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Git reviewed by a non-fanboy ;-) (en)

Here is a pragmatic experience report of using git by a non-fanboy.

“The transition will work much better if several of your employees are already familiar with Git and can help you evangelize the idea and provide support to reticent users.”

“Looking back, it took me a while to warm up to Git (quite a while), but […]

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Enfin un livre sur Scrum en français … préfacé par François Beauregard (en)

Le livre de Claude Aubry sur Scrum en français est en vente! Cet ouvrage s’adresse à toutes les personnes impliquées dans le développement logiciel et qui souhaitent s’initier à Scrum. Il sera aussi utile à tous ceux  qui ont déjà une première expérience de Scrum et qui cherchent à approfondir …

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Pyxis en vidéo sur WebTV.coop (en)

Pyxis est en vedette dans une courte vidéo sur WebTV.coop. Une coopérative de travailleurs actionnaire – Pyxis Technologies Je souhaite toujours en apprendre et transmettre notre expérience donc si vous souhaitez échanger sur le sujet des structures de gestion novatrices ou tout ce qui a trait à la mise en …

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New course for .NET Developer (en)

Pyxis is proud to announce the first Professional Scrum Developer(.NET) training in Toronto, Montreal and Paris. This new course guides teams on how to turn product requirements into potentially shippable increments of software using the Scrum framework, Visual Studio 2010 and modern software engineering practices. Professional Scrum Developer is a …

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You do need Math skills to be a great developer (en)

Pretty interesting read on : You don’t need Math skills To be a Good developer, but you do need them to be a great one.

And yes, the author is right about Math : it should be part of your tooling if you want to do something else than coding stupid web forms all day.

On a related […]

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Pyxis finaliste aux Dunamis dans la catégorie “conciliation travail-famille” (en)

Pyxis vient d’être selectionnée comme finaliste du concours des Dunamis 2010! Voilà une reconnaissance qui souligne et met en visibilité le défi relevé d’aider les ‘Pyxissiens’ dans leur conciliation entre leur travail et leur vie de famille. La qualité de vie que nous vivons tous les jours au sein des …

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Linux Kernel development process in a nutshell (en)

I came across Linux Kernel development, a paper from the Linux Foundation that highlights a few important facts about the kernel development process. This nicely complements a few of my previous posts :

Maximum numbers of developers on a project

Surviving with many patches

What Thoughtworkers think of git

On real meritocracy

Open Source is not a democracy

A few interesting […]

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Pyxis Technologies joins The Inner Circle partnership program (en)

By 2012, agile development methods will be utilized in 80% of all software development projects (Gartner “Predict 2010: Agile and Cloud Impact Application Development Directions”). Pyxis Technologies develops tools that help Agile teams deliver successful projects. Pyxis Technologies announced that it has been selected to join Microsoft Corp.’s Visual Studio …

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Automated Unit Tests as documentation (en)

Introduction In our quest to produce quality software and our relentless use of automated unit tests in our development activities, we’ve come to realize they possess other virtues as well. One of those being they stand as a documentation of the system being developed. I’ve taught this idea in several …

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