A developer is more than a coder…
I’ve been working as a software developer for nearly 10 years. During all these years, I’ve mainly worked in the field of embedded systems, where hardware and software people work very closely.
Apple’s Safari mobile browser always resize my image… @#$#!$%$
Sorry, Apple fans, but I found a problem with the Safari mobile browser. Indeed, in one of my projects, I had to display an animation (a sprite for which I changed the viewport). The image size was 4 MB with a width of 9600px and height of 600px. What we …
Pyxis partenaire de l’Agilité
Encore une fois cette année, Pyxis est fière d’être partenaire de l’événement Agile de l’automne. De fait, nous sommes partenaires des événements Agile Tour Québec (mardi 6 novembre) et Agile Tour Montréal (samedi 24 novembre). Nous sommes enchantés de voir comment le mouvement Agile a pris de l’ampleur au cours des 4 dernières années. …
TDD to reduce your stress
Recently a friend of mine found out she was pregnant. She was really stressed because she had a miscarriage just a little while ago. To reduce her stress level, the doctor prescribed an ultrasound (a test) even though it was early in the pregnancy. This story made me think that, …
Pyxis’ new team
For a few months now, Pyxis has been on a roll. In order to support our growth and to keep on the good work, we are happy to announce the creation of a team of vice-presidents: Martin Landreville, vice-president, development of solutions and products Marie-Christine Legault, vice-president, marketing and communications …
nmon, a small tool to make your life easier
In my current term, we are developing a web application that must run on an embedded system. The embedded system uses the Ubuntu operating system, and both the CPU and memory are limited. During development, we faced a performance issue, but we did not really where it came from. Initially, we used Linux’ “top” command to investigate the performance problem. However, this …
Pyxis receives a distinguished guest…
Agility has a strong momentum! Last night, at the Saint-James Club, there was the conference supper with the creator and author of Management 3.0, Mr. Jurgen Appelo. The conference was about Change Management 3.0. More than 150 participants had the opportunity to listen to and exchange with the new fan …
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Comprendre le rôle de l’architecte dans une transformation Agile
Do you know the law of Demeter?
Some of you probably know the Law of Demeter, but a reminder doesn’t harm anybody: The fundamental notion is that a given object should assume as little as possible about the structure or properties of anything else (including its subcomponents). You will say: “Theory is nice but in practice how …
Jurgen Appelo in Montréal to talk about Agile change management
Agile Montréal and Pyxis are pleased to welcome Jurgen Appelo for his first visit to Canada. He will be with us on May 30th to present Change Management 3.0. This conference supper will allow you to better manage challenges and obstacles that may arise from changes brought to your organization. …