If you have some problem to contact me on Friday or during the week-end, it is normal. On January and Februray, this is the Ice climbing season, it means that I am training some week-ends in the French Alpen, sharing my time between Brussels, Paris and Chamonix or Grenoble.

So don't be impatient to get some answer on the week-ends, I can answer only during the week.

For those who want to contact me or meet me, I'm working now in Brussels for an assurance/bank, making the migration of an Opics Misys system to the Sophis one.

That was not really the expected case when I left Calyon: I should have to work in fact for an english/chinese investment bank in Paris, but, because of some ununderstanding signature process and because of some budget reduction related to the subprime crisis, the intern project manager prevent me that I could not work for them the morning of the starting day of the mission, after two months of negotiation.

The contract in Brussels is a one-year contract, I will be free again at 30th september 2008, so, please, don't contact me before for other missions.

After 3 years at Calyon, London then Paris, working on Sophis toolkit in the IT FO Equity Derivatives team, I left this French investment bank. Yesterday was my last working day there. I will start a new mission in another bank on next week and will continue to work on Sophis products.

Looking at the logs of the web site yesterday, I wonder of the number of banks and funds, worldwide,  which are now connected. Even if people don't participate really in forums as I will - only few people are asking for information -, most of them are taking a look each day.

I left Sophis in 2000, working on Sophis Risque since 1998 and after the migration of this software from Mac platform to the Win32 one. Like other independent workers who left this company at the same time, like Hubert de Monts or Sam Lessani, I think t ...

Yeah, beautiful weather when rising the Stok Kangri, just a little sick at the beginning of the treck because of altitude illness, getting nausea and vomiting during the first three days: sure, directly sent at 5000m, I never saw such acclimatation, even in Peru or Nepal.

158 mails sent, and probably two times more to make sure every recipients would read it...

Yesterday, we (I and one my colleague, actually my former and soon-again-to-be boss) invited our beloved co-workers and pro. favored contacts for a leaving drinks. So many people, reflections of finally not so many years. But what years ! Man !
Paris, Tokyo, London ,and then the merger between Credit Lyonnais and Credit Agricole, back to Paris. So many people left (for as many different destinations !) and so many new hired to compensate or launch our lastest critical P-1 project (no, not this one, THIS one. Stop being silly ;o)  ).
So this was probably the last time so many people from here will have to actually LISTEN to what I had to say.
In two days from now, I'll bid all of them farewell. Oh, my sinking heart... When I dreamt it would be a life-long experience...
For the best or the worst, as in any union and split-up, ...

This blog entry is certainly the last before taking some holidays in Ladakh (Indian Himalaya), from 11th July to 28th July. But not the last post on this site: I will surely publish some resources before my departure.

During my absence, I will give administrator rights to Guillaume Leroy, in order to maintain a good reactivity on all subjects, from user registration to posts on forums.

Concerning the trip in Ladakh, I hope that I will have better weather than last year, in April 2006, in Nepal, when I attempted to reach the Mera Peak (6476m), but forced to turn back at the base camp (4900m), due to 3 days snow tempest. We got no news from people blocked at high camp (5500m). T ...

Quite done. After looking for the right DNN modules that could give me a good looking on articles, I discovered and choosed the Help one. It does not permit to separate articles from different authors - note sure, to be tested - , but the navigation tree gives a good feeling.

Posting articles is quite easy too: just need to edit them with MS Word, copy them in clipboard and paste them  in the Rich Edit control provided with DNN.

I just get some problems with the headers and formatting. Inserting pictures from Winword should be manually done.

No, I am not joking and did neither eat some LSD pills or other medicaments, nor dring too much alcohol. Yesterday, I have no time to post the usual blog, because of thieves in the apartement of my above neighbour. Imagine that, at about 2h00 am in the morning, you are drinking some water. Suddenly, I heard some noises in the above apartment of mine, and my neighbour crying "Thief! thief!"..

Leaving my glass of water on the bar, and running in the upstairs trying to catch the thief. What a beautiful night!

Ooops, why ice axes? Because I took the ones I usually use in Alpen for ice climbing, in case of...

Good night!

The web site should appear at the top of searches. This is not the case. So, launching an AdWord campaign on UK, contacting all people working on Sophis, by sending them personalised messages, just to refer the site.

Making some advertising on other financial sites, it takes quite a lot of time...

1h10am, it's time to go to bed.

Yes, I got it, it runs under Windows Vista!!!

It was quite a little hard to get performance counters under this OS, because I turned the UAC off on my computer. When getting the security COM impersonation, there was no error, but without elevating my executable explicitely under administrator rights, I could get some WMI informations like the the list of processes, the OS version, but memory information: NO. And the error was quite difficult to debug: when executing the query, I got no error, but when parsing records using the IEnumerator::Next method, no record was returned...

Pfff..