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I had to read the content of a file for a ruby project. This is how I did it: def read_file_content(filename) File.read(filename) end Simple enough, right? Then for some reason I thought about how I would have to the same in Java: public String readFileContent(String filename) { try { BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename)); […]

For this posts series, I will talk about our strategy for Android Cloud Services, our mobile-cloud platform that seamlessly extends any Android phones running version 2.1 or more. ACS is a complex platform and is more of a horizontal capacity than a specific product solving a specific problem. This is …

Some members of the Urban Turtle team (Francois, Dominic and Mario) are at the Agile 2010 conference this week.  If you attend the conference, please come see us Wednesday or Thursday at booth 128 in the exhibit area.  We will be more than happy to discuss and to demonstrate the latest cool features of Urban Turtle such […]

I attended Israel Gat‘s presentation at Agile 2010 yesterday called “How We Do Things Around Here In Order to Succeed”. The path an Agile roll-out should follow depends on the core culture of the corporation: control, competence, collaboration or cultivation. Irrespective of the specific culture, the Agile roll-out invariably tests cultural integration, wholeness and balance. […]

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Le 16 juillet dernier, Pyxis Technologies a organisé la deuxième édition de la journée Mira. Cette journée permettait aux employés d’amener leur chien au travail en échange d’un don minimum de 20 $. Avec les dons, nous avons pu amasser 335$ mais surtout nous avons pu avoir un environnement un …

Les Agilistes de ce monde sont au fait de l’importance des tests automatisés pour assurer la pérennité d’un projet informatique. En fait, tout développeur qui a tenté la pratique du TDD et qui a réussi à inclure cette pratique dans son travail au quotidien découvre rapidement le sentiment de puissance …

For the past two weeks I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine. It’s a search engine built on open-source software. What made me switch is the capacity to navigate through search results with the keyboard using vi-like keys (hjkl). I didn’t know at the time but Google also allows you do something similar. You just […]

ASP.NET MVC est une plateforme qui a été introduite par Microsoft essentiellement pour augmenter la testabilité des applications Web. En ASP.NET traditionnel, il est relativement complexe de tester unitairement la logique à l’intérieur des contrôles. Toute la logique est séparée individuellement dans chacun des contrôles (fichiers .ascx et .aspx). Cette …

As I wrote a week ago, I trained touch-typing this week. My objective was to attain 85 wpm. Here’s a recap of my week: Monday : I decided to use Typeracer as my baseline. It’s an online game that allows you to race others. The fastest typist wins. I had not played in 6 months […]

Minyaa Suite was born to replace Kaamelot plugin, a plugin created 5 years ago, where I tried to merge all enhancements brought to JIRA, in order to meet our needs. This first year was mainly spent: for dispatching features by theme in … Continue reading →