Other IT activities

After working hours of consulting, teaching in the evenings, writing books and articles I try to find a bit of time to do other IT stuff.

Open Source Solution Get-Together Paris

I am a member of the OOSGTP group in Paris. The Open Source Solution Get-Together Paris is a monthly meeting which takes place each third Thursday of the month. There, actors of the Open Source world meet, talk about their passion and exhange some news on technologies.

Java Black Belt JPA Exam

As some of my articles can show, I'm quite involved with Java Persitence API. I've created the JPA exam at Java Black Belt and I am the moderator of this exam.

Academic and industrial group

At the Cnam university I'm part of a reflexion group that analyses the industrial world and looks for an adequation with our courses. It's a monthly meeting where we try to define what are the real industry needs, what do we have to do to train our students to follow these needs and also define the jobs that can be targeted by our students.