AtlasCamp 2010 (en)
For the 3rd time (2nd for Minyaa), I will be present to AtlasCamp in San Francisco. Atlassian Summit 2010 was mainly an opportunity to meet customers, AltasCamp stay the best place to meet Atlassian Community. The Agenda seems to be … Continue reading →
Keep Your Code Where It Belongs (en)
The Story I just bought a new computer. For the first time in ages I didn’t feel like spending hours deciding which parts I wanted, so I went for a big brand PC. Of course it came with Windows 7 installed. Like any self-respecting geek, the first thing I did was… to install Starcraft. No […]
The next big thing is Usability (en)
Usability is something most teams outside the Apple circle do not care about.
However, luckily enough (or sadly enough, depending on how you see it), developers are keyword-addicts, and some things suddently start looking cool as soon as they are trendy. Nobody cared about the business logic before, but now that Domain Driven Design is considered […]
The Interface is the Program and it ain’t Agile (en)
I came across this rather old article on Usability from Jim Coplien (One of the guys behind Data Context Interaction). It is definitely worth reading, and here is a striking quote from it :
My points were that:
1. Test-driven development without architecture emphasizes a procedural architecture rather than the kind of good object-oriented architecture […]
Le développement Agile selon Pyxis dans le magazine Programmez (en)
Deux Pyxissiens sont publiés ce mois-ci dans le magazine Programmez, lisez-les! : Le développeur au centre de l’Agilité par Mathieu Szablowski Entre un contexte économique de plus en plus contraignant, imposant des délais plus courts avec toujours plus d’exigences , et une course à l’innovation introduisant de plus en plus …
Retro (en)
In September 2009, I decided that for the next year, I would concentrate on three goals: Reading (12 books) Blogging (40 posts) Coding (4 projects) What did I learn about setting objectives? What do I need to improve? These questions will be answered in a few moments… and if you care you might even hear […]
Start doing sprint reviews not demos (en)
There’s a misunderstanding I’ve noticed in quite a few Scrum projects. Teams use Scrum and at the end of their sprint they do what they call a “sprint demo”. It works out like this:
They demonstrate their increment of the prod…
Rediscovering ERB (without Rails) (en)
Since I discovered Haml for my HTML templates in Rails, I stopped using ERB. Haml is more intuitive and readable to me. I am rediscovering ERB though for something else completely – Java code generation. There is a lot of boilerplate code in most Java projects. A good IDE can help you alleviate some of […]
An interesting way to fund projects (en)
Incubators are looking for ways to differentiate themselves. The newly launched AngelPad (an incubator created by 7 ex-googlers), for instance, bets on recreating a google-like atmosphere to foster innovation.
A recent post from Mark Shuttleworth seems to show that some foundations also have interesting ideas when it comes to financing projects :
“The model of the Foundation […]
Lean Startup: Interesting conference by Eric Ries (en)
There will be an interesting conference on Lean Startup by Eric Ries at SXSW. Eric asks 5 questions everyone involved in building new products (or any market offerings) should ask frequently. Answering these questions is not as easy or obvious as it sounds. It’s even more important for mobile development …