Pyxis entreprise du mois de la Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Laval (en)
Pyxis a été nommée entreprise du mois. François a reçu le trophée des mains de la présidente lors du midi-conférence de la Chambre hier. Il trône dans notre accueil… merci à la CCI Laval!
What Thoughtworkers think of git… (en)
Martin Fowler published an informal survey of version control tools among Thoughtworkers. Of course, the big winner is git, and anyone who has been going through the effort of learning it correctly would confirm.
BTW, if you want some help convincing people that git is better, do not hesitate to take a look at why git […]
DDD and NoSQL are a nice fit (en)
As I explained in a previous post, Domain-driven Design (DDD) is a design principle I strongly believe in.
With more and more evidence of systems/companies switching to NoSQL for scalability reasons, creating a rich domain model becomes less and less of an option if you don’t want to shoot yourself in the foot. Indeed, while traditional […]
Welcome additions in Sonar 2.0 (en)
Sonar 2.0 is just out and adds very interesting stuff. It focuses especially on architecture and OO metrics which were the missing part of the metrics puzzle in previous releases.
On Design principles (en)
There is a constant about Software Developers : they love debating and arguing about every single aspect of the development process. Moreover they will most likely debate forever, because there is usually nothing that can serve as a reference to tell good and bad practices apart. Want to know why ? Well.. everyone is making […]
Nouveau podcast VoxAgile sur le concept de la dette d’entreprise (en)
Le dernier podcast Vox Agile vient tout juste de sortir! Avec Éric Mignot et Emmanuel Gaillot, VoxAgile aborde le concept de la dette d’entreprise au niveau des valeurs, de la mission et de l’objectif commun de celles-ci. Entre autres, les sujets suivants sont discutés: Comment déterminer l’actif d’une entreprise au …
Usability reviews in the open source world (en)
It is a pleasure to hear that some open source projects are conducting usability reviews :
Wikipedia : Usability and Experience Study
OpenStreetMap: UX Review
any other ?
Usability reviews are of uttermost importance if you want to learn how your end users use your product. I initially thought that conducting usability reviews was complex, and involved lots of […]
Make sure your software is continuously specified (en)
As you may have noticed in the Executable Specification and build integration post build system integration is an area where GreenPepper shines. Most teams having good automated build practices also use a continuous integration (CI) server. We provide more comfort to those teams by allowing them to look at their GreenPepper execution results directly from […]
Enfin un bouquin au sujet de scrum en français (en)
J’ai reçu il y a environ une semaine ma copie du premier bouquin au sujet de scrum en français. Scrum : Le guide pratique de la méthode agile la plus populaire a été écrit par Claude Aubry. Claude nous offre un regard pratique et lucide au sujet de scrum et …
_agilely Timer dernière chance avant que ce soit gratuit ;) (en)
_agilely Timer permet aux praticiens de l’Agilité ayant un iPhone ou un iPod Touch de gérer efficacement les blocs de temps, les mêlées quotidiennes et les tables rondes. Dans quelques jours l’application sera gratuite. Cela veut dire qu’il ne vous reste que peu de temps pour vous procurer l’application et …