News have come and go, but I must admit I have not spoken much about IOD Europe, which will be held in The Hague from June 3rd to June 6th 2008.

Gee! I am in San Francisco. First, I love the city, not my first time here, but it's a real city, where you can walk, find French food (there is even a place where you can get Meteor, it's a beer from Hochfelden)... But San Francisco is more than that. It's America. It's the American dream with its ups and downs...

I work for GreenIvory. They are specialized in Enterprise Mashup. Their product is called RedLion. You can do great things with Mashup and RedLion. I will have to come back to it to describe what they are doing, it really is exciting.

I am now in Las Vegas, NV to attend the IOD conference. Weather is nice, not too hot...

I feel kind of proud tonight. Yep. Some people are sad the day before their birthday, but it's not my case. I'll be 36 tomorrow and looking behind is not really in my temper.

The reason that makes me proud tonight is that, thanks to hard work and the RedLion solution, GreenIvory is an IBM Advanced Partner. It's not even on GreenIvory's web site (what is their webmaster doing? Noone düne Piipe Nochamol!).  

RedLion is a great (would I say otherwise?) tool for searching information on the Internet and bringing it into nicely designed web pages or e-mail. RedLion is an excellent companion to your CMS package and it is not a replacement for any of them (otherwise, i would probably not use Joomla!).

Anyway, my 37^th year good start a lot worser... 

It’s been a while I did not blog, although this is not a blog ;-).

Well, I just wanted to let you know that the new IDS (v11 or Cheetah) has some nice XML features and I wrote an article about them on DB2mag.com, with plenty of examples. XML is cool, IDS is cool, Java is cool. You’ll see why there.

Ok – back to work, I have a huge list of todos for InformixMag.com, GreenIvory, RedLion, IIUG, and many, many more!

Tim McMackin has released a tutorial on EGL on IBM developerWorks. Find more about it here: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/r-dw-r-helloegl.html.

Windows Vista is indeed quite cool. However, when it comes to installing software, you might come into some problems as Vista is relying on a new security mechanism which requires to be Administrator when you add anything to Program Files (well, this is the short version).

Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) has its newsletter, edited by a dear friend, Jonathan Sayles. This is exclusive information from InformixMag !

What a day… I am glad I don’t have days like that everyday. It started yesterday. A friend of mine wanted me to help him on a tender, finalizing his approach and his strategy on a migration from a legacy technology to Java.