll need to manage them you can take advantage of the BPM platform you have bought for your core-processes. Just keep them independant such that you can sell them at any time.
Which Core Business Processes would benefit the most from an BPM platform ?
It depends. You can jump into the "Winning the Customer Battle" by providing better services but you can also cut down prices and/or increase margins by optimizing . IBM wants to help companies to Innovate by becoming the Innovator's Innovator (See http://www.ibm.com/innovation/guide/conclusion.shtml) and after all optimization sometimes requires innovation....
Next question : How does processes stability play a role ?
The postings on this site are my own and don?t necessarily represent IBM?s positions, strategies or opinions
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Testing Business Processes with iLog Business Rules
This morning (Oct 28, 2009) I attended a iLog Business Rules Management System (BRMS) Demo and it gave me an idea.
iLog has a great tool for testing rules. It allows to design test cases using MS Excell that are sent to the Rules Engine in order to determine if a rule set provides the expected decision.
In the past I ave been involved with the difficult exercice of generating test data for Business Processes. Using the iLog testing tool, this could be realized like this :
1. Before the process is designed, use the BRMS to design the process vocabulary.
2. Create some basic rules which from process inputs produce process outputs. In fact these rules simulate the process.
3. Create the rules test cases such that the rule responds the right process output from a given process input. In fact the rules set must simulates the process for the foreseen test cases.
4. Communicate the rules and their test cases to the Process developpers so they can design and build the process using the test cases.
5. For automating the tests, at the end of the process (or at intervals if the process is composed of serveral parts), send the process inputs to the business rules and ask the rules engine to compare process results with the expected process results (this requires a comparison rule which allows to determine of two result sets are considered equivalent).
To illustrate this, I used the opportunity to test gliffy to make a diagram:
What's the next big thing in IT after SOA, Virtualization and Web2.0 ?
Intellligence Programming, maybe ?
Imagine now everybody has adopted SOA, Web2.0 and Virtualization of everything so computing is green, scalable, agile. Using composite applications, mobile technology and Web2.0 all end users are smoothly integrated in automated end-to-end business processes. Companies have managed to outsource the right business taks to their partners and customers thanks to rich Internet Clients. The IT Center is optimized and is automatically monitored. It can detect problems and repair them automatically : you just need the perform the switch of the redundant broken part of your data center. In other words, imagine companies have achieved the supreme level of maturity : the full agility !
What we than could see is the further consolidation of IT datacenters into MEGA-data-centers wich can run the IT of 100 companies all together. These will monsters, 100 times more powerfull and bigger than Google. Those data-centers will have two different parts. The majority of the datacenter will be ocupied by the mainstream virtual servers : the normal "banking services", "internet blogs"', "interner shops", CRM applications and ERPs. An other part of the data-center will be the sandbox of innovation. A bunch Virtual servers will be left to the good will of some marketeers who will create there the ?YouTube or the SecondLife of the future which will aim at attracting the customers to the good old servers. These servers will be not anymore be SOA like : They will have to adapt to change in real-time.
The main characteristic of those servers will be their contained intelligence. Marketing Intelligence Agents will, with the help of the seach and index services, closely watch the competiton. Whe the competitor's information will change, a competing strategy would be elaborated in real-time in order to diminish the first mover's advantage of the other party. This will only be possible if semantic servers are able to make sense of what has changed at the other side.
Let's give an example : let's imagine that a site selling cars lauches a new promotion. A competitor's vitual agent is watching this site.Someone designed the virtual agent to systematically make counter offers - it's a volume busines and you want to kille the competition. How does this offer come to the end-user ? The end-user doesn't always watch both sites but has probably subscribed to a car news rss feed somewhere. As soon as the initial announcement is made, the second manufacturer needs to make his counter-offer on that particular feed. Of course if you do that, your business must be aligned. Therefore a new selling process will be instanciated on the fly for the customers who will refer that that counter-offer. This exceptional process must make use of the traditonal services and organization in place, but as the tradional IT is SOA and Agile and if all services contract service are respected, the only specific step to allow this would be to add some go/no-go decision points : Go/?NoGo with the counter-offer publication and new sales process roll-out.
As a consequence, on top of those innovative business processes layers, will come an Artificial Intelligence layer. The explosion of competition in a globalized world will make it impossible to allow a human to pilot all decisions on line. Determing the company's strategy and ethics will be the fisrt step of a new kind of programming : decision programming or intelligence programming. This programming will have several aspects.
First one needs to model the information needed to take a decision and make sure that those information can be gathered at the right moment.
Secondly, one needs to make sense of these data and model decision trees whiche determine in which options are possible for the real-time adaptation of business processes.
Thridly, heuristics need to be developped which translate the company's strategy and values. Furthermore, these rules will need to be prioritized such that the system knows which options can be taken in extreme situations and which can NEVER be taken, whatever the situation.
Finally, in extreme cases, it will not be able for the machine to determine how the business process should be adapted. In that case, the possible options will be reported to a human and a meeting will be needed to select the right one. This meeting will of course be virtual.
The next big thing after SOA is so the Intelligence Programming (Marketing Intelligence, Operational Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, Strategy and Values Programming): programming the business processes to adapt themselves automatically - for instance by allowing them to increase capacity and remove bottlenecks if the ROI is >1.
After SOA the focus will shift from on "How should my business run" to "How should my business adapt to change".
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the first one to go wrong.
If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Dans son livre "Br?ve Histoire de l'Avenir" Jacques Attali pr?dit les deux grandes entreprises de demain :
Les Assurances : afin de ne pas tomber dans la pr?carit?, les classes moyennes et hautes s'assurent contre tous les risques possibles et imaginables. Afin d'?tre assur?s, nous devrons ?tre constament surveill?s.
L'Industrie des Loisir : pour nous lib?rer de notre cage dor?e-assur?e, il n'y aura que cet ?chapatoire.
Probablement les deux industries se mettrons d'accord sur les PrincipeDePr?caution ? suivre...
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Paul Bradley & Melanie Kim - Using Prince2 - the project manager's guide
Erwann Menth?our - Renaissance
J'ai achet? ce livre apr?s avoir entendu Erwann Menth?our sur Europe1. Ce type est sp?cial : il a couru le tour de France, il est devenu Artiste. A la radio, il ne parlait pas comme un cycliste mais comme un intellectuel (je trouve!!).
Comme il a mon age, j'ai voulu savoir ce qu'il avait ?crit et comment il l'avait ?crit. J'ai pas encore fini le livre mais je suis d?j? convaincu : c'est un bon livre.
Un livre compl?tement d?jant? dans un style qui colle aux personnes qui ont 30 ans. L'histoire ne rime ? rien. Elle est m?me un peu absurde.
le livre tente de d?crire un combat in?gal entre les id?alistes (ong, ?cologistes, greenpeace...) contre les puissants (chefs politiques, chefs d'entreprises, police) de ce monde. Derri?re l'histoire des personnages se cache l'hypoth?se d'un combat entre les capitalistes au pouvoir et les "autres"...
The Nuts-and-Bolts Guide to Turning Your Business Dream Into a Reality, 4th Edition
Gregory F. Kishel, Patricia Gunter Kishel
ISBN: 0-471-67184-3
Paperback
288 pages
June 2005
In the "Revue de blogs" of Catherine NIVEZ on Europe 1 this tuesday Jan 16,2007, the author of Casse-Croute explained why people prefer to watch videos of cooking (See for example Cuisse de canard laqu?e )rather than just reading and understanding the recipe. "Words are too complicated". "One doesn't undestand what should be done"...
I think indeed that creating and consuming videos is much easier than blogging text. I recently posted a comment on Vincent Abry's website on that (see Les blogs atteindront leur apog?e d?but 2007 or here under).
The trends of Videos publishing will continue if people continue to contribute to the Internet like they do it with blogs today. Writing is too slow and tiring. So writing will disappear and remain only for the people who like to read, which will probably be a minority.
C'est vrai que si j'ai maintenu mon site web (une sorte de blog) pendant pas mal d'ann?es, j'ai du rester "motiv?" pour m'y tenir. Ma principale motivation, c'est moi meme : j'aime avoir un site web ? moi. Mais heureusement que de temps en temps j'ai recu des emails de personnes qui appr?ciaient mon site.
Pour moi, blogger n'est pas si agr?able, je me sens frustr? et limit? par l'?criture. J'aimerais pouvoir exprimer plus. A un certain moment, j'ai pens? plut?t poster des ?MindMaps...
Vu la vague ?YouTube combin?e au cam?ras sur les t?l?phones portables, on peut s'attendre a ce que les gens bloggent de plus en plus des vid?os parceque ?crire c'est moins facile que de se filmer et uploader. Du c?t? du lecteur de blog, regarder une vid?o c'est plus facile que de lire une tartine de texte...
Cette tendance devrait ?galement s'acc?l?rer car l'explosion de la capacit? des r?seaux et la diminution des prix du storage cr?ent la demande pour du contenu riche. (D'ailleur y-aurait'il une bulle vid?o/tv sur le web combin?e au Web2.0 en formation pour l'instant ? L'avenir nous le dira.)
Je constate que sur Skynet.be, les blogs les plus lus sont des blogs avec beaucoup d'images... Sur Scoopeo.be, un scoop sur 3 est une vid?o....
Bref, les blogs avec du texte risquent de devenir des blogs pour intellectuels...
S'il y en a moins et qu'ils sont meilleurs, je suis preneur.
Yesterday (Jan 20th 2008) we attended the second pecha kucha night organized in Brussels. As last time, it was great. When Mr Nandi announced the last presentation, I was thinking : Already ! Time is flying when you are having fun.
Some of the things I've written down:
Joannes Vandermeulen, archaeologist & user experience expert:
Story telling is important and specific to the human race because "Stories are alternative futures"
Within 10.000 years, we will "Travel less but wander more"
Jan van den Bergh, Boondoggle:
The basis of Brand management is to master your customer database
Sunday Feb 18th : we were at the final of the Proximus Diamond Games Tennis Tournament. Amelie Mauresmo won against retiring Kim Klijsters and I found she indeed played very well to defeat our Belgian Kimmeke. (You can see a photo of me in the Studio VIP album).
I think it's just great. If you add that you can use the Iliad as a Notepad (you can write also!), that you can upload PDF documents like reports, Presentations... It makes of it a great business tool.
PhpWiki is written in the server-side scripting language PHP, available from http://www.php.net/. PHP resembles C and Perl in its syntax, and functions much like ASP, EmbPerl or JSP.
PhpWiki consists of a dozen or so files of mixed PHP and HTML. The web pages that make up a WikiWikiWeb based on PHP live in a DBM file with backup copies of previous versions of pages stored in a second DBM file.
Every time a user hits the site the page requested is pulled from the DBM and rendered on the fly. The user only ever requests the file index.php, which then decides which other php files to include.
Links to pages in the wiki are automatically linked: PhpWiki. This might be the single most compelling aspect of a wiki, the ability to add pages simply by linking to them. The next most compelling thing is how easily external URL's link like this:
Lu sur le site de la RTBF :
"La couche d'ozone qui prot?ge la terre des rayons ultra-violets est en train de se reconstituer. C?est ce qu?annoncent des scientifiques dans un rapport publi? par l?ONU. "
I have been used to tackle the ROI question a lot during my career and in fact while reading your question, suddenly, I see the light.
A technology or a system doesn't have a ROI : It always costs. What matters is what you are going to do with this technology : your project.
When Bernard tapie presented the first Cofidis team for the Tour de France, the best champions were in front of the press. A journalist asked : "How much does such a team cost with all these champions ?"
Bernard Tapie said : "It's not how much it costs that is important. It's how much it will return to cofidis, (and believe me it's much more !)"
(I'm not so sure about the wording but it's the idea... :-) )
What do you want to do with this technology ?
There are 2 main cases:
Case 1. The technology/system is a key enabler of your project : you can't do without it. In that case the expected revenue of your entire project should exceed the technology acquisition cost which in fact is only a portion of your entire project. So the question is how much can the project cost ?
Case 2. The technology/system is a nice to have. The question is than, by adopting this technology, will the bottom line bring me more than the technological costs ?
So a technology/system doesn't have an ROI by itself, it will depend on what you will do with it.
Google used Web2.0 to create Gmail, a very different way to use email by searching rather than having traditional folders. The search engine was the key enabler while the Web2.0 technology was an enabler but not really a must have. But thanks to web2.0 user-friendlyness they maybe increased their number of users by let's say 5%. Those 5% represent 5% more advertising revenue. In that case, we can guess there is good ROI.
Enteprise 2.0 will most probably achieve a good ROI for companies where communication boundaries should not be an obstacle to people's creativity and expression. At IBM it allows to enable "innovation that matters"...
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Today (20070123) I release a prototype of a SOA Repository I have designed and implemented myself.
By my experience in SOA projects and being frustrated by documentig and communicating around serive design and information, I have created a small php object database prototype (see Entrypot). The purpose of this php system is to be able to enter information in a collaborative mode.
Some objects of the following type have been created :
SOA Repository
SOA Service
The SOA Repository links to the SOA services and the SOA services are described using interfaces and methods for the moment.
By doing this I have built an extensible SOA Repository that could be used a central documentation place for developers and business analysts.
As a test case, I will soon publish a complete service : the COBRA naming service. Such that we can see what it gives with a real service specification. The CORBA meta-models is composed of
I intend to develop a xml export feature that would make it possible to generate the service XML version and afterwards to transform it to COBRA IDL using a stylesheet.
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A small selection of those true live stuffs ... (in French). La probabilit? que la tartine tombe du cot? du beurre est proportionnelle ? la valeur du tapis
Une cravate propre attire in?vitablement les aliments les plus salissants
... les aliments choisissent d'obeir ? la loi de la cravate quand tout le monde vous regarde
Tous les joints herm?tiques fuient
Tout lavage de voiture fait pleuvoir dans l'heure
Le premier insecte qui s'?crase sur un pare-brise le fait ? la hauteur des yeux du conducteur
Un rapport confidentiel est toujours oubli? dans la photocopieuse
D?s qu'on quitte l'imprimante des yeux, elle a un probl?me
Electricit? : tout fil coup? ? longueur est trop court
C'est toujours la caisse d'? cot? qui va le plus vite au supermarch?
Quand on allume une cigarette, l'autobus arrive (utile si on est press? !)
c'est quand on est press? que les boutons se d?cousent ou que les fermetures ?clair craquent
Tout corps plong? dans une baigoire fait sonner le t?l?phone
C'est toujours la derni?re cl? du tousseau qui ouvre la porte
C'est quand on est en retard et qu'il pleut qu'on a oubli? son billet de train dans une autre veste
C'est quand il n'y a plus rien dans le frigo que le centre commercial fait son inventaire (ferm? pour la journ?e)
C'est quand le disque dur plante qu'on s'aper?oit qu'on a oubli? de le sauvegarder ... sinon , c'est en le sauvegardant qu'on le plante
Si vous avez besoin de 4 produits pour faire un gateau, vous pouvez ?tre s?r qu'il n'y en a que 3 dans vos r?serves
tout objet rond qui tombe ? terre va se loger dans le recoin le plus inacc?ssible (certains objet carr?s font l'effort aussi)
si on arrive pile-poil ? l'heure ? l'a?roport c'est parce qu'on a laiss? les billets sur le piano
C'est quand on a reviss? les 16 vis de l'arri?re du capot de la machine ? laver qu'on s'aper?oit qu'on a oubli? de remonter le joint de la pompe
Pourquoi je perds mon parapluie quand il pleut ?
On se fait toujours coincer sur ce qu'on n'a pas pr?par?
Quand un verre tombe c'est toujours au dernier rebond qu'il casse
La probabilit? de recevoir un appel augmente proportionnellement avec le temps pass? depuis que vous ?tes all? aux toilettes
Plus vous connaitrez de Lois de Murphy, plus vous connaitrez la joie de les voir s'appliquer ? vous
C'est quand on a un besoin urgent d'imprimer ou de photocopier qu'il n'y a plus de papier dans le bac (marche aussi aux toilettes, mais l? c'est vraiment emmerdant! )
Cest quand on ne sait pas o? on va qu'on risque le moins de se perdre.
Tout prend plus de temps que ce que vous aviez pr?vu.
Les urgences surviennent al?atoirement toutes en m?me temps .
En hiver, la probabilit? que la fermeture ?clair ouverte de votre anorak rende l?me est proportionnelle ? la vitesse du vent et au nombre de degr?s en dessous de z?ro.
Aucun vol ne part ? lheure, sauf ceux pour lesquels vous arrivez en retard ? l'a?roport .
Aucun vol ne d?colle de la porte num?ro 1 dans n'importe quel a?roport du monde.
Si vous avez d?cid? de travailler un peu pendant la dur?e du vol, vous aurez ? subir des turbulences d?s que votre crayon touchera votre feuille de papier.
Le seul moyen d'obtenir qu'une tartine beurr?e tombe de l'autre c?t?, c'est de mettre du beurre de l'autre c?t? aussi !
Une biscotte se casse toujours quand on la tartine.
Et devinez de quel c?t? tomberont les morceaux d?j? beurr?s ?
La vitesse de la chute d'un morceau de papier est directement proportionnelle ? l'importance des quelques lignes qui sont ?crites dessus.
Tout r?teau pos? sur le sol aura les dents point?es en l'air.
Quand on fait un faux num?ro, ?a ne sonne jamais occup?.
Quand ?a sonne occup?, le num?ro compos? est forc?ment le bon
Le nombre de personnes qui vous regardent est directement proportionnel ? la stupidit? de votre action.
L'eau du bain ne conna?t que deux ?tats : trop chaude ou trop froide.
Le tournevis sera toujours compos? d'un m?tal plus souple que la vis.
C'est toujours au moment o? vous devez dire quelque chose d'important ? quelqu'un, qu'un impertinent arrive et d?tourne a son profit l'attention de votre interlocuteur.
Si vous tuez un moustique, il y en a dix qui arrivent pour les fun?railles.
Le fauteuil de th??tre situ? au centre de la rang?e est toujours r?serv? au spectateur qui arrive le dernier.
Tout acte visant ? faire gagner X minutes entra?ne une perte de temps sup?rieure ou ?gale ? 2X minutes.
Lorsque l'on est en retard le temps avance.
Dans tout empilement, l'objet convoit? est syst?matiquement ? la base de la pile.
Quand vous avez besoin de toucher du bois, vous vous rendez compte que le monde est fait de plastique et de m?tal.
Lorsque vous ouvrez la fen?tre pour chasser une mouche, le nombre de mouches qui en profitent pour rentrer est proportionnel ? la promptitude avec laquelle vous ouvrez et fermez la fen?tre.
Tout objet planqu? sous le lit est ? une distance ?gale ? la longueur de votre bras + 1 cm.
Le meilleur moyen de retrouver un objet perdu, c'est d'en acheter un nouveau.
Il faut avoir longtemps cherch? sans trouver, pour trouver sans chercher.
La dur?e de vie d'une plante verte varie inversement proportionnellement ? son prix et proportionnellement ? sa laideur.
Plus insignifiant l'appareil, plus ?tendue la panne de courant due au p?tage des plombs qu'il provoquera.
C'est lorsqu'on n'a pas d'argent que les commer?ants se d?cident ? faire des promos.
Au moment m?me o? vous signez votre pr?t pour l'achat d'une nouvelle maison, votre bagnole tombe d?finitivement en panne.
Le courrier arrive toujours en bloc : un jour vous serez surcharg? de lettres, mais le reste de la semaine la bo?te sera d?sesp?rement vide (sauf de pubs...)
Par courrier, les factures voyagent deux fois plus vite que les ch?ques.
Une lettre ou un paquet d?passe toujours la limite de sa suppos?e cat?gorie de poids de un gramme.
La fum?e de cigarette se dirige toujours dans la direction des non-fumeurs sans ?gard ? la direction du vent.
C’est toujours lorsque vous fumez la derni?re cigarette de votre paquet, qu’une jolie fille vient vous en demander une.
Un non-fumeur se fera toujours abord? par une magnifique cr?ature qui lui demande du feu.
La m?t?o est seulement capable d'annoncer correctement le temps qu'il fera la veille.
La force du vent augmente proportionnellement au prix de la coiffure.
Le ventilateur de la piece dans laquelle vous etes ne brasse pas assez d'air et son moteur chauffe. S'il brasse assez d'air et que son moteur ne chauffe pas et donc qu'il fonctionne correctement, vous attraperez une grosse bronchite.
Vous pouvez jeter une allumette br?l?e de la fen?tre de votre voiture et allumer un incendie de for?t, mais vous pouvez utiliser deux bo?tes d'allumettes et une ?dition dominicale d'un journal sans pouvoir allumer un feu avec les b?ches s?ches dans votre chemin?e.
C'est quand on croit que ?a cuit peinard que le feu va prendre et cramer toutes les saucisses.
Le meilleur moyen de vous forcer ? faire un travail la veille au soir du jour o? vous devez le rendre est de vous le donner au moins un mois auparavant.
En p?riode d’examens, le nombre de bons films qui passent ? la t?l?vision est inversement proportionnel ? l’?tat d’avancement de vos r?visons.
Le nombre de graffitis sur une table de salle de classe est proportionnel ? l'?loignement du bureau du prof.
La r?ussite d?pend du produit de trois facteurs : travail * intelligence * chance. Si le facteur chance ?gale z?ro il n'y a pas de r?ussite !
Si les constructeurs faisaient les immeubles comme les programmeurs ?crivent leurs programmes, le premier pic-vert venu d?truirait la civilisation.
?a marche mieux en ?tant branch?.
Au bout d'un certain temps, ce qui ?tait provisoire devient permanent.
Si quelque chose ne peut en aucun cas mal tourner, ?a le fera quand m?me.
Ce n'est qu'apr?s avoir essay? tout le reste, qu'on lit la documentation... C'est ? ce moment qu'on se rend compte qu'on l'a jet?e avec l'emballage.
Quand un instrument a ?t? compl?tement assembl?, il reste encore des composants sur le plan de travail.
C'est toujours plus cher que pr?vu.
La meilleure fa?on de r?soudre un probl?me, c'est de le supprimer.
C'est quand on est combl?dement enrhub? et enrou? que le r?pondeur tombe en panne et qu'il faut r?-enregistrer l'annonce.
Si vous ne savez pas ou ranger quelque chose, le premier n'importe-o? o? vous le flanquerez en attendant sera le bon.
Avoir un 4X4, ?a veut simplement dire que vous serez coinc? dans des endroits plus inaccessibles qu'avec deux roues motrices.
De plusieurs appareils identiques, celui que choisirez sera le seul ? ne pas fonctionner.
Les emballages ? ouverture facile sont inviolables.
Les hypermarch?s ne se parcourent qu'en diagonale.
Tous les travaux des services de l'?quipement se combinent pour maximiser le nombre de g?nes sur votre trajet.
Les d?viations sont pens?es pour des v?hicules tout terrain ?quip?s de syst?mes de navigation et de d?tresse.
Le temps mis ? se rep?rer sur une carte est toujours sup?rieur ? celui n?cessaire pour d?passer le carrefour o? il aurait fallu tourner.
Plus un programme est int?ressant, plus il est diffus? ? une heure tardive.
La Nature frappe toujours au d?faut de la cuirasse.
La lumi?re au bout du tunnel est le phare d'un train qui approche.
La puissance du ressort du grille-pain est proportionnelle ? la taille de la cuisine.
Quand on fait des p?tes, il y en a toujours trop.
Une rage de dent commence toujours un samedi soir.
Un four cuit toujours trop ou pas assez. Un micro-onde fait m?me les deux ? la fois.
Plus la part de g?teau est belle, plus elle a de chance de tomber de travers dans l'assiette au moment de la servir.
La nourriture la meilleure est celle qui contient le plus de calories.
C'est toujours quand on est pour une ?quipe que c'est l'autre qui gagne.
Il y a toujours dans la vie des convergences qu'on ne s'explique pas. Par exemple on recoit plusieurs offres d'emploi dans la m?me semaine. Cette fois ci, j'ai cr?e un miniblogue hier soir. Sur mon blogue, hier midi, sans relation de cause ? effet que je puisse m'expliquer SouCaline a post? un commentaire sur un de mes blogs. Son URL est celui de ... miniblogue. Son commentaire est don ant?rieur ? mon inscription ? miniblogue. Moi j'ai d?couvert miniblogue via Wikipedia...
Ce que j'aime dans le miniblogue c'est qu'il faut m?me pas chercher un titre. On dumpe directement ce qu'on pense et c'est un peu plus long qu'un Twit.
Je recherche un peu le bon mix pour le futur de mes sites internet. Mon laboratoire c'est ma page publique de Netvibes.
In twitter I have followers who follow thousands of people. See for example http://twitter.com/chrisblake. I wonder how it's possible to do that. Why do they do that ?
"Moi j?aime bien les r?seaux sociaux. Facebook est celui que j?aime le moins. Je n?aime pas devoir ?installer des applications?, c?est pour moi contraire aux principes m?me du web.
Ce qui me fait peur avec Facebook c?est l?utilisation qui pourrait en ?tre faite : si on pense ? comment les juifs ont ?t? pourchass?s avec des registres papier pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, on se rend compte il serait aujourd?hui tres facile de cibler un groupe particulier via un syst?me comme facebook. Et je ne parle pas encore d?une ?ventuelle application de d?nonciation (anonyme) qui serait install?e sur Facebook.
En cas de troisi?me guerre mondiale, la premi?re cible ? d?truire serait peut-?tre facebook."
This wiki supports InterWiki links in a style copied from ?UseMod: wiki. Links to pages in other wikis can be made without having to know or type the full URLs, for example: ?MeatBall:InterWiki will link to the page named "InterWiki" at Meatball wiki.
The InterWiki map is taken from the the <verbatim> block in InterWikiMap, but that page must be locked for it to work. This denies a potential hacker the ability to nefariously change every InterWiki link to point to some evil URL. If no map is found in InterWikiMap (or the page is not locked), PhpWiki will fall back to using the file lib/interwiki.map in your phpwiki distribution. The InterWiki map file in use at PhpWiki: can be viewed at http://phpwiki.sf.net/interwiki.map.
The map file is manually updated. It is based upon and periodically synchronized with UseMod's InterMap but it is not quite identical. One notable difference from ?UseMod: is that PhpWiki supports '%s' within the URLs in the map--see the entry for RFC for an example of how this works.
Not all of the entries in the InterWikiMap are actual wikis. For example, these are just regular web sites: Dictionary:fungible, ?JargonFile:Alderson loop, ?IMDB:Roman Holiday, RFC:2822, and ISBN:020171499X.
The "Category" moniker is a special entry which allows one to link a wiki page to a Category page without creating a back-reference. Thus Category:Category links to the ?CategoryCategory page, yet this page won't show up in the back-links listing of ?CategoryCategory.
The term "InterWiki" also refers to a broader concept. See PhpWiki:?InterWikiSearch for more links.
WikiPlugins allow one to easily add new types of dynamic content (as well as other functionality) to wiki pages within PhpWiki. In this very wiki, the RecentChanges, BackLinks, LikePages and DebugInfo pages are all implemented using plugins.
I expect that the search result pages, as well as much PhpWikiAdministration will soon be implemented via plugins as well. (I think the oh-so-ugly MagicPhpWikiURLs can be replaced by plugins, too.)
Example
Currently, one invokes a plugin by putting something like:
<?plugin BackLinks?>
into a regular wiki-page. That particular example produces as list
of pages which link to the current page. Here it is:
(This is great for Category and Topic pages. You can use this to get
an automatic in-line listing of pages in the Category or Topic.)
Details
(This is all subject to change.)
Plugins can take certain named arguments (most do).
The values of these arguments can be determined four different ways.
In order of precedence:
The plugin invocation can specify the value for an argument, like so:
<?plugin BackLinks page=OtherPage ?>
The argument can be specified via an HTTP query argument. This doesn't happen (is not allowed) unless the argument is mentioned in the plugin invocation:
<?plugin BackLinks page ?>
Default values specified in the plugin invocation:
<?plugin BackLinks page||=OtherPage ?>
The plugin must supply default values for each argument it uses. (The BackLinks plugin uses
the current page as the default value for the page argument.
Insert XML/RSS/RDF news content from location=xxx where location is a parameter to the plugin, maybe include some formatting control of the output generated.
After my 2006 Review, the natural question is: what?s the future? I want to share some thoughts here.
Personal goals
"Le ma?tre dans l?art de vivre ne fait pas de distinction fondamentale entre le travail et le jeu, l?effort et le plaisir, le corps et l??me, l??ducation et la r?cr?ation, l?amour et la religion. Il poursuit sa qu?te d?excellence quel que soit ce qu?il fait, laissant aux autres le soin de d?cider s?il travaille ou s?il joue."
This can be somehow translated like this:
?The master in the art of living does not make the distinction between the work and the play, the effort and the pleasure, the body and the soul, the education and the recreation, the love and the religion. He continues his search of excellence whatever he does, leaving to the others the care to decide if he works or if he plays.?
Ok, fine. But what do I do? Where should I be excellent while working and playing?
Next year?s objectives will be:
Continue to have quality time with the ones I love, travel and learn new things, do more cycling (Golf, mabye)?
Work on a better alignment between my work and my values, my passions, my personality
On the personal point of view, I don?t feel there is anything to improve. My focus is still on quality time.
Professional Goals
On the professional point of view, I don?t feel like 2006 has brought me a total satisfaction. I need to continue to transform myself in order to be able to drive a major change. I feel that, in order to be happy, I need to reach a maturity level which would allow me to show more leadership and build myself an environment with more responsibilities and challenges. Big companies like HP do not really allow this. You need to be there for several years before having responsibilities and decision power. But even for the top management, as everybody is locked into his own role, the responsibilities and the impact of one?s personality remains quiet limited. On one side, it?s a luxury situation: you just do your job and you are well rewarded. The problem is that I?d wish to be more involved, to be in higher control, to move to areas that I will determine more independently. I also wish to deliver value in a more direct and personal way and bypass all the politics that you can find in large companies. To that respect it is for me inevitable that I?ll eventually move to a smaller environment (as a freelance or within a smaller company).
To determine my next best move, I?ll need first to determine the values and the area where I want to become excellent. This has been a major question for me since several years: What do I want to do professionally? Sales? IT Architecture? Consulting? Pre-Sales? Software? Services? Or something completely different?
None of the possibilities I have envisioned until today have created confidence in me. For none of them I feel I was borne to do it.
Those professional questions raise even more philosophic questions in me: what should I do with my life?
What should I do with my life?
Today my answer to this question is architected on two main pillars:
My life (work and private) should be enjoyable
My life should be useful
The main Problem is that I?m not (yet) sure of the second pillar. How can I pretend my role in the humanity and in the universe could have any impact? (Quel sens a ma vie ?)
Most people I meet are convinced that they are useful. They think they need to do the job right and they take it very seriously. They have big ideas on how it should be and how it shouldn?t be, what we can and can?t say, what we can and can?t do, what?s possible and what?s impossible? (My favourite quote is ?They did it because they didn?t know it was impossible?). They will never think about this question: Am I sure of what I?m sure?
Unlike those people, I?m not yet sure that I need to be useful. In fact, I contribute to the society uniquely because
I have financial constraints (I need to have a roof, pay my bills, eat and respect my moral obligations)
I need to have some occupation otherwise I would become crazy. (I believe the human race needs to have some activity otherwise they get bored and they do all kind of stupid things).
At HP, my management knows why I?m useful: I need to over-achieve my targets. But what will it change globally if I don?t? Is it really useful to over-achieve the target? At the level of humanity, does it really matter? Not at all?
When thinking about my usefulness, there is only one topic that I consider as being useful for the humanity: the transfer to the younger generations.
What is useful ?
If we want Humanity to continue, we need to transfer the good assets to each other and to the next generation:
? Transmit & Maintain Life : Medecine
? The knowledge to survive on the long term in this universe : Science
? The art of writing and counting to report and transmit our knowledge : Education
? The best of our music, painting : Culture
? The rules of the game to live all together in peace : Politics and Religion
? The rules of the game to keep a clean planet : Ecology
If I want to be useful, I need to contribute to the transfer of knowledge which will ensure the continuation of the Humanity.
Is Money useful ?
Our world is today governed by the money. Money certainly contributes to those goals, but we can easily find examples where money clearly misses the objective; it pollutes the nature, it corrupts politics, it advertises on art, it diverts science to productive goals with exclusive rights. Therefore the use of money as the primary rule for determines the human activities should be reduced. (That?s why after all I?m happy to pay taxes if it contributes to humanity?s objectives).
Conclusions
There are clearly two big options for me in the future :
Focus on quality time and forget usefulness. Work only to get Bills paid.
Focus on quality time and usefulness. This will require major changes (work) and efforts?
Some examples?
For option 1: move to a less stressing and demanding work (or make it less stressing), work closer from home, work part time?
For option 2: Change job to Knowledge Sharing and Transfer, ONG, Durable Development?
I have been involved in several activities with professionals from the Netherlands those last 3 months.
I was recently working with a great IBM colleague - a IBM Websphere Portlet Factory specialist- in a POC. And I have worked with other excellent Dutch during my carreer. Dutch colleagues tend to ask a lot of annoying questions but if you are honnest, you know they are the right questions.
The majority of my IT Architect Master Programme courses (Operational Modeling, Philips Design, Personal Improvement, Business Architecture, Creative Thinking...) were given by Ducth professors and thanks to them I have gained a lot of respect for their country. I can feel there is some leadership and vision on business questions.
One of the technologies I'm watching is ePaper. The best eReader is Ducth : the Iliad has been developed by a spin-off of Philips : iRex Technologies.
I also know that the Ducth Economy is a very strong one : At this moment the Netherlands is the 16th largest economy of the world (See Wikipedia).
And finally if I add today's EURO2008's match against against Italy (3-0) ! I'm very close to dress in Orange. But not yet, don't worry.
R?cemment, une c?l?bre animatrice radio US fit remarquer que l'homosexualit?est une perversion.
"C'est ce que dit la Bible dans le livre du L?vitique, chapitre 18, verset 22 : "Tu ne coucheras pas avec un homme comme on couche avec une femme : ce serait une abomination". La Bible le dit. Un point c'est tout", affirma-t-elle.
Quelques jours plus tard, un auditeur lui adressa une lettre ouverte qui disait : Merci de mettre autant de ferveur ? ?duquer les gens ? la Loi de Dieu. J'apprends beaucoup ? l'?coute de votre programme et j'essaie d'en faire profiter tout le monde. Mais j'aurais besoin de conseils quant ? d'autres lois bibliques.
Par exemple, je souhaiterais vendre ma fille comme servante, tel que c'est indiqu? dans le livre de l'Exode, chapitre 21, verset 7. A votre avis, quel serait le meilleur prix ?
Le L?vitique aussi, chapitre 25, verset 44, enseigne que je peux poss?derdes esclaves, hommes ou femmes, ? condition qu'ils soient achet?s dans desnations voisines. Un ami affirme que ceci est applicable aux mexicains, maispas aux canadiens. Pourriez-vous m'?clairer sur ce point ? Pourquoi est-ceque je ne peux pas poss?der des esclaves canadiens ?
J'ai un voisin qui tient ? travailler le samedi. L'Exode,Chapitre 35,verset 2, dit clairement qu'il doit ?tre condamn? ? mort. Suis-je oblig? dele tuer moi-m?me ? Pourriez-vous me soulager de cette question g?nante d'unequelconque mani?re ?
Autre chose : le L?vitique, chapitre 21, verset 18, dit qu'on ne peutpass'approcher de l'autel de Dieu si on a des probl?mes de vue. J'ai besoin delunettes pour lire. Mon acuit? visuelle doit-elle ?tre de 100% ? Serait-ilpossible de revoir cette exigence ? la baisse ?
Un dernier conseil. Mon oncle ne respecte pas ce que dit le L?vitique,chapitre 19, verset 19, en plantant deux types de culture diff?rents dans lem?me champ, de m?me que sa femme qui porte des v?tements faits de diff?rentstissus, coton et polyester. De plus, il passe ses journ?es ? m?dire et ?blasph?mer. Est-il n?cessaire d'aller jusqu'au bout de la proc?dureembarrassante de r?unir tous les habitants du village pour lapider mon oncleet ma tante, comme le prescrit le L?vitique, chapitre 24,verset 10 ? 16 ? Onne pourrait pas plut?t les br?ler vifs au cours d'une simple r?unionfamiliale priv?e, comme ?a se fait avec ceux qui dorment avec des parentsproches, tel qu'il est indiqu? dans le livre sacr?, chapitre 20, verset 14 ?
Je lis sur le site BrusselsLife.be une explication sur les bootlegs.
"Aujourd'hui des centaines de bootlegs sortent chaque semaine sur internet (ils sont parfois appell?s Mashup: synonyme de notre stoemp national, mais le mot Bootleg est de plus en plus g?n?ralis?)"
Mais oui, mais alors... en IT... les "Business Mashups 2.0" ce sont des stoemps d'affaire !! Mais bien s?r !
Mes coll?ques de IBM Lotus donc sont des vendeurs de stoemp :-D
Question subsidiaire : A quand les SOA Bootlegs ? Ca seraient des processus d'entreprise superpos?s ou quelquechose dans le style...
Cr?er de la valeur par les ressources humaines: un d?fi et une n?cessit? Devenez un "cr?ateur de valeur" en optimisant l'emploi des ressources humaines et en aidant les cadres ? augmenter leur impact sur le r?sultat de l'entreprise. "The right person at the right place"
Il y a quelques temps un client industriel important me demandait: " Comment allez-vous vous assurer que votre candidat s'adaptera ? notre culture et voudra d?velopper une carri?re ? long terme dans notre entreprise?"Il est en effet assez facile de s'assurer des comp?tences professionnelles d'un candidat. Il est d?j? difficile d'exprimer les ?l?ments de la culture tels que le style, les valeurs et les comportements intellectuels souhaitables. Comment alors v?rifier l'ad?quation d'un candidat ? ces attentes? "Proper preparation assures adequate performance"
D'autre part, toutes les techniques modernes de management mentionnent l'utilisation optimale des resources humaines comme facteur de cr?ation de valeur. Alors que de nombreux outils permettent de maximiser l'emploi des ressources financi?res, d'am?liorer la p?n?tration dans le march? et de rendre plus efficace les processus de recherche, de d?veloppement et de production, il manque souvent de moyens pratiques pour la gestion strat?gique des ressources humaines.
Before I joined IBM I worked at HP as a Client Principal for the Consulting & Integration department of HP Services. We delivered Entreprise Applications Services, Microsoft Services and Entreprise Infrastructure Services. I was also Solution Driver for Portals and Entreprise Content Management in the Entreprise Applications Practice.
Before HP I have been a pre-sales engineer at Software AG for about 5 years and Software Engineer for 1.5 years at Cediti : an UCL spin-off.
I like sports. I have been doing football, water-polo, horseriding and tennis in the past, but today I focus on cycling (montain bike, road bike, spinning). You can see me playing water-polo here : MyFirstYouTubeVideo.
Dans la Gr?ce ancienne, Socrate ?tait r?put? pour sa haute philosophie...
Il appliquait la technique du triple filtre...
Un jour, une relation du grand philosophe vint lui parler :
- Socrate, sais-tu ce que je viens d'apprendre sur ton meilleur ami ?
- Ne va pas plus loin! r?pliqua Socrate. Avant de me dire quoi que ce soit, j'appr?cierais que tu passes un petit test. Il s'agit du test "triple filtre".
- Triple filtre ?
- Exact, dit Socrate. Avant que tu me parles de mon ami, il me semble qu'il serait bon de prendre le temps de "filtrer" ce que tu sais. Le premier filtre est "la v?rit?". Es-tu absolument certain que ce que tu vas me dire est la pure v?rit? ?
- Non, reconnut l'interlocuteur. Je l'ai simplement entendu dire et...
- D'accord, dit Socrate. Ainsi tu ne sais pas vraiment si c'est vrai ou pas. Maintenant, le deuxi?me filtre, le filtre de "la bont?". Vas-tu me dire quelque chose d'agr?able sur mon ami ?
- Non, au contraire, je...
- Bien, poursuivit Socrate, tu veux me dire quelque chose de d?sagr?able sur mon ami, sans ?tre certain que ce soit exact. Tu dois maintenant passer le troisi?me filtre, le filtre de "l'utilit?". Penses-tu que ce que tu vas me dire am?liorera mon quotidien ?
- Non, pas vraiment !
- Parfait, conclut Socrate, si ce que tu veux me dire n'est ni la v?rit?,ni agr?able, ni pratique pour moi, autant ne pas me le dire du tout
Voil? une anecdote montrant que Socrate ?tait un grand Philosophe et pourquoi il ?tait tenu en grande estime.
(Cela explique ?galement pourquoi il n'a jamais su que son meilleur ami se tapait sa femme)
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Le musicien de rue ?tait debout dans l'entr?e de la station L'Enfant Plaza
du m?tro de Washington DC. Il a commenc? ? jouer du violon. C'?tait un matin
froid, en janvier dernier. Il a jou? durant quarante-cinq minutes. Pour
commencer, la chaconne de la 2?me partita de Bach, puis l'Ave Maria de
Schubert, du Manuel Ponce, du Massenet et de nouveau Bach. A cette heure de
pointe, vers 8h du matin, quelque mille personnes ont travers? ce couloir,
pour la plupart en route vers leur boulot.
Apr?s trois minutes, un homme d'?ge m?r a remarqu? qu'un musicien jouait. Il
a ralenti son pas, s'est arr?t? quelques secondes puis a d?marr? en
acc?l?rant. Une minute plus tard, le violoniste a re?u son premier dollar :
en continuant droit devant, une femme lui a jet? l'argent dans son petit
pot. Quelques minutes ensuite, un quidam s'est appuy? sur le mur d'en face
pour l'?couter mais il a regard? sa montre et a recommenc? ? marcher. Il
?tait clairement en retard.
Celui qui a marqu? le plus d'attention fut un petit gar?on qui devait avoir
trois ans. Sa m?re l'a tir?, press? mais l'enfant s'est arr?t? pour regarder
le violoniste. Finalement sa m?re l'a secou? et agripp? brutalement afin que
l'enfant reprenne le pas. Toutefois, en marchant, il a gard? sa t?te tourn?e
vers le musicien. Cette sc?ne s'est r?p?t?e plusieurs fois avec d'autres
enfants. Et les parents, sans exception, les ont forc?s ? bouger.
Durant les trois quarts d'heure de jeu du musicien, seules sept personnes se
sont vraiment arr?t?es pour l'?couter un temps. Une vingtaine environ lui a
donn? de l'argent tout en en continuant leur marche. Il a r?colt? 32
dollars. Quand il a eu fini de jouer, personne ne l'a remarqu?. Personne n'a
applaudi. Seule une personne l'a reconnu sur plus de mille personnes.
Personne ne savait pas ce violoniste ?tait Joshua Bell, un des meilleurs
musiciens sur terre. Il a jou? dans ce hall les partitions les plus
difficiles jamais ?crites avec un Stradivarius de 1713 valant 3,5 millions
de dollars. Deux jours avant de jouer dans le m?tro, sa prestation au
th??tre de Boston ?tait "sold out" avec des prix avoisinant les 100 dollars
la place.
C'est une histoire vraie. Joshua Bell jouant incognito dans une station de
m?tro a ?t? organis? par le ? Washington Post ? dans le cadre d'une enqu?te
sur la perception, les go?ts et les priorit?s d'action des gens. Les
questions ?taient : dans un environnement commun, ? une heure inappropri?e,
pouvons-nous percevoir la beaut? ? Nous arr?tons-nous pour l'appr?cier ?
Reconnaissons-nous le talent dans un contexte inattendu ?
Une des possibles conclusions de cette exp?rience pourrait ?tre : si nous
n'avons pas le temps pour nous arr?ter et ?couter un des meilleurs musiciens
au monde jouant quelques-unes des plus belles partitions jamais compos?es, ?
c?t? de combien d'autres choses passons-nous ?
Today I assisted at the IBM Virtual Summit and I was quiet impressed by the Virtual Booths. In addition to the normal product presentations, a part of the site proposes you to hang around a product booth, read product information and see demos. On top of this, a booth guest invites you for a chat and you can start to talk to this person and ask the question that you have !!
This experience made me think for more than 10 minutes :
Did I like it ? yes
Do I want more ? yes
Which are the companies that allow you to chat with them for finding a solution to your problem, when you have the time and in a non-intrusive manner (If you think the phone is intrusive...) I than see that HP has such a service, you can chat with all kind of sales. See http://www.hp.com/sbso/assist/chat.html.
There is a real business to develop here around chatting with clients over the Internet and drive sales by being present. How often do you need a small informationd and you need to wait a long time to get the answer ?
If I have a business one day I will allow potential customers to chat with my sales force
An Enterprise Grid is a large, virtualized pool of
computing resources, serving multiple applications or user groups, which orchestrates on-demand
and policy based allocation of resources to applications
or, simply:
Running all enterprise applications on a single virtual computer
I installed Cygwin (http://cygwin.com/) on my laptop (win2000).? It's really cool.? You have all the powerfull Unix commands and development tools on you windows machine. There are the simple and usefull things : grep, find, | , less, diff, tar, man, vi (I hate vi)... but also some development environment : PostgreSQL, perl, python, gcc, cvs, ... As a developper, you should have it.
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My SOA repository prototype is an open structured database. One can also document the business processes which make use of the services or alternatively document the services which are required for a business process.
I have documented a "Business Process" in Entrypot, just to show how a structured repository can be used to represent business information.
During JavaPolis we had a very good presentation by Bruce Eckel called 'Unconference'.
"An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is created and managed by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by one or more organizers in advance of the event" (WikiPedia).
The agenda of discussions is negotiated between the participants and those discussions than happen in open spaces.
I like it because I have more and more difficulties to follow a long session without interacting. Also often when you go to an event, the good part is not the presentations but rather the contacts that you could make. Very often what I retain from a presentation is the name of the speaker so I can ask him questions later.
In an unconference, you must think "conversation" and you must be interested in this conversation otherwise you drag the energy of the meeting down.
My feeling about unconferences is that you should carefully choose the conversation topics otherwise you'll might have some problems. I especially think about the problem of having conflicts of interests among participants (competitors for instance). So I guess it would be more interesting for a loose network rather that for one-to-many communications.
But I'm looking forward to participate to or organize an unconference !
It would be nice if this plugin would work together with BackLinks, so that it's presence on a page would be detected by the backlink plugin without having to actually add a link to the parent: PageGroupTest.
Click Next.
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L'arme de communication d'aujourd'hui : le story telling
Vous savez peut-?tre que j'aime pr?parer des pr?sentations convainquantes. Souvent je les construit bottom-up car je veux que mon argumentation soit sans failles. Cependant le storytelling me montre que c'est peut-?tre une erreur de vouloir trop d?montrer. Il serait plus ad?quat de raconter une histoire. Tout comme les publicit?s ne montrent plus les produits, ils ?voquent plut?t le succ?s, l'image ou le bonheur de celui qui les utilise.
C'est notament pour cela que je m'int?resse aujourd'hui au Pecha Kucha. Ces pr?sentations de 6minutes40 sont ?videment des histoires qui collent au concept de Storytelling.
Quelques liens pour mieux comprendre le storytelling:
I recently bought 2 books on Financial Reporting and XBRL:
- Essentials of XBRL - Financial Reporting in the 21st century - Bryan Bergeron
- Building Public Trust - Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr. (CEO PricewaterhouseCoopers) Robert G. Eccles (President, Advisory Capital Partners)
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A long text this time...
Le m?tier d'architecte comme on le consid?re aujourd'hui, c'est-?-dire comme discipline lib?rale (donc non-m?canique, est plus apparent? aux arts et aux sciences qu'aux pratiques manuelles et artisanales des m?tiers du b?timent), est assez neuf en occident. Il date de la Renaissance.
Dans la plupart des soci?t?s ant?rieures ? la Renaissance, il existait d?j? des ? architectes ?, plus pr?cis?ment appel?s ma?tre-ma?on ou ma?tre charpentier. Ils cumulaient les t?ches de ceux qu'on appelle aujourd'hui les architectes, les ing?nieurs et les entrepreneurs, mais on leur demandait surtout de s'occuper du c?t? technique de constructions magistrales (?difices publics ou priv?s de prestige).
En dehors de ces quelques cas exceptionnels, les b?tisses ?taient construites par leurs occupants ? partir de sch?mas que les si?cles ont permis de mettre au point par exp?rimentation sans que cela ne requiert un sp?cialiste. On appelle ce processus la construction selon des types ou plus simplement le vernaculaire.
Facebook and others
Posted : 2007-11-29 13:03:06 For the moment Internet Networking is hot. Nearly everyday I receive invitations to LinkedIn, Plaxo and Facebook. You'll find here my Facebook profile.
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La Belgique ? Un paradis fiscal!
Posted : 2007-11-29 08:54:14 En 2003, la pression fiscale moyenne des pays europ?ens de l'OCDE se montait ? 38,9 %, alors qu'elle s'?levait ? 45,4 % en Belgique. Seuls le Danemark (48,3 %) et la Su?de (50,6 %) font pire !
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Soa Is Like Sex
Posted : 2007-11-20 09:16:41 I think that SOA is the least SEXY marketing topic that I could see in my carreer...But in fact, SOA is like SEX
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How will emerging technologies affect your company?
Posted : 2007-11-19 13:41:18 The three key technology themes identified by Gartner this year are Web2.0, User Interfaces (Wii) and Mobile. I guess with my website, my interest in eBooks, my Wii and my new Samsung SG i600, I'm in line with Gartner...
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Oser Entreprendre
Posted : 2007-11-17 08:18:53 Review du livre "Oser Entreprendre" de Thibaut Vincent que j'ai lu pendant mes vacances.
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Jean Claude Van Damme
Posted : 2007-11-12 10:51:14 Je sais pas si elles sont vraiment de Jean Claude mais ces r?fexions sont vraiment comiques !
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Bus Halte
Posted : 2007-10-24 20:23:57 Today (October 18th 2007) for the first time I took the bus at the stop in front of my house
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Blog activity is high today
Posted : 2007-10-23 10:57:42 It's funny, I watch my Netvibes today and it seems all bloggers I follow have blogged a lot these last days.
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Open eBook Publication Structure (OEBPS) 1.2
Posted : 2007-10-21 18:34:39 In order for eBook technology to achieve success in the marketplace, Reading Systems must have convenient access to a large number and variety of titles. The Open eBook Publication Structure is a specification for representing the content of an eBook.
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Social Wallpapering
Posted : 2007-10-16 18:04:13 Social wallpapering est un site cr?? par un ?tudiant de am?ricain (vivant dans l?Utah pour l?info) qui propose de soumettre et voter pour des fonds d??crans (wallpapers in english).
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Sony's eBook : the Sony Reader
Posted : 2007-10-16 16:15:56 Reading from the Sony? Reader is unlike reading from any other digital device you?ve ever seen. Its breakthrough electronic paper technology provides clarity and resolution that rival paper itself.
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Blogger Play
Posted : 2007-10-02 16:03:32 Blogger Play will show you a never-ending stream of images that were just uploaded to public Blogger blogs.
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Prendre la rue de la loi ? contre sens ? Bruxelles ? C'est possible... Le jour du dimanche sans voitures. Nous avons roul? 40 KM dans Bruxelles. Heysel, Grand Place, Cinquantenaire, Avenue Louise, Petite ceinture et retour au Heysel.
IBM - Lotus Collaboration Summit - Belgium - October 1st 2007
Posted : 2007-09-21 14:23:59 Most people don't understand collaborative software until they experience it. Join us at the Lotus Collaboration Summit to experience the latest in collaboration software and discover the answers to some of your key organizational questions.
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Pecha Kucha
Posted : 2007-09-21 14:15:36 Peter Hinssen talked about it durin the last Vlerick Informeel. The idea behind Pecha Kucha is to keep presentations concise...
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Lotus Notes 8 Demo Posted : 2007-09-17 09:28:37 IBM Lotus Notes Hints, Tips, and Tricks - This blog helps users learn how to Lotus Notes. Whether you are a brand new to the product, or have been using Notes for a decade, I think you'll find the information presented here useful. Post/View Comments
CITYSCAPE by Arne Quinze
Posted : 2007-09-14 09:59:52 If you are in Brussels close to Avenue Louise and Avenue de la Toison d'Or, have a look at the cityscape project. I find it really very nice.
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Flickr Posted : 2007-09-13 16:50:04 This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. Post/View Comments
Jinke (China) makes eBooks
Posted : 2007-09-12 08:01:19 Jinke Company devotes itself to the research and development and manufacture of electronic book device-eReader.
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Xenit
Posted : 2007-09-03 07:26:56 Ronny Timmermans starts his own business : check it out. XeniT's mission is to help our customers exploit the valuable knowledge inside their documents in a cost effective manner.
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Software Faith
Posted : 2007-08-30 22:32:00 While having a training on the latest IBM technologies, looking back at Software AG in 2000
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Examen Ucl
Posted : 2007-08-24 11:42:38 Examen terminal a l universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Sujet : Faites une dissertation, la plus courte possible des 3 sujets suivants : Religion, Sexualite, Mystere. Une etudiante a eu 20/20
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iRex Technologies
Posted : 2007-08-08 10:07:27 The Iliad is a great read/write eBook. It still costs a lot of money (about 700 Euros) but I believe such an eBook will be my next buy so I can read IBM's RedBooks or other RFPs and take notes on this. I would also like to play with the SDK...
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IBM distinguished engineer on, um, marketing? ? Scobleizer
Posted : 2007-07-30 08:56:02 At the Internet Strategy Forum last week in Portland meeting with Mike Moran, a distinguished engineer at IBM. But we don?t talk about engineering, instead, we talk about marketing.
?Huh?? In the video you?ll see why.
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Mr Et Madame
Posted : 2007-07-29 20:28:06 Mr et Mme OUKOI ont 2 fils ? Mr et Mme ENFANT ont 2 filles ? Mr et Mme DUZIEL ont 5 filles ? Mr et Mme SONNE ont 2 fils ? Mr et Mme WOWOWO ont 4 filles ? Mr et MMe FORME ont 3 fils ? Lady Di et David Bowie ont chacun un fils
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Twitter / jfdeclercq
Posted : 2007-07-20 09:38:26 I have created a Twitter account today, but I still have no friends in Twitter. Invite me if you want.
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Ballade BD ? Bruxelles
Posted : 2007-07-19 09:37:48 Itin?raire ? Bxl ou on peut voir des BD peintes sur le murs des b?timents. Belle utilisation de Google Maps !
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Prendre son temps
Posted : 2007-07-18 07:30:26 (Conversation avec Jacques Attali). R?fl?xion Intelligente sur le temps libre. Je me sens ? 100% en phase.
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"Please remind this : you are not responsible for the excuses why you can't achieve the result. You are responsible for the result." (Herman Van Beirendonck)
Une vieille l?gende hindoue raconte qu'il y eut un temps o? tous les hommes ?taient des dieux. Mais ils abus?rent tellement de leur divinit? que Brahma, le ma?tre des dieux, d?cida de leur ?ter le pouvoir divin et de le cacher ? un endroit o? il leur serait impossible de le retrouver. Le grand probl?me fut donc de lui trouver une cachette.
Lorsque les dieux mineurs furent convoqu?s ? un conseil pour r?soudre ce probl?me, ils propos?rent ceci : "Enterrons la divinit? de l'homme dans la terre." Mais Brahma r?pondit : "Non, cela ne suffit pas, car l'homme creusera et la trouvera."
Alors les dieux r?pliqu?rent : "Dans ce cas, jetons la divinit? dans le plus profond des oc?ans."
Mais Brahma r?pondit ? nouveau : "Non, car t?t ou tard, l'homme explorera les profondeurs de tous les oc?ans, et il est certain qu'un jour, il la trouvera et la remontera ? la surface."
Alors les dieux mineurs conclurent : "Nous ne savons pas o? la cacher car il ne semble pas exister sur terre ou dans la mer d'endroit que l'homme ne puisse atteindre un jour."
Alors Brahma dit : "Voici ce que nous ferons de la divinit? de l'homme : nous la cacherons au plus profond de lui-m?me, car c'est le seul endroit o? il ne pensera jamais ? chercher."
Depuis ce temps-l?, conclut la l?gende, l'homme a fait le tour de la terre, il a explor?, escalad?, plong? et creus?, ? la recherche de quelque chose qui se trouve en lui. ?
(Eric Butterworth, D?couvre la puissance en toi)
I read in Data News tha Andreas Kluth, from the economist, said to the Trends magazine that "Web2.0, after the inevitables ups and downs, will change the society". See One of the best analysis of Social Web.
On the other end, according to Gartner, Blogs will start to decline in 2007 See here
So what will happen ?
What is Web2.0 ?
Web2.0 has two aspects :
the web2.0 technology : the technology which allows to easilly create and consume content (Ajax, RSS, Podcasts, Youtube).
the web2.0 philosophy : the principle that content is no more controlled by centralized multi-media companies (newspaper, television) or government but that there is now an alternative for getting information right from the source. Content created by the people for the people.
The technological aspect is not a driver for social networking, it's an enabler. As all technologies it will be replaced by an other one. (Which one is an interesting question. Most probably voice and video technologies which would allow to speed up the publishing process).
The web2.0 philosophy is the basis of social networkig and is here to stay.
Why would social networking stay? Why would people continue to blog ?
Blogging is just "one-to-many" communication
In order to know if blogs will decline we should carefully think about the incentives for people to blog.
Why do people blog ? People blog because they want to share things with a wider audience. Blog allow they to do 1:N (one-to-many) communications.
Remember some years ago, our mailboxes were full of jokes, funny images and powerpoint slideshows. A friend of mine even made jokes compilations see here (that he got on newsgroups but re-published as email because we continue to receive them by email).
Distributing multi-media content by email is not convenient. All providers and companies have set limits to email - they are now released thanks to innovations like single attachment storage and the cheaper cost of storage.
Blogging is a much better solution than email for one-to-many communication.
So the question is : will people continue to do one-to-many communication and blog ?
My answer is Yes.
Will blogging change our society ?
Now, if even people continue to blog, does it mean it will change our society ?
I don't think so.
Here are some reasons why :
We have had many ways to communicate for a long time: books, phone, postal service, pubs, church, meetings. Did one of these really change the society ?
People don't publish their real content : they protect it. How deep is the published content ? Who dares to write on the web what he says to friends ? Or if he publishes it, is it anonymously ?
The percentage of the society that reads and/or writes the Internet and that could change the society is still small - my belief. And many of those who actually read and write it - "wealthy people" - don't want it to change. They will only publish content that will re-inforce the current society trends. People who give their content actually want to sell it...
To be continued
This article needs to be refactored and continued.
This Saturday we went to the Belgian Lesbian & Gay Pride and we had a lot of fun. We went to the Pride Party because we tought the music would be good and it was... excellent.
The DJs were great and there were two concerts : Milk Inc and Kate Ryan. These two top artists are linked to each others with the tunes of DJ Richie 4Fingers (Phenomena, Ap?ro - Leuven; Cockpit XS/XL - Cologne).
Around 20:00, Milk Inc was super as last time we say them at the DruivenFeesten in Overijse. Unfortunately for them the Ancienne Belgique was not very crowded at that time. Not bad for us : we had a kind of private concert :-)
Around 22:00, Kate Ryan was good (but not as good as Milk Inc). The tracks of her new album sounded good : promissing ? We will see.
"As part of the training, all new employees, including executives, were required to spend a day dressed as characters at the theme parks as a way to develop pride in the Disney Tradition"
Source : The Walt Disney Company : The Entretainment King.
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A shirt sold 100 EU here costs 3 EU to produce in China.
How to compete ?
I believe in the following model In-Ma-Se:
Invent things right here
Manufacture them over there
Sell it everywhere
Being successfull is being able to invent the new concepts that will sell and being able to produce them with the best sourcing. The question is : is it enough to sustain a brand ?
Conclusion : Europe should focus on its invention skills.
Unfortunately France's research budget is equal to Harvard's University research budget.
There is no incentive for young potentials to become Entrepreneurs.
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Last year I spoke at various events about XML.
The two last ones were :
- XML Days in october 2002. My speech was about the XML Service Oriented architectures that one could use to integrate the complete entreprise with web services. We are currently right in this scenario, implementing projects that align with this philosophy. See also Gartner predicts SOA is changing Software
- XMLBeLux : Meet the database vendors. There is was a conventional speech about one of our products : Tamino. The presentation was an extensive description of all the nice features of Software AG's XML Server.
You can find the slides of these presentations here. These slides will probaly move in the future. So if you don't find these just drop me an email.
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"Le ma?tre dans l?art de vivre ne fait pas de distinction fondamentale entre le travail et le jeu, l?effort et le plaisir, le corps et l??me, l??ducation et la r?cr?ation, l?amour et la religion. Il poursuit sa qu?te d?excellence quel que soit ce qu?il fait, laissant aux autres le soin de d?cider s?il travaille ou s?il joue."
The Client Principal (CP) is the single point of contact to the HP Enterprise Sales Force account teams and customers for all Systems Integration (SI) business.
The CP is responsible for understanding the customer?s business, the vertical industry (e.g., Manufacturing, Finance, Telecom, Public Sector), and strategizing SI led solutions that meets the customer?s business need along with the sales account team providing the SI content expertise. The CP leads the SI pursuit, has strong business development skills, the ability to develop SI led solution strategies, deliver complex SI engagements utilizing HP Consulting & Integration practice solution portfolio and resources along with cross GBU components (e.g., Outsourcing, Customer Support,Software, Servers/Storage) in the assigned customer?s organization. Create on-going and growing customer relationships at the executive level up to C-level (CEO, CFO, CIO, COO) into the account(s), and provides long term SI portfolio management to the client by acting as the trusted advisor. The CP is accountable for achieving business growth,financial targets (orders, margin, revenue), and customer satisfaction within assigned account(s), territory or solution focused area(s). The CP works closely with the HP Enterprise Sales Force to provide the SI content and to influence the account planning efforts.The CP role is not a sales leverage position.
Qualifications
Education & Experience required
First level University degree plus 7-10 years directly related experience.
Advanced University degree a plus
Type of experience needed
Typically 7-10 years experience working in a solution selling organization and/or system integration projects based organization.
Preferable experience in an IT services organization in a client facing role with business development as part of the responsibility.
Knowledge and experience of Project Management methods.
Knowledge
Medium to high level of vertical industry knowledge in one or more key industry
IT domains.
Medium to high vertical solution expertise
Medium to high customer knowledge.
IS/IT management knowledge
Business/financial management knowledge.
Skills
Medium to high level of project management skills
Medium to high level of consultative approach, solution selling and business development skills.
Leadership
Assembles and leads teams in medium to high complex engagements demonstrating entrepreneurial leadership attitudes.
Provides long term account management relationships with customers demonstrating trusted advisor status with executives and some C-Level key clients.
Demonstrates the ability to take a business lead and consultative approach to medium to high complex business solutions.
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Do you need secure documents with electronic signatures, timestamps and non-repudiation ? Software AG is partnering with security software companies to provide that.
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This page is about Management Patterns. I call management patterns the techniques that I commonly use in situations where you need to manage. Those patterns are linked to the different management models bu the purpose is to be more pragmatic in the daily world.
I need to continue to work on this page by moving the descriptions into the Abstract section of the PatternTemplate.
If you want to manage something complex, the best approach would be to cut it into manageable pieces. Companies make departments, project teams, divisions which can be managed of further split in smaller pieces.
The same goes for everything : Large projects, large budgets, large buildings...
In order to Divide and Conquer you will need to be able to set up an Architecture. The architecture defines the rules on how the different parts interact in order to fill the high level goals.
So faced to a large problem, you might want to split it in different pieces : it's a Divide and Conquer strategy.
Be carefull, divide and conquer is easy to understand but can be a major obstacle to WorkAsaTeam and can lead to MicroManagement if you delegate at a too fine granularity.
Pattern: Fight Until The End
It ain't over until it's over.Even if you believe you are never going to make it, you need to fight until the end. I haave seen this very often in sales situations : you can actually win the deal even if another company has 'officially' won it already. Some companies like IBM or Microsoft are very strong in fighting until the end and reverse very unfavorable situations. So : keep fighting !
Pattern: Give Directions
Sometimes you expect people will behave like you think, but it's rareley the case. So it's very important not to leave colleagues in the dout about your 7W. At least Half of the people - including me - need clear directions in order to be happy in their job. See also SmartObjectives and WorkHappyState. Once again take care about MicroManagement.
Pattern: Give The Goal
Is about giving the Why of the 7W. Involving people give much better results than just asking them to do the job. It's simply a matter of motivation. Why sould I do it ? See also Tell me, and I'll forget.
Pattern: Give Yourself The Means To Succeed
We all have challenging goals (haven't we ?). In order to achieve them you need to clearly identify what is required to be able to make it. Imagine I ask you to cross the Ocean, it would be a good idea from you to request a boat. Too often we don't even ask for things we could obtain (if we can justify it allows to achieve the goal of course) and would make our life easier.
Pattern: Identify The Start
Sometimes we work to complete tasks and we are not always aware on why we are doing what we are doing. If your job is part of "a chain", you know you contribute to the value chain. But it's not always easy to determine it. So it's always important to ask yourself : why am I here and what/who started a process which has brought me here. Knowing what was the first intention from the start can avoid you a lot of useless work.
Pattern: Identify The Process
Similarly to IdentifyTheStart, understanding the process is very important. You are there to complete a step in some process. But why is this step necessary ? Is this step really necessary ? Could you avoid it ? Can you simplify it ? Is your step unavoidable ? Are there other alternatives for this step ? Thinking like that can lead you to innovative solutions which can reduce effort and costs. It simply allows to ThinkOutOfTheBox.
Understanding the process also allows you to find possible solutions for process bottelnecks. This is important for the process as a whole but also for you in particular if you are the bottleneck... Too much work ?
Pattern: Kill Your Darlings
I want to do it like that because I always did it like that and I like it. Everybody wants to impose what he knows or like, but is it really the best solution for eveybody ? Think about it and try to be neutral.
Pattern: Make Your Customer Work
Customers are more and more demanding these days. Therefore you have a risk : they ask a lot but they don't know exaclty what they want and they have no time to explain it (you are paid to be the expert, you should know what's good for them). You can go ahead with what you think they need but it contains a very high risk !Pattern:
The solution is to oblige your customer to face the design decisions that you don't want to take for him. This means asking him to work on his own problem... Combine it with ConstructiveCompetition.
Pattern: Nothing Is Perfect
Thats a management pattern for Engineers. In the Chemical Industry you can achieve a 99% productivity, but not with other kind of processes (IT, People, Manufacturing).
To manage something means to accept the other's and your own failures. As good as you can minimize them, they will never be reduced to 0.
Accept it and go on with enthousiasm !Pattern:
Pattern: Repeat Repeat Repeat
People hear but they don't always listen. The more clever you are,the more people don't get it on the fist time : What is obvious for you is probably not clear at all fo the others. So repeat, repeat, repeat.
"Repetition is the mother of Teaching"...
Pattern: Root Cause Analysis
If something is wrong, you can fix it, 1,2,3... times. Where does it end ? Why does it break ? Why does this problem bounces back all the time ? Because you didn't attacj the root cause. What is the root cause of the problem ? Can you solve the root cause ?
(If the root cause can't be solved and it really hurts, it's maybe better to change job...)
Pattern: Talking Works
Albert Jacqurds said on the radio something which is I believe is true: In order to solve the Huge Challenges that we will face in the future (Climate changes, energy, water, petrol, waste, food, population...) there is only one thing we can do : Talk.
As simple as that. It's true that if you are honnest, show goodwill and talk openly about problems, you can solve a lot of them.
Pattern: Tasks Distributions
Similar to DivideAndConquer but with a project plan. Distribute clearly tasks, roles and responsibilities. Problem : keep WorkAsaTeam...
Pattern: Time To Market
A good idea is a good idea only when it comes at the right time.
Pattern: Think Out Of The Box
The most powerfull tool you have when you face a problem is to be able to think differently to achieve the goal. Strange ideas have proven to work for me like for instance partner with a competitor to win a deal.
The concept is to say, how would I resolve this if I were not me, but someone else. It's about removing constraints (time, money, resources, technology) in order to find new ways to solve the problem.
How to make sure someone understood what you just said ? Ask him to explain you what you asked him just a second ago.
Pattern: What Vs How
When you a complex task, it's always important to be able to separate what you have to do from how you will achieve the tasks. It allows you to have more options for solving the problem by separating concerns.
When you know exactly what you need to do you are more likely to find out how you can make it and what the possible options are...
Pattern: When In Doubt Leave It Out
If you are not sure about something it's maybe better to exclude it from the debate andforce yourself to go back finding the relevant information before making any statement of decision...
Pattern: Work As A Team
No single battle was won by a General alone. Unless you are a genious you can't achieve much alone. You need to learn to team up, trust and respect people in order to achieve great results.
Pattern: You Have To Go Through It
(My favorite one)
If you are very clever (and I'm sure you are), you will very easilly find the best good solution to a problem (good is ok because NothingIsPerfect). The problem is that others won't get it immediately (see RepeatRepeatRepeat).
You will need to be ready for a very long processs.
First the problem -not the solution - should be discussed such that everybody has the same understanding. Then options for a possible solution should be exposed and understood by everybody. Finally you can defend your solution. After a long process and many questions, your solution is finally chosen. (If not you are defintely frustrated but it can happen of course, at lease in 50% of the cases). Even if your solution is chosen, you will have to detail it completely because Quality Managers want to be sure that they are convinced.
Unless you manage a Tiger team or a elite troup, the lead time from your idea to its realization is always very long. You need to be prepared for RepeatRepeatRepeat and request a lot of KillYourDarlings.
Pattern: Constructive Competition
In order to be excellent there is noting better than competition. Learn to use competition in order to become better yourself. Congratulate your competitors when they win and learn from their victories. It's the path for your own future success.
I did the best Software designs when I was challenged by another architect. I plaid my best tennis matches against the strongest players... You can't always win, but you can always improve. (I will not write on why we should always improve because I'm not fully convinced myself...)
Pattern: Match Answers to Questions
(In french I call this "La r?ponse du Berger ? la Berg?re"...)
When someone asks you for information, you should always match the style of its question. It's a common mistake to answer too much or too little to the question. Here are some examples :
a 400 pages RFP --> a 400 Pages offer
a short question --> a short response
a long question --> a long response
a question about details --> a response about details
Often customer ask for the "methodology" and the "best practices". It's NOT enough to ask for it. As a supplier, you have to ask more details on his side such that you keep the balance in the information that the dialogue gets going.
Example : the customer asks you for a presentation on "Knowledge Management", it's not a good idea to come and explain all your expertise and references and products on knowledge management without knowing what the customer actually means by "Knowledge Management".
Don't show all your cards at the begining of the game... Communication has to be bi-directional. Ask the 7W before telling your story !
After all what I prefer the most is Systems Engineering:
"The interdisciplinary approach governing the total technical and managerial effort required to transform a set of customer needs, expectations, and constraints into a product solution and support that solution throughout the product's life.
This includes the definition of technical performance measures, the integration of engineering specialties towards the establishment of a product architecture, and the definition of supporting product life-cycle processes that balance cost performance and schedule objectives. "
The purpose is to allow me to publish pictures in one click using Picasa.
I have been haiving this website for a long time and sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't move to a blog for the news section. The advantage is that I could have comments on my arcticles and my RSS feed would be better.
On the other hand with this Wiki, I keep the total control on the database. I can back-up and migrate whenever I want.
So once again, if you want to submit comments send them by Email to me.
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Un investisseur am?ricain se prom?ne au bord de l'eau, dans un petit village c?tier mexicain.
Un b?teau rentre au port, contenant plusieurs thons. L'am?ricain complimente le p?cheur mexicain sur la qualit? de ses poissons, et lui demande :
Combien de temps ?a a pris pour p?cher ces poissons ?
Pas tr?s longtemps, r?pond le mexicain.
Mais pourquoi n'?tes-vous pas rest? plus longtemps pour en capturer plus ?, demande le banquier.
Parce que ces quelques poissons suffiront ? subvenir aux besoins de ma famille.
Et vous faites quoi le reste du temps ?
Je fais la grasse matin?e, je p?che un peu, je joue avec mes enfants, je fais la sieste avec ma femme... Le soir, je vais au village, voir mes amis, boire du vin, jouer de la guitare... Une vie bien remplie, quoi !
L'am?ricain l'interrompt :
J'ai un M.B.A. (master of business administration) de l'universit? Harvard, et je peux vous aider. Vous devriez commencer par p?cher plus longtemps, et avec les b?n?fices d?gag?s, vous pourriez vous acheter un plus gros b?teau. Avec l'argent que vous rapporterait ce bateau, vous pourriez en acheter un second, et ainsi de suite jusqu'? ce que vous poss?diez une flotte de chalutier. Au lieu de vendre vos poissons ? un interm?diaire, vous pourriez n?gocier directement avec l'usine, et m?me ouvrir votre propre usine. Vous pourriez alors quitter votre petit village pour Mexico City, Los Angeles, puis peut-?tre New York, d'o? vous dirigeriez vos affaires...
Le Mexicain demande alors :
Combien de temps ?a prendra ?
Quinze ? vingt ans, r?pond le banquier.
Et apr?s ?
Apr?s, c'est l? que ?a deviendrait int?ressant, r?pond l'am?ricain en souriant. Quand le moment sera venu, vous pourriez introduire votre soci?t? en bourse, et vous gagnerez des millions !
Des millions ? Mais apr?s ?
Apr?s, vous pourrez prendre votre retraite, habiter dans un petit village c?tier, faire la grasse matin?e, jouer avec vos enfants, p?cher un peu, faire la sieste avec votre femme et passer vos soir?es ? boire et ? jouer de la guitare avec vos amis...
Le Mexicain :
Mais qu'est-ce que vous croyez que je fais ?
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jean-francois.declercq@softwareag.com is not very easy to spell on the phone.
The risk is high that people get it wrong. So, if you send me a mail to jf.d@mail.com, I have setup an auto-reply message that will provide you with my complete contact information...
Nice movie on Cloud Computing which changes our live as long as we believe the network is reliable, that our information is secure in the cloud and that clouds will not die suddenly...
"The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions"
In TweetDeck you can shorten a long URL with services like bit.ly, digg, is.gd, tinyurl... Christian Godefroid recently sent me an email where he promoted url-ok.com and I have to say it's indeed a good idea. Just a few minutes after you have twitted something you can see the impact by the number of clicks.
IBM just announced its 2009 Q1 results. What we can see is that IBM's revenue has decreased (example : 6 % for Software Group) but thanks to IBM's ability to control costs, the margins more or less stay (-1%).
What's nice is that my favorite topic, BPM, is going up :
For the WebSphere family of software products, which facilitate customers? ability to manage a wide variety of business processes using open standards to interconnect applications, data and operating systems, revenues increased 5 percent year over year.
Septembre 2008. Jean-Paul Servais, le pr?sident de la Commission bancaire belge, d?clare que les banques belges n'ont "aucun probl?me de solvabilit?, ni de liquidit?". Et le ministre Reynders va jusqu'? comparer le risque de faillite d'une banque belge ? "celui que le ciel nous tombe sur la t?te". Moins d'une semaine apr?s, ce dernier passait quelques nuits blanches ? n?gocier le sauvetage des mastodontes bancaires Fortis et Dexia.
Would I pay for Yahoo Mail ? Yes, I already do. Would I pay for Gmail ? Maybe Would I pay for Facebook ? No Would I pay for Twitter ? Probably No Would I pay for Friendfeed ? No Would I pay for Linked In : Yes (I don't do them all...)
I found the following interview of Hartmut Esslinger by Guy Kawazaki about Design really great. I like Kawazaki's questions. They lead to good answers. Here are some some elements of Esslinger's answers I recognize in my daily work.
Passion and Courage
"Excellent products require more then just a good designer or a good design agency?they require humanistic and cultural vision, courage and discipline in execution"
I had already noted this in one of my books on Strategy: "Passion and courage distinguish those who lead from those who manage" (The Art and Discipline of Strategic Leadership - Mike Freedman).
And indeed, I have experienced that when I want to design an ambitious system, I need the support of a visionnary executive. My problem is : I always design ambitious systems. So most of the time people don't understand (no vision) or don't follow (no courage), which often creates me some frustration.
Innovation
"The professional task of innovation includes to balance technological advancements with social relevance and sustainability".
At IBM we call it "innvovation that matters" and it's one of our 3 IBM values. So called "Innovation funnel" techniques can be also applied. It was the subject of my MBA Thesis applied to Software AG Belgium's Go-To-Market Strategy.
Who is a designer ?
?Design? isn?t a clear-cut talent profession, but one of coordination and catalyst between human needs, science and technology, business and economy, as well as sociology and ecology. The artistic talent required is more of an enabler at the end of rational and emotional analysis as well as strategic conceptualization
When I think about Passion, Innovation & Design I realize I'm probably indeed a good candidate for "Designer", or "Architect" (there is a difference between Architecture and Design but it's another story). Those elements are very close to my heart.
My only "problem" is that design only doesn't satisfy me completely. I would like to see the impact of Ambitious Designs on the bottom line, this will eventually lead me on the path of Entrepreneurship and Business Development.
In November last year, I was looking for an association which could give a second life to 2 bicycles I don't use anymore. Via O2Bikers I found such an association :
So today I gave them 2 bikes : a GT Timberline (1993, I think)
and a Specialized Stumpjumper Comp (1996)
Let's hope Voot will allow them a few more rides.
En Fran?ais:
En Novembre l'ann?e pass?e je cherchais une association qui pourrait donner une seconde vie ? deux v?los que je n'utilisait plus. Via O2Bikers, J'ai trouv? une telle association : Les ateliers v?los de la rue Voot. Je leur ai donn? les deux v?los ci-dessus. Esp?rons que mes deux v?los aient une belle deuxi?me vie !
C'est bien possible car depuis mon MBA je suis souvent tr?s critique vis-?-vis du top management - voir par exemple, mon article sur la creative class. La crise financi?re conforte mes opinions, d'ailleurs.
Faut-il arr?ter de dire ce qu'on a envie au cas o? ce qu'on blogge ne va pas plaire ? Faut-il avoir peur du qu'en dira t'on ?
Je ne pense pas; Au contraire, je pr?f?re m'associer avec des gens qui me connaissent vraiment et qui m'acceptent comme je suis. Comme disait un de mes amis surfeur ? l'universit?:
"I prefer to die on my feets than to live on my knees"
High Design is a philosophy of design, as well as an enriched design approach that integrates established design skills with other disciplines in the areas of human sciences, technology and business.
The Philips Design philosophy
The High Design Process is:
People focused - to deliver solutions that are not only technologically possible but preferable, from the social, anthropological and personal point of view
Multi- disciplinary - to guarantee that all points of view (people, technology and business) are taken into account.
Multi-disciplinary work
Research based - to ensure that the results obtained are based on actual facts and to continuously expand knowledge
The High Design Process is structured into 5 phases:
Initiation phase - deliverable: shared understanding amongst the project team and the client of the objectives and scope of the project objectives
Analysis phase - research and optimization of the objectives of the project within the marketing, technology and planning constraints
Concept phase - ideas development and delivery of a design proposal
Finalization phase - delivery of design specifications
Evaluation phase - evaluation of the project deliverable, process and communication (carried out with the client) to be used as input for future projects.
"A cluster is a group of application servers that transparently
run your (J2EE) application as if it were a single entity. To scale, you
should include additional machines within the cluster. To minimize downtime,
make sure every component of the cluster is redundant. " Machines
Clusters are composed of multiple machines that more or less know about
each other. This knowledge is not always equal. Some Clusters are just
a redirection of a request to a less loaded machine that can do the work.
Some other clusters share application memory and transactions.
Redundancy and failover
In addition to machines, clusters can comprise redundant and failover-capable:
Load balancers: Single points of entry into the cluster and traffic directors
to individual
Web or application servers
Web servers
Gateway routers: Exit points out of an internal network
Multilayer switches: Packet and frame filters to ensure that each machine
in the cluster receives only information pertinent to that machine
Firewalls: Cluster protectors from hackers by filtering port-level access
to the cluster and internal network
SAN (Storage Area Networking) switches: Connect the application servers,
Web servers, and databases to a backend storage medium; manage which physical
disk to write data to; and failover
Databases
Scalability and High Availability (HA).
Regardless of how they are implemented, all clusters provide two main
benefits: scalability and high availability (HA).
Scalability refers to an application's ability to support increasing
numbers of users. Clusters allow you to provide extra capacity by adding
extra servers, thus ensuring scalability.
High availability can be summed up in one word: redundancy. A cluster
uses many machines to service requests. Therefore, if any machine in a
cluster fails, another machine can transparently take over.
A recent study conducted by the International Data Corp. (IDC) showed that Software AG's Tamino XML Server currently held 47.5 percent of the XML database management system (DBMS) market in 2001.
Details here : www.softwareag.com
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After a course I followed given by MoTiv (http://www.motiv.tudelft.nl/) by Ton Meijknecht and Hans van Drongelen for IBM, I would like to share some concepts and reflexions on Creativity.
The creative class The work of Richard Florida and his book 'The rise of the creative class' (note I haven't read it yet) aimed at demonstrating that a new class has emerged in today's society. "The creative class is a group of people that social scientist Dr. Richard Florida, a professor and head of the Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, believes are a key driving force for economic development of post-industrial cities in the USA." (See Wikipedia) The people of the creative class have special demands against their work environment : soft control, more independence, personal growth and development, freedom to shape the content of their own work, control of their schedules (flexibility), expression of their identities through work, able to trade job security for own autonomy. The creative class is also looking for another kind of lifestyle : individuality, self-statement, acceptance of difference, desire for rich multi-dimensional experience, pack every second - at work or leisure- full of creative stimuli and a morphing conception of time - (mixture of work and play). The creative class asks questions about what really matters in life.
The thesis of Mr Florida is that the creative class is the main driver of economic growth.
Do I belong to the creative class ? I have the feeling I belong to the creative class : I think I have the above characteristics. Another argument that makes me think I'm a member of the creative class is that I feel the tension that would exist between members of the creative class and the corporations. A tension starts to emerge between large corporation and the creative class. Their motivations are not compatible anymore. However the corporations need the creative class for their innovations. The result is a war for talent and a lot of talent retention programmes. But it doesn't prevent that creative people step out of the companies and create a new startup or even make management buy-outs. In one of my previous posts (Allergic to Superficiality ), I was criticized by some anonymous comment and today I understand why. The person who criticized me is certainly not someone of the Creative class. It's someone who is a Coporation's soldier and who has a lot of respect for the traditional way large companies can sometimes operate. He is attracted by the dark side of the organization's power game and has respect for people who are able to climb the matrix to the top by stepping on the other's dead bodies.
Who is creative ? Everybody can be creative. Being creative requires however some conditions : you need some talent and this talent needs to be put in the right context. Talent has three different levels : skills, mastering and tolerance. We are used to identify our skills and define how well we master them (beginner, advanced, expert, master...).
How to be even more creative ? By knowing why. In addition to skills and mastering, tolerance is required for the most creative ones. Firstly, If you are not able to make use of the diversity of our world by being more tolerant, you will be less creative. Secondly, tolerance also means compassion and the possibility to solve problems for others. This tolerance aspect also touches the deepest motivations of our creativity. Why do we want to be creative ? What drives us to create solutions ? Why did Einstein want to find out new rules like the relativity rule ?
Creativity and Spirituality It seems that a fundamental drive (some beliefs, some spirituality) is a necessary condition for superior creativity and innovation, meaning that you will be most creative if you align your entrepreneurship with your own spirituality. I can link this to one of my previous posts around Happiness defined by Axel Khan : All creatures on this earth will be happy if they can express their true nature. "Connais-toi toi m?me"... You can only be a superior creator in the fields that match your true nature.
Being creative, just as being happy requires freedom. Freedom allows to move in order to be the right man at the right place at the right moment. This is why creative people want to be independent and travel the world : they don't want to be blocked in their vision of how they can improve what matters to them. They don't want to miss the chance to maximize the impact of their creativity.
Yesterday, Nick Donofrio gave a session on innovation at IBM Belgium.
I really had the feeling to be in front of a legend. For 44 years he has been working on the most innovative IBM projects : the transition to CMOS, the System/360, the RS6000... He has surfed all the important IT waves with style.
Mr Donofrio will retire in October this year and he mainly emphasized on what makes IBM a great company :
IBM's strenght : the combination of Systems, Software and Services which allow to create value
IBM's strategy
Focus on open technologies and high value solutions
Deliver innovation and integration to our clients
Become the premier globally integrated company
Being global is an important topic for IBM, according to Nick Donofrio. And indeed IBM has lauched many initiatives around globalization:
the global innovation outlook with global topics on the agenda like Water, Security and the society in a global world...
the global citizenship portfolio which will provide IBMers with valuable tools to enhance their expertise and careers within a globally integrating economy.
To start and to finish his speech Mr Donofrio encouraged the IBMers to anticipate change and to use change as an opportunity. Or even better : create the change. He explained how his father created change for his family. He wanted the best for Nick and created the change by setting hard work as a mean to reach a better education level. (Was it a success ? Apparently yes.) The only explanation for this move was : "If nothing changes, nothing changes". Be an actor of change.
And for IBM one of the current changes is... globalization.
I maybe found an explication to the name of my street.
In french "l'oie" is a bird. A goos.
In my village from the 17th century until the first world war (1914), there was a habit to make the "sentence de l'oie" = "sentence of the goose" .
It was a day where everybody would come and reproach to the goose something that he should instead reproach to a person. So if someone was stolen he would reproach it to the goose rather than to the stealer.
After everybody has done his reproaches, the goose would be killed and eaten. After everybody would be reconciliated with each other.
It happened at the end of my street. Rue des Lowas. "Street of the gooses".
However the spelling is not the same "LOWAS is not L'OIE", I believe it can be the origin of my street name.
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I recommend you to read this book :
"The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment".
By Eckhart Tolle
In French : "Le pouvoir du moment pr?sent".
Read more here : Le pouvoir du Moment Pr?sent - The Power of Now
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As it is a tradition now, I send you my best shots of 2007 in order to wish you the best for 2008. This year I could not make a good selection : I have 77 pictures for you.
I have just registered to the next Pecha Kucha night (Brussels) on January 20th at 20:20.
In the registration form there was a "do let us know what your area of interest, themes" question. I answered : IT Architecture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Technology, Innovation and Cycling...
I have always been amazed by hearing some IT managers telling me : "Your talk is too technical". For once, I found here an article which tells me I'm not wrong to still try to explain again and again... Why decision-makers need to understand the technology
Why decision-makers need to understand the technology
Michael Mainelli, Z/Yen Limited
Ian Harris, Z/Yen Limited
(A version of this article originally appeared in "Why Decision Makers Need to Understand the Technology", Strategy, page 12, The Strategic Planning Society (July 2000) and on the web on href="http://www.sps.org.uk/.
"www?PGP?e-commerce?encryption?internet?TCP/IP?browser?RSA". "Hey, let's not get toooo technical." "Now that we've come up with our internet strategy, I'll leave the technical bits to the IT folks." "Our technical bods assure me we have no security risks." "And whatever we do, just tell them to make it scalable."
Technology has always been key to competitiveness and business advancement. Technology has always been key to strategy. Why do strategic planners allow senior managers to get away with separating technology from the business? Particularly with phrases that imply the business is more important when history indicates the opposite?
The problem may be more acute in Britain. We tend to love the notion of the gifted amateur, but deplore the zealous enthusiast. Today's middle managers were often sharply divided among arts, social sciences and hard sciences streams, with little intermingling - not a great way to promote inter-disciplinary advances such as combining computers with finite cell calculation (spreadsheets), networks with fine arts auctions or books with telecommunications. We rarely encourage people to continue genuine education after joining our firms. We have permitted the development of board cultures where people in senior IT positions are proud of how little time they spend keeping up to date with technology and how much they spend "making IT understand the business". Z/Yen frequently faces the problem of helping a senior, non-technical team make big decisions about technology they all to frequently do not understand. In the past two years, with the in-your-face, hard-to-miss internet, we face this problem constantly.
The need for speedy decisions in today's environment favours organisations which can rapidly assess and deal with technologies' risks and rewards. The structure and implementation of technologies as simple as the web browser (yes, it is rather simple) can have far-reaching ramifications in many sectors. For instance, the use of bookmarks or favorites may have made a number one position on the net, such as Amazon in books, more difficult to displace than traditional number one retail spots. Customers are "geographically vulnerable" on their way to a traditional book store. "I was on my way to a Waterstones, when I smelled the free coffee (good trick that) of Puget Sound Coffee Bookstores - so I bought the book there instead." On the net, it can be difficult to dislodge someone's favorite. Despite the fact you recommend buying a book at Euphrates.com, I have to make an active effort, remember it, type it, find the book, trust it, enter my details, and whinge about any aspect of service which is not up to my expectations versus use a previous bookmark/favorite. The "natural" distribution of market share, e.g. 35% for number one, 17% for number two, 10% for number three, is not evolving on the net where early leaders can gain 80% market share or more, "net invulnerability" - there is no smell of free coffee on your way to placing your order with your favorite (sic) net supplier. This leads to our "Highlander" prospect - there can be only number one and, more frequently in e-commerce than in pre-commerce, number one is the first major mover.
Assessing technical risks and rewards is everyone's problem. As everyone has started shifting billions of assets daily into cyber-space, we have to find ways to make them aware of the possible dangers. One way of helping people to handle technical risk is through the use of scenarios. Scenario planning such as the following retrospective from the year 2014:
It happened 10 Years ago today - we look back on the E-COMMERCE MELTDOWN day of 4 July 2004
"Few technical people took the announcement of the TWINKLE chip seriously in 1999. The Weizmann Institute Key Locating Engine (TWINKLE) sounded like a lightweight, nerdy bit of fun, of little relevance to senior managers. What could an opto-electronic specification in Israel mean to their businesses. If those senior managers had understood that their much-touted e-commerce technology depended completely on public key encryption they might have heard a loud warning siren.
Back in 1999, the entire internet, in fact all networks, relied on basic security measures such as passwords or firewalls. The one, open technology was encryption and the main application was public key encryption. Although there had been some minor furore with the US government and further minor skirmishes with European government legislation, encryption based on public key technology was widespread. The technology ranged from the proprietary RSA to the publicly available PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). The technology was appreciated, just look at the valuation of Baltimore Technologies back then. Unfortunately, encryption was rather basic. Despite a tremendous amount of arcane literature, it relied at heart on the difficulty of factoring large numbers, an area of mathematics easily understood by someone with a basic understanding of algebra. The second-string technology, elliptical algorithms, turned out to be vulnerable to the same attacks.
Meanwhile, the financial world was alight with tremendous investment in B2C and B2B e-commerce. E-commerce relied totally on encryption. Managers of the day, particularly outside the US, assumed that all this messy technology was dealt with through outsourcing. The internet/www (virtually synonymous by then) had many applications ranging from electronic Yellow Pages to virtual application service provision. However, financial applications relied upon confidentiality and the secure flow of funds. E-commerce needed encryption. Numerous consumer and business surveys showed that the take-up of e-commerce relied totally on the confidence of users in security, reliability, service and price. Security was always the number one or number two buyer criterion.
Encryption had three main vulnerabilities - a bright mathematician (the problems were not proven to be intractable), a dedicated decryption chip and the ever-looming (since 1984) quantum computer. The irony was that three low probability events all occurred simultaneously in 2004. First the bright mathematician. In a village near Bangalore an extremely bright 11 year old girl produced a linear solution to factoring large numbers. The security communities, corporate and governmental, over-reacted. By trying to suppress the knowledge, rather ineffectually, they raised concerns among hundreds of millions of web-users.
Second, rival Russian and Sicilian-funded computing teams, captivated by the exponentially increasing sums transacted across the then internet, managed to turn $1M investments in some bright mathematical minds and some relatively inexpensive computing into the biggest scam ever. Building on the dedicated decryption chip described by TWINKLE, their first efforts resulted in several billion pounds per month of results - principally through penny and pence skimming off credit card transactions and later through massive credit card multi-charging, hundreds of small transactions on millions of pirated credit cards. Unusually. such greed did not uncover the culprits - they were never caught - but their greed did kill their golden goose as all e-commerce transactions ground to a halt over three days. 4 July 2004 became known as E-COMMERCE MELTDOWN day. The use of all upper case seemed to cock a snook at the weird mixed case business names that pervaded the pre-meltdown era. The irony of the 4 July date did not escape cynical commentators, especially those in Russia.
Thirdly, within a few months of E-COMMERCE MELTDOWN, scientists announced the first successful quantum computer. The 2004 quantum computer ran the first algorithm (Shor from the mid-90's), written long before a quantum computer had ever been built, which factored large numbers. In 1999, less than a handful of qubits had been made to work together for the briefest of periods. By 2000, seven qubits were working and by 2004, just over a hundred. Shor's algorithm was cracking all practical key encryption applications in seconds. As quantum computing was inherently inexpensive, a few hundred thousand dollars for a laboratory, a few pence for a device containing a few atoms, quantum decryption spread at will. Attempts to rebuild public confidence in network security were comprehensively thwarted.
The further irony here was the quantum cryptography (also called entangled communication) was proof against all three vulnerabilities of key encryption, quantum computing included, and had been well-proven as early as 1998. The difficulty was that quantum cryptography relied upon a heavy investment in fibre optics which was poorly understood by dot.com frenzied businessman at the turn of the millennium. After the day of E-MELTDOWN in 2004, and despite billions and billions invested in fibre optic networks and quantum cryptography since, consumers have not yet reached the same e-commerce penetration today, in 2014, as they had at the end of 2000.
In any case, we all know the tale. The net of 2014 is largely a glorified telephone directory. Only a few try to send confidential data, let alone financial transactions across the open networks. No credit card company, never mind a bank, will permit any open network transactions. No-one would trust a life-dependent application. The net works a lot faster, but the value is a miniscule fraction of what it was ten years ago, before E-COMMERCE MELTDOWN day. Sic transit gloria mundi-toto-rete."
At Z/Yen we use chance, risk and reward, to enhance organisations' performance - to enchance organisations. Scenarios can help organisations deal with the uncertainty of the future by helping to measure the unmeasurable. Perhaps we should use the Twinkle of Doom to help managers realise the risks and rewards of cyberspace. You can't make money out of technology in the long-term, if you don't really understand the technology.
Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris are both Directors of Z/Yen Limited. Z/Yen is a risk/reward management firm which uses risk analysis and reward enhancement techniques to improve organisational performance. Z/Yen advises organisations on strategic planning and decision-making
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The Belgian Minister for Simplification, Vincent Van Quickenborne, wants to eliminate the requirements of drugs to pharmacists, the certificates for mutual care and medical certificates to employers. For 2011, Minister Van Quickenborne (Open VLD) plans to introduce electronic prescriptions and certificates, to avoid paper documents, says he in De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad. "The electronification comprehensive health care represents a saving of 1, 5 billion," said the minister.
Why not carrying your prescriptions and cerificates with you on a eReader, within a secured your patient file ?
When you search on ePaper, you will find some really outdated websites. Look for example at http://www.epaper.org.uk/. It seems that some people had than jumped on their board to surf an ePaper wave that lasted too long to arrive.
I'm conscious that this market might take years before really taking off, but I'm confident it will eventually fly.
Yesterday, Apple released the iPad but I'm confident that ePaper will provide solutions with much lower energy consumption which will allow a competitive advantage. ePaper should provide a more stable and cheaper technology for long term consultation of eContent.
But it might take time : I'm ready to spend many years doing this on the side even if I'd prefer to have ePaper as primary activity :
Design/Architect innovative content production chains with ePaper as Preferred client
Develop the best integration software that couples the strongest platforms
Design for the best eReaders
Re-sell all or part of total ePaper solution (hardware, software, content and services)
Yesterday, Apple announced the iPad and this morning I had a look at the video on ZDNet.
It is a really cool device ! Let's comment on Steve Jobs's demonstration:
Graphics : just like on the iPhone/iPod, the system looks really great
Pictures : the iPad will become a great way to share photos
Internet : It's surely the best experience for browsing the web in your sofa, nevertheless if you want to write long texts (like blogging), I'm not sure yet.
Email : I don't believe in it yet. I'd need to test the virtual keyboard to see if it's convenient to write an email like this
Reading eBooks : I'd need to compare reading during 1 hour on ePaper and 1 hour on a iPad.
The iPad will probably deeply hurt ePaper manufacturers. Their only chance of survival is a price war against the iPad. Also they will have to innovate aggressively to come nearby the same user experience. See an example here : http://vimeo.com/8217311. (Thanks to Michel Duperrier for sending me this video).
From the press release: "Our development of the world's largest flexible display has opened up a new market in the next-generation display sector of e-paper," said CTO and executive VP of LG Display, In Jae Chung. "As the e-paper market is growing at a rapid pace, LG Display will continue to deliver new value to customers and the market through industry-leading technologies and differentiated products."
I discovered I can insert them on My Yahoo! and they appear in the new Yahoo AJAX based email interface. So reading wesites becomes like reading your email !!
A l'occasion de l'?v?nement Java "Scope 2002", JDNet Solutions tente d'?valuer l'importance de Java en entreprise et l'?tat de l'offre technologique des ?diteurs pour accompagner le d?veloppement du langage. Xavier Sauvan, responsable Produit chez Software AG, "The XML Company", examine les liens entre Java et XML.
The MBA programme of Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School has just been ranked amongst the best in the world and is confirmed, not just, as the undisputed leader in Belgium but as a highly rated programme throughout Europe and the world.
On Saturday 4 October 2003 the prestigious global leaders? newspaper The Economist (through the EIU) published its annual ranking of full-time MBA programmes. The VLGMS programme based in Leuven is placed
N? 1 in the BENELUX; N? 6 in mainland Europe; N? 47 in the World.
"I find a lot of this AJAX stuff a bit of a hype. Lots of people have
been using similar things long before it became "AJAX". And it really
isn't as complicated as a lot of people make it out to be. Here is a
simple example from one of my apps. "
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Those business processes are the automated versions of the good old way. It remains the backbone of the company : 80% of the business follows these rules.
Intelligent Business Processes
Those processes are able to take intelligent decisions by themselves. For doing that they use Business Rules and Intelligence Data.
Dynamic Business Processes
Those processes are able to be automatically generated by Intelligent Agents in real time. Intelligent Data watch online Intelligence Data and generate new business processes in real time. Those new processes are aligned with the Entreprise capabilities and the company business rules.
Entreprise Capabilities
These are all the services that the company offers to
Intelligent Agents
Intelligent Agents propose new business processes by optimizing company goals in real time.
Intelligence Data
The data required to
monitor what's happening in the business and trigger business events
support decision making for agents and within business processes
Gordon Moore, founder of Intel Corporation, based his business on the law that he enunciated. Moore's Law states that every 18 months, processing power doubles while cost holds constant. Moore's insight proved prescient. His law has been true through the years, and it appears that it will remain true for the foreseeable future. Telecommunications bandwidth and computer memory and storage capacity are experiencing a similar fate. This makes it very affordable for individuals and small businesses to be equipped with the electronic means to conduct commerce and transfer information as fast and freely as large corporations can.
The objective of this course is to introduce participants to the basic concepts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The course consists of a theoretical part (A) and a hands-on part (B) :
A. The basic concepts of ICT in Business: Information Systems, Hardware, Software, Data Management, Telecommunications
B. The use of ICT for Personal Productivity and Problem Solving: managing, analysing and presenting data; searching for information on the WWW.
Participants are expected to master the basic computer skills (use of Windows and word processing). Participants who do not master these skills, should acquire them autonomously before the start of the course. Please contact the course director (marleen.stevens@vlerick.be) if you have any questions.
Professor : Marleen Stevens
Handbook: "Information Systems: Succes in the 21st century", Uma Gupta, Prentice-Hall, Chapters 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 10.
Today my ex-brother in law Olivier Mailleux (38) passed away due the consequences of his cancer. As a real Engineer, he loved the power of 2. He died on 2008 04 08...
It's a huge loss for all the people who loved him as he was... and I'm one of them. :'-(
A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo, and when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole keeps improving by the regular culling of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can operate only as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, we all know, kills off brain cells, but naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker cells, constantly making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.
The results of this in-depth epidemiological study verifies and validates the causal link between all-weekend parties and scientific performance. It also explains why, after a few short years of leaving university and getting married, most scientists cannot keep up with the performance of the new graduates. Only those few that stick to the strict regimen of voracious alcoholic consumption can maintain the intellectual levels that they achieved during their university years. So, this is a call to arms. As our country is losing its technological edge we should not shudder in our homes. Get back into the bars! Quaff that pint! Your company and country need you to be at your peak, and you shouldn't deny yourself the career that you could have. Be all that you can be.
Robert Metcalfe founded 3Com Corporation and designed the Ethernet protocol for computer networks. Metcalfe's Law states that the usefulness, or utility, of a network equals the square of the number of users.
The telephone is of very limited use if only you and your best friend have one. If a whole town is on the system, it becomes much more useful. If the whole world is wired, the utility of the system is phenomenal. But in the predigital age, it could take many years for Metcalfe's Law to bear fruit. It was not until 1931 that telephone companies put a dial on the instrument, finally cutting the tremendous cost of employing switchboard operators and extending the reach of the system. First, telephone use had to reach a critical mass, or number, of users. So it is with any technology.
Until a critical mass of users is reached, a change in technology only affects the technology. But once critical mass is attained, social, political, and economic systems change. This is what authors Downes and Mui call the Law of Disruption. It took about 10 years for radio to reach critical mass in the U.S.; television took longer. Each of these technologies transformed family, economic, and political structures once they reached critical mass.
The same is true of digital technologies. Consider the Internet. It reached critical mass in 1993, when there were roughly 2.5 million host computers on the network. By November 1997 the vast network contained an estimated 25 million host computers. With computing cost continuing to drop rapidly and this dominant computing network growing exponentially, the stage is set for a social, political, and economic revolution. Moore's Law and Metcalfe's Law are in play. To achieve a dramatic effect on commerce, though, one more piece of the puzzle is required. Firms must see a transaction cost advantage that causes them to change their strategic thinking from the models of the past. Read on.
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En 1924, le Docteur Allemand Hans Berger a d?couvert que le cerveau envoie des ondes ?lectriques qui peuvent ?tre enregistr?es par l'interm?diaire d'un enc?phalogramme. Le cerveau a plusieurs niveaux d'activit?:
Beta - A ce niveau, nous sommes tendus, notre taux d'adr?lanine est ?lev?, ce qui engendre des ?motions telles que col?re, peur, agression, doute voire ?tat d'esprit n?gatif.
Alpha ?lev? - activit? c?r?brale plus faible qui permet un ?tat de concentration qui nous permet d'acc?der ? notre m?moire. C'est le niveau id?al pour imaginer des solutions ? des probl?mes.
Alpha bas - nous pouvons entrer en contact avec nous m?me et reprogrammer notre cerveau.
Th?ta - entre l'?veil et le sommeil. Possible d'?liminer provisoirement la douleur. R?ves.
Delta - Sommeil profond o? a lieu la r?cup?ration physique
Afin de r?soudre des probl?mes plus rapidement, le selfcoaching apprend ? se placer mentallement au niveau alpha. Par exemple, lors d'une discussion, pouvoir se placer en mode alpha permet d'avoir acc?s ? plus de donn?es (la m?moire) donc plus d'id?es. Il faut donc apprendre ? se d?tendre mentallement, se relaxer.
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Did you use EJBs in your last J2EE project? Many Java programmers (and their managers and CIOs) would consider this a strange question. "How can it be a J2EE project if it doesn't include EJBs?" they might ask. The answer is: Sun currently lists 11 J2EE component technologies of which EJB is but one; of equal importance are servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP), and JDBC. In fact, a recently released research report by Gartner, Inc., reveals that most Java projects do not use EJBs, but rely exclusively on servlets/JSP. (While not specifically mentioned in the Gartner report, I would guess that a high percentage of those projects also use JDBC.)
How is it that EJBs have become synonymous with J2EE in the minds of so many people? One answer is the natural tendency of software vendors to try to sell you the most expensive product. Is a commissioned salesperson going to sell you an inexpensive servlet/JSP solution if he or she can convince you to buy an "enterprise" application server (with EJB!) for 10 times as much? The tendencies of human nature should make the answer to that question fairly obvious.
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What should I think about it after doing an MBA...
First, I believe the "exercices" do not reflect the real challenges of a Top Manager. I believe a manager must be able to care more for the long term with a lot of intelligence and strategy. The exercices so far are short term (one day) and do not allow to build much experience in the domain in order to take clever decisions. I don't believe you are born "top manager".
How can one judge the quality of someone when it's not in its primary domain and in one day ?
But OK. "Top Manager". What's in a name ?
I'm really upset by the two first decision of Rob Heyvaert to fire Wim and Xavier. For me it was clear that Koen has imposed bad ideas which turned catastrophic for the boys (Orange Juice and this complex statement over Volvo).
In the first episode I was also astonished by the fact that the boys didn't realise the distance between Gent and Waregem ? How is it possible to overlook so simple constraints.
The two first episodes showed how important it it to KEEP IT SIMPLE !!
Something else that I don't understand : if men are eliminated ok, but then I believe the boy's team should be weacker and weaker... So the next out would be, a man again...
Le live, m?me s'il est int?ressant sur le fond, ne r?pond pas vraiment ? mes attentes. Vu le titre, je pensais lire un livre du style "Teach Yourself Entrepreneurship in 21 days". Cependant, seulemet un ou deux chapitres discutent vraiment du sujet : oser et entreprendre.
Parmi les personnes interview?es, une minorit? r?pond clairement aux questions suivantes : Qu'avez-vous entrepris ? Quels risques avez-vous encourru ? Comment avez-vous percu ces risques ? Pourquoi avez-vous os? ?
En lieu et place de ces questions, qui me paraissaient ?tre des questions de base, l'auteur nous d?crit et structure plut?t les caract?ristiques de ces personnes qui ont atteint un sommet dans leur activit?.
Peut-?tre l'auteur a-t'il ?t? trop complaisant en supposat que les interview?s ont os? entreprendre quelquechose ? Le live ne donne pas une r?ponse claire. Ceci est ?vident pour les sportifs : ont'ils entrepris ? Ont'ils pris des risques ? Ou ont'ils simplement prest? ? L'example de Fr?d?ric Deburghgraeve est frappant : sans son entourage il aurait arr?t? la natation avant m?me de gagner ses plus beaux titres...
Oser entreprendre : Prendre le temps ?
Il y a tout de m?me suffisament de mat?riel et certains t?moignages - si on sait les d?crypter- r?pondent ? mes questions. Ce que le livre montre, c'est que entreprendre, c'est avant tout un ?tat d'esprit. Aussi, si "oser entreprendre" c'est prendre le temps pour atteindre les objectifs qu'on s'est fix?s, alors le livre atteint son objectif.
A la place de "La vie est Belge", j'attendais peut-?tre un message plus clair, plus ? l'Am?ricaine...
Question de style
Par rapport au style du livre, l'auteur s'est lanc? dans un travail p?rilleux de structuration des interviews qui n'est pa toujours r?ussi. Il manque parfois d'emballage. Les textes sont alors livr?s tr?s "brut de fonderie". Dans d'autres sections, on comprend mieux la logique et ce que l'auteur cherche ? nous d?montrer.
Bien mais "Peut mieux faire"
Ce livre est encore un brut qui doit passer au raffinage. Je serais int?ress? de voir un deuxi?me essai sur le m?me theme. Ce second essai ne devrait pas se contenter de faire une photo de l'arriv?e d'un parcours plus ou moins accompli mais mieux capturer le film du parcours : le projet, la dynamique, le d?part, les motivations (sans tabous), les risques et la strat?gie de chaque parcours. Je pr?ferre aussi les analyses de parcours de personnes qui sont parties de rien ? celles de ceux qui ?taient d?j? arriv?es avant de partir.
R?ponse de Thibaut Vincent :
Cher Monsieur Declercq,
Merci pour votre critique. Je tiens cependant ? apporter quelques ?claircissements.
1.Je peux comprendre que le livre ne r?ponde pas ? vos attentes. Tout point de vue, toute perception est personnel et est ? prendre en consid?ration. Pour moi, c?est tr?s positif dans le sens o? ce livre ne cherche pas ? ?tre politiquement correct ou commercial. Votre r?action est donc une tr?s bonne chose dans le sens o? le livre vous a fait r?agir. A mes yeux, ce qui importe ? travers cet ouvrage, sorte de recueil qui a pris 5 ann?es de travail?, est le mode de fonctionnement commun aux experts. Il vise ? d?montrer que ceux-ci, quel que soit leur domaine d?expertise, fonctionnent d?une mani?re commune sur le plan des attitudes et des comportements. Par ? Oser entreprendre ? il s?agit d?aborder l?esprit entrepreneurial et non les entreprises au sens mat?riel du terme.
Apprendre ce que les experts ont entrepris, quels risques ils ont encouru, comment il les ont per?us, pourquoi ils ont os? sont tout autant de questions qui ne m?int?ressaient pas. Pourquoi ? Tout simplement parce que le fait de r?pondre ? ces questions ne ferait que satisfaire votre curiosit? et non vous rendre plus entrepreneurial. Par contre, d?crire ces experts, qui ont accept? de se ?d?shabiller ?, permet de montrer aux lecteurs leurs comportements et attitudes et, par l?-m?me, de permettre ? ceux-ci de se remettre en question et de mettre en pratique les dires de ces experts pour avancer eux-m?mes sur la voie d?expertise en faisant ?voluer leurs comportements et attitudes. Sachez que l?exp?rience est le fruit des observations tir?es des exp?rimentations.
Que les interview?s aient entrepris quelque chose ou non n?est pas le probl?me du livre. Par contre, toutes ces personnalit?s, parachut?es ou non, ont d?velopp? des comportements et attitudes d?experts sinon elles ne pourraient, ou n?auraient pu se maintenir en place.
2. Concernant votre paragraphe 2, vous avez bien compris la port?e du message. C?est au lecteur ? se faire une id?e et non ? l?auteur ? faire du pr?m?ch?. Vous avez ?galement tr?s bien compris la port?e du message. ? Oser entreprendre ? signifie prendre le temps pour atteindre les objectifs qu?on s?est fix?s ? ? condition de mettre les moyens ? la hauteur de ses ambitions et de ses potentialit?s. Les miracles viennent de votre travail.
3.Concernant la vie est belge, c?est ?vident. L?auteur interviewe des Belges.
4. Le style ? brut de fonderie ? est imp?ratif. Par respect pour les interview?s et par souci d?authenticit?, les propos devaient ?tre les originaux.
5. L?aspect brut est voulu, afin de permettre aux lecteurs de s?ouvrir sur les consid?rations ?mises. Un texte plus raffin? risquerait de faire passer le message d?une mani?re plus fade, insipide et incolore. Le but du livre est de remettre en question, de cr?er une sorte de chaos, richesse indispensable pour encore mieux se restructurer. Cela ne m?int?resse pas que les lecteurs ? entendent ?. Ce que je voulais est qu?ils aient une ?coute active suivie d?une mise en pratique.
Bien ? vous,
Thibaut Vincent
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Vlerick Informeel : Digital vs Papier. Vriend of Vijand ?
19/09/07 - KBC
Panel
The evening session was a Panel debate, with some light presentations as an appeltiser.
Eddy Dobbelaere - Desk Solutions - Porthus
Jan Pissiersens - Aries Holding
Frank Robben - Admin General Kruispuntbank - Smals
Moderator : Pieter Hinsen
What I retain
1. Paperless is not always cheaper. You need to carefully calculate the difference between paper and a digital. For information exchange, it's obvious that digital is cheaper. For archiving it's not automatically the case. Your digital archive will be better only if you need to retrieve and re-exchange the documents multiple times.
2. Paperless still scares. The technolgy problems - the possibility that you might not be able to retrieve and read documents out of the electronic archive - are real. The lack of clear standards is a problem here. No Software/Hardware vendor will garantee long term storage. To tackle the problem, read point 3.
3. Paperless is not a technology : It's a process. As soon as you archive something, the process doesn't stop. That's where it starts ! This makes me think that at home I also have the problem. I can't read my HP emails HP because at IBM we use Lotus Notes. So when I archived my emails, my process was wrong. I will have to buy Outlook personally in order to consult my old emails (139?). Companies need to take the challenge as a process that will never stop. The archive has to move to be always available. that's a big difference with Paper (go back to point 1)
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Natural 5 is Software AG's Development Environment on the mainframe. Natural is really a powerfull procedural language.? It's also very elegant and productive. You can now parse XML on the mainframe with our?Natural XML Parser:
" The growth of e-business and the World Wide Web is creating a resurgence in the significance of mainframes. But to enjoy their benefits, users and developers need expanded functionality and direct integration with the Web. Software AG meets these requirements with the latest version of its highly successful development environment, Natural. Through HTTP support, Natural Version 5 for Windows enables development of mainframe applications for the Web and processing of XML documents. Development takes place in Windows, and the finished application can then be deployed on various operating systems. "
An architecture can be defined as the fundamental organization of a system embodied
in its components, their inter-relationships, the relations to their environment, and the
principles guiding its design and evolution (IEEE, 2000)
Competitive intelligence is the gathering and analysis of information from human and published sources about market trends and industry developments that allows for advanced identification of risks and opportunities in the competitive arena. (Ben Gilad, PhD )
Apr?s les diff?rentes ? farces ? que l'on s'envoie l'un ? l'autre pour rire, ceci est un peu diff?rent. ?a n'a pas pour but de faire rire, ce n'est pas dr?le, son but est de faire r?fl?chir.
La fille d'un pr?dicateur r?put? a ?t? interview?e dans un talk-show t?l?vis? et l'animatrice lui a demand? :
Comment Dieu a pu laisser une telle horreur se produire ? (Les ?v?nements du 11 septembre).
Cette jeune fille a donn? une r?ponse aussi profonde que perspicace.
"Je crois que Dieu a ?t? profond?ment attrist? par tout ?a, au moins autant que nous, mais depuis des ann?es nous lui demandons de sortir de nos ?coles, de sortir de nos gouvernements et de sortir de nos vies.
En tant que "gentleman", il s'est calmement retir?. Comment pouvons-nous esp?rer que Dieu nous donnera sa b?n?diction et sa protection si nous insistons pour qu'il nous laisse seul ? ".
Puis un autre a dit que nous ne devrions pas lire la Bible ? l'?cole, la m?me Bible qui enseigne "tu ne tueras point, tu ne voleras point, et aime-toi toi-m?me" et nous avons dit OUI.
Ensuite, le Dr. Benjamin Spock a dit que nous ne devrions pas taper nos enfants quand ils agissent mal car leur petite personnalit? serait fauss?e et nous pourrions alt?rer leur estime personnelle. Le fils du m?me docteur s'est malheureusement suicid?. Ils disent qu'un expert devrait savoir de quoi il parle peu importe ce qu'il nous dit et nous avons dit OUI.
Maintenant, nous nous demandons pourquoi nos enfants n'ont pas de conscience, pourquoi ils ne font pas la diff?rence entre le bien et le mal, et pourquoi ils peuvent sans ?motions tuer un ?tranger, un parent ou eux-m?mes.
Probablement qu'? force de profondes r?flexions, nous en viendrons ? la conclusion que ?a a ? voir avec le principe de "r?colter ce qu'on a sem?"
C'est dr?le de voir ? quel point il est simple pour les gens de jeter Dieu et se demander ensuite pourquoi leur monde devient un enfer ? quel point nous croyons tout ce que les journaux disent et remettons en question tout ce que la Bible dit.
C'est dr?le de voir que nous pouvons envoyer des "jokes" par courriel qui se r?pandent comme un feu de paille mais lorsqu'on envoie des messages ? propos de Dieu, les gens y pensent ? deux fois avant de les partager.
Est-ce que vous riez ?
C'est dr?le de voir que quand vous allez partager ce courriel,vous ne l'enverrez probablement pas ? beaucoup de gens de votre carnet d'adresses parce que vous ne savez pas en quoi ils croient ou ce qu'ils penseront de vous.
C'est dr?le de voir que nous nous pr?occupons plus de ce que les gens pensent de nous que de ce que Dieu pense de nous.
Partagez ce message si vous croyez qu'il en vaut la peine, sinon, jetez-le, personne ne le saura ! Mais si vous jetez ce processus de r?flexion, ne vous plaignez pas du mauvais ?tat du monde dans lequel nous vivons !
Many times I have tried to set up such communities (Bicycle Club, Work's Intranet, MBA distribution list, family, customers sites). very often those communities have died even before they were born.
There is one principle that I have kept out of all those web experiences : people use the communication tools only when they have a problem and when they are looking for a solution.
This is the "What's in in for me" principle : I have only recorded activities when people get an advantage out of the communication:
Forums : people asking questions see their problems solved, get information. Answering people raise their visibility. That's why on Linked In you can be flagged as an expert. Another example I saw was during MBA exams: the Forum was suddenly alive.
Distribution Lists are all a sudden used when someone wants to sell his car or quickly organise a barbecue.
Social networks are useful when you want to see what the others are doing (a kind of voyeurisme)
Viral marketing is like the new way of telling jokes (or stories). Why do people tell stories ?
I guess you can continue the examples by yourself : People communicate when they hope to get something out of it.
If you understand this "What's in it for me" principle, you understand that the web can be a very powerful tool to quickly find a solution to your problem. The range of problems is very wide : finding love, compiling Linux, buying Viagra, finding the perfect vacation, stay informed, find which WII game is cool and which one sucks... Identifying he community of people who have the same kind of problem than you can only bring you closer to the solution. This is for me the true engine of communities.
I use to say to my wife (as a joke ?) "Everything always comes back to 3 letters : SEX". But in that logic that there are also 3 other letters : "EGO".
And than I guess there are some things like "Right man at the right place" and "Time to Market" also applicable to Online Communities...
Well, we had a very nice week at the Belgian coast on the second week of August (2009). There was a lot of sun. The Belgian coast is really great when the weather is nice.
Mainly, we enjoyed some biking, the swimming pool and the beach. We also enjoyed some drinks on a terrace
(especlially in Blankenberge on the pig pillows)
There was also the traditional mini-golf.
On monday we wanted to see the FireWorks in Ostende but there was nothing : we were told they were cancelled because of the crisis ??? Nothing is more frustrating than a canceled fireworks.
On Tuesday we went for a 30Km bike tour in the country.
On Wednesday we went to De Haan on the beach.
On thursday we went to have a look at the Belgacom Beach Soccer but there wasn't much animation.
On friday we went to Plopsaland. There wasn't too much crowd. We only found that some attractions like the fire extinction were very dirty. We have also seen the "Samson en Gert" show in French for the first time : "Fred and Sanson". It was ok but they should stop translating from Dutch to French because it's a difficult exercise.
Enfin ! La poste belge s'active enfin dans le domaine de l'Internet.? Nous allons bient?t pouvoir b?n?ficier d'une addresse ?lectronique ? la poste. cfr http://www.postbox.be/Qu'est-ce que cela signifie ? Bient?t nous pourrons envoyer ou demander des documents officiels (demande de carte d'identit? ? la commune, lettres recommand?es, ...) par email.? Cette addresse, je l'esp?re, sera officielle car s?curis?e et garantie par La Poste.
On peut tout de suite?identifier deux probl?matiques chez postbox.be: 1. La garantie absolue de la confidentialit? et de la s?curit?. Comment prouver que ce n'est pas moi qui ait envoy? un mail postbox si c'est effectivement le cas...2.Le respect de la concurrence : http://www.internetaddict.be/shownews.cfm?lg=fr&id=6583&cid=1
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Between Sep 12, 2002 and June 2004 I will be doing an MBA.
I intend to collect here, maybe with the help of others, the summary of all the important concepts that you meet when doing an MBA.
Ma lecture m'entra?ne pour l'instant vers l'Alchimiste de Paulo Coehlo.
Parce qu'il r?ve souvent d'un tr?sor enfoui au pied des Pyramides, Santiago, un jeune berger andalou, part pour l'?gypte. Une aventure mouvement?e jusqu'au jour o?, dans le d?sert, initi? par l'alchimiste, il apprendra ? ?couter son c?ur, ? lire les signes du destin et, par-dessus tout, ? aller au bout de son r?ve.
Il vivra sa l?gende personnelle, l?gende que tout ?tre humain porte en lui.
Il y a trois injonctions que l?on trouve une fois ?nonc?es ensemble par l?intervenant myst?rieux, le roi de Salem (alias Melchis?dec), et qui sont, par ailleurs, r?guli?rement reprises et d?velopp?es tout au long de l?ouvrage (http://www.ekklesia.ch/eelg/debats/oecu2.html) :
N?oublie pas que tout n?est qu?une seule chose.
N?oublie pas le langage des signes.
Et surtout, n ?oublie pas d?aller jusqu?au bout de ta LegendePersonnelle.
Il y a des points communs entre l'Alchimiste et LePouvoirDuMomentPresent. Les deux livres recommendent de vivre le jour pr?sent. Mais si LePouvoirDuMomentPresent incite au ZEN et un peu a l'immobilisme, l'Alchimiste offre une magnifique alternative et explique comment vivre chaque moment en suivant les signes qui peuvent nous mener ? notre ?panouissement et ? notre l?gende personnelle (cfr LegendePersonnelle).
Aujourd'hui je lis mon email, j'ai un nouveau commentaire sur mon site. Chouette ! He ben non. C'est une insulte et ca me fait de la peine... (voir plus loin)
Peut-?tre que avec mon site web je ressemble ? une Castafiore mais c'est un hobby, cela m'amuse et je n'oblige personne ? le lire...
Joyeux Noel et Bonne ann?e quand m?me ? celui qui m'a envoy? ce commentaire:
"A lot of problems in our society come from the absence of projects".
It's true. Nothing is more depressing than not having projects. When you don't have a perspective you don't think about your future, you only think about the past and how it was the good times. Instead, you should always look forward and catch the opportunities that the future brings. Working on projects allow you to have recognition from your peers and/or auto-satisfaction.
This statement nevertheless is maybe a bit too simple :
What happens when you have tried many times to contribute to a project and you have failed multiple times ?
Why should we always move forward ? Some people need to have projects, maybe other prefer not to have projects ? Where is the freedom ? (See the joke on the Harvard MBA)
How can we find projects where everybody gets the "what's in it for me ?" question answered ? What if everybody wants to be the project manager ?
But in general, I agree with the statement. When I list my personal goals in life, I can identify the projects that I need to undertake to reach my goals. (By the way, my goals should be SMART, otherwise I'll never be happy).
So if the statement is true.: as human beings, we need projects.
The next questions are than:
what are my personal projects which will make me happy ?
what are my family projects ?
what are my community/village/team/work projects
what are my country's projects ?
what the world's project ?
and for all those projects, why do we want to have those projects ? Are they for a good cause ? How do they interact with each other ?
It's up to us all to select the projects which add value, respect the people and the nature. Many projects don't help us and nevertheless we contribute to them... Let's try to step out of these.
This self assessment tool, developed by Prof Dr Herman Van den Broeck, analyses your talents and reveals your profile. Try it out for yourself! (in Dutch).
My profile is : reporter (opslaggever). I'm an Analyst and Sentimental (Eq-er).
My website was?migrated to postnuke yesterday. I also developped a new theme wich I will have to improve in the coming weeks.The migration will (I hope) bring some enhancements. For example I plan to use PHPWiki as additional modules of my website.I hope you will still enjoy visiting my website.
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Note that the navigation bar can be anywhere, it doesn't have to be at the bottom or even consistent from page to page. The label can also vary--not sure if this is a good thing. Click Next.
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I have always liked eXtreme Programming. I never really had the opportunity to test XP in a real project. I did some DSDM wich is very close (see DSDM.ORG)
You have here a Belgian company based in Brugges - JCS International - that claims to do XP Projects : EXTREME PROGRAMMING > JCS
According to an IBM survey SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is still in the radar of the majority of customers:
73 percent of customers indicated their CEO understands the business value of SOA; more than half say their IT staff is meeting once per month or more with business managers they support.
45 percent of customers indicated they spent between 10 percent and 29 percent of their 2007 IT budgets on SOA.
"America and the world remain in shock today
as rescue workers search for survivors and investigators look for clues
after the biggest terrorist attack in history".
You might know I have taken one year of sabbatical leave. Already 2 months have passed.
I have used that time to deep-dive into the ePaper / eReaders market and trends. You can see the websites I have visited and tagged on Delicious (http://delicious.com/appepaper).
On appepaper.com I listed some ePaper readers and some applications of ePaper.
After this phase of investigation and preparation, I'm now ready to go out and chase "ePaper" projects. Next week I start a phase of prospection which aims at measuring the BeNeLux eReading market potential.
Of course I did also take some free time, especially I did quiet some sport (Biking alone and with friends, Foot with Thomas, Running and WII Active). Unfortunately for the biking the snow conditions, the rain and low temperature didn't help to do a lot of KM. I'm now looking forward to the spring season which will make sport much more enjoyable.
[For those who don't read french, don't worry I'll translate this ASAP.]
Sur eBouquin.fr se tient actuellement un d?bat sur les DRMs, j'ai post? aujourd'hui mon analyse et vision sur les DRMs. Voici ce que j'ai post?:
Bonjour, J??tais justement en train d??laborer ma petite th?orie/analyse sur les DRMs?
Si on consid?re les deux extr?mes de la chaine : l??crivain et le lecteur, et si chacun peut dire oui ou non aux DRMs, on a quatre possibilit?s : 1. Donner le pouvoir aux plateformes de la distribution 2. Bidouillages 3. Amour Impossible 4. Confiance Aveugle Je pense que comme lecteurs nous devrons nous accomoder des DRMs au d?but mais je crois dans une ?volution ou les DRMs sont progressivement supprim?s.
Pour ne pas copier une tartine ici, j?ai fait un document ? downloader: http://bit.ly/92zUlx Bien ? vous
ePaper has more application than eBooks for the publishing industry. ePaper also offers solutions for the Retail Industry.
ePaper can be used to show product prices and promotions in the store and on the shelves.
Here are two suppliers who provide added value in the Retail Industry using "ePaper" : MariSense and ZBD.
Marisense
Marisense's solution is called the Ella Retail Solution. "We [Marisense] believe that Ella Retail Solution introduces a brand new way to make your store operations more efficient and productive, and simultaneously improve customer satisfaction."
Marisense makes Large and Shelf labels using eInk:
ZBD ZBD uses a technolgy called Zenithal Bistable Display (ZBD?). "ZBD is the first commercially available LCD that uses surface bistability ZBD's". It's a "Completely new solution enabled by true electronic paper display technology that is flexible and thin, non-reflective, has excellent reading angle of over 170? and also optical characteristics similar to paper." "ZBD?s electronic shelf labelling solution empowers retailers with the ability to manage pricing, promotions and product information at the point of purchase, dynamically. We offer a total store solution that is simple to deploy, and cost-effective store-wide.
Replacing paper labels with ZBD?s electronic shelf labelling solution makes commercial sense, because updating paper labels is time-consuming, labour-intensive, and often error-prone. But that is only part of the story. The real benefit from ZBD?s solution is the control that retailers gain from the system."
For me, 'workflow' is related to the flow of people's work.
A Business Process is larger : in general it will include a workflow (represented by Actors roles and human tasks) except if this business process is fully automatic (which is in practice never the case).
BPM has M for "Management" in it so : How do you manage (Model, Assemble, Monitor, Improve) your processes and in particular your workflows.
To summarize this article says it's "Urgent to Wait" for companies before deciding to invest in ePaper ereaders.The functionality and price has ti be considered carefully.
I believe there are at least 2 viable cases for ePaper readers in a professional context.
1. for those who spend a lot of time reading or proof reading (Research&Development, Business Managers who need to review offers before they are sent out, publishers who want to read before printing...)
2. for those who want to print less and would accept an eReader as a company bonus
In any way, I recommend a large model with a screen size allowing to read A4 or letter documents (for example, the IREX DR1000S or equivalent)
In French:
.... l'utilisation d'un eReader doit ?tre bien cibl?e en entreprise. Entre un PDA, un Tablet PC, un Netbook, le cas d'utilisation devrait ?tre bien ?tudi? avant d'investir dans du ePaper.
Cependant, je pense qu'il y a au moins deux mod?les viables: - ceux qui passent beaucoup de temps a lire ou relire des documents (chercheurs, chefs d'entreprises qui doivent revoir les offres avant de les approuver, personnes travaillant dans l'?dition...) - ceux qui d?sirent imprimer moins et consid?rent un lecteur ePaper comme un cadeau ou un Bonus que leur entreprise leur fait.
If you want to send XML to Tamino Using
the HTTP GET? method (your brower URL line !!), you will have to URLEncode
your XML in the URL.? Click on "Read More" to learn about URL encoding.
Some characters are illegal in Internet URLs. They are mostly control characters, but a few are characters that you regularly use. For example, the space character cannot be used in Netscape URLs.
URLEncode is a method to specify a character in a different way.
The space character needs to be encoded as %20
The "/" character needs to be encoded as %2F
The "!" character needs to be encoded as %21
The most common URL error in the COBA website is a space in a long filename not being encoded as %20. This bad URL still works fine in Internet Explorer, but Netscape will strip off the part after the space. When Netscape gives you an error page for a web page with a space in the name, look at what the page says. If it does not contain the entire filename, is needs to be URLEncoded as %20.
These are the hexidecimal representations of the character. The decimal number for space is 32, and since hexidecimal uses the base-16 system instead of base-10 like we use (arabic numerals), 32 in decimal is 0x20 in hex. The letters A-F form the numbers 10-16, so 0x0A is 10 and 0x1A is 26. 0xFF is the largest character number that can be expressed and is 255 (a non-printing character).
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New database API. See lib/WikiDB.php and lib/WikiDB/backend.php for the bulk of the documentation on this. The new database can save multiple archived versions of each page. A mechanism for purging archived revisions is now in place as well. See the $ExpireParams setting in index.php, and lib/ArchiveCleaner.php for details. At this point, the DBA, MySQL and Postgres backends are functional. The DBA backend could use some performance optimization. The whole API is still subject to some change as I figure out a clean way to provide for a variety of (not all forseen) methods of indexing and searching the wiki.
New template engine. This needs to be documented further, but, for now, see lib/Template.php. On second thought, don't (lib/Template.php desperately needs refactoring, still.) The basic advance is that PHP4's ob_*() functions can be used to capture output from eval()ed PHP code. This allows the templates to be PHP code...
Edit preview button on the edit page. Now you can see what your edits look like before committing them.
Reworked the style-sheets. I still need to clean this up some more. I would appreciate comments and bug reports on it. So far I've only tested the new style sheets with Netscape 4.77 and Mozilla 0.9.3 (both running under Linux.)
Expanded syntax for text search, now searches like "wiki or web -page" (or "(wiki or web) and not page") will do more-or-less what they look like they'll do.
Security Issues: PhpWiki will now work with PHP's register_globals set to off.
Database support for MySQL, Postgresql, mSQL, flat file and the new dba_ library in PHP4 is included.
Internationalization: support for different languages, down to the source level, is included. German, Spanish, Swedish and Dutch are currently shipped with PhpWiki. An architecture is in place to easily add more languages.
New linking schemes using square brackets in addition to the old style BumpyText.
Administration features include page locking, dumping the Wiki to a zip file, and deleting pages.
A MostPopular page showing the most frequently hit pages.
Full HTML compliance.
Links at the bottom of pages describing relationships like incoming links from other pages and their hits, outgoing and their hits, and the most popular nearby pages.
Color page diffs between the current and previous version.
An info page to view page metadata.
Far more customization capability for the admin.
A templating system to separate the page HTML from the PHP code.
New markup constructs for <B>, <I>, <DD>, <BR> and more.
Tabless markup to supercede the older markup (both still supported).
PhpWiki 1.1.6 is a major revision of PhpWiki. The ability to have themes (via an
easy-to-edit template system) has been added; the schema for MySQL has been
completely overhauled, breaking the page details into columns (for efficiency we
agreed not to put references in a separate table, so it's not completely
normalized. "Don't let the best be the enemy of the good.")
Postgresql support has been added and the markup language is evolving, now allowing
<h2>
<h3>
<h4>
tags and a new way to make text bold, and of course the
?new linking scheme.
There is a new feature on all pages called more info that gives you a low level
detailed view of a page, which is probably more useful for debugging than anything.
As we move towards a 1.2 release we will be adding logging, top ten most active
pages and other new features with the new database schema (and yes, these features
will make it into the DBM version too). I also want to add mSQL support and test it
under Zend, the new PHP4.
Below are the release notes for version 1.03, the last release of the 1.0 PhpWiki
series. --Steve Wainstead, swain@panix.com
PhpWiki was written because I am so interested in ?WikiWikiWebs, and I haven't used PHP since version 2.0. I wanted to see how it had advanced.
Version 1.0 is a near-perfect clone of the Portland Pattern Repository, http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiWikiWeb. In truth, I was using the Wiki script you can download from there as a model; that Wiki lacks a number of features the PPR has, like ?EditCopy. So in truth PhpWiki is a kind of hybrid of the PPR and the generic Wiki you can get from there (which is written in Perl).
The one caveat of PhpWiki is the allowance of HTML if the line is preceded by a bar (or pipe, which is how I usually say it). (That's a '|'). It was very simple to add, and the idea came from a posting somewhere on the PPR about how AT&T had an internal Wiki clone and used the same technique. The ability to embed HTML is disabled by default for security reasons.
Version 1.01 includes a patch that fixes a small error with rendering <hr> lines. Thanks to Gerry Barksdale.
See the HISTORY file for a rundown on the whole development process if that sort of thing really interests you :-)
The work happy state, which Mr Csikszentmihalyi calls "flow", arises most often in work that stretches a person without defeating him; work that provides :
The Vlerick full-time MBA has been ranked N? 1 in BENELUX, whilst climbing over 30 places overall to reach N? 3 in Europe and N? 15 in the world. The Economist Intelligence Unit commented that "Vlerick's rise has come in the wake of major efforts to improve both its careers services and its alumni - impressing many students!"
There was the "Circuit du Brabant Wallon VTT". We had
about 200?bikers, riding about 190 km in our region. The winner was a
frenchman : Christophe Herisset. Filip Meirhaege and Peter Van den abeele where
present as well. See the results of the race on the site. Pictures coming
soon.
April 30, 2000
A big party at home...
April 26, 2000
I was as a speacker at the BeJUG event : XML and Java. Speacking about
XML and Java in front of about 70?Belgian Java Developers.
March 27, 2000
UCL Water-Polo team had a match against
Ciney. We won 12-10. I think we won mainly because one of their best players
had to go to the hospital. He was bleeding after a shock between a foot and his
head.... That's Water-Polo life !
Recette du grog " anti- grippe": eau bouillante, miel, citron, rhum.
Dans un verre, mettre 1 cuill?re ? caf? du jus de citron, 1 rondelle de citron, 1/2 cuill?re ? soupe de miel et 2 cuill?res ? soupe de rhum.
Verser l'eau bouillante sur le tout.
When information can be published on the web in a reusable format like XML, one could use it to make conclusions. In the following example I will use some information in RDF to deduce something using an inference engine called Sirli (see http://www.ontoprise.com/ in the free downloads section).
FORALL O,X,G GMaman(O,G) <- Maman(O,literal(X)) and Maman(X,literal(G)).
Those rules mean that if there someone is mother of someone if there is a relationship denoted by http://description.org/schema/Maman between two persons. The second rules that the grandmother of someone is the mother of the mother of that person.
This means there are 2 grandmothers in my information : Augusta and Who Knows (the grandmother of my mother in fact).
By combining such relationships into rules and queries, the web can become a huge knowledge management system.
As described in the book "The Semantic Web", the challenge will be to identify which source can be trusted. Indeed, my mother does have a grandmother... believe me.
La Folie d?cida d'inviter ses amis pour prendre un caf? chez elle.
Tous les invit?s y all?rent. Apr?s le caf? la Folie proposa : On joue ? cache-cache ? Cache-cache ? C'est quoi, ?a ? - demanda la Curiosit?. Cache-cache est un jeu. Je compte jusqu'? cent et vous vous cachez. Quand j'ai fini de compter je cherche, et le premier que je trouve sera le prochain ? compter. Tous accept?rent, sauf la Peur et la Paresse.
1, 2, 3,... - la Folie commen?a ? compter.
L'Empressement se cacha le premier, n'importe o?.
La Timidit?, timide comme toujours, se cacha dans une touffe d'arbre. La Joie courut au milieu du jardin. La Tristesse commen?a ? pleurer, car elle ne trouvait pas d'endroit appropri? pour se cacher. L'Envie accompagna le Triomphe et se cacha pr?s de lui derri?re un rocher.
La Folie continuait de compter tandis que ses amis se cachaient. Le D?sespoir ?taient d?sesp?r? en voyant que la Folie ?tait d?j? ? nonante-neuf.
CENT ! cria la Folie. Je vais commencer ? chercher...
La premi?re ? ?tre trouv?e fut la Curiosit?, car elle n'avait pu s'emp?cher de sortir de sa cachette pour voir qui serait le premier d?couvert. En regardant sur le c?t?, la Folie vit le Doute au-dessus d'une cl?ture ne sachant pas de quel c?t? il serait mieux cach?. Et ainsi de suite, elle d?couvrit la Joie, la Tristesse, la Timidit?...
Quand ils ?taient tous r?unis, la Curiosit? demanda : O? est l'Amour ?
Personne ne l'avait vu.
La Folie commen?a ? le chercher. Elle chercha au-dessus d'une montagne, dans les rivi?res au pied des rochers. Mais elle ne trouvait pas l'Amour.
Cherchant de tous c?t?s, la Folie vit un rosier, pris un bout de bois et commen?a ? chercher parmi les branches, lorsque soudain elle entendit un cri.
C'?tait l'Amour, qui criait parce qu'une ?pine lui avait crev? un oeil.
La Folie ne savait pas quoi faire. Elle s'excusa, implora l'Amour pour avoir son pardon et alla jusqu'? lui promettre de le suivre pour toujours. L'Amour accepta les excuses.
Aujourd'hui, l'Amour est aveugle et la Folie l'accompagne toujours.
Oh you're having a sabbatical in 2010 ! What will you do next year ?
?What will you do next year ?? is the main question I have to answer these days. Last Tuesday (Nov 17th 2009) I got the approval from IBM that my sabbatical leave has been approved. Therefore, in 2010, I will not go to work as usual.
So, this week I met many people who have heard that I'm having a year off. Their main concern is ?What will you do ?? but also ?Will you be back in 2011 ?? .
As the Black Eye Peas would sing, I have a feeling that 2010 is gonna be a good year.
What will I do ?
I will have 3 main objectives in 2010:
1. Business
I will work on the opportunity of starting a business in the field of ePaper. Concretely, there are many activities I want to undertake around ePaper
Play with the eReaders technology (the IREX S1000, the Sony eReader or some Hanlin models for example): programming , integrating Content Management platforms like Alfresco, configuring for Personal Productivity, displaying Medical Information, downloading eBanking information or Marketing Material, Testing Notes Taking, Automatically producing content from RSS feeds...
Blog on ePaper related technologies. I will launch 2 blogs on ePaper (one in French, the other in English). I already have created 2 associated websites : http://appepaper.com and http://appe.biz/.
Determine an ePaper Reference Architecture that will be useful for documenting ePaper applications. Publish white papers on the subject.
Gradually participate in ePaper projects, software, hardware and consulting as an independent consultant.
Re-Write and start to execute my business plan for ePaper
Participate to (or Organize) ePaper events
Build a network of ePaper enthousiasts around the world who can achieve together great ePaper projects
2. Sport
Together with my friend Laurent Saublens, we decided to get to the top of the Mont Ventoux by bike. I hope he didn't forget it because I want to take up the challenge.
3. Free Time
For the first time in my life, for one year, I will have no agenda, no obligation. It will be an interesting experience. It might sound crazy but I want to truly understand what I will choose to do of my free time when facing an empty agenda. Here is what I believe I will do:
Cleaning ? I have many things to tidy up at home
Spend more time with my family, especially Thomas (my son)
Painting, Drawing
Reading, Writing
Gardening (not 100% sure)
Local Tourism: watching busy people in the street, drink coffee with my eReader.
...
And I'have just been told there is an additional objective:
4. Spoil my wife who deserves it (which was actually proposed by... my wife who was reading over my shoulder. But ok. Fair enough).
So, Will I come back (to IBM) ?
It will mainly depend on the successful execution of my business plan. If I'm happy being an independent entrepreneur, I will probably not come back to IBM. If on the contrary I'm not happy with the experience, I could come back to work for the Large Company. I don't know yet today.
Mikael Kay is the father of SAXON, an open-source XSLT Processor and the author of the book "XSLT Programmer's Reference", published by Wrox Press. For details check his website here : http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/.
I asked him some questions on Open Source. Basically : how to work in a commercial company when being avtively involoved in a open source project.
My question
Dear Michael Kay,
As you have been involved in open source AND you work for a commercial company (Software AG) I would have liked to have your point of view on those questions :
- why would or should I buy software if I can have a solution for free
- what would be a decisive factor when choosing for commercial or free software ?
- what about the software retention period, support and evolutivity (if open source communities abandon the project and technology moves forward -Imagine an initial open source project running on Windows3.1 ?)
Michael Kay's Response :
It's an interesting question, and I don't think I know all the answers.
I don't personally believe that free software is here to stay. I think it's a reaction against the absurdly high prices charged for much commercial software in the past, and against the high costs of marketing such software.I would like to think that a lot of mass-market software publishing will become like book or music publishing, with the user typically paying $40 for a copy and the author receiving a 10% royalty. The rest of the revenue will be for services.
Software in some areas - database software in particular, but also commercial applications software - has resisted the downwards trend in prices. This is essentially because the price is still low in relation to the value, and users demand a very high degree of confidence in its reliability; they also want to minimize their exposure to commercial risk. You get the same effect in publishing: you can get today's share prices in any newspaperfor a few cents, but pay $5000 for an analyst's report on the future prospects of different companies in the industry.
"Open source" means several things. It means free or cheap; it means collaborative development; it means that source code is available to users, as protection against the risk of suppliers failing. It's important, I think, to separate these different aspects.
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When using XML, a big question is : What DTD
or XMLSchema am I going to use in my application ?
You have at least 2 possibilities.
1.
Use an existing standard
or de Facto DTD. You will find some if you go some of the DTD Repositories (see
also
HREF="http://www.xml.com/pub/rg/DTD_Repositories">http://www.xml.com/pub/rg/DTD_Repositories).
Design yourself your own DTD. Some
people are now testing methods to deduce a Schema from your actual software
analysis. Some of these methodologies use UML. For example, using UML, XMI and
XSL, you can think of generating Schemas from your Object Oriented Analysis and
Design (OOAD). Here is a very good example of that : Modeling the UDDI Schema with
UML
Pro and Cons
Standard Schema
Own Schema
+
- The Schema is potentially very well
engineered - Direct communication with people who have adopted this schema
(WML for WAP is a good example)
- The Schema will be adapted to your
own need and not to the need of another company or consortium. You can adapt it
to fit your IT capabilities that are suited for your own business needs. -
Independance to standard changes (versions,...) through XSLT technology.
-
The Schema can be difficult to
implement in your IT because it suffers of over-engineering (to complex
structures for your databases, recursive nested definitions, too many entities
to deal with,...)
- Transformation will be needed to go
to standards but there is a technology for that : XSLT. - In-house or
external know-how needed to develop the Schemas. For Example XML
Modeling...
Hope it helps...
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This morning (Oct 28, 2009) I attended a iLog Business Rules Management System (BRMS) Demo and it gave me an idea.
iLog has a great tool for testing rules. It allows to design test cases using MS Excell that are sent to the Rules Engine in order to determine if a rule set provides the expected decision.
In the past I ave been involved with the difficult exercice of generating test data for Business Processes. Using the iLog testing tool, this could be realized like this :
1. Before the process is designed, use the BRMS to design the process vocabulary.
2. Create some basic rules which from process inputs produce process outputs. In fact these rules simulate the process.
3. Create the rules test cases such that the rule responds the right process output from a given process input. In fact the rules set must simulates the process for the foreseen test cases.
4. Communicate the rules and their test cases to the Process developpers so they can design and build the process using the test cases.
5. For automating the tests, at the end of the process (or at intervals if the process is composed of serveral parts), send the process inputs to the business rules and ask the rules engine to compare process results with the expected process results (this requires a comparison rule which allows to determine of two result sets are considered equivalent).
To illustrate this, I used the opportunity to test gliffy to make a diagram:
A typical approach when thinking about Business Process Management is to try to draw two types of diagrams:
the AS-IS Diagram: represents how the process is executed today
the TO-BE Diagram : how we would like to execute the process in the future
The TO-BE diagram aims at improving the business efficiency by for example automating certain tasks. The Business Process Modeling Notation is the standardized notation for such Process Diagrams. Once the process is modeled in BPMN it can be implemented using the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
BPMN seems to be the way to go to manage a company's business process.
So the question is : Is BPMN the panacea (a cure to all pains) for Business Process Management ?
I dont think so. Here is why...
If the BPMN approach sounds logical, it has nevertheless some drawbacks:
How to get non architects draw their processes, they prefer natural language = to talk about it. Drawing and agreeing the right process is a painful exercise in most companies.
Some of the Process Drawing tools like ARIS, MEGA, System Architect require some training before they can be properly used. They are perceived as complex.
BPMN diagram don't represent the reality. It's sometimes very difficult to draw the reality because there are numerous exceptions to the process (exceptions are the rule...)
Alternative approaches to BPMN are than very useful. One can find at least 2 types of alternatives : Middelware and Applications.
Middelware (other than BPEL Engines) allow businesses to manage their processes. Here are some examples:
Business Rules Engines allow to determine what is the best next step to be executed in a process (decision), or determine how an activity should be performed (planning). At IBM this would be the iLOG BRMS.
Business Activity Monitoring and Complex Events Processing allow to monitor a process though relevant events (product purchased, payment completed...). At IBM we implement this with Websphere Business Monitor and Websphere Business Events.
Business Intelligence tools allow to create reports and dashboards which help Business Managers to lead their teams to execute the processes in the right way.
Companies have also been managing their business processes without modeling them. They have purchased applications or frameworks which contained ready to use processes:
Horizontal Applications like ECM solutions include standard document flows for publication and approval of information
Vertical Applications Packages like SAP, Temenos T24 or PTC Windchill include pre-canned business processes that "just" need to be customized to the company needs.
What to do when there is nothing on TV ? Play with your WII.
I did that yesterday but not as you would expect.
I tried to develop web pages for my WII opera browser in order to:
play web radios on the WII. I developped the page thanks to some hacking pages but... on the same pages they explain there is a memory leak in the WII flash player that makes that the music stops after a few minutes. I also tried http://www.wiihear.com/ but it seems also to suffer the memory management problem.
I also tried iGoogle and Netvibes and it works, except when there is too much Flash.
Too bad there is this Flash memory leak because otherwise the WII could become a really great platform. My experience is that much of the new technology seems to have some glitch somewhere.
I just hope Adobe and Nintendo will upgrade Opera with a new flash player soon.
Some IBM customers have a lot of assets on "older" (or shouls we say more mature) platforms as zSeries or iSeries. Traditionnally those applications have "green screens".
This allows to extend the reach of the i or z code.
End users also have an easier way to switch between their different screens. They can do that by:
having several browsers and using ALT-TAB to switch between them
having a browser with Multi-tab (like FireFox or IE7)
toggle between web applications in a page using javascript and iFrames for instance
I have built a small demo to show the last possibility.
By showing or hiding a div containing an iframe, one can easilly navigate between different web apps and stay logged in and in context (the hidden iframe just stays on the same page, until i is shown again).
Hier matin (jeudi 15 octobre 2009) sur Europe 1, dans la Pol?mique Culturelle de Olivier Faugiel, il y avait un d?bat sur l'ebook, intitul? l'e-book m'a tuer. Vous pouvez le revoir sur le site de Europe 1.
Yann Queffelec y a d?truit l'ebook :"Le livre sera toujours l? lorsque l'ebook sera 6 pieds sous terre". D'apr?s Mr Queffelec rien ne peut remplacer de sentir un bon vieux bouquin et le plaisir de le toucher d'une main ? 5 doigts.
Mr Laurent Picard, co-fondateur de Booken a bien essay? de le d?fendre mais j'aurais voulu mieux d?fendre cette technologie face ? un comportement qui me semble un peu trop ferm?.
Si j'avais ?t? pr?sent, j'aurais voulu poser ? Mr Queffelec les quelques questions suivantes :
Quel plaisir y a t-il ? sentir, ou plut?t ? porter au container, les tonnes de publicit? papier et journaux que l'on re?oit a la maison toutes les semaines ?
Quel plaisir y a t-il a chercher ? la main les sp?cifications d'une pi?ce d'avion dans un manuel de 5000 pages ?
Quel plaisir y a t-il de stocker dans son grenier 10 m?tres de classeurs de nos cours d'universit? qu'on ne relit jamais car on a aucune chance d'y retrouver le petit bout de th?orie dont on a besoin et dont on ne se souvient que vaguement ?
La lecture lire un sketch de Raymond Devos sur un ?cran d'ordinateur ou dans un livre ne procurent-elles pas le m?me rire ?
Les mots sont-ils diff?rents quand ils sont sur papier ?
Quel plaisir y a t-il ? porter un Harry Potter de 1/2 Kg ? bout de bras dans son lit, qu'on finit par en avoir mal au poignets ?
Quel plaisir a t-on ? lire un livre avec une loupe car notre vision ne sait plus de lire la police de taille normale ? (Dans ce cas, on voudrait peut ?tre tout de m?me 10 doigts...)
Quel plaisir a t-on a imprimer des documents dont on sait qu'on va les jeter dans une semaine ?
Quel plaisir a t-on ? lire ses extraits de comptes ?
Quel plaisir ? avoir une valise 5 Kg plus lourde dans l'avion car on lit beaucoup en vacances ?
Quel plaisir ? partir chez un client avec seulement 10 brochures papier alors qu'on a 100 produits ? vendre ?
Quel plaisir ? imprimer des codes barres sur des papiers qui ont une dur?e de vie de 2 jours (produits frais), ou m?me 1 minute (tickets de caisse) ?
Quel plaisir ont les ?coliers ? porter un cartable de plusieurs kilos chaque jour ?
Il est ?vident que le livre ?lectronique ne remplacera pas int?gralement le papier. Mais l'ePaper en g?n?ral et l'ebook en particulier pr?sentent cependant pas mal d'avantages par rapport au m?me contenu au format papier.
Et puis il y a certains eBook qui fonctionneront tant que le soleil sera la et n'iront pas 6 pieds sous terre. L'eBook solaire de LG, par exemple..
Since wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic system, it is difficult to explain precisely in western terms. According to Leonard Koren, wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty and it "occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West."
Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
It is the beauty of things modest and humble.
It is the beauty of things unconventional.
The concepts of wabi-sabi correlate with the concepts of Zen Buddhism, as the first Japanese involved with wabi-sabi were tea masters, priests, and monks who practiced Zen. Zen Buddhism originated in India, traveled to China in the 6th century, and was first introduced in Japan around the 12th century. Zen emphasizes "direct, intuitive insight into transcendental truth beyond all intellectual conception." At the core of wabi- sabi is the importance of transcending ways of looking and thinking about things/existence.
Tokjo, Japan / Darmstadt, Germany - Fujitsu Limited and Software AG today announced their intent to jointly develop, market and sell an offering that will help customers improve business processes and increase information visibility through a leading service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure.
To do business in Europe students should have an insight into the functioning of the European Union, in particular into the competencies of the various institutions (Commission, Council, Parliament, Court of Justice) and their roles in the decision-making process.
In addition they should be aware of the existing challenges as a result of successive treaties (Rome, Single Act, Maastricht) and enlargements. Finally, participants should have an insight into various lobbying strategies based on the Community decision-making process.
It is the purpose of this course to provide the students with these insights.
Topics covered by the course :
(fuzzy structure)
Opening Markets in Europe
The role of the EU Institutions (the commission, the parliament, the european council, the council of ministers, the european court of justice) in the de-regulation processes
Europe cohesion and the challenge of Europe expansion
Differences with the US and Asia
Levels of Market segmentation and integration in Europe
For this case, the following questions had to be answered:
Which are the advantages/disadvantages of deregulation in the European Electricity Sector ?
What elements are crucial in a good European deregulation policy for the electricity sector ? Make a comparison with the American energy problems (California)
Wich are the differences/similarities between deregulation (and deregulation policy) in the European electricity and other European sectors ?
Is not only deregulation, but also privatisation a good solution for the future ?
Main lecture : "Issues in Electricty Market Integration and Liberalisation" : AnEuropeanElectricityMarket (structure only)
CREG - The Electricity and Gaz regulation commission in Belgium : http://www.creg.be
My Group:
Antony Depoorter (1st yr IMBA), Bert Devos (2nd yr IMBA), Thierry Cornette (1st yr IMBA), Jean-Fran?ois Declercq (1st yr IMBA), Peter Degroof (2nd yr IMBA)
Case 2 : The GE/Honeywell Merger Case
Increasingly competition policy and international trade policy are affecting the global environment in which companies are operating. Gradually, those policies are becoming intertwined with competition cases spilling over to trade policiy and the other way around. The General Electric (GE) - Honeywell merger, wich was blocked by the European Commission, provides an interesting example of EU competition policy towards mergers. At the same time, it became a source of dispute between the US and the EU and therefore raises the issue of a transatlantic or multilateral approach towards merger cases.
The following questions had to be answered in the paper :
1. The European Commission blocked the merger between GE and Honeywell. What were the arguments for doing so ? Are they consistent with the procedures followed and the view taken by the Commission in other merger cases ? Do you agree with the decision ?
2. Cases like this one and several others transcend the borders of one country or trading block. In doing so, they deal with market access to a trading block and hence become international trade and investment cases. Should they be dealt with
(i) unilaterally by each country or trade block even if this implies occasional trade frictions
(ii) as part of strategic bilateral trade relations between trading blocks
(iii) on a multilateral basis by the WTO ?
PEST analysis is the acronym for "Political, Economic, Social, and Technological analysis" and illustrates a framework of macro-environmental aspects used in environmental sensing. Economic surroundings affect how easy or how difficult it is to be successful and profitable at a certain time because they influence both capital availability and cost, and demand.
Well that?s a good one! Beer and analogy? For a long time now, there is a story going around on the web about beer, a story about taxes and beer that generalizes the principle of taxation between rich and poor people. After reading the aforesaid story, it would be easy to put aside our comments about how ?rich people don?t pay taxes? and rethink our prejudice. Claude Picher brought it up in the ?LaPresse paper a few days ago. Mister Picher mentioned an anonymous author, but let?s gives due credit to its diffuser: David R. Kamerschen, an economy teacher at Georgia University. For those of you who have not read it, here is the text: Taxes can be explained by simple logic. But many still do not understand it. As it is tax season, let me explain in simple terms understandable by all. Let?s say everyday 10 men gather together for a beer and that the bill amounts to 100$ (usually 10$ each) If they paid the bill the same way we pay taxes, it would result in something like this:
The first 4 (the poorest !?) would pay nothing
The fifth would pay 1 $
The sixth would pay 3 $
The seventh would pay 7 $
The eighth would pay 12$
The ninth would pay 18$
The last one (the richest!) would have to pay 59$
They decided to do as described above.
The ten men gathered together everyday to drink their beer and seemed content in the settlement. Until the day the bartender offered a dilemma:
?As you guys are good clients, he said, I decided to give you a 20$ discount. You will therefore pay your beers only 80 $?
The group decided to keep paying the new total the same way they would pay their taxes. The 4 first still drank for free. But how would the other six (the paying customers) divide the 20$ discount fairly? They realized that 20$ divided by 6 was 3.33$. But if they subtracted the amount from what they paid, the 5th and 6th men would get paid to drink their beer. The bartender suggested that it would be fair to apply a bigger discount percentage for the ?poorest? and to divide the bill as such:
The 5th man pays nothing, like the 4 first
The 6th pays 2$ instead of 3$ (33% discount)
The 7th pays 5$ instead of 7$ (28% discount)
The 8th pays 9$ instead of 12$ (25% discount)
The 9th pays 14$ instead of 18$ (22$ discount)
The 10th pays 49$ instead of 59$ (16% discount)
All six ?payers? paid less than before and the 4 first still drank for free. But once out of the bar, each started comparing their savings:
?I only got 1$ out of the 20$ discount? said client 6 and pointed at client 10 ?he got 10$?
?Yeah, said client 5, I only got 1$ savings too.?
?That?s right, claimed client 7, why should he get 10$ while I get only 2? The richest got the biggest part of the reduction.?
?Wait a minute! Said the first 4 clients, we didn?t get anything at all. The system takes advantage of poor people.?
The 9 men focused on the 10th and insulted him. The next night, client 10 (the richest!?) did not go to the bar. The other 9 sat down and drank without him. When came time to pay the bill, they realized an important fact: they didn?t have enough money to pay even half the bill. And that, boys and girls, journalists and teaching colleagues is the reflection of our tax system. People who pay more taxes get more benefits from a tax reduction. Charge the strongest; accuse them of being rich and they just might not show up anymore. In fact, they could start going elsewhere to drink, someplace where the atmosphere is, let?s say, more friendly
To those who understood, no other explanation is necessary.
To those who did not, no explanation is possible.
David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Economy Professor
University of Georgia, USA
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"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
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"Members of the public who have written to the Department of Health in England in relation to RF exposure have reported a variety of distressing symptoms including dizziness, fatigue, chronic headache, irregular heart beat, nausea and vertigo, and loss of memory and concentration. These and other symptoms are reported to result from exposure to a range of EMFs, including RF fields, encountered in everyday life. Similar symptoms were reported to IEGMP at open meetings. Many people also consider that there are serious long-term risks associated with such exposures. In Sweden electromagnetic hypersensitivity has been addressed nationally, accepted as a physical impairment, and a scheme is in place to improve home and working conditions for people who consider themselves to be sufferers. "
The purpose of this book is to explain us why we suffer so much. We suffer because our brains, our thoughts, our EGO take control over our body. We constantly search in the past and imagine in the future how we could arrive here and how we will get there. This mental running train is basically preventing us to be present. There is no other moment to live than now. By always thinking about yesterday and tomorrow we forget the most important : to enjoy life right now !!
Eckhart Tolle tries to learn us to "turn off our brains" or to observe our thoughts. ("Heureux les simples d'esprits" takes all its meaning here) We will find out how our thougts are limited, negative and pessimistic. Our brains (or our EGO) are in fact always caring for the worst case. The EGO also has a big difficulty to accept the world as it is. Wanting to change the reality is the aim of the ego in order to show its power.
By being present, you can only accept how the world is as you are part of it and the world is part of you.
Ce livre nous pr?sente plusieurs d?fis : si nous r?ussissons ? ?tre totalement pr?sent et ? faire un pas ? la fois dans le moment pr?sent, si nous r?ussissons ? vraiment appr?hender les r?alit?s que sont notre corps ?nerg?tique, le l?cher-prise, le pardon et le non-manifeste, c'est que nous saurons nous ouvrir au pouvoir transformateur de l'instant pr?sent.
En tr?s peu de temps, "Le Pouvoir du Moment Pr?sent" a acquis la r?putation d'?tre parmi les plus grands ?crits spirituels des derni?res ann?es. La puissance de cet ouvrage va au-del? des mots. Il nous am?ne directement ? un endroit paisible ? l'int?rieur de nous-m?me hors du contr?le de notre ?go.
On the Business Quest blog, I watched the TEC presentation on our ability so synthetize happiness.
Here are some things I liked in this presentation.
When are we unhappy ?
When we need to make a choice and our perception of the difference between the two permanent choices is too high : we than may feel unhappy with this choice - Happiness disappears if we overrate the difference between one permanent situation and another (Adam Smith)
When we think too much : "There is nothing bad or wrong, thinking only makes it so" (Shakespeare)
Whe we don't accept what we can't change Dogbert's attitude in post-sales when the customer is not happy that the product doesn't work is to show the advantages that he gets when the product doesn't work. When Dilbert asks what he's doing with this customer, he replies : "I'm helping people to accept things they can't change"
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Casse-toi, pauvre con : Sarkozy, on l'aime ou on l'aime pas.
Sarkozy, on l'aime ou on ne l'aime pas mais il ne laisse pas indiff?rent. Moins les Fran?ais l'aiment, plus je l'appr?cie.
Le Sarkozy que je n'aime pas.
Quand il ?tait candidat je n'?tais pas en faveur de Sarkozy. Tout simplement car mon coeur est plus ? gauche.
Face aux nouveaux d?fis ? globalisation, comp?titivit?, ?mergence du BRIC, d?clin des USA, d?fis ?nerg?tiques, il y a clairement deux approches. Jouer la comp?titivit? ? tout prix ou au contraire promouvoir d'autres valeurs.
Je n'aime pas l'approche de Sarkozy : jouer la comp?titivit?
La premi?re approche consiste ? surench?rir sur la comp?titivit?. Vendre plus que les autres, ?tre plus comp?titif, rafler les march?s, suivre la loi du plus fort. Ca n'est pas mon approche pr?f?r?e m?me si il ne faut pas ?tre naif par rapport ? la puissance des capitaux et de l'argent dans ce bas monde. Pour moi la comp?tition extr?me c'est la guerre et il n'est pas ?tonnant que le pays qui se veut le plus comp?titif (les US) sont en guerre aujourd'hui.
L'alternative ? Sarkozy: l'approche Humaniste
La deuxi?me approche, celle que je pr?ferre est plus humaniste que capitaliste. Elle met l'homme avant le capital, le social avant le lib?ral. Le Sarkozy que je n'aime pas c'est celui qui veut qu'on ? travaille plus pour gagner plus ?. Peut-?tre on gagne un peu plus, mais qui gagne ? le plus ? dans ce jeu : le management, les actionnaires, les employ?s ? Les traders ? Peut-?tre suis-je id?aliste mais je veux suivre ceux qui proposent autre chose que le capitalisme et ? la main invisible ? pour rendre les hommes heureux. ? Et si le luxe c'?tait l'espace ? ? : le temps libre, travailler moins, faire plus de sport, manger sainement, donner du travail et de la dignit? ? tout le monde, profiter d'une nature propre ? Et si ca coutait moins cher au final ? Combien co?te la guerre en Irak ?
C'est donc dans le domaine politique que je n'aime pas Sarkozy. Mais bon, les Fran?ais ont choisi et maintenant il est l? !
Le Sarkozy que j'adore
J'aime vraiment le personnage Sarkozy, celui qui a des probl?mes d'image aujourd'hui.
Sarkozy, on ne peut pas l'accuser de ne pas ?tre direct. Il va sur le terrain et quand il n'est pas bien accueilli, il s'explique. Il est ? l'oppos? du Politiquement correct et c'est en fait cela qui me plait. Pourquoi ne pas dire ? Casse-toi ? ? un type quand c'est tellement vrai, tout le monde le pense au moment m?me : pourquoi ce type est justement l? s'il ne veut pas voir Sarkozy ?
Combien je le comprend ! Je suis si souvent oblig? dans mon travail de ravaler mes pens?es que si un jour je devient aussi bien plac? que Sarkozy, je ne vais pas me priver de dire leurs 4 v?rit?s ? ceux qui n'ont rien ? faire l? o? ils sont. Tout comme j'appr?cierai qu'on me dise clairement quand je d?passe les limites, d'ailleurs. La communication du Futur, ca n'est pas une communication qui contient des tabous. C'est une communication directe et franche qui montre clairement ce qu'on veut. C'est une base saine pour la n?gociation.
Qu'on le veuille ou non, Sarkozy avec son style direct a su faire ?merger les vrai sujets qui posent probl?me en France: le pouvoir d'achat, l'esprit d'entreprise, la langue de bois... La commission Attali en est un superbe exemple : quel pav? dans la marre Administrative Fran?aise !
(Il nous faudrait la m?me commission en Belgique mais il y aurait alors 2100 propositions, 300 par gouvernement - F?d?ral, Wallon, Flamand, Bruxellois, Francophone, N??rlandophone, Germanophone)
J'adore : Sarkozy est sur le terrain
Il pourrait se cacher dans son agenda mais non. Il va au contact. J'aime bien ca. Parfois ca frotte un peu et il d?rape. Peu importe. Il est la. Il est pr?sent. Il y a un pilote dans l'avion.
J'adore : Sarkozy vit la vie qui lui plait
Il ?pouse une top model italienne, il va en vacances en jet priv?, il se bourre la gueule avec Poutine... Il se fout du ? Qu'en dira t'on ?. Quelle libert? ! J'adore. Comment mieux dire ? merde ? ? ceux qui savent mieux comment il faut vivre sa vie ?
J'adore : Sarkozy a un plan
Malgr? les hauts et les bas m?diatiques, Sarkozy a un plan. Contrairement ? Chirac, qui dans le film ? Dans la peau de Jacques Chirac ? semble se demander qu'est-ce qu'il va faire ? part gagner les ?lections, Sarkozy poss?de un plan essentiellement ?conomique. Pour ce faire, il est maintenant le plus gros repr?sentant commercial de la France. Il vent des avions (airbus, rafalle), des centrales nucl?aires ou des trains ? grande vitesse. Comme tout excellent commercial il utilise un jet priv?, sors avec une top-model, fait des beaux voyages et a une Rolex. Il ne lui manque que la Ferrari comme dirait l'excellent Nicolas Canteloup sur Europe1. Le plan de Sarkozy c'est de vendre la France pour qu'elle soit plus riche.
Encore une fois ca n'est pas le plan que j'aurais choisi mais j'aime quand les gens ont un plan. J'admire donc Sarkozy pour cela.
Le Bilan : Wait and See
Le jugement se fera donc dans 4 ans, ? la fin de son quinquennat. Je pense que Sarkozy aura un bon bilan. Il aura r?ussi ? fouetter la France et ? la rendre un peu plus comp?titive. Si il n'y a pas de mauvaise nouvelle majeure entre-temps (nouvelle guerre, actions terroristes, crack boursier, famine), il en sortira grandi.
Malheureusement son succ?s aura cr?? encore plus de tensions sur le plan International car la France sera de plus en plus agressive sur les march?s. Cette approche menant un peu plus vers l' ? Hyper Conflit ? de Jacques Attali (tel que d?crit dans son livre ? Une br?ve histoire de l'avenir ?).
Prendre la rue de la loi ? contre sens ? Bruxelles ? C'est possible... Le jour du dimanche sans voitures.
Nous avons roul? 40 KM dans Bruxelles. Heysel, Grand Place, Cinquantenaire, Avenue Louise, Petite ceinture et retour au Heysel.
Tr?s sympa !
Between Sep 12, 2002 and June 2003 I will be doing an MBA.
I intend to collect here, maybe with the help of others, the summary of all the important concepts that you meet when doing an MBA.
ComingSoon is a possible preview of subjects I might dicuss in the future
NewContent is the list of the pages I have created or updated recently on this site
Why a Wiki ?
jfdeclercq.com will always be around !! My Postnuke was hacked during Xmass 2005. I decided to migrate my postnuke site to phpWiki. This will allow me to avoid having two systems to maintain. phpWiki is simpler but is more what I need after all... See WebSiteHistory if you want to know more.
Structuring a Wiki is quite difficult if you don't always have self-discipline but here is an attempt : SiteMap.
En face de moi un Noir et une Arabe. La fille a l'air tr?s s?rieuse: Voile, veste stricte et pantalon long noir. Elle chipote sur son GSM. Peut-?tre elle envoie un SMS.
Notre ami Noir entamme la conversation mais je n'entend la question. Elle r?pond qu'elle ne va pas a l'Universit? pour un examen mais qu'elle doit remettre un travail.
Je suis ? ce moment attentif ? la conversation.
La deuxi?me question de notre ami noir me stup?fie tant elle est simple et directe :
"Tu crois en Dieu, toi ?"
L'Arabe - sans m?me sembler ?tonn?e ! - r?pond que
"oui, bien sur".
Notre ami noir de rench?rir imm?diatement:
"Ah! j'aime bien quand les gens r?pondent ? ma question, qu'ils disent oui ou non, car alors je peux poser ma seconde question : Pourquoi ?"
L?, notre amie Arabe est un peu plus embaras?e. Elle me regarde, elle le regarde et dit un peu g?n?e
"C'est un peu compliqu?"
En effet, comment expliquer entre la station Parc et Arts-Loi pourquoi on croit en Dieu !!
A ce moment je n'ai pas pu m'emp?cher d'intervenir:
"En fait, je touve cela tr?s simple. Mais il faut d'abord donner la d?finition de Dieu. Qu'est-ce que Dieu ?
Ma d?finition de Dieu est "l'amour des hommes les uns envers les autres ".
Si je me pose alors la question "Est-ce que je crois en l'amour des hommes les uns envers les autres ?" (Aimez-vous les uns les autres !)
Ma r?ponse est "oui, j'y crois".
Avec cette d?finition, la question devient simple et la r?ponse d?montre qu'on croit en l'homme (le fils de Dieu, le fils de l'Amour)".
Je continue mon argumentation:
"Cependant, croire en Dieu aujourd'hui est tr?s difficile. Des gens font des conneries partout; la guerre, la violence sont le lot quotidien de milliers de personnes sur la terre. Et donc croire en Dieu c'est difficile."
Mon Ami noir n'est pas tout ? fait d'accord avec ma d?fin d?finition: Il a une autre d?finition de Dieu. La sienne incorpore J?sus Christ.
Notre amie Arabe n'est certainement pas d'accord mais elle ne dit rien.
Finalement, notre ami manque de rater sa station. Il part en un coup de vent.
Et bien vous n'allez pas le croire mais apr?s cet ?pisode, j'avais le sourire. La question de Dieu nous avait r?uni, alors que peut-?tre aucun autre sujet ne nous auarit fait parler !!
M?me si c'?tait pas le m?me Dieu.
Par ce texte, je voudrais remercier notre ami Noir et lui souhaiter bonne chance dans ses ?tudes.
Merci pour ce moment de Philosophie dans le M?tro !
Voici peut-?tre une explication ? l'origine du nom de la rue des lowas : la sentence de l'oie, une coutume qui ?tait pratiqu?e ? Grez-Doiceau.
La sentence de l'oie
Source : Vers l'Avenir Brabant-Wallon - 5 mai 2003
Nos anc?tres ?taient de fins psychologues qui ont invent? la th?rapie de groupe ! Cette amusante coutume m?diavale en est la preuve.
LA SENTENCE DE L'OIE s'apparente ? la catharsis grecque qui constitait en une purification produite chez les spectateurs par une d?charge ?motionnelle. Ce que l'on recherche, c'est ? ext?rioriser le souvenir d'?v?nements traumatisants ou refoul?s.
On ne trouve les premiers t?moignages ?crits de cette curieuse coutume qu'? partir du 17e si?cle, mais on peut supposer son origine plus ancienne. Ce jeu a disparu lors de la premi?re guerre mondiale.
La sentence avait lieu lors des f?tes du mois d'a?ut. On promenait alors une oie dans les rues du village, et tout le monde ?tait invit? a se r?unir en un lieu situ? aujourd'hui au coin des rues du chauffour et des lowas.
S'en prendre ? l'oie plut?t qu'aux hommes.
Tous ceux qui avaient un grief ? faire valoir venaient interpeller l'oie : tour ? tour la femme tromp?e accusait l'animal d'infid?lit? et lui racontait la peine qu'elle lui fesait; le mari de l'?pouse acari?tre reprochait ? la b?te ses d?bordements; le fermier qui avait vu son vopisin empi?ter sur ses terres...
La veille fille m?disante, l'ivrogne qui battait ses enfants... Chacun ?tait mis en cause pas les victimes au travers du discours ? l'oie.
La r?conciliatioin autour du plat d'oie.
Au terme de son proc?s, elle ?tait d?clar?e coupable et d?capit?e. On cuisait alors le malheureux animal, servi lors d'un banquet qui voyait tout le monde se r?concillier.
Et malheur a celui qui ne venait pas assister ? ce psychodrame : c'?tait par avance reconna?te ses fautes.
La coutume a perdur? jusqu'au d?but du vingti?me si?cle, mais ?tait alors davantage pr?texte ? une f?te de jeunes parmi lesquels un beau parleur fesait la revue des ?v?nements de l'ann?e, interpellait les auditeurs et fesait gentiment rire l'assembl?e ? leurs d?pends.
L'infortun? volatile ?tait n?anmoins mis ? mort et un repas cl?turait la f?te, suivi d'un bal renvers? au cours duquel les filles invitaient les garcons.
Source : Vers l'Avenir Brabant-Wallon - 5 mai 2003
The concept of XML is over 30 years old, beginning in the 1960's. Its origins are in the standardized typesetting codes (GENCODE) used by the publishing industry. In the 1970's, Dr. C. F. Goldfarb proposed a method of describing text that was not specific to an application or hardware. He created Generalized Markup Language (GML). The basic tenents of GML were:
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This Sunday, we took the chance to ride our bikes on the Highway (E411) and on the largest roads of Brussels (petite ceinture, De Brouck?re...) during the BicyCity. Very pleasant. Good atmosphere. We'll do it again. Note that our target this year is to complete "De Gordel" (100 Km around Brussels).
Quand vous recevez de la publicit? avec votre facture d'?lectricit? ou de t?l?phone, joignez-la avec votre paiement. Laissez ? la compagnie le soin de s'en d?barrasser. Quand vous recevez dans votre courrier ces lettres de pr?-approbation pour des cartes de cr?dits, pr?ts automobiles ou autres offres du m?me genre, la plupart sont accompagn?es d'enveloppes de retour pr?-affranchies, pas vrai ?
Donc pourquoi ne pas en profiter pour vous d?barrasser d'autres courriers inutiles en les mettant dans ces jolies petites enveloppes ?
Vous pouvez ainsi envoyer l'annonce re?ue de votre d?panneur local ? American Express ou vos coupons rabais ? Citybank qui vous propose sans cesse un pr?t ? un taux incroyable...
Si vous n'avez rien re?u d'autres cette journ?e l?, vous pouvez toujours retourner le formulaire vierge dans l'enveloppe pr?- affranchie !
Si vous voulez demeurer anonyme, pensez juste ? vous assurer que votre nom n'est pas ?crit sur l'un ou l'autre des documents que vous retournez. Vous pouvez aussi renvoyer l'enveloppe vide juste pour laisser la soci?t? se demander si elle a perdu un client potentiel.
Au bout d'un moment, et si nous nous y mettons tous, les banques, compagnies de cr?dits et autres marchands de pizza vont commencer ? recevoir toutes les cochonneries qu'elles ont envoy?es. Laissons les donc appr?cier ce que c'est que de recevoir toutes ces inanit?s. Le meilleur dans tout ?a c'est qu'elles paieront elles-m?mes pour l'enveloppe et le timbre! (et ceci 2 fois : l'envoi et le retour) Pas beau , ?a ?
Aidons ? garder notre service postal occup? puisqu'il pr?tend que le courrier ?lectronique leur pique des clients, et pour cette raison il devra sans doute prochainement augmenter le prix des timbres !
Amusez vous bien
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Sur le site Business For You, on peut utiliser une application "Profiler"
Voici mon profil:
Votre Philosophie
Un jour, une vie
Votre caract?re
Vous ?tes enthousiaste, sociable et curieux de tout et aimez ?tre au centre de l?action pour vous renouveler au contact des gens.
Votre esprit cart?sien s?emballe ? la simple ?nonciation du mot ? projet ? et cet enthousiasme se transmet aux autres ! Ce qui fait que l?on vous appr?cie beaucoup.
Vous ?tes passionn? par votre job et en connaissez tous les aspects.
Vous ?tes souvent l?initiateur de projets, vous savez faire avancer les choses et avez beaucoup de talent pour orchestrer un team en harmonie.
Vous aimez le boulot bien fait et vous vous assurez que tout soit bien mis en ?uvre pour atteindre les objectifs. Vous ?tes celui qui pensez ? tout et ? qui on peut faire confiance.
Vos points forts
Vous avez une bonne vision des choses et vos coll?gues vous consid?rent comme un sage conseiller. Vous ?tes un ?l?ment cl? dans l?organisation : fiable et fid?le ? soi-m?me.
Vous ?tes dot? d?une grande intelligence et avez un esprit tr?s logique, mais on a parfois du mal ? suivre le fil de vos id?es. Pourtant, vous ?tes simplement un r?veur, passionn? par votre travail, qui veut faire avancer son entreprise.
Vous passez des heures ? vous instruire dans tous les domaines, vous savez ?norm?ment de choses et vos coll?gues vous admirent pour ?a.
On peut toujours compter sur vous, mais vos airs de grand gourou peuvent en effrayer certains et les emp?cher de vous conna?tre pour ce que vous ?tes vraiment.
Toutefois, vous ne vous laissez gu?re d?vorer par l'ambition et ne sacrifierez jamais votre vie priv?e ? votre travail. Au contraire, pour vous, les moments de bonheur partag?s avec vos proches sont encore les plus belles r?ussites?
Vos d?fis
Attention ? ne pas trop vous disperser dans vos propos et ? rester accessible. A trop ?tre visionnaire, vous en oubliez parfois la r?alit?.
Tout le monde n?a pas la m?me vision des choses que vous et vous devrez parfois passer ? la vitesse inf?rieure pour que l?on puisse vous suivre.
Si vous avez un secret pour la zenitude que vous affichez en toute situation, d?voilez-le autour de vous !
Vos Cadeaux
Epicurien, vous appr?ciez la valeur des (bonnes) choses de la vie. Vous aimez vous faire plaisir, ainsi qu?? vos proches.
? Il ?tait une fois quatre individus qu'on appelait Tout le monde - Quelqu'un - Chacun - et Personne.
Il y avait un important travail ? faire, Et on a demand? ? Tout le monde de le faire. Tout le monde ?tait persuad? que Quelqu'un le ferait.. Chacun pouvait l'avoir fait, mais en r?alit? Personne ne le fit. Quelqu'un se f?cha car c'?tait le travail de Tout le monde ! Tout le monde pensa que Chacun pouvait le faire Et Personne ne doutait que Quelqu'un le ferait?
En fin de compte, Tout le monde fit des reproches ? Chacun Parce que Personne n'avait fait ce que Quelqu'un aurait pu faire.
*** MORALIT? ***
Sans vouloir le reprocher ? Tout le monde, Il serait bon que Chacun Fasse ce qu'il doit sans nourrir l'espoir Que Quelqu'un le fera ? sa place? Car l'exp?rience montre que L? o? on attend Quelqu'un, G?n?ralement on ne trouve Personne !
Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations.
(They are also large, expensive to maintain, difficult to manage, and they pollute the environment. It is astonishing that these devices continue to be manufactured and deployed. But they are sufficiently pervasive that we must design our protocols around their limitations.)
I don't know if you have ever had a look at my long CV but it's quiet a long one. I have read in a article (in Bizz I believe) that a good CV should be at the most 3 pages. Therefore I have tried to rewrite my CV in a much shorter format . I have organized it along 5 aspects of my work that I like and that I want to continue to develop during my career:
Strategic Thinking
Leadership
Management & Team Work
Creative Solution Design
Marketing & Sales
The result is here : Quick CV and I have published in PDF and MS Word formats also here
Ce jeudi 29 novembre, j'ai particip? ? un match entre les anciens et les "petits jeunes" de l'?quipe de Water-Polo UCL. J'?tais bien entendu dans l'?quipe des anciens.
Les vieux on perdu au moins 30-10 mais on s'est vraiment bien amus?s ! Et oui, on a plus la condition : l'?chauffement ?tait d?j? dur....
Je me suis super amus?. A refaire.
Merci ? Pierre-Mic d'avoir organis? cela.
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IBM - Lotus Collaboration Summit - Belgium - October 1st 2007 -Most people don't understand collaborative software until they experience it. Join us at the Lotus Collaboration Summit to experience the latest in collaboration software and discover the answers to some of your key organizational questions. - (2007-09-21 14:23:59)
Pecha Kucha -Peter Hinssen talked about it durin the last Vlerick Informeel. The idea behind Pecha Kucha is to keep presentations concise... - (2007-09-21 14:15:36)
Rpm 36 -This week, we strated the RPM release 36 started. I found it a bit soft compared to the 35. - (2007-09-21 14:00:33)
Lotus Notes 8 Demo -IBM Lotus Notes Hints, Tips, and Tricks - This blog helps users learn how to Lotus Notes. Whether you are a brand new to the product, or have been using Notes for a decade, I think you'll find the information presented here useful. - (2007-09-17 09:28:37)
CITYSCAPE by Arne Quinze -If you are in Brussels close to Avenue Louise and Avenue de la Toison d'Or, have a look at the cityscape project. I find it really very nice. - (2007-09-14 09:59:52)
Xenit -Ronny Timmermans starts his own business : check it out. XeniT's mission is to help our customers exploit the valuable knowledge inside their documents in a cost effective manner. - (2007-09-03 07:26:56)
Software Faith -While having a training on the latest IBM technologies, looking back at Software AG in 2000 - (2007-08-30 22:32:00)
Greg the Architect -Big fun for for IT guys = fun on topics like ROI on SOA... Rings a bell ? - (2007-08-29 08:46:52)
Television Business -R?sum? de la raison d'exister de TF1 en 1 ligne, par son PDG... - (2007-08-29 06:55:06)
Examen Ucl -Examen terminal a l universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) Sujet : Faites une dissertation, la plus courte possible des 3 sujets suivants : Religion, Sexualite, Mystere. Une etudiante a eu 20/20 - (2007-08-24 11:42:38)
Natalia Concert : still not convinced -Last night I attended the concert of Natalia in Overijse, in the context of the Druiven Feesten. - (2007-08-24 09:51:58)
Who's Web - Web 2.0 Talent -What are the web2.0 talents in your region ? Check who's web... I just created my account ! - (2007-08-23 08:22:31)
Subscribe Via Email -You can now receive my website news automatically via email - (2007-08-22 08:15:59)
AFRO-CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL -I attended some of the concerts of the festival last Saturday and it was really super ! - (2007-08-21 07:19:02)
iRex Technologies -The Iliad is a great read/write eBook. It still costs a lot of money (about 700 Euros) but I believe such an eBook will be my next buy so I can read IBM's ?RedBooks or other RFPs and take notes on this. I would also like to play with the SDK... - (2007-08-08 10:07:27)
Sous Ce Pin - Nietsche -Pourquoi tourmentes-tu de desseins ?ternels une ?me trop petite ? - (2007-08-06 13:11:24)
Druivenfeesten Overijse - Welkom! -After the Keiser Karel Feesten, it's than in Overijse : the Druivenfeesten. Some concerts are worth having a look. - (2007-08-01 10:22:02)
Keizer Karel Feesten in Tombeek this weekend -This weekend are the Keizer Karel feesten in Tombeek. We will be there (we have no choice we live 100m from the church of Tombeek...). - (2007-08-01 10:20:41)
La science du bonheur - Blogs Le blog de l?intelligence ?conomique -Une r?flexion intense est en cours dont la presse ?conomique se fait l??cho de plus en plus fr?quemment et dont l?objet est un changement de crit?res : passer du PIB (Produit Int?rieur Brut) au BEG (Bien Etre G?n?ral). - (2007-07-30 09:09:51)
IBM distinguished engineer on, um, marketing? ? Scobleizer -At the Internet Strategy Forum last week in Portland meeting with Mike Moran, a distinguished engineer at IBM. But we don?t talk about engineering, instead, we talk about marketing. ?Huh?? In the video you?ll see why. - (2007-07-30 08:56:02)
Mr Et Madame -Mr et Mme OUKOI ont 2 fils ? Mr et Mme ENFANT ont 2 filles ? Mr et Mme DUZIEL ont 5 filles ? Mr et Mme SONNE ont 2 fils ? Mr et Mme WOWOWO ont 4 filles ? Mr et MMe FORME ont 3 fils ? Lady Di et David Bowie ont chacun un fils - (2007-07-29 20:28:06)
Ballade BD ? Bruxelles -Itin?raire ? Bxl ou on peut voir des BD peintes sur le murs des b?timents. Belle utilisation de Google Maps ! - (2007-07-19 09:37:48)
Prendre son temps -(Conversation avec Jacques Attali). R?fl?xion Intelligente sur le temps libre. Je me sens ? 100% en phase. - (2007-07-18 07:30:26)
What is Enterprise 2.0? -Enterprise 2.0 seems to be heating up. Customers have been very interested in understanding social aspects of the enterprise specifically thru social networking, Blogs/Wiki's and Tagging. - (2007-07-17 15:19:38)
Intro to QEDWiki -This QEDWiki video shows you how "Web2.0 puts a face on SOA"... This is the portal of the future which allows to drag&drop mashups to make personalized applications on demand. - (2007-06-26 15:08:07)
My Look Alikes -Cool, I look like Ayrton Senna ! - (2007-06-25 12:00:46)
Sailing in Croatia - Some pictures -Last week I was in Croatia. We sailed in the islands located in front of Split. - (2007-06-17 11:39:22)
Toboggan -Thomas ? la pleine de jeux ? Overijse - (2007-06-01 08:21:42)
Shift Happens -Nice presentation to see - (2007-05-31 08:36:18)
zUniversity -This week is a Mainframe week... - (2007-05-21 10:38:58)
IBM in Second Life -IBM has opened a Business Center in Second Life. See a video. Shoud I join Second life while I have already a busy real life ? - (2007-05-16 09:34:29)
Chat With Sales -Today, I had a unexpected chat with a sales on a virtual booth. It was an interesting experience. - (2007-05-15 15:02:57)
When Are We Unhappy ? -On the Business Quest blog, I watched the TEC presentation on our ability so synthetize happiness. Here are some things I liked in this presentation. - (2007-05-10 14:18:18)
Lego Vs Playmobil SOA -The interesting discussion around Little Vs Big SOA leads me to write about what I describe as Lego Vs Playmobil SOA. - (2007-05-10 14:05:57)
Business Services Repository -Following a discussion with another talented architect, here are some examples of how a SOA "Business" Service should look like. My point : it should only be understandable text... - (2007-05-10 09:30:34)
How good are we at pursuing happiness? -A fascinating presentation at TED Talks about our ability to "synthesize" happiness (from Business Quests in the Information Age). - (2007-05-07 10:31:59)
Lisboa's Azulejos -I was in Lisbon last weekend and I took photos of Azulejos on houses. Here is the collage of all those Azulejos. - (2007-05-06 20:13:45)
Euthanasie -(joke) Hier soir, ma femme et moi ?tions assis ? table ? discuter de choses et d'autres. Puis, nous en sommes venus ? parler de l'euthanasie... - (2007-05-06 19:25:34)
SOA Principles -Read here the seven priciples of Service orientation - (2007-05-02 13:13:01)
After SOA, there is WOA -? The SOA with reach: Web-Oriented Architecture | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com - (2007-05-02 13:08:20)
Types of Business Processes -Which types of business processes would benefit from a Business Process Management Platform on top of a SOA ? - (2007-04-30 21:12:23)
HelpNDoc -If you want to create Windows Help files and/or HTML Help files, use HelpNDoc. It's a very simple tool for that. - (2007-04-20 08:42:59)
SoftwareTV -Here you can see all IBM Software in action !! - (2007-04-19 08:28:38)
On Demand -IBM's strategy aims at helping businesses to become "On Demand". - (2007-04-12 14:43:57)
IBM TV -IBM also has its TV channel (cfr previous post on HP TV) - (2007-04-12 13:45:00)
Anderlecht - Standard : 1 - 0 -Last friday, We were invited by Proximus in the Business Seats to attend Anderlecht Standard. See a picture here. - (2007-04-10 12:16:00)
RESTful Web Services -You can design a web service that uses HTTP, XHTML, and URIs. You just need to understand REST, the architectural principles that drive the web - (2007-03-30 15:32:10)
I joined IBM last Friday -I have made a carreer move. I left HP and joined IBM last week. My new function : SWITA - Software IT Architect in the IBM Software Group. - (2007-03-20 16:03:24)
Pipes: Del.icio.us -I tested Yahoo! Pipes. Here is my first pipe (Yahoo! pipe). - (2007-03-14 14:15:20)
Sur Mon Velo -Si le bonheur existait, a quoi serviraient les petits bonheurs ? - (2007-03-13 14:58:42)
MIT OpenCourseWare -MIT OCW is a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. Is a publication of MIT course materials and it does not require any registration. - (2007-03-12 09:10:25)
SMS Organizer -I finally found a program which allows to export SMS from my iPaq. How can it be that people need to develop freeware for such functions ? They seem to be essential. Microsoft, wake up ! - (2007-02-20 09:15:57)
The world map of hapiness -Don't try to know if you are happy. It only depends on your country... - (2007-02-19 20:58:54)
Allergic To Superficiality -Until recently, I have never been allergic to anything. But since I have several years of experience and I better understand what managing a company or a task is all about, over the years, I believe I have developped a kind of very specific allergy : Alle - (2007-02-19 14:27:10)
Thomas Chevalier -Un test de Postcardviewer... - (2007-02-16 16:16:04)
Documenting Business Processes in my SOA Repository Prototype -My SOA repository prototype is an open structured database. One can also document the business processes which make use of the services or alternatively document the services which are required for a business process. - (2007-02-12 14:39:25)
2000 Bloggers -I'm one of them... - (2007-02-05 08:41:25)
How the web changes our life -See how web technology changes and can/could impact our values - (2007-02-05 08:38:53)
Some book statistics -You want to write a book ? Ok. But who will read it ? Not the Americans. 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college. 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year. 70 percent of U.S. adults have not - (2007-02-02 18:28:08)
Product Development 2.0 (Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog) -"Product Development 2.0" is a concept that embodies concepts such as harnessing collective intelligence, users as co-creators, and turning applications into platforms, 3 of the most powerful techniques of Web 2.0 - (2007-02-02 07:03:39)
I have headaches with Bluetooth -Headaches with bluetooth ? Me too. Mal de t?te avec bluetooth ? Moi aussi. - (2007-01-30 16:20:12)
Entrypot -I found a name for my new development : Entrypot - (2007-01-30 12:34:19)
Google my site -God I love Internet Technology ! Just think about it, develop a php page in 3 minutes, Upload it and that's it : you can google my Website !! - (2007-01-29 20:56:14)
Two Readings On Leadership -This weekend I read two books on Leadership. Find them here + some comments. - (2007-01-29 20:34:15)
KXEN -I was told Kxen products are great to "Make sense of your data. Make better decisions. Every day!" - (2007-01-26 11:47:26)
HP StorageWorks Continuous Information Capture Solution - Overview -The next buzzword in Information Management is CIC - Continusous Information Capture. It allows capturing information in real time and revert to its state at any point in time back in the past... - (2007-01-26 08:49:30)
I release a Simple SOA repository prototype today -I have developed a simple SOA repository in php and I'm now waiting for feedback. If I have positive feedback I will develop it further and maybe release it on ?SourceForge. - (2007-01-23 17:39:34)
Mountain Bike Downhill -If you like Montain Bike like me, you have to watch this video. Then I take some philosophic conclusions (why not?) - (2007-01-18 07:38:18)
My Nerd Score -My God ! I'm a High Nerd !!! I took the test and I'm neadyer than 87% of the people... - (2007-01-17 13:02:16)
An XMLMind Map -I'm currently building a database of key slides and illustrations I have used during my carreer. Here is a mindmap I did for XML Days in 2002. - (2007-01-17 08:28:52)
The End Of Writing On The Web -A remark on the obvious trend that video posts are more and more popular these days + an example. - (2007-01-16 14:21:33)
SOA Antipatterns -Ce qu'il ne faut pas faire avec une SOA... - (2007-01-04 16:53:19)
My First YouTube Video -Today I also tested !?YouTube and I uploaded a water-polo movie where you can see me scoring a goal (when I was young...) - (2007-01-04 14:35:24)
regipenxten.be - Regi in the Mix 3 -I have bought the CD of Regi : regi in the mix 3 today. Regi is a member of Milk Inc. - (2007-01-04 13:50:19)
New comments system on jfdeclercq.com -I installed a new comments system on my website today (or should I say this night...) - (2007-01-03 00:58:58)
Management Patterns -This page is about Management Patterns. I call management patterns some principles that I commonly use in situations where I need to "manage". - (2007-01-02 14:44:55)
Boom attendu des emplois de services d'ici ? 2015 - La Tribune.fr -Les emplois de services (notamment ? la personne) vont conna?tre un grand essor d'ici 2015. Dans le secteur marchand, les informaticiens et cadres commerciaux vont ?tre tr?s recherch?s. - (2007-01-02 12:28:22)
2 New books -I have bought 2 new books : Christophe Andr? - De l'art du BONHEUR and Jacques Attali - Une br?ve histoire de l'avenir - (2007-01-01 18:24:14)
Work Happy State -When will your work make you happy ? - (2007-01-01 17:29:24)
Happy New Year 2007 : Best Shots 2006 -I wish you the best for 2007. In order to thank you for what we shared in 2006, I have uploaded for you my 2006 best photos. - (2007-01-01 12:56:56)
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?Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines
what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.?
-Lou Holtz
"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard
effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any
goal that is worthwhile."
"L'utilisation de logicels libres permet de r?aliser des ?conomies spectaculaires, sans sacrifier la qualit?. Ainsi, un ordinateur fixe (tour) peut vous ?tre propos? ? partir de 239 euros, un ultra-portable ? 269 euros, et un portable classique ? partir de 449 euros."
A l'Ecailler du Palais Royal, on boit au bar du champagne comme on boit ailleurs un caf? sur le zinc puis on passe ? table pour du poisson et des crustac?s les langoustes sont expos?es le saumon est d?coup? les homards sont pr?par?s comme si la mer ?tait sur la place du sablon
A l'Ecailler du Palais Royal, Les clients ne parlent pas de la crise il pr?ferent parler de leurs vacances en Afrique du sud ou de leur investissements dans l'immobilier
A l'Ecailler du Palais Royal le service est impeccable les garcons se pressent ? satisfaire au plus vite avec le sourire les palais des clients qui n'ont pas l'habitude d'attendre leur poisson
Ce weekend, fur vari? : 60 Km de v?lo (40 samedi et 20 dimanche), un tr?s bon diner ? l' Ecailler du Palais Royal, un demi-pecha kucha, deux films ? la TV et du shopping bien sur...
I was reading the Entreprise Architecture message board on Linked In when I bounced again on this definition of an Architect by Vitruvius:
"The ideal architect should be a person of letters, a mathematician, familiar with historical studies, a diligent student of philosophy, acquainted with music, not ignorant of medicine, learned in the responses of jurisconsults, familiar with astronomy and astronomical calculations."?Vitruvius, circa 25 BC
"For avid cyclists and weekend enthusiasts, alike ? or simply for volunteers who want to make a difference in the world ? the Colorado Peace Ride provides an opportunity for all of us to contribute to world peace."
Maybe something for the future. One of my dreams being to go around the world with my bicycle - planned in 2020 :-)
Another boring meeting
life is a journey
than let it go, try to keep smiling
put yourself in the sun behind the window
step back and look at your colleagues
are they happy ?
are they "aware" ?
you are "aware" that this is just an illusion
working can't be so serious
help them to release a bit of their stress and fears
and you will have achieved something good today
you know you can because you are stronger than them
just show them the way
be good and the day will be easier
and we will find a way for our future
don't worry
you ain't seen nothing yet
Yesterday I had an IBM course where we did a "lobby" session. The goal was to be able to get in contact with the key people of the project during a drink.
This reminded me an article I have read on the Art of Schmoozing. The art of schmoozing consists of establishing a relationship before you need it...
Scenario Design asks and answers three questions :
1) Who are the users ?
2) What are their goals ?
3) How can users achieve their goals (using the IT system) ?
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Last weekend on Cybercafe21, Benoit Marshal (ULB researcher) tried to explain quantum physics and quantum computing.
The next major evolution in the computing history will be quantum computing.
Today, some very complex mathematical problems (like Meteo prediction, encryption code cracking,...) can not be solved with the computers we have (even a Pentium4 with WindowsXP :-) ). Their resolution would take more than the age of the universe !
With a Quantum Computer, however this kind of problems can be solved in seconds.
The theory of quantum computing is quiet difficult to understand. You will find here some links if you are interested and have some time...
Based in Amsterdam but always on the move, Dancetrippin produces and distributes dance related media through tv and internet as well as through products like its cd/dvd compilation series.
Hier je suis tomb? sur le blog de Christophe Lefevre. Il s'y trouve un article sur le m?tier de blogueur. Mon regard s'est port? sur la colonne de droite (toujours la colonne de droite) et j'y ai trouv? un badge qui m'?tait inconnu. C'est un badge de vibstars.
Vibstars
Vibstars se d?finit comme une plateforme de SocialBuzzing. Ma perception est que Vibstars prend le meilleur du social bookmarking, du buzz ? la Digg ou Scoopeo et du micro-blogging ? la Twitter. Int?ressant m?me si je ne vois pas encore comment l'utiliser concr?tement. Je pense qu'il me faudrait plus d'amis dans mon r?seau. C'est plus int?ressant que Twitter car on peut lancer des conversations autours de sujets qui pointent clairement sur un URL. On peut aussi voter, cela fait ?merger les dicussions les plus populaires.
Continuant ma d?couverte des d?veloppements de Bleebot, j'ai ?galement d?couvert Blogasty. Blogasty est un digg-like d?di? aux blogs. Cela permet de re-poster un article de votre blog vers la communeaut? Blogasty. Les autres membres peuvent voter pour votre billet et si celui-ci est populaire il arrive en Home Page. Voir A propos de Blogasty. Du Web2.0 belge
Blogasty et Vibstars sont deux plateformes Web2.0 dans le plus pur style et par ce billet je voudrais f?liciter leurs createurs. Et en plus, c'est du Belge...
See some photos of our MTB team (
HREF="http://web.wanadoo.be/vcbg/">V?lo Vlub Blancs-Gilets)
March 14, 2000
I have received the
HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201674823/softwareag/102-2612457-7922448">new
eBusiness Book from Software AG. It talks about Bolero, Java, XML, EJBs,
CORBA, DCOM,... Very interesting.
Check all the videos at
HREF="http://members.xoom.fr/uclwp/">http://members.xoom.fr/uclwp/
24/02/2000
A demo I've been working is now online and is
part of a CeBIT presentation of
Software AG. It's the first version of the Software AG?webshop.
24/02/2000
UCL water-polo team had a match against ULG
water-polo team (Li?ge). We won (I think) 11-4 after the 4 periods. But
we played 7 periods and it was a lot of fun for everybody. There will be
pictures soon on the UCL Water-Polo Web Site (see home).Here are still 2 of these
pictures:
UCL WP team (in white) in action against
Li?ge (in blue)
23/02/2000
MBA FORUM (
HREF="http://www.mba2u.org/">http://www.mba2u.org/). This was an
information day organized by Belgacom and Mc Kinsey and the AILv. Well they told us it's
interesting to do an MBA... and if we do an MBA, there is a chance we could go
and work for them. Go for your MBA?and come back...
An MBA?costs something like 100.000 EUROS?for 2
years of fun in the US... Let's have a look at how much it is at the INSEAD...
St Valentine's day and -unfortunately- the BeJUG Kickoff meeting. The next events will
be about Java devices, XML/Java, J2EE and ...
12-13/02/2000
I was in Ovifat (near Malmedy in the Fagnes -
Belgium) for a Moutain Bike weekend organized by my montain bike club (
HREF="http://www.egroups.com/group/blancs-gilets/">VCBG). 120 kms of
Bicycling with our team "robots".
13-14/01/2000
I was In Paris to give an XML course. Don't
know what's XML ?
HREF="http://www.go-xml.com/">http://www.go-xml.com/
10/01/2000
I created a
HREF="http://www.egroups.com/">egroups.com discussion list called V?lo Club Blancs
Gilets for my mountain bike club.
07/01/2000
Jean-Christophe Popeler (my colleague) set up
a egroups.com discussion list called UCL-INFO-97. That's
cool.
I will further develop the Entrypot for myself because the first user is me.
In the future, you can expect the following developments :
xml import of objects within the EntryPot --> complex element => new object Type and instance, simple element => new object attribute, embedded elements => new object + link
xml export of objects of the Entrypot
with xsl to make xml schemas (on all kind of objects)
It was very interesting. It's also a very nice environment.
The goal was to brief one of our customers on several SOA and Industry Solutions.
At the end of the day, we also visited the Industry Solution Center which brings deep dive into most relevant business issues through scenario based demonstrations.
For example, solutions in the Consumer Products Center are presented using a scenario which is customised for you. There is a Consumer Home, Retail Store, Manufacturer/ Retail DC and HQ Office so that solutions can be seen in their proper context.
Recently I blogged about FeedJournal and Tabloid to make your own newspaper in PDF.
The Printed Blog is the same but with articles selected by the website users. So you can get daily a PDF of the artciles people found the most interesting.
Last week I attended a very interesting BPM seminar provided by Denali, a Belgian BPM software company.
For me it's clear there are interesting possible synergies between the processes that Denali can model and document with FlexoBPM and the processes IBM can run and monitor with Webshpere Process Server.
En fait, Google Desktop est un excellent espion. A chaque fois qu'on cherche sur son ordi quelquechose et qu'on clique "Search More" sans faire expr?s, on dit ? Google ce qui nous int?resse. Ca pourrait tres bien ?tre des keywords "company confidential"
A call comes through on the customer service line in Heaven.
Customer Service Rep: Yes, Ma'am, how can I help you today?
Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install love. Can you guide me through the process?
CS Rep: Yes, I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?
Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready to install now. What do I do first?
CS Rep: The first step is to open your HEART. Have you located your HEART ma'am?
Customer: Yes I have, but there are several other programs running right now. Is it okay to install while they are running?
CS Rep: What programs are running ma'am?
Customer: Let's see, I have PAST-HURT.EXE, LOW-ESTEEM.EXE, GRUDGE.EXE, and RESENTMENT.COM running right now.
CS Rep: No problem. LOVE will gradually erase PAST-HURT.EXE from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory, but it will no longer disrupt other programs. LOVE will eventually overwrite LOW-ESTEEM.EXE with a module of its own called HIGH- ESTEEM.EXE. However, you have to completely turn off GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM. Those programs prevent LOVE from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ma'am?
Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?
CS Rep: My pleasure. Go to your Start menu and invoke FORGIVENESS.EXE. Do this as many times as necessary until GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM have been completely erased.
Customer: Okay, done. LOVE has started installing itself automatically. Is that normal?
CS Rep: Yes. You should receive a message that says it will reinstall for the life of your HEART. Do you see that message?
Customer: Yes I do. Is it completely installed?
CS Rep: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Heart's in order to get the upgrades.
Customer: Oops. I have an error message already. What should I do?
CS Rep: What does the message say?
Customer: It says "ERROR 412 - PROGRAM NOT RUN ON INTERNAL COMPONENTS." What does that mean?
CS Rep: Don't worry ma'am, that's a common problem. It means that the LOVE program is set up to run on external HEARTS but has not yet been run on your HEART. It is one of those complicated programming things, but in non-technical terms it means you have to "LOVE" your own machine before it can "LOVE" others.
Customer: So what should I do?
CS Rep: Can you pull down the directory called "SELF-ACCEPTANCE"?
Customer: Yes, I have it.
CS Rep: Excellent. You're getting good at this.
Customer: Thank you.
CS Rep: You're welcome. Click on the following files and then copy them to the "MYHEART" directory: FORGIVE-SELF.DOC, REALIZE-WORTH.TXT, and ACKNOWLEDGE-LIMITATIONS.DOC. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching any programming. Also, you need to delete SELF-CRITIC.EXE from all directories, and to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back, you will need to empty your recycle bin.
Customer: Got it. Hey! My HEART is filling up with new files. SMILE.MPG is playing on my monitor right now and it shows that PEACE.EXE, and CONTENTMENT.COM are copying themselves all over my HEART. Is this normal?
C Rep: Sometimes. For others it takes a while, but eventually everything gets downloaded at the proper time. So, LOVE is installed and running. You should be able to handle it from here. One more thing before I go.
Customer: Yes?
CS Rep: LOVE is freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everybody you meet. They will in turn share it with other people and they will return some similarly cool modules back to you.
Customer: I will. Thanks for your help. By the way, what's your name?
CS Rep: You can call me the Divine Cardiologist, also known as The Great Physician. Most people feel all they need is an annual checkup to stay heart-healthy, but the manufacturer suggests a schedule of daily maintenance for maximum efficiency.
I really enjoy playing with the web and all the social tools. There is something that is quiet well advanced called Yahoo! Pipes. With Yahoo!Pipes you can reuse contents on the web and republish it in another form without programming.
Look at the following. The following Pipe allows me to collect 4 feeds (different places where you can comment my posts) and republish it as once.
To do that you drag & drop : - 4 "Fetch Feed" Sources : you have to give the URL of the rss feed - the "Union" Operator it merges the 4 feeds into 1 - the "Sort" Operator which allows to sort the new feed - by date descending for instance.
You can see the result of this Pipe here : Comments
There are much more drag&drops you can do. Check it out on Yahoo! Pipes by creating a new pipe.
After that what you want to exploit your new feed, you can burn it or obtain it as a bagde...
I personnaly use the PHP feature. The result can be streamed as a php array.
Here is the code I use to exploit my Yahoo! Pipe (download it here):
The following paragraphs summarize the different "strategies"
If you can't beat them Join them"
Pauwels is a Belgian company that has been acquired by an Indian company. The off-shore newcomers don't have the image that our European older companies have on the market. Combining the growth of Off-shore companies with the Image of the European ones can be a winning combination. Let's find the win-win solutions...
Let's compete again
Mr Leonard Schrank, CEO of SWIFT and the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium makes it the American way. Belgium has to work on the flexibility of its workforce and on reducing employment costs (taxes).
According to Mr Schrank, Belgium has a lot of assets which are badly utilized due to a lack of competitiveness (and also of Entrepreneurship ?). Belgium has the potential to attract investors but needs to get back to more competitiveness.
Climb the value chain
John Monks, general secretary of the European Trade Union sees only one way out : Climb the value chain. Europe needs to stay ahead of the competition by developping new, higher level skills.
Exploit the potential of emerging countries
Dirk Beeuwsaert, executive VP of Suez in charge of Suez Energy International, is VERY happy with the globalizing economy. Emerging countries will need a lot of energy. Suez has already taken strategic positions. The more India and China will use electricity to build Industrial centres, the better the market...
The Single European Act (SEA), signed in Luxembourg and The Hague and came into force on 1 July 1987, was the first modification of the fundational treaties of the European Communities, that is to say, the Treaty of Paris in 1951 and the Treaties of Rome in 1957.
Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission, summarised the main objectives of the Single European Act in the following way:
The Single Act means, in a few words, the commitment of implementing simultaneously the great market without frontiers, more economic and social cohesion, an European research and technology policy, the strengthening of the European Monetary System, the beginning of an European social area and significant actions in environment
Today everything has to be sustainable. So should IT Architecture.... Does it mean big changes when the average lifetime of a computer is 3 years ?
I received his first SOA newsletter today (in french) which is about the following question : How to combine the maintenance of the existing (eating up to 70% of the IT budget) and innovate at the same time ?
Les entreprises prennent conscience de l'int?r?t de la SOA et des outils ? valeur ajout?e de gestion de r?gles (BRMS) et de gestion des donn?es de r?f?rence (MDM).
Cependant, comment agir sur ces sujets alors que le poids de la maintenance et de l'am?lioration de l'existant mobilise les forces et les budgets ?
Dans cette premi?re ? lettre SOA ? je propose une conciliation de l'innovation avec la reprise en main de l'existant. C'est une affaire de m?thode : comment reprendre en main la documentation de l'existant en vue d'amorcer les projets de refonte progressive et d'innovation ? Comment trouver ? partir de cette id?e de nouvelles sources de financement pour les projets de r?novation.
I have successfully passed my ITIL V3 Foundations Certification !
ITIL is a framework which allows IT Managers to standardize the IT processes which aim at satisfying the demand of their system's customers and/or end-users.
In order to meet customer's needs, ITIL organises the lifecycle of IT Services which are delivered by IT.
The IT department can supply several types of "services", for instance :
Applications (SAP, CRM, Document Management)
Purchasing of IT material (PCs, printers...)
Help Desk, Call Center
Internet Services (Home Banking system for a bank for instance)
Hardware Installation
Printing
...
ITIL gives guidelines on how to organize the professional delivery of those "IT services".
ITIL V3' service life cycle defines 5 "steps":
Service Strategy : it defines which services the IT department should provide
Service Design : it defines what the delivered services are and how they are realized
Service Transition : it determines how a designed service is put into production
Service Operation : it describes how services have to be run in production (according to their specifications and their Service Level Agreements)
Continual Improvement : a set of processes to improve the life cycle realization
We live in a probabilistic managerial world. Processes are seldom black or white. They are uncertain, fuzzy, likely. Some basic statistical knowledge and ?feeling? is indispensable for every modern manager. In all kinds of management domains such as financial management, quality control, marketing research and operations management, concepts and techniques with a mathematical and statistical background are used.
This course is not aimed to form specialists in the area but to give you a sufficient background in business statistics, enabling you to start a fruitful dialogue with real statistical experts and to unmask the pseudo-expert "who uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than illumination."-Andrew Lang (1844-1912).
My notes used to be available on Multimania. But Multimania kicked me out. Too many downloads, not enough browsing !!
So I'm looking for a scalable replacement solution to store the 100MB of PDF for all my notes. If you need these notes just send me an email. We will find a solution.
"The twenty-first century will be about velocity: the speed of business and the speed of change. To stay up with and anticipate change, businesses need radically better information flow. To get a better flow of information to develop the right processes and strategies, they need a digital nervous system. Most organizations don't have enough data to understand key aspects of their business well enough. A digital nervous system will help you understand your business better and then act more effectively on that understanding. An infrastructure designed around information flow will be the "killer application" for the twenty-first century." http://www.speed-of-thought.com/looking/chapter.html
Business Process Management means also Information Management and Information Systems Integration . This is definitely the kind of Software I'd like to work with.? Design the Business Processes and implement these using integration Software. Do not reinvent the wheel, connect existing Software with your intelligence...
I hope we will have a clear position on BPM soon at Software AG.
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"A lot of problems in our society come from the absence of projects".
It's true. Nothing is more depressing than not having projects. When you don't have a perspective you don't think about your future, you only think about the past and how it was the good times. Instead, you should always look forward and catch the opportunities that the future brings. Working on projects allow you to have recognition from your peers and/or auto-satisfaction.
This statement nevertheless is maybe a bit too simple :
What happens when you have tried many times to contribute to a project and you have failed multiple times ?
Why should we always move forward ? Some people need to have projects, maybe other prefer not to have projects ? Where is the freedom ? (See the joke on the Harvard MBA)
How can we find projects where everybody gets the "what's in it for me ?" question answered ? What if everybody wants to be the project manager ?
But in general, I agree with the statement. When I list my personal goals in life, I can identify the projects that I need to undertake to reach my goals. (By the way, my goals should be SMART, otherwise I'll never be happy).
So if the statement is true.: as human beings, we need projects.
The next questions are than:
what are my personal projects which will make me happy ?
what are my family projects ?
what are my community/village/team/work projects
what are my country's projects ?
what the world's project ?
and for all those projects, why do we want to have those projects ? Are they for a good cause ? How do they interact with each other ?
It's up to us all to select the projects which add value, respect the people and the nature. Many projects don't help us and nevertheless we contribute to them... Let's try to step out of these.
Entendu hier soir sur France4 dans "Oui mais..." avec G?rard Jugnot et Emilie Dequenne.
"C'est pas parcequ'il fait nuit qu'il n'y aura plus jamais de soleil"
En fait ce film raconte comment on peut r??quilibrer sa relation ? l'autre, aimer quelqu'un sans jouer dans ses petits jeux de chantages affectifs et autre gentillesses inconscientes.
Eventually an IT session - in addition to IBM's Proof Of Technology - where people are not afraid of showing the bits and bytes of IT. They are even proud of it.
For many years now, I have been told to "Talk Business", ROI, "Business Value", "Business Drivers", "talk the language of the business"... IT Bullshit level > 50%.
If the business wants to do IT without bits/bytes, I wish them good luck.
Yesterday I was very happy to see 400 people listening carefully to a Netbeans/Ruby/Rails demo! I was fascinating for me to see someone doing something real. THE REAL STUFF...
Je lis sur le site BrusselsLife.be une explication sur les bootlegs.
"Aujourd'hui des centaines de bootlegs sortent chaque semaine sur internet (ils sont parfois appell?s Mashup: synonyme de notre stoemp national, mais le mot Bootleg est de plus en plus g?n?ralis?)"
Mais oui, mais alors... en IT... les "Business Mashups 2.0" ce sont des stoemps d'affaire !! Mais bien s?r !
Mes coll?ques de IBM Lotus donc sont des vendeurs de stoemp :-D
Question subsidiaire : A quand les SOA Bootlegs ? Ca seraient des processus d'entreprise superpos?s ou quelquechose dans le style...
Le test complet est ici. La conclusion : "Le Cybook Gen3 de Bookeen introduit une rupture avec le lecteur d'ebook traditionnel gr?ce ? sa technologie d'?cran e-paper. Lisible comme une feuille de papier, tr?s peu gourmand en ?nergie, il apporte les solutions techniques qui manquaient il y a quelques ann?es."
It's a long time that SOA has been around. My first atricles are dated jan 2003 but I had already done some work on it in 2002.
Two years ago still, I was trying to convince my colleagues to put SOA on the agenda of one of our Marketing events... They told me nobody was interested in SOA... Look now, all seminars go around SOA.
So for me it's very boring and "old News" to hear about "SOA","SOAP" and "Attention : SOA is not Web Service" (Even if what they actually sell is UDDIv3 and... SOAP).
What's even more boring is that SOA is about Component Based Design and Reuse... It was already the same discussion at the time of CORBA...
The only refreshing item in SOA is its impact on "Governance". That's new and it's a nice topic. So all providers - HP, BEA, Software AG - now have "SOA Assessments" and "SOA Governance" and "SOA Life Cycles".
For a long time, I have been using Yahoo! Mail as my only personal email platform (no email client).
After having used Gmail for some time, now I realize that my personal stuff is more and more on the web: - I use Google Notes to take notes - I use Google Calendar - I use Gmail as personal Todo list (using a todo and a done label) - I use netvibes Webnotes - I upload my important documents on my website, in Yahoo Briefcase, in Google Docs or I email them to myself (since there is virtually no size limit anymore) - My knowledge base is built using my blogs that I aggregate in a Wiki on my website - My bookmarks are in Del.icio.us - My Contacts are now in LinkedIn, Plaxo and Facebook - Most of the information I need comes from the web or from my company's Intranet
The only things that remain on my computer are the Office Documents, the pictures and the email archives. If I would upload all my pictures on Picasa or Flickr, I'd very close to have nearly nothing on my computer anymore.
If the Internet tone becomes as reliable as the phone tone, environments like DesktopTwo (https://desktoptwo.com) will actually become our computers. Desktoptwo provides you a virtual computer on the web, with the advantage that the only thing that you need is an Internet connection to access your virtual computer. All your documents remain on the server and are backed-up, archived...
You will find the same kind of concept in the WebOS eXoplatform (http://www.exoplatform.com/) : "This new giant step is an important one in the process to make the network the computer".
At JavaPolis, James Gossling said concerning Google that nobody could have predicted that the killer app of the web would have been "Advertisement". Maybe the next killer app is the computer itself, swallowed by the network, the servers becoming fully pervasive.
"Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of
prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such
separate entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable. The beginner should
approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no
other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices
that are popularly believed to indicate style--all mannerisms, tricks,
adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity,
orderliness, sincerity."
--Strunk and White, "The Elements of Style"
And thus an American textbook, typical required reading for 10th-grade English students, unknowingly extols some virtues of WabiSabi
Gantt Project : a free tool to make Gantt Diagrams. Simple but efficient. Has an handy export to HTML+images function. http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/
Business Process Management, as defined by the Gartner group, is the art of understanding, codifying, automating, and improving the way a company does business (Source : this IBM red book) The definition of Savvion is a bit simpler : A business process is a structured set of tasks completed in sequence by people, applications or external systems.
Established in August 2000, the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.ORG) is a non-profit organization that exists to promote the standardization of common business processes, as a means of furthering e-business and B2B development.
The BPMI model of any two-way e-business process involves three main components, the public interface and two private implementations. The public interface, which is the area of interaction between two business partners, is supported by various protocols such as those associated with BizTalk, ebXML, and RosettaNet. The model further defines two private implementations, which are specific to the individual partners involved and can be described in any executable language. The Initiative has specified such a language, Business Process Modeling Language (BPML), which is an XML-based metalanguage that can be used to model components of business processes in the same way that XML can be used to model components of business data.
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Si le bonheur existait, ? quoi serviraient les petits bonheurs ?
Quel bonheur aujourd'hui que de faire un tour ? v?lo dans la campagne d'overijse.
J'ai chang? ma position sur mon v?lo en achetant une potence plus courte et plus relev?e pour avoir une position plus proche de celle du spinning. Mon v?lo est maintenant un fauteuil de course.
J'?coute la radio : une ?mission de la premi?re (rtbf) sur l' "Homme, ce roseau pensant" : La v?rit?, la Beaut?, la Libert?, le Bonheur, les Croyances et la Mort... Les grandes questions philosophiques ? la lumi?re de la science moderne.
Suivre une rivi?re, faire une mont?e dans les bois, traverser les champs. Les oiseaux chantent. Il fait calme. Le soleil brille.
Si le bonheur existait, ? quoi serviraient les petits bonheurs ?
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Il s'appelait Fleming, c'?tait un pauvre fermier ?cossais. Un jour,
alors qu'il tentait de gagner la vie de sa famille, il entendit un
appel au secours provenant d'un mar?cage proche. Il laissa tomber ses
outils, y courut et y trouva un jeune gar?on enfonc? jusqu'? la taille dans
le mar?cage, apeur?, criant et cherchant ? se lib?rer. Le fermier sauva
le jeune homme de ce qui aurait pu ?tre une mort lente et cruelle.
Le lendemain, un attelage ?l?gant se pr?senta ? la ferme. Un noble,
?l?gamment v?tu, en sorti et se pr?senta comme ?tant le p?re du gar?on
que le fermier avait aid?. "Je veux vous r?compenser", dit le noble.
"Vous avez sauv? la vie de mon fils".
"Non, je ne peux accepter de paiement pour ce que j'ai fait",
r?pondit le fermier ?cossais.
A ce moment, le fils du fermier vint ? la porte de la cabane.
"C'est votre fils" demanda le noble.
"Oui", r?pondit fi?rement le fermier.
"Je vous propose un march?. Permettez-moi d'offrir ? votre fils la
m?me ?ducation qu'? mon fils. Si le fils ressemble au p?re, je suis
s?r qu'il sera un homme duquel tous deux seront fiers".
Et le fermier accepta. Le fils du fermier Fleming suivit les cours des
meilleures ?coles et au final, fut dipl?m? de l'Ecole de M?decine de
l'H?pital Sainte Marie de Londres. Il continua jusqu'? ?tre connu du
monde entier.
Le fameux Dr Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) avait en effet
d?couvert la p?niciline. Il recevra le prix Nobel de m?decine en 1945.
Des ann?s plus tard, le fils du m?me noble qui avait ?t? sauv? du
mar?cage avait une pneumonie. Qui lui sauva la vie cette fois ?...
La p?niciline.
Comment s'appelait le noble ? Sir Randolph Churchill. Son fils ?
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) !
Quelqu'un a dit un jour :
"Tout ce qui s'en va revient
"Travaille comme si tu n'avais pas besoin d'argent.
"Aime comme si tu n'avais jamais ?t? bless?.
"Danse comme si personne ne te regardais.
"Chante comme si personne ne t'?coutais.
"Vis comme si le Ciel ?tait sur la Terre.
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5 septembre 2002
Deviantart.com publie dans ses forums un post au contenu terrifiant. Sign? warpbackspin , il revient avec beaucoup de pr?cisions sur l'annonce faite par Microsoft, concernant ses projets de d?ploiement de la technologie nomm?e Palladium. Je vous conseille de le lire avec attention, pour ne pas dire apr?s que vous n'?tiez pas au courant.
Palladium.pdf
The website of Carmelo Zaccone gave me the idea of making a list of all the sites I use on the web. I ordered them by preference in three categories : Social Networks, Blogs & sites and Instant Messaging.
My list counts more than 20 addresses. I use the top 10 on a very regular basis. You can see the result here : Social Neworks.
I was at a training given by PSI recently and the professor, Mr Barry Deutsch, said something simple but so true :
you have to talk about the future to build the future
Also, during a debate on the challenges of the future of the world on Europe1,Albert Jacquard said : "Nous n'avons qu'un seul outil pour influencer le futur de notre planete : la parole". (which I try to translate like this : "we have only one tool to improve the future of our planet: the words")
Patrick Le Lay : "Soyons r?alistes : ? la base, le m?tier de TF1, c'est d'aider Coca-Cola, par exemple, ? vendre son produit. (...) Ce que nous vendons ? Coca-Cola, c'est du temps de cerveau disponible."
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Strategy and the Internet
Michael E. Porter
Harvard Business Review, March 2001
Many of the pioneers of Internet business, both dot-coms and established companies, have competed in ways that violate nearly every precept of good strategy. Rather than focus on profits, they have chased customers indiscriminately through discounting, channel incentives, and advertising. Rather than concentrate on delivering value that earns an attractive price from customers, they have pursued indirect revenues such as advertising and click-through fees. Rather than make trade-offs, they have rushed to offer every conceivable product or service.
It did not have to be this way - and it does not have to be in the future. When it comes to reinforcing a distinctive strategy, Michael Porter argues, the Internet provides a better technological platform than previous generations of IT. Gaining competitive advantage does not require a radically new approach to business; it requires building on the proven principles of effective strategy.
Porter argues that, contrary to recent thought, the Internet is not disruptive to most existing industries and established companies. It rarely nullifies important sources of competitive advantage in an industry; it often makes them even more valuable. And as all companies embrace Internet technology, the Internet itself will be neutralized as a source of advantage. Robust competitive advantages will arise instead from traditional strengths such as unique products, proprietary content, and distinctive physical activities. Internet technology may be able to fortify those advantages, but it is unlikely to supplant them.
Porter debunks such Internet myths as first-mover advantage, the power of virtual companies, and the multiplying rewards of network effects. He disentangles the distorted signals from the marketplace, explains why the Internet complements rather than cannibalizes existing ways of doing business, and outlines strategic imperatives for dot-coms and traditional companies.
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"Economic value for a company is nothing more than the difference between price and cost and it's reliablility measured only by sustained profitability. To generate revenue, reduce expenses, or simply do something usefull by deploying Internet technology is not sufficient evidence that value has been created..."
Objectiver is a requirements analysis tool (see http://www.objectiver.com/). It allows to capture requirements for any kind of project using the KAOS method.
By linking Operations elements to Projects and assigning a performance relationship to Agents, one can define the Services Containers (agents) as well as their services (operations) with Input and Output parameters represented as Entities.
In the following design the CustomerLookupService performs one operation : searchCustomer having a SearchPattern and SearchString as input and a CustomerList as output.
Un jour, un vieux professeur de l'?cole nationale d'administration publique (ENAP) fut engag? pour donner une formation sur La planification efficace de son temps ? un groupe d'une quinzaine de dirigeants de grosses compagnies nord-am?ricaines.
Ce cours constituait l'un des cinq ateliers de leur journ?e de formation. Le vieux prof n'avait donc qu'une heure pour "passer sa mati?re ".
Debout, devant ce groupe d'?lite (qui ?tait pr?t ? noter tout ce que l'expert allait enseigner), le vieux prof les regarda un par un, lentement, puis leur dit : "Nous allons r?aliser une exp?rience".
De dessous la table qui le s?parait de ses ?l?ves, le vieux prof sortit un immense pot Mason d'un gallon (pot de verre de plus de 4 litres) qu'il posa d?licatement en face de lui. Ensuite, il sortit environ une douzaine de cailloux a peu pr?s gros comme des balles de tennis et les pla?a d?licatement, un par un, dans le grand pot. Lorsque le pot fut rempli jusqu'au bord et qu'il fut impossible d'y ajouter un caillou de plus, il leva lentement les yeux vers ses ?l?ves et leur demanda :
"Est-ce que ce pot est plein?".
Tous r?pondirent : "Oui".
Il attendit quelques secondes et ajouta : "Vraiment?".
Alors, il se pencha de nouveau et sortit de sous la table un r?cipient rempli de gravier. Avec minutie, il versa ce gravier sur les gros cailloux puis brassa l?g?rement le pot. Les morceaux de gravier s'infiltr?rent entre les cailloux... jusqu'au fond du pot. Le vieux prof leva ? nouveau les yeux vers son auditoire et redemanda :
"Est-ce que ce pot est plein?".
Cette fois, ses brillants ?l?ves commen?aient ? comprendre son man?ge.
L'un d'eux r?pond?t: "Probablement pas!".
"Bien!" r?pond?t le vieux prof. Il se pencha de nouveau et cette fois, sortit de sous la table une chaudi?re de sable. Avec attention, il versa le sable dans le pot. Le sable alla remplir les espaces entre les gros cailloux et le gravier. Encore une fois, il demanda :
"Est-ce que ce pot est plein?".
Cette fois, sans h?siter et en choeur, les brillants ?l?ves r?pondirent : "Non!".
"Bien!" r?pond?t le vieux prof. Et comme s'y attendaient ses prestigieux ?l?ves, il prit le pichet d'eau qui ?tait sur la table et remplit le pot jusqu'a ras bord. Le vieux prof leva alors les yeux vers son groupe et demanda :
"Quelle grande v?rit? nous d?montre cette exp?rience? "
Pas fou, le plus audacieux des ?l?ves, songeant au sujet de ce cours, r?pond?t :
"Cela d?montre que m?me lorsque l'on croit que notre agenda est compl?tement rempli, si on le veut vraiment, on peut y ajouter plus de rendez-vous, plus de choses ? faire ".
"Non" r?pond?t le vieux prof. " Ce n'est pas cela.
" La grande v?rit? que nous d?montre cette exp?rience est la suivante: si on ne met pas les gros cailloux en premier dans le pot, on ne pourra jamais les faire entrer tous, ensuite".
Il y eut un profond silence, chacun prenant conscience de l'?vidence de ces propos. Le vieux prof leur dit alors :
"Quels sont les gros cailloux dans votre vie?"
"Votre sant??"
"Votre famille?"
"Vos ami(e)s?"
"R?aliser vos r?ves?"
"Faire ce que vous aimez?"
"Apprendre?"
"D?fendre une cause?"
"Relaxer?"
"Prendre le temps...?"
"Ou... toute autre chose?"
"Ce qu'il faut retenir, c'est l'importance de mettre ses GROS CAILLOUX en premier dans sa vie, sinon on risque de ne pas r?ussir...sa vie. Si on donne priorit? aux peccadilles (le gravier, le sable), on remplira sa vie de peccadilles et on n'aura plus suffisamment de temps pr?cieux ? consacrer aux ?l?ments importants de sa vie. Alors, n'oubliez pas de vous poser ? vous-m?me la question :
"Quels sont les GROS CAILLOUX dans ma vie? Ensuite, mettez-les en premier dans votre pot (vie)"
D'un geste amical de la main, le vieux professeur salua son auditoire et lentement quitta la salle.
We don't need the questionners and checkers, the nitpickers who bog down the process...Today each staff person has top ask, ?How do I add value? How do I make people on the line more effective and competitive ?"
Jack Welsh, GE
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The first steps to becoming a really great manager are simply common sense; but common sense is not very common. This article suggests some common-sense ideas on the subject of great management.
Commentaire de Thomas : "Je connais deux sortes de camion de pompiers: le pompe tonne et le camion avec la grande ?chelle. Ici j'ai dessin? le pompe tonne"
Yesterday I spent some time improving my start page. You can now browse my published articles month by month and one by one. See some details here : http://www.lowas.be/index.php?pagename=BrowseNews
When discussing about SOA a very common question goes about the granularity of services.
I have always applied two principles to decide for myself if a service has the right granularity :
1. Does it make sense ?
If a Business User of this service reads the service specification, he should be able to understand it. This requires to have servcice specifications in natural language.
2. Is it Human ?
Services are ways to request for information. My basic belief is that it should be possible for a normal human being to process that information. I like to think about services in terms of web pages : how would it look like if it was a web page ? (That's probably because I'm a fan of the Semantic Web vision). The rationale is that if the service provides something that is not human (thousands of records) there is room for service re-factoring (by using an iterator for instance).
A service that would dump all your emails at once on your screen in one page would be useless. What you want is a service to browse emails titles 20 by 20 and the possibility to open an email by selecting it. In addition you want a search function. Paging, Summaries and Searching are examples of human services.
This week I completed a TOGAF 8.1 Certifcation course. This means that I should be TOGAF Certified in the coming days. This is the second Certification I pass this year after the ITIL Certification (Thank you IBM!). TOGAF is about Entreprise Architecture and it's a fascinating topic. I'll blog about the highlights of this TOGAF course soon.
Foot sur la plage de De Haan, ce 28 septembre 2008
J'ai upload? sur Youtube une vid?o d'une partie de foot film?e sur la plage de De Haan ce 28 septembre 2008. Je joue avec avec Thomas et Jonas (rencontr? sur place).
Yesterday on Europe1 I was listening to Luc Luc Montagnier, Virologue, ancien professeur ? l'institut Pasteur, cod?couvreur du VIH. He was saying that the antioxidants are widely used as ingredients in dietary supplements in the hope of maintaining health and preventing diseases such as cancer and coronary heart disease.
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Social Networks ? See here : 
