Jerome Baton started hacking computers at the age of skin problems,
gaming first then continued his trip by self-learning Basic on
Amstrad CPC, peaking on coding a full screen horizontal starfield,
and messing the interlace of the video controller so that sprites
appeared twice as high in horizontal beat'em up games. Disks were
three inches for 178 Kb then.
Then, for gaming reasons, he switched to Commodore Amiga and its
fantastic AMOS Basic. Later caught by seriousness and studies, he
wrote Turbo Pascal, C, COBOL, Visual C++, and Java on PCs and
mainframes at university, and even Logo in high school. Then, Java
happened and he became a consultant, mostly on backend code of
websites in many different businesses.
Jerome authored several articles in French on Neo4j, JBoss Forge,
an Arduino workshop for Devoxx4Kids, and reviewed kilos of books on
Android. He has a weakness for wordplay, puns, spoonerisms, and
Neo4j that relieves him from join(t) pains.
Jerome also has the joy to teach in French universities, currently
at I.U.T de Paris, Universite Paris V - Rene Descartes (Neo4j,
Android), and Universite de Troyes (Neo4j), where he does his best
to enterTRain the students.
When not programming, Jerome enjoys photography, doing electronics,
everything DIY, understanding how things work, trying to be clever
or funny on Twitter, and spends a lot of time trying to understand
his kids and life in general. Rik Van Bruggen is the VP of Sales
for Neo Technology for Benelux, UK, and the Nordic region. He has
been working for startup companies for most of his career,
including eCom Interactive Expertise, SilverStream Software,
Imprivata, and Courion. While he has an interest in technology, his
real passion is business and how to make technology work for a
business. He lives in Antwerp, Belgium, with his wife and three
lovely kids, and enjoys technology, orienteering, jogging, and
Belgian beer.
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