Mid December 2006 I was invited by the CRIM thanks to Vincent Siveton (Maven committer) to give a presentation on how to implement Quality on projects with Maven2. Jason Van Zyl was also there and he talked and gave demonstrations of Maven2, Continuum and Archiva.

The conference was very well organized and the training room was superb. Thanks Vincent for setting this up.

I've made my slides available here.

I'm happy to announce that I'm joining XPertNet in the role of CTO. XPertNet is the company behind the open source XWiki product.

I'm extremely excited on several accounts:

• I'll be coming back to my first love which is software development. Even though I've continued doing development over all those years it was mostly during my free time, working on open source projects (mostly Cactus, Maven and Cargo). I'm glad to be able to bring software development in my day time job.
• I've spent the last 9 years doing consulting (IT Architecture consulting and then Offshore software development consulting). I was keen to build a product and focus on that single job. I'll still do varied jobs of course but it'll be centered around a product.
• I strongly believe wikis are only just entering the general market. They were niche tools so far but I have the feeling they're going to get more mainstream in the coming years. Of course XWiki is not just a simple wiki, it's actually a second generation wiki, on which collaborative web application can be developed (in short, take almost any "Web 2.0 application" - whatever it means! - and XWiki is a good candidate for building it).

I'm now off to Javapolis 2006 where I'll be manning the XWiki booth with Ludovic and Guillaume. Come and say hello to us!