Bertrand Florat technical articles

Introduction There is a good way to check if you work in a reasonably structured, competent and serious work environment: count the 'WTF' you say in a day.

Le contexte Je cherchais depuis un certain temps une ROM Android répondant aux critères principaux suivants : open source, afin de rendre le code auditable et de limiter la dépendance à des composants opaques ; dégooglisée, pour des raisons de confidentia…

Le jeudi 26 juin 2025, j'ai eu le plaisir d'être invité à un meetup Arkup (cabinet spécialisé en architecture des systèmes d'information) et de donner une présentation d'une heure sur le thème « Documentation d'Architecture As Code : Rendez votre document…

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Je veux vous parler des bugs de demain, Sans supervision, il peut casser ton chemin.

IT integration involves configuring complex systems within large infrastructures to ensure all components work harmoniously.

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As a Product Owner (PO), your role is crucial in steering an agile project towards success.

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Datasets staticity level [Article also published on DZone.]

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Architecture as Code with C4 and Plantuml (This article has also been published at DZone) Introduction I'm lucky enough to currently work on a large microservices-based project as a solution architect.

Designing Human-Targeted Random IDs Article also published on DZone. ℹ️ NOTE We don't deal here with technical ID used as primary keys in relational databases.

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(This article has also been published on DZone) In most organizations (except truly DevOps teams), developers are not allowed to access the production environment for stability, security, or regulatory reasons.

Four years after the first release of a template in French, we release a revisited English version.

(This article has also been published at DZone) TL;DR In Java, do: String normalizedString = Normalizer.normalize(originalString,Normalizer.Form.NFKD) .replaceAll("[^\\p{ASCII}]", "").toLowerCase().replaceAll("\\s{2,}", " ").trim(); Nowadays, most strings

Reasons to change This personal home page and blog was previously self-hosted using a great Open Source Wiki engine: Dokuwiki.

Registre des décisions d'architecture Un registre de décisions d'architecture sert à consigner les décisions importantes d'architecture (les ADR, Architecture Decision Record).

Voir https://github.com/bflorat/modele-da Le modèle a été augmenté, simplifié et corrigé.

We need to protect our personal or professional data, especially when located on laptops that can easily be stolen.

I just finished "Deep work", an interesting book.

Ansible is an Open Source IT automation tool written in python and sponsored by RedHat.

If like me you like both XFCE and Gnome-Shell dashboard/ window picker, here's how I configured my desktop for the nearest most Gnome-like experience : 1) Install xfdashboard (the dashboard itself).

I once asked myself "how to define our job in the most general sense of the term, we, computer scientists ?".

After few months of continuous deployment scripts writing for a pretty complex architecture (two JBoss instances, a mule ESB instance, one database to reset, a BPM server, each being restarted in the right order and running from different servers), I figu…

Many managers think that programming is easy, it's just a bunch of for, if, else and switch clauses after all, isn't it ?

J'ai eu le plaisir de me rendre à l'Eclipse DemoCamp Nantes jeudi dernier au Hub Creatic (il est difficile à trouver car pas encore indiqué, c'est le bâtiment jaune vif à coté de l'école Polytech Nantes.

J'ai eu la chance d'assister à la journée Agile Tour 2014, version nantaise, à l'école des mines.

I just finished to setup my personal cloud storage.

L'immense majorité des bugs que nous subissons tous les jours trouve une explication rationnelle assez facilement.

With so many websites and system credentials we have to remember, settling down to an acceptable password policy is challenging.

We just get a 20% response time gain on a 600+ lines query under Oracle.

If you already used JDBC prepared statement, you know what are bind variables : the '?'

The Jajuk issue tracker and the Git repository are now moved to GitHub (see previous article for the context).

We are currently moving our Jajuk Trac issue tracker to a better place, mainly for spam reasons.

Main thoughts I bought a Keynux Epure S4 three mouths ago now and it is time to turn it out.

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My goal was pretty simple: install a Linux distribution on a VIA ME6000 Mini-ITX PC without internal disk to be able to remove the case pan (ME6000 card has no pan) in order to get a 0 db Linux Box.

Description General CPU Mem HD Screen Video Lectors Price Autonomy/weigth Sound Network PIII850 128Mo 20 Go 14,1TFT S3 Savage MX/MV DVD 8X floppy About $2000 2-4 h 2.9 kg ESS Allegro 1988-1 Ethernet: Realtek 8139 Modem : ESS winmodem Connectors 2 PCMCIA p…