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Cette année encore, Pyxis sera présent lors de cette conférence internationale qui s’arrêtera en particulier à Montréal (le 23 octobre) et Québec (le 25 octobre). Si vous vous intéressez aux méthodes Agiles, que vous soyez débutant ou confirmé, cette conférence est pour vous. À travers des formations, des ateliers et …

Cela fait maintenant 4 mois que je travaille à Pyxis et les bancs de l’Université me semblent déjà bien loin. Pas forcément en terme de temps, mais plutôt d’un point de vue pratique.  Lors de mes études en management et communication j’ai trouvé la transition entre la théorie et la …

I’ve recently started including view tests in my TDD/BDD pratice. In my Django views(templates) tests, I needed a tool to help me test the presence of certain DOM elements. One of my favorite ways to locate DOM element in an HTML document is by using CSS selectors in jQuery. I …

For the 3rd time (2nd for Minyaa), I will be present to AtlasCamp in San Francisco. Atlassian Summit 2010 was mainly an opportunity to meet customers, AltasCamp stay the best place to meet Atlassian Community. The Agenda seems to be … Continue reading →

The Story I just bought a new computer. For the first time in ages I didn’t feel like spending hours deciding which parts I wanted, so I went for a big brand PC. Of course it came with Windows 7 installed. Like any self-respecting geek, the first thing I did was… to install Starcraft. No […]

Usability is something most teams outside the Apple circle do not care about.

However, luckily enough (or sadly enough, depending on how you see it), developers are keyword-addicts, and some things suddently start looking cool as soon as they are trendy. Nobody cared about the business logic before, but now that  Domain Driven Design is considered […]

I came across this rather old article on Usability from Jim Coplien (One of the guys behind Data Context Interaction). It is definitely worth reading, and here is a striking quote from it :

My points were that:

1. Test-driven development without architecture emphasizes a procedural architecture rather than the kind of good object-oriented architecture […]

Deux Pyxissiens sont publiés ce mois-ci dans le magazine Programmez, lisez-les! : Le développeur au centre de l’Agilité par Mathieu Szablowski Entre un contexte économique de plus en plus contraignant, imposant des délais plus courts avec toujours plus d’exigences , et une course à l’innovation introduisant de plus en plus …

In September 2009, I decided that for the next year, I would concentrate on three goals: Reading (12 books) Blogging (40 posts) Coding (4 projects) What did I learn about setting objectives? What do I need to improve? These questions will be answered in a few moments… and if you care you might even hear […]

There’s a misunderstanding I’ve noticed in quite a few Scrum projects. Teams use Scrum and at the end of their sprint they do what they call a “sprint demo”. It works out like this:

They demonstrate their increment of the prod…