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Some interesting links regarding video on the web :

Google funds TheorARM open source project

Youtube vs Ogg/Theora video quality comparison : Theora IS competitive (do not listen to the FUD)

HTML5 video element codec debate explained

Ogg codecs dropp…

Here is a pragmatic experience report of using git by a non-fanboy.

“The transition will work much better if several of your employees are already familiar with Git and can help you evangelize the idea and provide support to reticent users.”

“Looking back, it took me a while to warm up to Git (quite a while), but […]

Le 18 mars dernier, Pyxis était en vedette au Rendez-vous de la coopération 2010 organisé par la CDR Montréal-Laval. WEBTV.COOP avait réalisé une vidéo de 2 minutes sur nous, afin d’expliquer à l’audience des Rendez-Vous de la Coopération 2010 ce qu’est une Coopérative de travailleurs actionnaire (CTA). De plus, j’ai …

Pyxis est en vedette dans une courte vidéo sur WebTV.coop. Une coopérative de travailleurs actionnaire – Pyxis Technologies Je souhaite toujours en apprendre et transmettre notre expérience donc si vous souhaitez échanger sur le sujet des structures de gestion novatrices ou tout ce qui a trait à la mise en …

Pyxis is proud to announce the first Professional Scrum Developer(.NET) training in Toronto, Montreal and Paris. This new course guides teams on how to turn product requirements into potentially shippable increments of software using the Scrum framework, Visual Studio 2010 and modern software engineering practices. Professional Scrum Developer is a …

Introduction In our quest to produce quality software and our relentless use of automated unit tests in our development activities, we’ve come to realize they possess other virtues as well. One of those being they stand as a documentation of the system being developed. I’ve taught this idea in several …

A new release of Hibernate validator has been unleashed. It contains interesting features, such as the fact that your constraints will now be visible by the whole Java ecosystem. Finally !

Marc-Andre Thibodeau and Vincent Tence have set-up a sample Petstore project on github that shows how to take advantage of this new release of Hibernate […]

I came across this interesting set of linux/unix one-liners…   (thanks Phil).

Nice brain gymnastics, and it is definitely worth checking out if you want to add a few tricks to your power-user recipes

Pyxis Technologies is currently working with scrum.org (company founded by Ken Schwaber) to open new and unprecedented classes to software developers in Canada and in France. The first course – that will be available very soon – aims at guiding teams on how to turn product requirements into potentially shippable …

IT world runs a very interesting article explaining why Open source is not a democracy, and never should. Some interesting quotes :

“No. This is not a democracy. Good feedback, good data, are welcome. But

we are not voting on design decisions.”

“Shuttleworth is in the right here. Ubuntu and a vast majority of free and open source […]