Jérôme Duprez's user page

Me

Hello my name is Jérôme Duprez.

I live in the south of France; I used to be a java developer, a good one indeed, but I'm gradually moving to a functional validation role around various IT systems, with less and less time to do really fun and interesting things.

I have a couple of aliases too:

• JDuprez is shorter to type, and is my JDC pseudonym.
• Jethrie is my newsgroup alias, and a way to contact me too...
• JeromeDuprez is a temporary page for rough times when UTF_8 display goes wrong (happened to create it when I lost the password for my main identity :o/)

Me and Wikis

I discovered the Wiki concept thanks to Ward Cunningham's wiki, a.k.a. WikiWikiWeb, and was introduced to JSPWiki in my former mission, where it was used as a "free collaborative internal content site", in a team which was among other roles meant to provide guidance to other development teams. JSPWiki was used to:

• gather documentation for use internal to the team
• polish draft guidance documents before transitioning them to a more official site for usage by other teams

Since then, I have been using JSPWiki as a project-wide contents site, both to:

• track project-wide documentation and resources
• track project progress (with pages such as Status, Tasks, Todo, Activity Report,...)
• publish and evolve draft document that eventually graduate to "official"

Me and JSPWiki

Anyway, I am a fervent supporter of the Wiki model, and a satisfied user of JSPWiki in particular, although I wish it could evolve towards more document management features (templates, drafts, promotion), and possibly include project management features as well. I am not sure I have the skills and time to contribute to the technical part of such evolutions, but I have plenty of will as a MereMortal.

Me and my secret plans here

I plan to contribute to refactoring and promoting the support pages on this site. The built-in versionning system will be your friend to reset my damages if any...

I also plan to open a few pages about Wiki Patterns, and WikiPractices, something intermediate between the JspWiki tips and the somewhat intimidating Visions :o) There the open editing scheme will be my friend to benefit from your edits.

All that, of course, as soon as I have some spare time (that is, as I frequently tell my coworkers, never).

Introduction

TODO intent of this page

TODO related pages (Visions, WikiPractices, tips)

What are Patterns

TODO usual stuff, refer to Alexander, GoF, Berczuk,...

Wiki Patterns

TODO

Wiki Patterns Catalog

• WikiPattern Category
• WikiPattern AskPages
• WikiPattern AskForm

Oh, by the way, my Wiki name is JDuprez, and I wish I had this latter displayed and linked to in the G'day message, and tracked in pages history, instead of my full name...

On the same line, I have an alias Jerome Duprez, because I once forgot my password, and also because accented characters used to cause problems in the past.