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I came across this interesting set of linux/unix one-liners…   (thanks Phil).

Nice brain gymnastics, and it is definitely worth checking out if you want to add a few tricks to your power-user recipes

Pyxis Technologies is currently working with scrum.org (company founded by Ken Schwaber) to open new and unprecedented classes to software developers in Canada and in France. The first course – that will be available very soon – aims at guiding teams on how to turn product requirements into potentially shippable …

Retour d’expérience sur l’approche du “dojo de programmation” par des développeurs à Hydro-Québec L’Agilité nous a appris l’amélioration continue. Le “dojo de programmation” applique ce concept à la formation et au développement des compétences. Plutôt qu’une formation ponctuelle et magistrale, on inscrit notre formation dans un processus continu où l’on …

IT world runs a very interesting article explaining why Open source is not a democracy, and never should. Some interesting quotes :

“No. This is not a democracy. Good feedback, good data, are welcome. But

we are not voting on design decisions.”

“Shuttleworth is in the right here. Ubuntu and a vast majority of free and open source […]

Avant de mocker un composant, assurez vous que les difficultés que vous rencontrez à le tester ne proviennent pas du composant lui même. PS : Je sais c’est court mais je crois que c’est pertinent et que le message passera mieux. D’autant que je…

Ces dernières semaines durant mon développement ou autour d’un autre binôme à Pyxis, j’ai été confronté à cette discussion qui trainait et qui au final ralentissait le développement :Membre de l’équipe 1 : A ton avis, c’est un test d’int…

The key to gmail describes what sh*t umbrellas are at google :

as a shit umbrella, the product managers protect the engineers from getting distracted. It’s not enough to be a “shit funnel” where they would pass some of the junk down to engineers, they need to fully protect the engineers.

No wonder google engineers accomplish great […]

Slashdot runs a story about Microsoft employees preferring to use the iPhone over Microsoft alternatives.

Even though it might be a good idea to always eat your own dog food, the simple fact that your employees prefer the available alternatives is worth taking into consideration. Indeed, the motivation behind eating your own dogfood is to get […]

A new concept for the modern IDE, Code Bubbles allows developers to see and work different fragments of code as one unit. Debugging sessions can be associated with those units save and retrieved later for continued work. Quite impressive! It’s really a departure from the IDEs we’ve been using so …

Errors should never pass describes  the case of AppArmour which fails to follow the Rule of Repair. In this particular case, AppArmor could not make sense of the user (config) input – and thus cannot repair the data-, so it should fail as noisily and as soon as possible to prevent debugging nightmares.

Grails is another […]