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I am proud to announce the availability of MFU (Multiple File Uploader) v0.1 . This is a small project that we developed with Florent Valdelievre.

If you are using the dojo toolkit and are looking for a clean, customizable file uploader, that works pretty much the same way as gmail file attachment mechanism (demo here), then […]

Pretty good post from A. Skorkin.

BOZO Consulting

BOZO is a place with well-intentioned people who really want to please their clients. The only downside to BOZO is it doesn’t have the slightest clue about how to achieve that goal. BOZO says yes to everything: “Yes, of course we will cut the estimate.” “Yes, […]

I had a blast meeting new people and sharing experiences writing software. I especially liked Barry Gervin’s keynote on successful product management and Todd Anglin’s talk on HTML5. As for me, I did and introductory talk on Scrum and Visual Studio 2010 briefly touching on some of the content of …

The need for a course for Scrum developers : If you’ve been following my series of recent blog posts entitled Agile Lessons Learned you might of seen some repetitive patterns emerge, mostly about the need for proper engineering practices.  In my mind, engineering practices compose the first pillar underneath the …

I came across a few very interesting set of “lessons learnt from my start-up” articles. (thanks Mathieu, Joel for the references) :

Lessons learnt from Devver.net

Startup lessons learnt from Warren Buffer

My co-founder took my company and my girlfriend

There are many benefits to having a distributed team, but two stood out in our experience. […]

Take a look at a pretty old email from Linus on cvs/svn vs git.. (2005).

So one of the worst downsides of CVS is _politics_. People, not

technology.

The upside of centralization is that a lot of things are easier. Easier to

think about, easier to get a stupid and straightforward idea working.

But if you have hundreds of […]

En avant-première, un groupe de chefs d’entreprises faisant partie du Centre d’Affaires International de Laval Technopole (le CAILT) assistera à la présentation de Maurice Bergeron, l’Agilité en gestion, mercredi 28 avril.

Venez rencontrer Joël Grenon, André Rivard, le nouveau Directeur général du bureau de Québec et Stéphane Lécuyer à notre kiosque du salon des TIC mercredi 28 avril. Et venez écouter Stéphane Lécuyer! Il y fera une présentation sur un projet stratégique de transformation majeure des technologies chez TD Assurances. Ce …

As I mentioned in a previous post, the acquisition of On2 by google was unclear, and nobody really knew what google would do with this.

Well, it is now clear : google will open source the VP8 codec !

You can expect to hear a lot about that in the next …

Le 20 avril prochain, le PMI de Québec-Lévis présentera un débat contradictoire qui opposera un spécialiste du management de projet et un chef de projets Agile expert de l’équipe Pyxis: Jean-René Rousseau de Pyxis défend les principes de l’Agilité dans les projets de développement à haut indice d’incertitude. Louis Martin …