Lessons learnt from start-ups (en)
I came across a few very interesting set of “lessons learnt from my start-up” articles. (thanks Mathieu, Joel for the references) :
Lessons learnt from Devver.net
Startup lessons learnt from Warren Buffer
My co-founder took my company and my girlfriend
There are many benefits to having a distributed team, but two stood out in our experience. […]
Scrum.org la révolution des développeurs (en)
Si vous ne connaissez pas encore Scrum.org et que vous travaillez actuellement dans un contexte agile, je vous conseille fortement de faire une petite visite sur le site. Il s’agit d’une nouvelle initiative visant à promouvoir Scrum et …
Why Mark Suster is wrong about not hiring job hoppers (en)
Why Mark Suster is wrong about not hiring job hoppers
So who in the hell should you hire? Hire the best. Hire people that can leave your startup at any minute if they wanted to because they’re so kick ass that they’re constantly getting contacted by interested parties. Then it becomes your […]
Who is preventing the release of Java 1.7 (en)
Who is preventing the release of Java 1.7 ?
“He said it’s delayed as there are parties who are refusing to sign off JSRs they own and thus preventing the 1.7 release. It apparently has something to do with the cost of determining your Sun compliance.”
“The basis of the problem is the release process […]
CVS/SVN vs Git (en)
Take a look at a pretty old email from Linus on cvs/svn vs git.. (2005).
So one of the worst downsides of CVS is _politics_. People, not
technology.
The upside of centralization is that a lot of things are easier. Easier to
think about, easier to get a stupid and straightforward idea working.
But if you have hundreds of […]
L’Agilité en gestion – présentation au CAILT le 28 avril (en)
En avant-première, un groupe de chefs d’entreprises faisant partie du Centre d’Affaires International de Laval Technopole (le CAILT) assistera à la présentation de Maurice Bergeron, l’Agilité en gestion, mercredi 28 avril.
Retrouvez-nous au Salon des TIC à Québec le 28 avril (en)
Venez rencontrer Joël Grenon, André Rivard, le nouveau Directeur général du bureau de Québec et Stéphane Lécuyer à notre kiosque du salon des TIC mercredi 28 avril. Et venez écouter Stéphane Lécuyer! Il y fera une présentation sur un projet stratégique de transformation majeure des technologies chez TD Assurances. Ce …
Finally a free/Open Source video codec !! (en)
As I mentioned in a previous post, the acquisition of On2 by google was unclear, and nobody really knew what google would do with this.
Well, it is now clear : google will open source the VP8 codec !
You can expect to hear a lot about that in the next …
Agile vs. PMI (en)
Le 20 avril prochain, le PMI de Québec-Lévis présentera un débat contradictoire qui opposera un spécialiste du management de projet et un chef de projets Agile expert de l’équipe Pyxis: Jean-René Rousseau de Pyxis défend les principes de l’Agilité dans les projets de développement à haut indice d’incertitude. Louis Martin …
HTML5 and video codecs (en)
Some interesting links regarding video on the web :
Google funds TheorARM open source project
Youtube vs Ogg/Theora video quality comparison : Theora IS competitive (do not listen to the FUD)
HTML5 video element codec debate explained
Ogg codecs dropp…